Minor Things That Wind You Up

Drivers who don’t give you the appreciation nod or hand raise when you give way to them.

Also, when there’s traffic and someone doesn’t let you out, instead decide it’s a better option to block off the junction completely. I mean you’re not getting anywhere any quicker mate!

 

What do you dislike about the woodhead pass?

 

That its not a motorway from M1 to M60.

 

It must be one of the unwritten laws of nature that when you experience something like that, there are no witnesses.

A few years back in springtime, our front garden was suddenly awash with baby blue tits. There must have been a dozen of them at least. I happened to be washing the inside of my car windows at the time and was sat in the drivers seat with the door open. I was pleasantly surprised when one of the baby tits flew on to the top of the door frame. I slowly raised my hand and was amazed when it hopped on to my finger. It sat there quite happily for a minute or so, twittering away, then flew off to join its mates again. Lovely feeling, it was. But sadly no-one else saw it.

 

Incorrect usage of the word "myself." Especially in work emails; it really seems to have taken off in the past few years. "Please respond to John or myself." Piss off with the **** attempt at sounding posh/formal, it's "John or me"

 

Folk who moan about minor things..that boil their p.1ss ......lol

 

And other American expressions creeping in. Used by some on here too I've noticed.

My bad (my mistake)

From the get go (from the start)

I've gotten (I've got)

Also heard "Can I GET a coffee?" or whatever, instead of "Can I have?

 

Last time I had a tit in my hand, nobody was around to see it, but it happened; honest!

 

Isn’t it I, not me?

 

One thing that upsets me, is that when talking to someone with a disability or a difficulty with their speech,
certain individuals wrongly assume that to make the person they are addressing understand them, they have
a problem with their brain and have to shout.

At the age of nine, my eldest lad had to have a splint fitted to correct a hip defect. He had to wear it permanently
for nigh on two years. I accompanied him for a consultation along with my wife, at the appliance department at
the Northern General Hospital at Sheffield.

I wheeled my lad into the room where the consultation was to take place and to my horror, after we had exchanged
the usual pleasantries, the guy we were meeting with, proceeded to cup his hands round our young ' uns ear and
started shouting in his ear.

I had to ask him to stop whilst explaining that my son had a problem with his hip and had nothing at all wrong with
his brain or his hearing.

 

This post reminded me so much of of my dad and uncle ... whilst we were visiting my uncle who was recovering from a cancer operation in Barnsley hospital....
My dad stood besides his brothers bed and said in a very slow drawl almost ....ivvvvve paaaaaid yooourrrrr waterrrrrr billllllll iveeeeee paaaaaaaaaid yooooourrrr gasssssssss billlllllll annnnnd counnnnnncilllll taaaax .
My uncle just stared at him then reached for a pen and paper wrote something as my dad continued...with ...ivvvvve alllllllllsoooooo paiiiiiiiid theeeeee windowwwwwwww clea......
My dad stopped mid sentence as my uncle threw the note pad towards him......my dad shut up ...his face a picture.....
The note simply read......Cyril I've had my fxxking voice box out not my fxxking ears cut off....

It was so funny ....bless them both ....both now in spirit

 

Takeout instead of takeaway. Boils my piss.

 

Me sounds right in this instance. I can't vouch for this, but someone a long time ago told me that the way to determine whether "l" or "me" should be used, is to remove the other person from the sentence and see if it still sounds ok.
"Please respond to John or me" becomes "Please respond to me", which is ok. Whereas, "Please respond to John or I" becomes "Please respond to I", which sounds daft (unless you're a pirate or live near Doc Martin).

 

And also traffic lights that stay on red for ages whilst your sat at it, and then only let 2 cars through before going back to red....

 

Whilst I am not the best with grammar...

The amount of people who put loose when they mean lose.

 

Cyclists who think the road has been built solely for them, even though they contribute nothing to the upkeep of the roads, road tax wise, and think they can ride in the middle of the road and 2,3 4 or not across the road when riding in groups...

 

Totally agree with you. The verb is "to have" not "to of", which sounds ridiculous.

On the subject of pedestrian crossings. I can understand why vehicles get priority, but it does seem a little bit wrong headed when it is pouring with rain and the person on foot has to wait for awhile in the rain whilst the dry and cosy motorist passes by. It is even more galling when the car can't wait and goes through on Red.

 

No such thing as road tax. Your vehicle excise duty goes into the consolidated fund and pays for roads no more than buying crisps does. In fact considering I only pay £30 a year in VED for my car it could be argued that a cyclist who buys new lycra outfits every few months paying VAT on them pays more into the fun and therefore more on maintaining the highways than I do.

Local roads are maintained by the council, that comes from your council tax (amongst other things) my council tax band is A, a cyclist living in a band D home pays for more road maintenance than I do.

 

Whichever dog on my street shats on my front yard. It's quite a long street. I've got a little patch about 4 x 4 feet. It can't be that nice to poo on.

I can only presume it's one of the folk on here who's worked out where I live and travel across the Borough when it's time for Rex to do his thing.

 

Isn't that how it has to be though? You can't have lights on red constantly until someone tells the machine that nobody is there. It's like homer Simpson and his everything is ok alarm.
Pedestrian crossings have to stay green and only change to red when someone presses to say they're there, there really isn't any other practical way of doing it.