what grinds your gears?

[trev]

It grinds my gears when stopping for a quick bite to eat from a fast food establishment, you order a burger and they ask you "what drink"?
Uh? I didn't order a drink, I ordered a burger!

Or when they ask "is that a meal?"
I always reply with " No, I think it's more of a snack"
Baffles them every time

 

[Leesparkykent]

Say no more.

 

[Maddison]

" i want to be a domestic electrician" thread. Or the "iv just qualified now looking for experience" thread lol

 

[Besoeker]

Or when they ask "is that a meal?"
I always reply with " No, I think it's more of a snack"
Baffles them every time

When Mrs B and I go out to eat we quite often end up ordering the same thing.
When the waitress serves the plates I ave been known to say:
"You got them the wrong way round."
Usually gets a double take before the penny drops.........

 

[Darkwood]

People who cannot cut tie wraps down without leaving a minefield of razor edges for all other trades... enough said!!!

 

[Plonker 3]

People who cannot cut tie wraps down without leaving a minefield of razor edges for all other trades... enough said!!!

That doesn't bother me, it peolple who dont cut down threaded rod above ceilings, there is already limited space to move in them without the inconvienience of whacking your head on that.

 

[shanky887614]

That doesn't bother me, it peolple who dont cut down threaded rod above ceilings, there is already limited space to move in them without the inconvienience of whacking your head on that.

dont you mean them tight against the ceiling grid?

 

[Jonspark]

People who can't que up properly in the chippy

 

[Silly Sausage]

People who can't que up properly in the chippy

or far worse, not getting served at the bar before people who come in after you!

I lost my bar-craft the other night and I was starting to froth at the mouth.

 

[telectrix]

and, waiting at the bar, gagging for a pint, when the only barmaid is busy making frothy coffees and milk shakes for some suit with his over made up missus and 4 brats.

 

[Jonspark]

Or people who can't properly que at caravan park on site bars and you end up with about 30 people stood one behind the other like there in a frigging taxi rank

 

[pennychew]

Cocktails are the worst! Youre waiting for a bottle and some hen party in front of you is getting 10 stupid cocktails that take about an hour a piece to make!

 

[Silly Sausage]

Cocktails are the worst! Youre waiting for a bottle and some hen party in front of you is getting 10 stupid cocktails that take about an hour a piece to make!

You're going the wrong bars then mate!
Get down the Tap Room.

 

[pennychew]

The where?!!

 

[Silly Sausage]

Tap rooms in general, the other room from The Lounge in pubs where all us Old gits used to play dominoes in and whinge all night!

 

[pennychew]

Tap rooms in general, the other room from The Lounge in pubs where all us Old gits used to play dominoes in and whinge all night!

Couldn't be doing with drinking somewhere like that, sounds like a right sausage fest! Much better with some delightful young ladies to converse with, even if you have to queue behind them at the bar!

 

[telectrix]

and have a smoke with our pint. before the days of reichfuehrer blair.

 

[Jonspark]

Smoking ban killed tap rooms and pubs in general

 

[pennychew]

Smoking ban and supermarket drink I'd say

 

[Geordie Spark]

Tap rooms in general, the other room from The Lounge in pubs where all us Old gits used to play dominoes in and whinge all night!

Aye!!! ........... Happy daze! :laugh:

 

[Silly Sausage]

Couldn't be doing with drinking somewhere like that, sounds like a right sausage fest! Much better with some delightful young ladies to converse with, even if you have to queue behind them at the bar!

They were the place to get away from them and their incessant wittering!!!

 

[telectrix]

the bar in my old local was "men only" till some time in the 70's when the bra burners took over the asylum.

 

[Adam W]

Cocktails are the worst! Youre waiting for a bottle and some hen party in front of you is getting 10 stupid cocktails that take about an hour a piece to make!

I always think these places should have a separate 'express bar' where they just serve drinks, properly, as in pouring pints and opening bottles, then those who want to can actually get a drink.
If you want a drink which involves making a smoothie out of several different kinds of fruit, or lightly distressed mint leaves in a massive glass full of crushed ice, then you have to wait.

 

[Dcf]

Poorly laid out bars where you can't get near it for fuds who insist on sitting at it.
i saw one on a football day out where you went in one end at a barrier system and snaked your way around to the drink end at the other.
no pub monkeys sitting a the end of that bar

 

[Besoeker]

Not a lot seriously irks me. Perhaps that's an age thing. One foot in the grave.
Of course I could cite single events but even then I'd be hard pressed to remember when I was last so ticked off that I had a go at anyone individual.

 

[ElectroChem]

People who pull up to the drive-through and study the menu like it's a bloody 2-star restaurant. Get out of the way! I've got 10 minutes to be on the other side of town and I want my burger and chips!

 

[Besoeker]

People who pull up to the drive-through and study the menu like it's a bloody 2-star restaurant. Get out of the way! I've got 10 minutes to be on the other side of town and I want my burger and chips!

Yes, that would irk me too. It doesn't because I rarely use a drive through. Not even fast food outlets very much. But I can understand your gripe. I wouldn't use the drive through because I don't know the menu.

Yes I said not a lot irks me but your legitimate gripe reminds me of something that does. And I may have posted this before.

Supermarket queues.
You get to the till as the previous person is settling their bill having taken their time packing their purchases. Then they scrounge around in their handbag to find a purse, dig out a card, then go through a pile of coupons to find valid in date money off or or store points coupons......

Listen you stupid old hag/bag, you knew you would have to pay. Like me, you were in the queue. You had plenty of time to sort that ---- out before you got to the till.

Puting it in perspective, it's not really the time element. That might be a few minutes. It's just the lack of consideration for other shoppers.
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[ElectroChem]

Puting it in perspective, it's not really the time element. That might be a few minutes. It's just the lack of consideration for other shoppers.
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I'd say both our gripes fall into the general category of wasting other people's time through a lack of consideration and forethought. A few seconds to get your change ready or decide on your order can save the person behind you some aggravation, and you'll also be done quicker.

 

[telectrix]

one that really winds me up is ( usually women) who leave their car on the pump at a filling station while they browse around the forecourt shop, buying donkey snot sandwiches and costa coffee.

 

[frontier219]

People who cannot cut tie wraps down without leaving a minefield of razor edges for all other trades... enough said!!!

On the opposite of this, working as an apprentice in London at a large data/comms facility for a big American company. Because one of their US employees had cut himself on a cable tie and sued, we had to file down all cable ties. Guess who got that job...I spent TWO WEEKS filing cable ties. Madness.

 

[shanky887614]

On the opposite of this, working as an apprentice in London at a large data/comms facility for a big American company. Because one of their US employees had cut himself on a cable tie and sued, we had to file down all cable ties. Guess who got that job...I spent TWO WEEKS filing cable ties. Madness.

i would have taken the **** and specced nylon velcro wraps lol

 

[Adam W]

Staying with the drive-though theme for a minute, I was always under the impression they were meant for people who were in a hurry and didn't have time to park, so I resent having to wait ages behind some 17 year old who's just passed their test and taken all their mates to the drive-through, none of them know what they want, all ordering something which has to be specially made, and they all want to pay separately. If they're going to spend ages there, why not just go inside? Chances are one of them will have to get out of the car to put their PIN in the card reader anyway.

 

[Besoeker]

i would have taken the **** and specced nylon velcro wraps lol

My friend, Jimmy, did a lot of the fibre-optic cabling for a data centre in Atlanta. AT&T if I recall correctly.
That used velcro wraps. It was an absolute peach of a job - everything straight and parallel, the cable wraps equally spaced, idents on everything of course. Probably the neatest installation I have ever seen. And I think we do a pretty good job.

 

[shanky887614]

My friend, Jimmy, did a lot of the fibre-optic cabling for a data centre in Atlanta. AT&T if I recall correctly.
That used velcro wraps. It was an absolute peach of a job - everything straight and parallel, the cable wraps equally spaced, idents on everything of course. Probably the neatest installation I have ever seen. And I think we do a pretty good job.

i did 50-100 cat6 sideways mounted on tray in a formation with velcro wraps (took me 2 days)