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I like to observe life alot and one of my greatest hobbies is observing the people in it...and how utterly STUPID some people can be LoL...For instance:
Have you ever been in a traffic jam and noticed the moron in the car next to you...windows up, screaming at the TOP of his lungs at the cars in front him like they can hear him and/or like they are going to notice and go "Oh! I beg your pardon, I didn't realize I was in your way in this traffic jam that I drove to be a part of...I will allow you through, Please wait a moment while I move to the curb"? I love to watch these people...it is too funny!!!!!!
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"When I close my eyes, I see my soul...When I open them, I see yours"...
Trent
hehehe, know that too well, see, my father is one of those idiots <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>...
[anarchist]
There are so many stupid people on this planet - Iīm so sick of it !!!! <img src=icon_smile_angry.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_dead.gif border=0 align=middle>
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I gotta admit that I'm one of them...that's probably why everybody (including you people) mysteriously avoid me everywhere <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>...it's in the family I guess, even though I really wonder how my dad has friends looking at the way he is, or how the hell I ever was even born!! One of lifeīs mysteries I guess...
[anarchist]
fortunately, I'm in good mood now... or else I'd say all that I think of all these stupid people all round!
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I can see you through...
You ever notice someone walking down the street and tripping over his own feet, then looking back at the sidewalk with an angry look on his face like the sidewalk put an imaginary foot out to trip him? I LOVE THAT!!!!!!!
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"When I close my eyes, I see my soul...When I open them, I see yours"...
Trent
LOOOOOOOL!!!
Trent, you know what??? I`M ONE OF THOSE!!!!!
Muaaaaaaaaaaahahhahahahahahahaha!
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One stupid person called me "boy" today! can you imagine? me? boy?
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I can see you through...
That dude DEFINATELY needs some seriously LARGE glasses!!!
quote:Originally posted by Alien:
One stupid person called me "boy" today! can you imagine? me? boy?
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I can see you through...
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"When I close my eyes, I see my soul...When I open them, I see yours"...
Trent
well... actually he was a bit drunk... and I was clothed more like boy than like girl... btw in NH t-shirt!
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I can see you through...
well, it ain't only ONCE that I've been called a boy, but it's probably because of my short hair and sometimes unisex-clothing...but I still wonder that, how blind can a person be to mistake me for a boy with THIS makeup :)....maybe he thought that I looked like an 80's heavily madeup boy <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>....
[anarchist]
Maybe he thought you were a gothboy?
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"When I close my eyes, I see my soul...When I open them, I see yours"...
Trent
yeah =) well, a boy, anyways...:)
[anarchist]
Have you ever been standing and waiting for an elevator...So you push the button right...Yeah of course you push the button...What kind of moron would just stand in the hallway around the elevator's...Then another person comes up behind you...And he looks at you...He KNOW you pushed the button...but he ALSO pushes it anyway...*Crazy WTF are you doing look* And you feel like saying Oh yeah now that you pushed the button the elevator's going to think...Oh! No it was pushed twice!! I better go pick them up...Cause I fucking wasn't going to move the FIRST time it was pushed...that's for damned sure...
LMAOF Trent !
This is some of the funniest you have written so far - I laughed at loud when I read this - ha, ha [:-bouncy]
Yes this is funny stuff!!! Hahahaha....
But what does LMAOF mean Willy??
Hmmm, "laugh my ass off" - I probably wrote it wrong.
You could move the "F", so itīs LMFAO=Laughing my f****** ass off
True fucking story! I once knew this woman that still had the tags on her pillows and complained that they bugged her as she slept...I said well then why don't you remove them...She said "Don't you know that's against the law?" I said "No, I wasn't aware of that" She went to her bedroom pulled her pillows out to the living room to show me the tag "Unlawful to pull tag" I said "Dear! That's only in the STORE! Do you think that there are pillow police watching everyone's house to make sure that no one pulls the tags off their pillows when they get home?" Maybe they put alarms on the tags so they go off if people tear them of?? HAHA I was ROLLING with laughter after that!!!
LMFAO!!!!!! We need a ROFL smiley here! [:-bouncy]
Thatīs the stupiest woman I have ever heard of.
LMAO, so she's probably the same class as me...:)
(bah, ok, there are SOME limits to my ztoopidness too ;)...)
MalilaM
30 Sep 2005, 21:07
I remembered this old topic this morning, when an aunt of mine called me on the phone.
I say hello, and she replies "I thought you wouldn't be there".
I was about to say "why are you calling then?" [irked]
Very typical of some people around here. They find foolish ways of making a conversation. [boggled]
There's even better way to start a conversation - to wake up person very early and ask: "Are you sleeping?"
...Or when people give a phone-call early in the morning or late in the evening, their first words are "did I wake you?"
Being polite I use to answer "No, you didn't" [sleep]
Ooooh, Aljona! We were thinking about the same thing at the same time! [laugh]
[laugh] that's funny! [laugh]
my answers [laugh]
"are you sleeping?" - "yes!"
"did I wake you?" - "No, I'm still sleeping!"
Krapplund
30 Sep 2005, 23:21
That have i neve done to you TONY!
quote:Originally posted by slam
...Or when people give a phone-call early in the morning or late in the evening, their first words are "did I wake you?"
Being polite I use to answer "No, you didn't" [sleep]
FallenAngel
01 Oct 2005, 08:59
or like me...
Wanted to post something, but when the screen was there I couldn't remember what I wanted to post, nor what was the topic I was reading...[smile2]
No, Peter - never! [slaphappy] [laugh]
The people fall asleep in the underground and one moment something they hold falls out of their hands. They wake up and look surprised around as if it's somebody else pushed them and caused that fall. [smile]
Late at night, I think it's very usual to many that people will wake up when the remote control panel falls on the floor, because you fell asleep with it in your hand...
I bought a new one due to too many droppings [smile2]
In our family it's different. We usually put the remote somewhere, then forget where we put it and go around the flat asking: "WHO TOOK MY REMOTE?????" Quite stupid too. [laugh]
FallenAngel
01 Oct 2005, 20:17
That's true!!![laugh]
(time to hide)
People who thump on our office door at lunchtime when I'm eating and won't go away although there's a big sign saying "closed for lunch."
maybe they're hoping to get a bit of your lunch? [laugh]
considering the nice meals at the college, I wouldn't be surprised!
Although I got annoyed recently, a woman who used to work in our office came in to register the death of her husband, and spoke not to me but to my colleage Mairi. She didn't have all the necessary documents so Mairi asked her to come back at 2pm when we reopened. She was there by 1.50pm, and as Mairi came back she let her in early. As soon as I realised what it was about, I stopped eating, although it was still my lunch break and she was early. She actually made a complaint about a member of staff eating when she was registering a death, although it was my break still, I left the room with my food as soon as I realised the situation, and we'd done her a favour by letting her in at all. I know she'd been bereaved, but really! This has gone on my work record.
I just read this topic through, some of these really makes me laugh, even today, years after they have been written.
Crazy stuff...
FallenAngel
26 Jul 2006, 20:09
What do you want with all those crazy people here? [smile]
A friend of mine keeps telling me, "people are all stupid." Of course she means everyone else, but generally I'm starting to think she's right. People just irritate me these days, people who stop and chat right in front of you when you've just let them go past. People who walk 2 or 3 across on a narrow street so you can't get past, people who.... aren't me!
People who walk 2 or 3 across on a narrow street so you can't get past
It's so familiar!!!!!
When I'm in good mood I ask them politely to let me go... when I'm not I demand to let me go. [laugh]
FallenAngel
12 Aug 2006, 19:05
A kick in their ..... helps to and is also to get rid of the stress...[smile2]
I'm tempted!!! Fort william's full of tourists at the minute and they all walk like they have all the time in the world, maybe they do. I don't! *grumpy old woman mode*
MalilaM
12 Oct 2007, 18:45
There is a huge avenue in Mexico City, where glorious traffic jams were every day's story. The city government built a "second floor" to it, and some of the historic traffic jams have been dissolved. But now everyone thinks that's a racing track and there are accidents every day. Every morning I have to cope with someone who throws the brightest car lights to me because I don't drive faster, and I'm already going faster than the official speed limit! [angry]
I wonder if the radars they installed one month ago truly work. [boggled]
*whistles Sammy Hagar..."I can't drive...fiftyfive...!"* [smile2]
Idiots. We get drivers on narrow single track country roads who drive like they want their relatives in my office to register their deaths.
FallenAngel
13 Oct 2007, 17:43
Don't they say the one his dead is the other his bread or somerthing like that?
Let them crash! As long as they don't kill inncocent annimals or trees....
MalilaM
13 Oct 2007, 18:15
@Justus: [smile2]
@JP: I certainly don't want to be an innocent animal killed by them. [bah]
[smile2]
Some time someone has to discover why some people who are completely rational for their daily life become irrational when driving. [indiff]
FallenAngel
13 Oct 2007, 19:18
4 wheels my dear, horsepowers!! And then a donkey behind the steering wheel! What do you want!!?? Crash Boom Bang....[eyebrows]
I'd always imagined there'd be some brainpower in that equation, but it seems that often there isn't
I was just thinking about this great topic, when someone called me at home asking: "where are you?", I replied "At home of course, you called me on my phone at home, and then I laughed my ass off".
Mobilephones sure has made the above possible these days [wink]
MalilaM
22 Oct 2007, 00:51
[smile2] Lately it's getting more common that people don't know where they're calling you, since many numbers can be stored under the same contact name.
When the first keypad telephones appeared around here, it was very typical that someone who had dialed the wrong number, called again because they had pressed the "redial" key, as if the telephone itself had corrected it. [boggled]
FallenAngel
22 Oct 2007, 06:41
Like some friends of me who put their mobile phone in their pockets... and push without knowing on the buttons and call sameone without knowing...
I hear them speak without that they know it...[smile]
I used to get those calls, usually at 2pm when I was working nights, and I could never end the call. Used to drive me nuts!
I still think this post is one the funniest ever here at the Dreamroom, I still laugh at it when I read it [smile2]
Have you ever been standing and waiting for an elevator...So you push the button right...Yeah of course you push the button...What kind of moron would just stand in the hallway around the elevator's...Then another person comes up behind you...And he looks at you...He KNOW you pushed the button...but he ALSO pushes it anyway...*Crazy WTF are you doing look* And you feel like saying Oh yeah now that you pushed the button the elevator's going to think...Oh! No it was pushed twice!! I better go pick them up...Cause I fucking wasn't going to move the FIRST time it was pushed...that's for damned sure...
MalilaM
06 May 2008, 19:33
Isn't it stupid behaviour par excellence? [smile2]
Trent had a touch for this kind of comments
people do the same at pedestrian crossings, even if the light is on showing that someone pressed the button, people still press the button. [laugh]
russharvey
06 May 2008, 21:59
going back to the phone part of this thread........ I find it very funny when you are talking on the phone to someone and then they ask you for your phone number......... I am thinking....... didn't you just dial my number? what was it.... a lucky guess that you actually dialed me? geez! Its happened to me twice this week and its only tuesday!
russharvey
06 May 2008, 22:00
as for the elevator....... I have also noticed that people will stand there and push the buttons rapidly up to 10 times........ and as Trent so elequently put it...... yeah, the dang elevator is going to hurry now that you have pushed the buttons 20 times! idiots!
Foolship1077
07 May 2008, 05:32
This happened a couple of weeks ago. I'm just about getting across a crosswalk when the oncoming car turning right decided to start moving, very fast. Tires peeling, he starts off, and I had to dart the rest of the way across. The driver and his dipski passenger looked to be a couple of high school kids, and I watched as they tore off down the main street.
The next light from there is eight blocks away, and it stayed red when the two idiots got there, so they poured on all that speed just to be stopped at the next light!
Welcome to the Land of Karma, population: Its b**ches!
FallenAngel
07 May 2008, 06:46
Fools you find everywhere!!
MalilaM
07 May 2008, 18:56
Quite typical, Foolship, but here it's not only the youngsters.
Grown-ups also compete to get first to the next red light. [smile2]
russharvey
07 May 2008, 20:28
oh my..... Mexico City traffic was the craziest I have ever seen. I am so glad that I had a driver last year when I was there. I mean, the light was red, and the police would just keep waving them through... it was just sheer madness how many cars were trying to get through those streets! WOW!!!
MalilaM
07 May 2008, 20:55
@Russ: There is method in our madness [smile2]
The idea behind the police waving cars through red lights is that wider avenues are less messy that way and traffic jams last less... but it is true that many times police hamper more than red lights themselves.
FallenAngel
07 May 2008, 20:56
Mexican Madness... Sounds not bad... [smile2]
Police is the same everywhere...
Foolship1077
08 May 2008, 05:07
Quite typical, Foolship, but here it's not only the youngsters.
Grown-ups also compete to get first to the next red light. [smile2]
It's the little things that make me laugh...
[smile2]
Loralai
09 May 2008, 00:13
Foolship if you really want to see the dregs of genetics, visit Richmond, BC, a suburb of Vancouver. On weekend evenings late and into the early hours of the morning you can watch all the young men with their new higher end sports cars race down the main boulevard. During these races, pedestrians, unsuspecting drivers and the racers themselves get killed. It is a show of Darwin Award recipients taking out unsuspecting innocents and it is such a shame.
FallenAngel
09 May 2008, 06:43
Wake up with an hangover and go to work, staring at the screen and wondering "what the heck I am doing here"...
What about this one ? [laugh] [laugh] [laugh]
True fucking story! I once knew this woman that still had the tags on her pillows and complained that they bugged her as she slept...I said well then why don't you remove them...She said "Don't you know that's against the law?" I said "No, I wasn't aware of that" She went to her bedroom pulled her pillows out to the living room to show me the tag "Unlawful to pull tag" I said "Dear! That's only in the STORE! Do you think that there are pillow police watching everyone's house to make sure that no one pulls the tags off their pillows when they get home?" Maybe they put alarms on the tags so they go off if people tear them of?? HAHA I was ROLLING with laughter after that!!!
*ariAna*
11 Jun 2008, 13:44
[laugh] I can't believe this is really true. [bigeyes] If so, that's indeed a very stupid sh***.
people who phone the registration office for advice on getting married and answer the question "is that a civil or religious marriage?" with "Just a civil marriage" Just? Just??????? You're talking to one of the people who conducts them, what the heck do you mean just!!!!???
Similarly people who won't come for a rehearsal and then complain that a civil marriage conducted by a registrar isn't personal. I wonder why that would be? You don't come and tell us what you want, you get generic! We're not mind readers.
"Head" teachers who blame possibly the best member of staff they have got, who is most internationally minded, for the sacking of a useless member of staff.
It's fathers' day here on Sunday. Tradition is that you buy your Dad some gift including but not limited to chocolates and a bottle of whisky or a book to keep him amused while he sits on the sofa and does nothing.
So after work today I went into a shop that sells books and DVDs with the vague idea of finding an amusing book for my dad along the lines of Grumpy Old Men. This shop is the nearest thing that we have to a bookshop and it' has just been reorganised after having the town's post office installed there. Last week there was a section called humor but today all the books were on the other side of the shop.
I walked in circles around all the displays for ages, (at least 3 minutes) before I admitted defeat and asked a woman. "We've removed the humour section. It'll be back later, but we've had a refit.
I had to grit my teeth to stop myself from asking if their manager had considered a more suitable career in toilet sanitation. What idiot with the only book shop in town would think, "When's a great time to remove all the humour books, joke books and amusing anecdotes from our shelves? I know, 3 days before fathers' day!" Bloody genius. Did I mention this is the only "book" shop in town?
I know I'm old fashioned, we're now supposed to buy games machines and laptops on fathers' day, books and chocolate are no longer sufficient and our fondness for our fathers can only be measured in gadgets. *mumble grumble*
MalilaM
05 Jul 2008, 02:46
@Clare: "a more suitable career" ...I love that one ...will adopt it for my future recommendations. [laugh]
Ok... I live at the ground floor. I'm surrounded by the parking lot and the entrance of the building. People's imagination can't go as far as to think that the walls are not only walls and that there's people living inside. My home-office's wall is the same one in front of the elevator, and while people wait for it to arrive, they lean on the wall, beat it, kick it, clap on it...
A yesterday evening a guy came out of the elevator and was fighting with his girlfriend. He started throwing several objects against the wall to emphasize each of his angry sentences. When I came out to say he should bang his head against another wall, he turned his rage against me... Now every time he comes in or out the building he kicks the wall or the door. And the building administrator is on holidays...
It's going to be a long weekend.
*aaaarrrrggghhh!!* [yell]
*ariAna*
05 Jul 2008, 12:01
[bigeyes] Do you have such thin walls? Unbelievable. And I always thought I'd live in an house where you can hear everything from your neighbours (built up from the debris the bombs of the war left behind).
You've gotta be strong, Malila! What a childish neighbour you have! [banghead]
My neighbour is a good one. Whenever I go out onto the balcony for a cigarette and she's there on hers, she coughs loudly and goes in, slamming the door behind her [laugh]
*ariAna*
05 Jul 2008, 16:21
Very entertaining, indeed! [laugh]
I also have a funny neighbour-story:
On Thuesday evenig I sat outside on the balkony and listend to the wonderful cd with the thunderstorm files I got from JaJaJa. Sometimes that went very loud, so the next day my neighbour stopped me in the corridor and asked me if I've heard that thunderstorm as well. She woke up from the roaring thunder and looked outside but the only thing she could see were stars on a cloudless sky. Very confused she finally went to bed again, still hearing the rumbling.
[smile2] When I told her about my new cd she was kind of speechless. [bigeyes]
I have a nasty neighbour problem too. I posted somewhere about it. (Can't remember where)
You should call the police like I did Malila, if he's being an idiot.
At the office, don't you hate when the phone next door keeps ringing for two minutes long, as if the caller tried to reach 911 for an emergency.
Then he dials a random number that belongs to the same departement, and it's eventually yours.
Option 1 : the common sense tells to be polite, so you answer "No Sir, he must be out and may be back in a while, please try to call later"
Option 2 : it is not the day for patience : "I do not know, we don't sleep together anymore, so I don't have his schedule."
Option 3 : you are in a really bad mood : "Sorry, he never picks his phone up until the twenty-first ring"
Option 4 : "This is Airport check, may I help you ?"
On Thuesday evenig I sat outside on the balkony and listend to the wonderful cd with the thunderstorm files I got from JaJaJa. Sometimes that went very loud, so the next day my neighbour stopped me in the corridor and asked me if I've heard that thunderstorm as well. She woke up from the roaring thunder and looked outside but the only thing she could see were stars on a cloudless sky. Very confused she finally went to bed again, still hearing the rumbling.
[smile2] When I told her about my new cd she was kind of speechless. [bigeyes]
[laugh][laugh] Great stuff! [bouncy]
FallenAngel
06 Jul 2008, 19:32
At the office, don't you hate when the phone next door keeps ringing for two minutes long, as if the caller tried to reach 911 for an emergency.
Then he dials a random number that belongs to the same departement, and it's eventually yours.
Option 1 : the common sense tells to be polite, so you answer "No Sir, he must be out and may be back in a while, please try to call later"
Option 2 : it is not the day for patience : "I do not know, we don't sleep together anymore, so I don't have his schedule."
Option 3 : you are in a really bad mood : "Sorry, he never picks his phone up until the twenty-first ring"
Option 4 : "This is Airport check, may I help you ?"
I reply 'don't bug me, I don't have time for this crap. call someone else and leave me alone' - then I smack down the phone! [tonque]
Deepbluecalm
09 Jul 2008, 02:27
If the phone keeps ringing and you must answer the phone, reply: It's not my turn to watch him/her today.
Besides the office, these are the people out on the roads driving (quite scary![crazy]). They are either so close that you could be mistaken for a hood ornament or you could be driving behind someone that keeps stepping on their brakes every few seconds.
Here's the best one: You park your car in the deserted part of the parking lot. You come back and someone happens to park RIGHT NEXT to your car.
Is the world getting crazier or what?
Okay...enought of my ranting....[smile2]
MalilaM
09 Jul 2008, 18:27
[...]You park your car in the deserted part of the parking lot. You come back and someone happens to park RIGHT NEXT to your car[...]
[smile2] Very typical... sometimes one can't even open the door. [grumpy]
And how about when you're parking the car in a difficult place and then all the pedestrians decide to cross the street right where you're maneuvering? [irked]
FallenAngel
09 Jul 2008, 18:47
Or when you are sitting in an empty train... and the next one that steps up wants your place!
Malila, JP, Isn't there a law that allows you to shoot such people.
Pilots of low flying planes. I honestly think people should be allowed anti-aircraft missiles. [yell] My nerves are wrecked today, it's like living on a military airbase. *jumps 10 miles in the air*
OK, I'm done with suggestions of violence. I think!
FallenAngel
09 Jul 2008, 20:34
Shooting down planes? That's an idea!!! Where is my rocket launcher????
Here Brussels airline! Eat this!!!
ooops, the idea's caught on. Seriously, yesterday I was feeling lousy, exhausted and trying to concentrate at work and every so often there'd be a noise like a bomb going off and I'd be resting my head on the desk with my arms over my ears.
Butt in front of you in a queue to go to the toilet when you desperately need to go...
Maybe it was a good thing, though .... it was the first time I ever exploded and screamed insults at a stranger in German .... something I need to get better at here. [wink]
Well done Mags!
Wannabe Siamese twins get me. You know how some people have to walk side by side on a narrow pavement as though they're joined at the hip, even if the person walking in the opposite direction must then step on the road to pass.
fishbones
22 Oct 2008, 22:06
Last year i had the insurance man knock on my door asking for my husband who wasn't in, so i arranged a date and time i knew he would be home so he could come and see him.
The insurance man turned up on the date and time arranged and my husband went out to meet him and the insurance man said "I think you are expecting me, i spoke to your mother the other day". My husband replied "no that was my wife".
We were in the kitchen going through some paperwork and the insurance man referred to me as my husbands mother yet again, i was gobsmacked i didn't realise i looked that old. The funny part about it was he had the paper work with both our dates of birth on it in front of him which he had just read through.
I am only 18 months older than my husband, i'm sure the fella needs some seriously strong glasses to correct his vision. [laugh] [laugh] [laugh] [laugh]
*ariAna*
23 Oct 2008, 08:07
[bigeyes] omg, now it would be interesting to know how exactly you look ... [smile2]
Just kidding. But that's quite ignorant of him doing that fatal error twice. [banghead]
Mateusz
23 Oct 2008, 14:35
wasting time, when they're watching stupid TV series
Leningrad
23 Oct 2008, 19:58
Once picked up the phone and a women from a telemarketing firm was calling, she was some kind of immigrant cus i could hardly understand a thing she said, and she had a deep middle eastern accent. Then i said to her "I can understand you!!!" and then she said "do you speak english?"... Damn her.
Mateusz
23 Oct 2008, 20:57
@Leningrad: Good story.... hehe... ;)
Krapplund
23 Oct 2008, 21:02
@leningrad: "I can understand you!!!" or "I canīt understand you!!!" ??
Leningrad
23 Oct 2008, 22:18
i can't understand.... you would understand what i have meant.
Krapplund
24 Oct 2008, 09:51
Hehehe...i guessed that you meant that [wink]
Call centres and websites of energy companies and employees of same. Why do they have to make it so difficult?
I changed my electricity account today from one that I pay upfront with tokens to one that I pay monthly. Should be cheaper and I want to manage it online. It's the same company and I've been a loyal customer of theirs for over 2 years, I've spent a fortune (I know, I kept every token and they give me a headache to look at.)
When I called to set up the account, I told them I wanted the online option, and was told to register, which I did. I can't set my account up because I don't have an account number. (OK, I phoned and got it but....)
Nor will it accept my county in my address. Now I remember when I was shopping around for prices I entered my postcode and it finds your address. I live in Inverness-shire which it brings up as my address but then it snarls (I swear it's got a real attitude problem for a website!) "please enter a correct county!!!!!" Now I've lived in Invernessshire for 4 years. I know its name (I'm clever that way!) and I know it is NOT Invernessshire which is the only way that the data ase will accept it. Even though it brings up the correct spelling itself. It demands I change a correct spelling to an incorrect one.
So I tried the contact us page.. guess what, unless I have the information that I don't have, I can't cntact them. So I called them. Got my account number and guess what? It won't take that account numbger. I think the 16 year old in their billing department gave me the wrong one. (I wrote it down and read it back to her!) The system now says it's not available to pre-pay customers. Did she give me my ol number. I don't know. I'm going to lie down and kick something.
Grumpy Old Woman.
*ariAna*
27 Oct 2008, 21:58
[laugh] Sorry, Clare, for laughing, but that's quite entertaining.
[bigmouth] It's seems to be the same all over the world. At least Germany and Sweden have the same weird problems with energy companies, costumer numbers and access codes on websites.
But you've gotta be strong, you'll survive this without kicking something! [wink]
MalilaM
27 Oct 2008, 22:53
Try a punching bag... we don't want a hurt Clare or one that has to pick up pieces of something that broke. [wink]
It seems private companies bureaucracy is the same in every country and for every service. This morning I spent one hour at the phone trying to find out why I have to register my data every month to access my mobile phone bill online. No answer was given. [banghead]
Mateusz
28 Oct 2008, 10:17
And presently more seriously... People on the whole are not penetrated the injustice of other people... On an example my parents are not penetrated my cadets and sisters. As if buy them all what necessary to correct physical development, but what from that, how "dung" they are walked around by problems which is done at their school, and then, that have a large influence on their psyche. I know, about that, because sister with a brother will sting me about that, and secondly, my "it was" girl, also went there, and presently is quite other person........... (it's very complex story.....) Gladly abolished that time, or I would cut itself lived.
I've changed the title below my name in honour of that experience and decided to sit and wait for a letter which will have my number on it. This was all prompted by dad repairing my storage heaters and wanting to use thenm without the panic of having enough credit. It's very cold at the moment and I'm nice and toasty. Still grumpy though.
Dear Clare, I sympathize! All these kinds of companies are the same!
I've been trying to cancel a DSL connection for over a year now - my old connection has never worked in our new flat (we moved in July 2007). Of course like all of these things there is a 3-month cancellation time, and now I have cancelled it for the 3rd time ... everytime the service people say that I did something wrong (couldn't read signature, I hadn't properly changed my address with the company) and that is why it hasn't been cancelled. I just cancelled it for the 3rd time a couple of weeks ago and still haven't received the cancellation confirmation in the post. Calling doesn't help, I've spent over a hundred euros because their support number costs 1 a minute and I always get put on hold and transferred from one person to the next. Hopefully soon I'll have this straightened out .... but it makes me sick - I've now paid about 450 for no service. Legallized theft, this is!!!! [banghead]
So, all I can do is a plug against this corrupt company - any of you thinking about getting service from Freenet, don't do it! The low rates I paid initially have been completely destroyed by the amount of time it has taken to cancel.
Mags, I can really empathise. I was getting two bills from one company for a while after upgrading. They opened a new account for my upgrade. It took ages to sort out and they will always make you jump through hoops to cancel. Shall I kick them along with my electricity company for you? My doctor's getting a kicking too but that's far too complicated to post on here about.
Germany is a nightmare when it comes to contracts. 2 year contracts that only stop if you cancel them well in advance or they renew automatically.
MalilaM
06 Feb 2009, 18:24
There is someone who has harassed you, insulted you and been a real nuisance, so you've told them off, blocked them from all your contact lists and they seem to have gone away... and suddenly they insist in contacting you again as if you've always been friends...
Just don't understand... [dead]
fishbones
06 Feb 2009, 19:32
@Malila, that's terrible, must be very frustrating for you. Some people just don't get the message do they.
MalilaM
07 Feb 2009, 01:15
Hmm... not really... it isn't frustrating... it's bloody unnerving. [irked]
Richani
07 Feb 2009, 11:34
Those people dont deserve your friendship (or even your attention) again ^^
*ariAna*
07 Feb 2009, 12:17
I know this problem as well.
As long you just ignore their telephone calls, letters, emails it's okay, but when they show up at you entrance door it gets difficult. [boggled]
Be strong, Malila! [smile]
MalilaM
07 Feb 2009, 15:52
@Richani: true, I've learnt that, but it seems only my own perception. [laugh]
@Ana: Thank you... it's even worse when you have an officious friend who tells them how to find you. [banghead]
Oh well... I'm just not proud of turning my aggressive and sadistic moods on. [evil]
FallenAngel
07 Feb 2009, 17:08
If you like to smack people, I know a nice address! [laugh]
Malila, I hope this person gets the mesage soon, but thick skin is usally a feature with such people.
MalilaM
08 Feb 2009, 20:07
You're so right, Clare... Some people have been told off so many times, they cannot know anymore. [banghead]
Anyway... one more stupid thing people do would be to feel bothered by someone like that, wouldn't it? [laugh]
Foolship1077
10 Feb 2009, 04:41
You wanna talk "stupid"? I'm a little PO'd after having to fix a thing or two elsewhere.
I have a username on another site, and over there, we are currently facing a spam infestation. Who or whatever is doing this has used my account to post THREE "click here" messages to some of my Friends!
Changed my password today, and while it's all "so far, so good" at the moment, I'm still distressed that all those people got all that crap through me!
I wasn't the only one affected, though. I got hit pretty hard through another's account as well.
Now I know why I had to change my password HERE after 320 days. How long have you had that rule, anyway?
MalilaM
10 Feb 2009, 16:22
@Mark: I think that rule exists since the latest version of the forum exists... since two years ago or so... [?]
Housing Association want to put my rent up by 8.2% this year. The cost of living plus Retail Price Index. Excuse me, aren't they two ways of working out the very same thing? I'm livid.
Why do I always have about 3 battles on the go? There's also my employers trying to push through a new pay scale through which will leave me at the same rate even though we've been underpaid for years. Everyone gets paid more than us and registration is a tough job. We have to record and store all the births, deaths and marriages in the district, study law on that and keep those records yet we get paid so much less than those who store computer records of far less importance.
Oh yes, then there's the time I spend trying to get to see doctors. Why should they care that I sleep my life away and I'm still exhausted.
Why do people do stupid things? Because they can and because people let them. It's down to me mostly in the two or so hours per day that I'm really awake to fight these battles.
Foolship1077
10 Feb 2009, 20:39
Thanks, wii, MalilaM. Never saw that before, but I'm starting to think other sites could use that little concept.
I'm just about to check back to that other site and see if my password change helped any. Spent yesterday explaining what the heck happened and apologizing that they had all that happen to them.
Fingers crossed, fellas!
MalilaM
11 Feb 2009, 19:25
I hope your new password is "ultra-safe", Mark. Spammers are really one of those worst things in the Internet world. [irked]
Foolship1077
12 Feb 2009, 05:42
^ Amen!
In the words of the late, great Graham Chapman, "I DON'T LIKE SPAM!!!"
I threw that in on those boards as well. Someone had to have a good chuckle out of that one; it's classic Python!
"Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it."
Foolship1077
12 Feb 2009, 18:02
^ Could I get spam egg and sausage without the spam?
UGGGGHHHH!!
XDDDDDD!! Had a little fun with that over there as well! Man, say what you will, you just can't beat the classics!
In other stupid news, we turn to former sports athletes.
A former receiver for the Philadelphia Eagles (American football) had recently paid for seven pounds of marijuana at his own restaurant. No joke!
Now, how would you write that off in your expenses? And how do you cook it?
"Waiter, this lasagna tastes...well, kinda groovy!" [smile2]
I hate the password change! It's all right for those of you who can remember passwords, but I just got locked out of the forum! Obviously I'm back, (cheers Krapplund!) but now I know I'm truly a forum addict!
Krapplund
13 Feb 2009, 20:32
Your welcome Clare! [beer]
Richani
18 Feb 2009, 20:39
The stupid shit I can do sometimes... Totally forgot about moms Birthday (Today !![bigeyes]) this never happened to me before... Will she ever forgive me [laugh][smile2]
Mateusz
18 Feb 2009, 22:22
riding on the bike in winter
FallenAngel
19 Feb 2009, 19:24
Riding is not the problem, it's the one way down on your face!
Mateusz
19 Feb 2009, 22:18
hehe... i wrote about me ;)
MalilaM
27 Mar 2009, 19:27
I've been going through a very uncomfortable situation the last two weeks.
Some idiot gave my number to a bank and stopped paying them, so the bank has been calling here to look for that guy. They have an automated calling machine that calls at least 4 times every day to say "you have to pay", and they also have hired a call centers that calls at least 8 times a day. (!!!)
Do they think that if they call a million times the guy will materialize at the home of an unknown family and pay them???
It doesn't matter how I reply to them I have nothing to do with that f***ing guy, they're still calling. If things continue like that next week (when supposedly the bank records will be updated --or so they said), I will have to change my phone number.
*so angry, cannot insert smileys*
OH, that's really intolerable... I hope the bank records will be updated and you won't have to change the phone number.
MalilaM
27 Mar 2009, 20:54
Thanks, Elena. It's actually more than annoying. I've done everything that can be done so far... and I don't even have the guarantee that the new number won't have the same problems.
Anyway, I have just talked to a lawyer and they say it's possible to take some judiciary action against these people.
*deepsigh*
I had that same problem. Only 5 times a day but when I wrote to the agency (it wasn't the bank itself and the bank they were acting for, I never had an account with) they had no record of me. I just refused to talk to them and terminated each call ad dealt with it in writing. In the end it stopped when I reported them to trading standards.
It's sadly very common in the UK we have people paying other people's debts because they are threatened with "bailiffs." There have even been suicides. Horrible. I can understand why you'd be stressed, it wears you right down.
Malila, maybe the phone recorded in their database was just a mistype. If I were you, I would fax to the Customer Service of the bank with a threatening tone. I myself work in a bank, and all written requests are processed, whether you are a client or not.
MalilaM
28 Mar 2009, 15:36
@jetset: Thanks for the advice. I really appreciate empathy. [smile]
I just wish things were more regulated around here. I can assure you there is no mistype. There are people who give false addresses and numbers to the banks, and they don't really verify any data. It was easier to freely give out credit cards around (and now they wonder about the roots of the financial crisis here). Now the guy has made the fraud, they want to find him at the places he said he lived. [dunce]
Believe me I have done everything (I mean everything) I possibly can. I called the bank and even delivered a written letter, as I have been asked by themselves. Last week they said it would take 4 (!!) working days until their database was updated, but it's well over those 4 days and they keep calling. Called again and they said something about a system failure that could have lost my complaint. (Yeah, right)
That's why I believe it's a "professional" fraudster. Otherwise, the complaint would have passed immediately, but they think I'm an "accomplice" or so.
I called an institution charged of protecting financial institution costumers, and they said they cannot do anything about that. I asked to a lawyer that works for the city, and she said that all I can do is put a formal complaint at the judiciary institutions, but it's not likely they will do much unless there are many like mine against the same companies. Plus, Mexican judiciary system is corrupted to the bone, so it's easier I will have many more troubles with the police or the civil court than with these guys. Finally, the telephone company has said they won't offer any guarantee that this won't happen again: usually, these fraudsters (or simply the people who cannot pay anymore) change their telephone numbers (one more reason why this harassing is irrational), and there is a high possibility that my new one will be having the same kind of problem.
*sighs*
@forum: Sorry about the whining... I think I will just survive through this anyway. [laugh]
So if letters aren't enough, maybe I'd go to a local branch and demand a interview. Sometimes things move this way.
In the meantime : if you have a caller ID and bank calls numbers are masked, on some phones you can remove the ringtone for those type of calls. That"s how I can filter over 90% of unsollicited calls, for 1€/month.
Malila, I think Jetset's advice is very good. You should call your phone company and tell them that you are receiving such calls and they may be able to stop this number getting through. Remmber in this you are both a victim of fraud and harassment and the police should be able to take a report. Even if they just file it into an inactive file, you havepaperwork that you've been to the police and how many fraudsters/accomplices would do that?
Good luck and "whinge" away, It's what this topic was created for. I have used it myself for that purpse. [smile]
I called an institution charged of protecting financial institution costumers, and they said they cannot do anything about that. I asked to a lawyer that works for the city, and she said that all I can do is put a formal complaint at the judiciary institutions, but it's not likely they will do much unless there are many like mine against the same companies. Plus, Mexican judiciary system is corrupted to the bone, so it's easier I will have many more troubles with the police or the civil court than with these guys. Finally, the telephone company has said they won't offer any guarantee that this won't happen again: usually, these fraudsters (or simply the people who cannot pay anymore) change their telephone numbers (one more reason why this harassing is irrational), and there is a high possibility that my new one will be having the same kind of problem.
Makes you feel like a fly fighting against the window glass... I don't know how such things are made here, but I'm sure it could be pretty much the same...
I know it's exactly the same here. I've read so many awful tales online. I hope you beat them Malilla as they can't do that to people!
MalilaM
29 Mar 2009, 01:22
So if letters aren't enough, maybe I'd go to a local branch and demand a interview. Sometimes things move this way.
In the meantime : if you have a caller ID and bank calls numbers are masked, on some phones you can remove the ringtone for those type of calls. That"s how I can filter over 90% of unsollicited calls, for 1/month.
Problem here, jetset, is that banks don't give a damn about anything. They have been overwhelmingly privileged by the government and their "customer care" is next to none. If I have time to waste at the bank offices, I most probably will, but I know the result already: Either they will say "that cannot be done in the office, but by telephone" (which is what I've already done), or they will call a manager who will say very politely that they will fix the problem, and in the end they won't do anything.
And I forgot to mention: I asked the telephone company and they don't have that service to block out phone calls from any number. That's something that can be done with mobile phones, but not with fixed lines.
@Elena: That's exactly how it seems to me. I'm feeling absolutely helpless... or maybe rather absolutely useless. [banghead]
Still I can still complain more. I will send a letter to a newspaper and the telephone calls I've recorded to a TV station. I think they will be interested, since I'm definitely not the only one.
Anyway, I think venting all this has helped me to manage anger... I can insert smileys now. [laugh]
Thanks for the cheering, Clare... I will certainly use some idle time on this fight. They won't beat me so easily. [smile2]
They won't beat me so easily. [smile2]
That's the central word we wanted to hear of our dearest Malila!!
Good luck!
MalilaM
29 Mar 2009, 03:27
Thank you, dear J. [love2]
I'm trained to always fight back, but it feels good to whine from time to time. [wink]
FallenAngel
29 Mar 2009, 08:00
And in the end, you will see, there will be only one left over - and it will not be that bank! - Go Malila, take revenge for all those poor victims of the banks and crush them like an insect, because that is what they are! The Scum of the earth!!!!
...but it feels good to whine from time to time. [wink]
That's NOT the central word we wanted to hear of our dearest Malila!
MalilaM
29 Mar 2009, 16:18
Oh well... I won't know how things go until Friday, so I can only sit and wait... and send the case to a couple of media, who won't publish it immediately.
@JP: [love]
@J: Sometimes you have to take two steps back to gain impulse forwards. [wink]
I can't understand you Malila. You are not willing to spend a few time to solve your problem face to face with a human being - you can't defeat an automatic caller machine- but you are ready to waste much more time with newspapers and media...
Believe me, nothing's better than a real chat, what you haven't tried so far.
MalilaM
29 Mar 2009, 20:40
@jetset: I had a bank account there and I do know what I'm talking about. They don't really talk to you in the offices. All employees say you have to fix your problems through the telephone. When you demand to see a manager, there is always someone very polite, very kind who says automatically how much they empathize with you, how much they wish to solve your problem and how stupid you are to believe they will do anything for you there: use the phone. After a long discussion, they say they'll make an exception, of course, because you're a valuable customer so they will fix it for you... In the end, you leave the place thinking everything went right and you can se in your next account statement that they didn't do anything at all. And I've seen how they treat non-customers, even only for cashing a check.
Anyway, if I'm in the mood to make a scandal at their offices I will, even though it will be a waste of time.
The media thing is because I know people who can actually make some noise about it. Otherwise, I wouldn't waste resources there.
Well, i was in clinic and the rehab is there, but it is fully sealed and barred. Somehow this young addict got on top of the roof, and started singing "We don't need to medication,........" His wife had to be called to get him off the roof, the funny thing is might understand or find it funny, but don't tell establishment that - kind of taboo.
Richani
31 Mar 2009, 16:30
Ever heard of people that sneak into a company, only to steal cigarettes??
After we finished work we found out that all cigarettes have been stolen out of everybody's bags, but what surprised me the most is that they didnt touch our money/phones/mp3players/whatevermoreisexpensive [bigeyes] ..... some people really need to get a life.
MalilaM
31 Mar 2009, 17:00
They didn't steal cigarrettes... they rather delivered health. [laugh]
Richani
31 Mar 2009, 17:03
They didn't steal cigarrettes... they rather delivered health. [laugh]
Ve-ry funny [laugh][laugh][bah]
How would you react if for example someone sneaked into your house only to steal AV music [smile2]
Still curious to this mysterious cigarette-thief....
MalilaM
31 Mar 2009, 17:07
It sounds to me like a "health-fanatic", that's why I said it... But that never justifies messing with private property of course. :)
Richani
31 Mar 2009, 17:09
Or it was a smoke-fanatic without money [tonque][tonque]
FallenAngel
31 Mar 2009, 18:27
Ve-ry funny [laugh][laugh][bah]
How would you react if for example someone sneaked into your house only to steal AV music [smile2]
Still curious to this mysterious cigarette-thief....
That I had a thief with taste! [tonque][wink]
fishbones
31 Mar 2009, 18:35
That is very strange to steal just the cigarettes and nothing else. I knew a family years ago who used to admit to stealing toilet rolls. Nothing else, just toilet rolls. They moved away about 10 years ago, not seen them since.
Richani
31 Mar 2009, 18:38
thats even more weird ! oh well... so there are always people that only steal ladies underwear etc. after all I can laugh about it too...
In this complicated world it is nice if you have come to have found your real aim to go for.
No matter if it's only ladies underwear, toilet paper or cigarettes. To know your personal path to walk
is what counts.
I'm not sure wether to have reached that stage.
Although some say I would steal pyjamas...
FallenAngel
01 Apr 2009, 09:42
In this complicated world it is nice if you have come to have found your real aim to go for.
No matter if it's only ladies underwear, toilet paper or cigarettes. To know your personal path to walk
is what counts.
I'm not sure wether to have reached that stage.
Although some say I would steal pyjamas...
Correct my dear, although I would aim for better stuff, like gold, money, diamonds, etc... [bigeyes][smile2][wink]
MalilaM
17 Dec 2009, 07:57
Since a couple of years ago I've become oversensitive to caffeine... so why on earth do I still drink coffee at nights??? [banghead]
It's 2am, and I should be sleeping, but I'm typing documents instead. [boggled]
Oh well...
*ariAna*
17 Dec 2009, 09:34
I just wondered why you are online at this time of day ...
Pitesina
17 Dec 2009, 13:43
It's 2am, and I should be sleeping, but I'm typing documents instead. [boggled]
Oh well...
Malila, itīs desperate when you canīt sleep. I do the same: If I canīt sleep, I just go to my PC and start to work [banghead]
MalilaM
17 Dec 2009, 14:24
@Ana: [smile] It was strange to watch who logs in so early in the morning. [smile2]
@Pitesina: [smile]
*ariAna*
17 Dec 2009, 15:08
@Ana: [smile] It was strange to watch who logs in so early in the morning. [smile2]
Oh come on: early??? [smile2] Nearly lunch time ...
FallenAngel
17 Dec 2009, 18:20
I did it today!!!
Saw in our online systems "Frozen manager:" and the the name of my boss.
Me 'Say, in the system you are my frozen manager, I always knew you where an ice queen!'. [smile2]
Richani
22 Dec 2009, 10:58
My very first day of the holidays, no work, and what happened; My dad almost jumps on my bed in the very early morning to tell me that Ive been sleeping too long and will arrive too late on my work [banghead] Yesterday I told him that I have these days off, darn him!!!
Krapplund
22 Dec 2009, 11:17
[laugh][laugh] Funny dad you have....I laugh like a crazy right now [wink][laugh][laugh]
[xmas]
Richani
22 Dec 2009, 11:25
My dad is getting worser by the day [laugh] he seems to forget everything that I tell him, and now that mum's gone he thinks that he has the right to change everything in the house [smile2] (Not that I care much as I live in my bedroom which is filled with AV ^^)
FallenAngel
22 Dec 2009, 11:55
Send him memo's! [laugh]
This is still my favorite [smile2]
Have you ever been standing and waiting for an elevator...So you push the button right...Yeah of course you push the button...What kind of moron would just stand in the hallway around the elevator's...Then another person comes up behind you...And he looks at you...He KNOW you pushed the button...but he ALSO pushes it anyway...*Crazy WTF are you doing look* And you feel like saying Oh yeah now that you pushed the button the elevator's going to think...Oh! No it was pushed twice!! I better go pick them up...Cause I fucking wasn't going to move the FIRST time it was pushed...that's for damned sure...
Alphaanni
22 Dec 2009, 13:47
This is still my favorite [smile2]
same here...
[smile2]
[laugh] People do the same at traffic lights (pedestrians).
Richani
22 Dec 2009, 19:12
Me too, I push that button a 100 times because that would make the lights turn green faster but it never works [banghead] (of course not)
MalilaM
22 Dec 2009, 20:33
[smile2] No one can beat that one... it's also my all time favourite.
*ariAna*
23 Dec 2009, 10:11
[laugh] People do the same at traffic lights (pedestrians).
I know it the other way round:
At the pedestrain traffic light I have to pass when I go to the underground every morning I often see a crowd of people standing in front of the red light and NO-ONE has pushed the button.
[?]Obviously they all think it'll be green anyway - sooner or later. But that's the problem: If no-one pushes, it gets green LATER. [bigmouth] (proven about a hundered times ... every second morning).
The other one they do (I notice this in Glasgow) is rush across whatever the colour of the light and give the strange country bumpkin (me) pitying looks for waiting dutifully for the light to go green. What they don't know is that I have a lazy eye and therefore my depth perception is out, I can't always tell how far traffic is from me. I prefer not to take stupid risks. (Besides, why try to save five seconds and end up losing up to fifty years?)
See what living in Germany for a year does to you? [laugh]
Richani
28 Dec 2009, 19:46
Yesterday a big part of the traffic lights in my village was broken, and we had to cross the street on our bikes. The cars never stopped for us and they think they are the kings of the road [banghead] sh*t on them..
Mateusz
29 Dec 2009, 11:49
Yesterday a big part of the traffic lights in my village was broken, and we had to cross the street on our bikes. The cars never stopped for us and they think they are the kings of the road [banghead] sh*t on them..
YEAH! Cars are for anyone, but bikes only for choosen [smile2] I noticed a long time ago, people have the problem with stopping the cars. It's just one move, but so hard for master of 4 wheels [bigmouth] Anyone want to make a small bike-race with me?? [drink] Anyway i have the car...
Richani
29 Dec 2009, 22:50
Ohh yes please..
well next time I just cross over, whatever the cars do. They have a major problem if they hit me.
Foolship1077
30 Dec 2009, 05:49
We saw a near incident yesterday, my gf and I.
We were both safe, mind you, but a car turning left at an intersection just couldn't wait for a pedestrian to get across, and turned right in front of her. And this is one of the busiest intersections around here!
Fat lot of good it did the driver. The next light for him was red!
I don't mind laughing at people in that situation. That's karma for you!
But what's worse is the fact that there was a cop car a short distance behind all this, and it was turning right, as if nothing happened!
It makes me laugh when people run across a road at a traffic light but there's traffic in the other direction so they still have to wait in the middle section. They can see as they run across the first bit. As I have poor vision in one eye I usually wait for the lights as I can't judge distances. And I still get across the road at exactly the same time as the "more haste less speed" brigade.
MalilaM
20 Jul 2010, 20:05
[laugh] I do that where I live... but there is a reason for it: when it rains, if I don't do that, the cars splash water on the pedestrians at the other side. [wink]
Oh yes, when it rains it's different! It's worth avoiding the puddles.
If you do need to cross the road (there's often no crossing) why is it that the only car that will stop to let you out is the impatient one, leaning on the car horn and gesticulating at you to cross and paying no attention to the huge lorry in the next lane that would crush you if you tried. I don't need to see those rude gestures!
Pitesina
08 Nov 2010, 02:34
The last Saturday we went shopping and there was just one cashier. When the other cashier arrived, she told me to go to pay with her. The person who was behind me ran to pay for her clothes and the cashier told me: Iīm sorry... and the woman didnīt say anything. She just paid and left the store.
The cashier must told her that it was my turn and the other woman must respect the line. Or not????
Oh Pitesina, people can be so rude! I couldn't tell you how many times that has happend to me. I wish there were more good people in the world than bad, but I don't think that is.
A couple of months I tried to buy a newspaper in a supermarket at the kiosk, I was rushing as it was before work. I use it a lot. On that day I was third in line, the cashier kept answering the phone and making announcements to call a colleague to the phone. I felt that was rude as I was ahead of the phone caller in the queue but for some reason the phone always gets priority.
I think that's rude and if I'm at work and people are waiting, or I'm talking to people, the phone waits. It's what answering machines were invented for. So when it got to my turn I asked quietly why the phone always gets priority (you know, those moments when you think, no, I'm not going to just grumble later and smile sweetly, I need to say something). The cashierwent mad. Threatened to call the manager, told me that this was the customer service desk (which is odd as I was the customer and her calls and announcements were for colleagues). It threw me completely.
I really hate the way the phone gets to jump the queue because it's louder than me and I boycotted that shop for a month. These places should have offices where admin is dealt with, not have one person rushing about trying to do evevrything. if it can't get things right it certainly should not print on all its receipts, "How did we do?" and give a comments web address. [laugh]
Frigging newspaper changed my obituary that I wrote for my mum and replaced it with one of those cheesy shit poems that I absolutely hate!
errrm.... arranging a release party that people from all over the world would want to attend with just over a week's notice... definitely a contender for this category *ducks*
fishbones
09 Nov 2010, 18:31
There are some rude and stupid people about. While this topic is alive again, i went to a firework display with the family and someone thought it would be funny to chuck 2 aerosol cans on the bonfire. Believe me that was the biggest bang all night. [bigmouth]
OMG, Sharon, that's awful! Some people are really stupid.
MalilaM
05 May 2012, 00:33
How stupid some people can be? I was walking across a huge (I mean huge) patio that separates the buildings in the area where I live and I felt a woman coming behind me; I moved a little to the right, as she seemed to be walking faster than me. She kept walking right behind me and I suddenly felt her stepping on my own feet!!
I told her the patio was big enough so she didn't have to walk so close to other people but she didn't even apologize!! [bigmouth]
Cute neighbours I have, huh? [banghead]
FallenAngel
05 May 2012, 06:45
Think people are blind sometimes.... or just stupid... Who knows...
Omegaville
05 May 2012, 11:55
Yes, who knows??
I have a very stupid brother!! When I was using computer with my friends, he was still disturbing us-he took mouse, wrote a lot of silly things and finally switched off my PC!
Malila, that's awful. Reminds me of a time I was in a busy airport and went to the ladies' room and a woman coming out as I went in insisted on shutting the door behind her rather than holding it open for me and then I discovered she'd switched the lights off as she left. There were people in there. Not unlike some of my colleagues at work but the less said the better.
Some people need a planet all to themselves so they don't get in the way of everyone else.
sophienoelle
05 May 2012, 12:59
I took my new dog out, and ran into this woman with her tiny Yorkshire terrier. My dog is registered as a Yorkie, but who knows for sure since he's from the pound? Anyway, the first words out of her mouth were 'Oh he's not a purebred, doesn't that bother you?' I did not know what to answer - Who cares? I chose him because we flashed on each other and for no other reason. These were the first words out of her mouth, by the way, not "hello" or "what's your dog's name". Some people, I swear! My dad said i should have asked her if SHE was a purebred, LOL
I would have answered, "He's a life which needs taking care of and I'm not as superficial as all that."
Awful woman! What a way to think?
Omegaville
05 May 2012, 22:15
@sophienoelle: OMG <facepalm>
I don't know how people can think that breed of dog is important?! You took your dog because you loved him (or I write wrong things??) and she can't have objections to it!!
MalilaM
06 May 2012, 03:52
@Clare: They should be in Little Prince's planets... the guy with the streetlamp comes to my mind. [smile2]
@Sophie: I would have loved to see her face when hearing your father's reply. [laugh]
sophienoelle
06 May 2012, 07:49
@sophienoelle: OMG <facepalm>
I don't know how people can think that breed of dog is important?! You took your dog because you loved him (or I write wrong things??) and she can't have objections to it!!
yes, I took him because his personality, age, and energy level match mine, and therefore i fell in love with him for all those things. Too often, people put way too much importance on looks, IMO.
sophienoelle
06 May 2012, 07:50
@Clare: They should be in Little Prince's planets... the guy with the streetlamp comes to my mind. [smile2]
@Sophie: I would have loved to see her face when hearing your father's reply. [laugh]
Yeah - My dad is real good with the comebacks. Me, I would have of it way after the fact at 3AM LOL
Pitesina
27 May 2012, 15:45
It bothers me that people walk very slowly and does not let you move forward.
sophienoelle
27 May 2012, 16:53
It bothers me that people walk very slowly and does not let you move forward.
You should see in Brussels - Belgians coming opposite you on the sidewalk will not move left or right. If you don't move, you will end up staring at someone face to face. And it's the majority of people, not just one or two! I swear, one day I'm going to film it and put it on Youtube[banghead].
Or people who walk very slowly up the middle of a narrow path and won't move however much you ask.
Pitesina
28 May 2012, 14:17
Yes. It is exasperating [bigmouth]
Pitesina
15 Aug 2012, 14:57
A sensitive issue:
Some people commit suicide throwing themselves to the railway tracks of the subway. These events cause many people to be late to our destination.
With all my respect: Why donīt they find another place to commit suicide, in which they do not affect the others?
sophienoelle
15 Aug 2012, 15:06
A sensitive issue:
Some people commit suicide throwing themselves to the railway tracks of the subway. These events cause many people to be late to our destination.
With all my respect: Why donīt they find another place to commit suicide, in which they do not affect the others?
That almost happened about three weeks ago with my train...while I cannot imagine their despair, we were quite inconvenienced. The train stopped in time.The train controller said in Belgium the normal method is train, followed by viaducts. Not to mention the poor guy was white as a sheet and shaking
That used to happen every few weeks when I was working in Bonn and had to travel home by train.
*ariAna*
16 Aug 2012, 11:13
Indeed, that happens here very often. I'm very sorry for all the train drivers: it must be really shocking to kill a person this way.
Omegaville
16 Aug 2012, 11:21
@Pitesina: And I have ask with all my respect: why people are trying kill themselves at all?!
Pitesina
16 Aug 2012, 14:40
Good question!
I donīt think that killing themselves is the solution.
We all have problems and it is our obligation to fall down and rise again.
Some months ago two women, mother and daughter holding their hands, commited suicide together.
I simply donīt understand. [bigeyes]
I think depression is a deadly disease on some occasions. Many years ago a friend of mine phoned to say goodbye as she planned suicide. She didn't luckily but at the time she really believed that others would be better off without her in their lives. I always felt that if her friends had failed to convince her that the opposite was true and she had gone ahead I would have blamed the depression and not her just as if it were cancer taking her life.
And to be honest people that they've never met are the last person that a depressed person will consider. The disease overrides other more sensible considerations. I've had my train delayed by the aftermath of someone jumping. I was on my way to visit my then boyfriend and was about 3 hours late. It's a pain but what else can the train company and police do? Why does it never happen when you're on your way somewhere you don't want to go but instead on your way somewhere important???
MalilaM
16 Aug 2012, 22:59
Oh God... There are so many ways to take one's own life, I have never understood why they do that there. It's hard to empathize. [grumpy]
I don't think it's easy to understand why and where people choose to do that if you have never been in that state of mind.
I really don't think (at least where it's depression) that the person actually kills themselves. It's the depression that kills them.
Omegaville
26 Aug 2012, 18:05
Ohhhh.... So many answers, so many questions and people still killl themselves.
My mom when she was in the nearest town for changing her hairstyle and buying some things for home heard the man in one shop who said "And now peasants are going to change their hairstyles for one stupid wedding..." OK, he is from this town, but it's a little town! When she told us about this event, she said: "Hoohoo, and he made himself as the big f*** lord... only because we live in a village and he live in a town [bah]"
Pitesina
29 Dec 2012, 14:40
There is a page on FB and they put this picture. I think this man is "Juanes", not Marian. Am I wrong???
http://external.ak.fbcdn.net/safe_image.php?d=AQA_jcKjyqZ4kZMz&w=640&h=427&url=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia% 2Fcommons%2F6%2F6c%2FAltacollina_-_Alphaville.jpg
Richani
29 Dec 2012, 14:54
Its sure that is't not Marian.. [indiff] But honestly dont know who else this can be.
sophienoelle
29 Dec 2012, 15:50
There is a Spanish (I think) band called Alphaville. I accidentally bought their CD one time, thinking it was THE Alphaville. It could be the lead singer from that band instead (by the way, their music was nothing like AV!!) I ended up throwing away the CD...
I heard them once, on youtube, thinking they were "our" AV. [bah] Did'nt resist a long time before changing.
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