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franklin said:
Yogurt that squirts at your face when you open it. The new Dannon packaging fixed this.
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Fry sauce packets too. Ya I hate that ****.
 
this is a big one, I'm sure I'm not alone in my annoyance:

when the grocery store where you do 95% of your grocery shopping reorganizes the store layout


Just happened yesterday - three of us all turn the corner at the same time into what had been the cereal aisle, and it was EMPTY. We're all just like "WTF?" - one guy just kept muttering "I don't have time for this, I don't have time for this..."

So the cereal (and granola bars, Pop Tarts and other breakfast fare) had been moved over a couple aisles to what had been the ketchup and condiments aisle - those were now where the canned soups had been, etc...

It is SO DAMN ANNOYING.

And the stores do it on purpose just on the hope that if we're forced to wander around the store a bit longer, we'll end up making impulse purchases. Well not me - I go in with my list and I stick to it!
 
Speaking of not having time for this...

Not sure if I posted this already. A couple months ago I was at Walmart grabbing a couple items. I think self checkout must have been closed or something because that's usually what I use. But I hop in a line with just one guy and soon realize he is price matching every ****ing thing in his cart, and he's trying to be creative about it. One thing he had was several packages of fresh chicken that he was price matching to a large box of frozen chicken, like a 20lb box, from a local Hispanic market ad. The checker wasn't going with that one but he was insistent so they had to call a manager up who ultimately nixed the deal. But with every item he had to shuffle through his ads, show it to her, she had to verify the legitimacy compared to what he was buying and then manually punch in the price. I just wanted to hand the guy $20 and tell him to go ahead and pay Walmart's price for the rest of his stuff.
 
When I have an appointment to do a job scheduled for a week and a half so the day before I text the people to confirm only to find out they had someone else take care of it a week ago. I have no problem with finding someone else to do it, but at least have the common courtesy to tell me. I could have scheduled other jobs, gone camping with the fam, or whatever. Assholes.
 
moevillini said:
this is a big one, I'm sure I'm not alone in my annoyance:

when the grocery store where you do 95% of your grocery shopping reorganizes the store layout


Just happened yesterday - three of us all turn the corner at the same time into what had been the cereal aisle, and it was EMPTY. We're all just like "WTF?" - one guy just kept muttering "I don't have time for this, I don't have time for this..."

So the cereal (and granola bars, Pop Tarts and other breakfast fare) had been moved over a couple aisles to what had been the ketchup and condiments aisle - those were now where the canned soups had been, etc...

It is SO DAMN ANNOYING.

And the stores do it on purpose just on the hope that if we're forced to wander around the store a bit longer, we'll end up making impulse purchases. Well not me - I go in with my list and I stick to it!
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Got lost for a half hour tryin to get out of one of them damn rearrangements.
 
White Chocolate said:
California has the worst drivers I have ever seen.
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I have been living here for 6 months now and when I went back to Utah I was amazed how crappy Utah drivers are. I am beginning to think that people in general are just ****ty drivers.
 
LogGrad98 said:
I have been living here for 6 months now and when I went back to Utah I was amazed how crappy Utah drivers are. I am beginning to think that people in general are just ****ty drivers.
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one word

Cell Phones
 
Bulletproof said:
Speaking of not having time for this...

Not sure if I posted this already. A couple months ago I was at Walmart grabbing a couple items. I think self checkout must have been closed or something because that's usually what I use. But I hop in a line with just one guy and soon realize he is price matching every ****ing thing in his cart, and he's trying to be creative about it. One thing he had was several packages of fresh chicken that he was price matching to a large box of frozen chicken, like a 20lb box, from a local Hispanic market ad. The checker wasn't going with that one but he was insistent so they had to call a manager up who ultimately nixed the deal. But with every item he had to shuffle through his ads, show it to her, she had to verify the legitimacy compared to what he was buying and then manually punch in the price. I just wanted to hand the guy $20 and tell him to go ahead and pay Walmart's price for the rest of his stuff.
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Just say walmart. I can't even tell you the last time I successfully made a purchase there. I have tried but it never works out. I feel like the crying Native American from the old psa's everytime I walk in there, except way more materialistic, pissed off, less emvironmentalist, and no actual tears. So it's nothing like that but the imagery works kinda but not really. Anyway...

I try to navigate through the chaos of garbage that they call product, beyond the herds of assholes in fuschia sweat pants to find the one piece of junk that I don't really need and if I make it, I have usually given up by now, I surely will run into the bottleneck described in your post.

The end result is always the same. "**** this" ,I drop ******** junk where I stand, give everyone the evil eye, march out murmuring, disappointed, angry, hoping that some decrepit old man will ask for a receipt for the **** that wasn't worth buying so that I can tell him to go **** himself so that I can release some aggression before I get behind the wheel. Regardless I will probably scream the whole way home either to some metal album, likely slayer or devildriver, or just simply scream like some mal-adjusted terrier with tourette syndrome.

When I get home my wife will ask if I got what I was after, knowing with certainty that I did not but rather left in a rage. "**** No!" I will reply followed by a 10-15 minute rant about how much I ****ing hate shopping especially at WM(during which she will politely try not to laugh).

For some reason a year or so later I will think that it will be OK. I will try again but the result will be the same.

Srsly I holy ****ing monkey balls dog ****ing *** pounding hate walmart.
 
Haven't laughed so hard in quite a while!



Actually it was more of a mild chuckle, shows the sad state of my life these days.

But thanks, your post was a good tonic for my current mood.
 
♪alt13 said:
Just say walmart. I can't even tell you the last time I successfully made a purchase there. I have tried but it never works out. I feel like the crying Native American from the old psa's everytime I walk in there, except way more materialistic, pissed off, less emvironmentalist, and no actual tears. So it's nothing like that but the imagery works kinda but not really. Anyway...

I try to navigate through the chaos of garbage that they call product, beyond the herds of assholes in fuschia sweat pants to find the one piece of junk that I don't really need and if I make it, I have usually given up by now, I surely will run into the bottleneck described in your post.

The end result is always the same. "**** this" ,I drop ******** junk where I stand, give everyone the evil eye, march out murmuring, disappointed, angry, hoping that some decrepit old man will ask for a receipt for the **** that wasn't worth buying so that I can tell him to go **** himself so that I can release some aggression before I get behind the wheel. Regardless I will probably scream the whole way home either to some metal album, likely slayer or devildriver, or just simply scream like some mal-adjusted terrier with tourette syndrome.

When I get home my wife will ask if I got what I was after, knowing with certainty that I did not but rather left in a rage. "**** No!" I will reply followed by a 10-15 minute rant about how much I ****ing hate shopping especially at WM(during which she will politely try not to laugh).

For some reason a year or so later I will think that it will be OK. I will try again but the result will be the same.

Srsly I holy ****ing monkey balls dog ****ing *** pounding hate walmart.
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One time I was walking up to the self checkout after work, so it was probably about 10:40pm, I have a pretty heavy item in my hands and the lady at self checkout sees me coming and shut down the self checkout when I'm about 12ft from the register. The only other line open at the time was the cigarette/after hours returns and customer service line, and there were several people there. I sat my item on the ground and left.

Another time I was in the self checkout and I was buying several things and one of them was beer (sometimes I run out). So the person watching self checkout has to come over and check my ID. After I scan the beer I see her walking up to check on the rotisserie chickens, spends a few minutes there. Then she walks back past me up to where the door greeter is and there's another employee over there and she starts talking to them. One of them points out to her that I'm waiting for her to come check my ID, she turns her head, looks at me and does that hand-wave thing that essentially says "yeah, whatever" and turns back around to keep talking. I pull my card out of the card-reader and cancel the transaction and walk out with a good load of groceries including a bunch of vegetables and frozen sitting there.
 
I can't think of any group of drivers in the US that compare negatively to the group of drivers I experienced in Korea or Panama. Whole different ballgame when I was in both countries.
 
Three pet peeves that have reared their ugly heads for me today:
1. Yapping dogs. Holy ****, this one needs to eat a bullet.
2. Swamp coolers. Worthless pieces of ****.
3. Sweat dripping down into my *** crack.
 
bigb said:
Three pet peeves that have reared their ugly heads for me today:
1. Yapping dogs. Holy ****, this one needs to eat a bullet.
2. Swamp coolers. Worthless pieces of ****.
3. Sweat dripping down into my *** crack.
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The mental image of bigb's sweaty *** crack
 
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