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Because I am an impatient grumpy git.

Other drivers (the air is blue in our car sometimes), people who wander round the supermarket looking like they've just been slugged with 10lb of wet cod and getting in your way, MrsC putting food into blue plastic bags which are incredibly frustrating to open, being put on hold and having to listen to "Your call is very important to us.." for half an hour... the list is endless!

Or ringing a helpline, who don't help at all

I'd still be typing tomorrow morning if I had to list the things that irritate me....

but as per Jan's other thread, bad time keeping is right there at the top of that list

I wouldn't know where to start.

Current points of irritation include the despicable Harry and Megham, the over-paid and woke Kane Toads (as I call them) who are dominating our TV news and media, and parking meters that continuously reject your coins (i.e 70% of all the wretched machines in Dorset)

Lots of things for me but recently it was the SpaceX notification that they had closed my support ticket because there had been an outage of Starlink in my area and it was now resolve,d so they just closed my ticket. Without checking that this was my issue.

Getting a bit grumpy I mailed the COO and Chairman of SpaceX. Explaining that they had a problem and really did need to solve it, not close my ticket.

That's the irritating bit.

The amazing bit is she responded. I got a call 4 hours later and after I wrote a very short mail saying thanks and I was relatively happy she then mailed back and asked me to contact her if there were any further issues as they were building out the team and training was needed.

So it started out being irritating and wound up with me in conversation with the #2 employee in the largest rocket launch company in the world. Still processing that.

cromwell wrote:people who wander round the supermarket looking like they've just been slugged with 10lb of wet cod and getting in your way

Oh that did make me laugh That’s one of mine too

cromwell wrote:people who wander round the supermarket looking like they've just been slugged with 10lb of wet cod and getting in your way

For me that is airports. People wandering around with their mouths open getting in your way. Others who stand all over the moving floor so you can't get past them. It is faster than walking, just, but if you are in a hurry, it is an extreme irritant. You could be flying but the gapers are all maxed out with their ability to navigate the airport and could care less about anyone else.

This was especially poignant for me where the Paris flights and train schedules came together to mean that if you didn't get out of the airport really fast you missed your train south and wound up on the 0:50 slow train. Getting home after 3am.

One or twice, no issue. 100 or 200, getting a bit irritating. When it gets over 1,000 it's red rag to a bull.