start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3

Small talk is like 80% of my job some days, I think I just do it mindlessly now? Tbh tho I would much rather someone launch into a detailed description of something they're actually feeling than just mindless "positivity."

BACK PAIN. I know exactly what caused it (falling out of bed because one of my mother's cats turned out to be sleeping next to me when the alarm went off), but that doesn't make it any easier to manage.

I had this idea for some landscaping in the front yard.

I'm not a landscaper but I do have a back. It was an interesting idea on my part. I feel your pain.

i hate when people turn left when driving

appalling!

i hate it when people are around me, in general, tbrr

lol harbl on my scooter about two days ago I was trying to get home from work and yelling "NO TURNING LEFT. NO ONE TURNS LEFT" at the traffic up ahead. Feel ya.

Of course with my mouth hanging out the front of my helmet everyone can hear me so I should maybe stop yelling at drivers so much.

people who don't know how to end a business phone call. ie, spending 3-4 minutes with closing thoughts and never getting to the end.

usually after about 1-2 minutes I just hang up if it's an endless sea of "well ok hope you have a great day, let me know if you have any further questions...oh by the way"

I used to get IR at people honking when they drive down alleys. I figured, yeah, we can all hear you honking, but no one can see you or where you're coming from, so why even honk? Especially since honking makes most people rationally angry. But then the other day I heard someone honking down an alley, paused, and may have stopped myself from getting run over by said car emerging from said alley, so maybe it really does work, but only if you're in the right place at the right time, which is to say, about to get run over. Which is the most important time for honking down an alley to be effective, I guess.

"Honkin Down The Alley" - The Josh In Chicago Story

I hate alley honking. Just slow the fuck down and look for ppl when you are pulling out.

I curse all non-necessary honking

vertical videos

just stop doing them

it is the future, sorry mang

the future doesn't understand how people watch videos

people watch videos on their phones. look at which way a phone is oriented when you hold it in yr hand. voila. every cineplex in the country will be vertical within 2 years, george lucas said so

george lucas said a lot of things

1. jar jar binks is a really good idea
2. we don't need a green screen set longer than 14 feet
3. trade tariffs are remarkably entertaining

coming home to put things into the fridge and finding out that I was a shelf low with the icecream earlier so it didn't go back in the freezer.

The local LIDL being busy restocking shelves mid way through a Sunday so every pallette mover is in the way.

Seeing somebody intentionally stack a trolley tehy had with them out in the exit area where it seems they don't get collected instead of at the end of the conveyor belt. Had to go out and grab one earlier thsi week and had a couple of kids try to walk through teh same conveyor belt alley I was walking out through while I was trying to walk out through it, when they had a lot more space behind them than I did so I would think I had right of way. Bummer.

Weather being good up until Tuesday probably when i need to be in town. & there's a bus strike so I may have to walk.

Taking forever to get shirts done.

Car still turning up and being way too close to the street door. Now found out it's a frequent visitor to next door who I thought would be facing the same problems. Couldn't see how she could get a buggy out with the little space taht was left between the car and teh door or how the boyfriend would be able to get a bike out.
Finally got around to asking and find that people downstairs had asked her to move car over cos she kept bumping their car with her door when she opened it.
I'm having to wiggle out the front door and watch where my feet are going, feel very cramped by its vicinity as I exit.

Spinach not being sold in its traditional form nearly anywhere. Seems people are only into baby leaf stuff. & I prefer the full leaf. Would have thought that was a staple but maybe its thought of as passé by supermarket customers. I'm just getting into cooking it too.

george lucas said a lot of things

that was not among them, i was just being irrationally silly. soz like

Seems I need a checklist to make sure the things taht i pick up off the supermarket shelf actually get into my take home bag.
That's the 2nd time this week taht something I picked up and put in the trolley hasn't reached my bag after teh checkout. Enough to make you paranoid.
Today I know I was looking at the 2 different types of peppers that were on the shelf, last week I know i found the right type of chocolate. I know I picked them up, & would be pretty sure they got into the trolley. So not sure what happened after that, if they got swept off the conveyor belt or got behind the separator into the next person's stuff. But rather annoying.

are they on the receipt?

i have self-scanned stuff and it still hasn't made it home. (i think it fell off the pile of stuff in the bagging area and down the back. you'd hope the scales would notice and complain, unless it was after i'd paid)

I am generally pro the no more free plastic bags thing but it does make the checkout more awkward and items more likely to go missing when you have to cram all your shopping in whatever bag you happen to have with you, e.g. a work rucksack with lots of different sections and full of work items for smaller groceries to hide under.

(Also shop plastic bags used to be perfect for bin bags and it's annoying how much more expensive smaller or not-black bin bags are than the big black bin liners. In a small flat with an open-plan kitchen/living area, you don't really get to build up a whole big sackful of rubbish before it starts to smell, plus we can't use black bags for recycling or they refuse to take it in case it's misplaced landfill.)

Further supermarket grumbling: on several occasions I've bought something at the supermarket on the way home from work specifically because it appears to be reduced (on a special offer shelf with big special offer signs underneath) and then got home, looked at the receipt and found that I paid more than I thought the price was.

I assume I probably read the shelf wrong on at least some of those occasions, but it is getting quite annoying. I really need to remember to check the receipt while I'm still in the shop instead of walking a mile home first.

the local sainsburys has updated their till software and it's a bit odd. doesn't give you the 'use own bags?' option and it's hard to know how to handle that (maybe it zeroes the bagging area scales when it scans the first item). it also spreads the list of scanned items out on the screen in an arc like a pack of cards, rather than just showing you a readable list.

got flagged for an age-check today as well, for a box of paracetamol...

Does look like I didn't get charged for the chillies today but they were one of the main things i went out to get I think.
& chocolate last week may have been down to something turning up on the outside wrapper of the cheese in my shopping . looked like a tomato seed splat or something but may have caused enough distraction that checkout girl didn't complete my shop. & I hadn't been paying attention to what was and wasn't already processed. Don't remember anything like that today though.

that was not among them, i was just being irrationally silly. soz like

believable though

& chocolate last week may have been down to something turning up on the outside wrapper of the cheese in my shopping . looked like a tomato seed splat or something but may have caused enough distraction that checkout girl didn't complete my shop. & I hadn't been paying attention to what was and wasn't already processed.
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probably only noticed the whatever on the cheese because the checkout girl was making something out of it. Cheese itself was in a thick rind thing. So wiping it off would have sufficed.
Not a big fan of the trolleys that LIDL Is using now instead of shopping baskets, seem to be a lot harder to navigate and may get things like tomato splat in the bottom of them without one being able to notice. These are medium sized plastic baskets on wheels rather than the full size wire things. I was much happier with the initial plastic baskets that LIDL introduced and had been happy enough picking up an empty box from one of the shelves to use as an ersatz basket before they went so bourgeois as to actually start having specifically designated baskets.

Companies (or individuals) who design digital fonts referring to themselves as "type foundries".

on several occasions I've bought something at the supermarket on the way home from work specifically because it appears to be reduced (on a special offer shelf with big special offer signs underneath) and then got home, looked at the receipt and found that I paid more than I thought the price was.

Apologies for The Sun link:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/2836966/bbc-secret-shopper-finds-two-thirds-of-tesco-customers-overcharged-by-expired-deals/

there's an 'offer expires' date on all the price labels. it's small, but it's there.

(oh, the article says as much)

((carry on))

Yes, I should look for the offer expiry dates next time.

I've def seen them on labels in the Co-Op and Tesco here (never spotted an expired offer, but the labels are useful for questions like "will this big box of something heavy still be on offer when I have less to carry?") but not in the offending Waitrose, where they rotate the offers displays often enough that you might expect them to be current.

(I know, Waitrose being surprisingly expensive non-shocker)

Frequently taht writing is in such small writing you need to pretty much lift the tag up to your yes to see it, than work out how to put the tag back into the display.

& thinking of trolleys I assume that at least LIDL's smaller ones are sized so taht you're tempted to keep putting things into them whereas the smaller wire baskets had a point were they would be filled. Cos otherwise tehy just seem to be more hassle than they're worth, can't be carried easily and take up some floorspace as they're moved around the shop so you're always having to intentionally avoid other shoppers as they move around the store. I think that was less of an issue with the smaller baskets since people took up less space. Also doesn't help that people are leaving the restocking palette/trolleys taking up aisle space that you also need to navigate around.

Now the local LIDL has decided to stop having prices prominently displayed on markers that are suspended from teh ceiling for some reason. So you need to look around for prices, I'm still finding myself automatically looking in the space taht they used to be displayed and finding empty space.

Tesco is the worst. I'm so glad I am not forced by location to shop there (or ASDA).

Waitrose do monthly and weekly offers: weeklies always start on a Wednesday and I'm pretty sure monthlies start on the first Wednesday of the month. I shop there and at Sainsbury's (with an occasional foray into M&S).

If I need something in bulk (and that something is usually bigger boxes of Yorkshire Tea) I visit an offers aggregator like mysupermarket and strike when it's on offer at shops close to home. Also useful for the other two things I only buy on offer: really posh vanilla extract or Sainsbury's own chorizo.

people that I'm casual friends with who post open invites on FB like "I'm going to <location> at <time>, everyone feel free to join me if you like!", cos if it's a tempting offer then I have to think to myself "do I know this person well enough to just drop in on them or will they be like 'oh, right, YOU'". usually I won't bother if it's someone I haven't hugged in the last 3 months

though humorously enough, I did that one time, and one of my best friends from 7th grade, who I added on FB a few months prior and I hadn't seen in like TWENTY YEARS, showed up.

that was one of the most amazingly random things ever.

FB friend keeps posting photos of new lipstick colors in *extreme closeup* & it makes me IA bcz she doesnt wear lipliner & it's all ragged looking & i cant aaaargh

If it wasnt a closeup i wouldnt care

Does anything happen between the hours of 5am and 6am that isn't "twisting around in bed reliving all terrible moments in one's life and ascribing all blame for those moments on oneself"

I mean, I saw somebody jogging that one time but I thought generally that was a 6am-7am activity

There's a longtime furniture store in our little downtown over here that is apparently selling off inventory and possibly closing up shop at some point in the future. I say possibly because the sandwich board on the sidewalk reads: "GOING OUT FOR BUSINESS." This makes me irrationally angry. And then I thought, what if they're not going out OF business, that this fucking sign is some sort of bait to get you in and to ask about the wording and they have some clever explanation prepared? That thought made me even angrier!

They're going all out for business!

People who refract all their political ideas/views through Harry Potter metaphors are not grown up enough to be discussing politics

Ppl who say "so long story short" but do not summarize anything that follows so it's just a two-part long story

People who whisper on the bus. It's fucking creepy.

"Hey...wait'll you see my diiiiiiiiiiick"

Whenever a site (or an ilxor) links to some tweet all "!!!" and I end up clicking on it and waiting for the Twitter app to load and then find out it's just some more worthless snark.

The people who, the second that a thing goes out of print, sell their used copies of the thing at a 10,000% markup are parasites, and I hope all of their belongings melt into an amorphous lump of slag.