Discount?

Posted on February 20, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Annoying, Changes, consultation, discounts, Food, Life, loyalty card, rip off, ShoppingLeave a comment

I go to a (nameless) supermarket that used to give discounts if you purchased shopping from them and used their discount card. I would build up a bit of money over the year and use it towards my Christmas shopping.

Recently they changed the system. Now if you use your card you should get a discount off some products and ‘everyday essentials’ (like milk and broccoli???). I’ve asked a few times how I find these products, apparently they have an extra blue sticker on them. So now I have to spend time looking round the shop for stickers? It also means that I have to choose what the shop wants me to buy to save money. Today I saved a whole 20pence on a tuna sandwich. That’s 20 pence off £26.40. When I asked the manager she said customers nationwide had asked for it? I wasn’t consulted.

Other information is that as theirs is a small shop they have less discounted products. If I go to a bigger store I will find more! Guess what, they are further away and consequently cost more to get to! Wow, wonderful (not).

I HATE adverts

Posted on October 8, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Adverts, Annoying, Email, Internet, Life, Newspaper, public broadcasting, Radio, TV2 Comments

They are everywhere, TV, Internet, radio, cinema, in print.

I ignore them, but get fed up with them. Can’t some algorithm get that I never open them on the Internet, I don’t do click bait, I mainly watch public broadcasting TV services so that I can avoid them.

Recently I’ve been bombarded in my emails. There is a certain credit card that wants me to apply for it. I’ve responded to it by sending submissions back telling them I’m not interested, that I feel like I’m being ignored when I’ve said no. But it keeps happening. It’s so irritating.

Is it only me, are people OK with adverts?

X marks a spot?

Posted on July 31, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #BringBackTheBird, Annoying, blue bird, imposition, Life, Poem, Poetry, Twitter, XLeave a comment

No thanks!

X marks no spot

For me.

I have a choice

Now….

Delete the app

Or call for the bird

To be returned.

I’m still going twittering

Not X-ing

Not X-citing

Maybe X-it causing?

Impositon

Without consultation.

X-tremely annoying!

No mail…

Posted on May 22, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Annoying, Difficult, Email, frustration, Irritating, lost emails, no emails, pc, Poem, PoetryLeave a comment

Three weeks I’ve waited

Waited for my email

Email to be fixed..

Fixed, new phone

Phone number the same

Same…. No email

Email gone, lost

Lost – now connected

Connected, but no email!

For three or four weeks I waited.

The technician was ill

It’ll be fine now

He said this morning…

Now I can send,

But not receive…

Fired up my PC.

3800 emails!

NO!

Parking

Posted on May 19, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Annoying, Cars, Council, Difficult, Email, frustration, Internet, Life, Parking2 Comments

I just realised my parking pass is due to expire and I’ve only just realised it. In the past out council used to send out a reminder. No more. They have closed the building where you could apply for them in person. Now the choice is either via email, or by post.

The postal service only has a 74% next day delivery rate, and there is no assurance that it will arrive in time.

My email is not working yet. I’m booked to get it done on Monday (long boring story, the repair man has been ill). But not everyone has email addresses. Not everyone with a car is online.

So I rang up for the address to send my information to. It’s a PO box, meaning there is no physical place for me to hand deliver my documents to. If it goes to a PO box, then the council courier service needs to sort the mail and deliver it, meaning there is another time delay added into the mix!

Better get my email sorted out!

Five hours!

Posted on March 31, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Annoying, Cost, Email, frustration, hours, Mobile, Money, Phone, Settings, TimeLeave a comment

My brain hurts! It’s taken over 5 hours and I’ve got a lot of my apps working on this new phone but I can’t get my emails back. It’s driving me bonkers (mad). I will keep trying, or go back to the phone shop on Monday. Luckily I’ve got it to work on my old PC.

This phone has double the memory of the old one and a better camera, but it cost only 20% of the price of my old one.

Now I need to keep concentrating on things and stop moaning about it!

Phone call… Grrrr

Posted on January 9, 2023January 9, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Annoying, Insomnia, land-line, Message, Mobile, Phone, Phone call, Sleep, Tired, Upstairs2 Comments

I was upstairs in bed after a totally sleepless night when my mobile rang. I couldn’t get downstairs in time to answer it, so I checked the number, which was local, so I rang it, but there was an automated answer saying the phone line didn’t take incoming calls. It was from a firm I know, but didn’t say anything except I should contact them (no phone number to ring back on, no message left) annoying but these things happen. But as I went back upstairs the land-line rang. I couldn’t get back down in time. It was the same number. Missed it again. So I’ve stayed up for two hours incase they ring back, but I have no idea who to contact (it’s a very big firm), no information because they didn’t have the courtesy to leave a message and if they have my numbers then they must have my email address too, but no one has tried to contact me on that. I could literally swear! This is not good customer service.

How do I stop my fridge alarm?

Posted on January 2, 2023 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged alarm, Annoying, beeping, Cats, fridge freezer, Help, high pitched, Ideas, Noise, swear words, white goodsLeave a comment

It’s the MOST annoying thing! My fridge freezer has been icing up a lot lately and I’ve defrosted it a couple of times although it’s meant to do it automatically. We found out a couple of years ago it has a very noisy alarm and we ended up calling out a gas engineer because the noise was coming from near the gas boiler. But no it was the fridge. So at about 2.30am it started going off. I’ve turned it off and defrosted it. I cleared the vents at the back of the freezer which were a bit blocked. I unplugged it (but it must have a battery to keep it going). I plugged it back in because I don’t want my frozen food to spoil and the motor is still working. I checked the door seals, they are fine. So I’m left with a loud beeping (swear words) fridge freezer. In a small house, where you can’t get away from the noise, so I did a load of washing. At 3am.

Any ideas? I can’t sleep because of it. I’m watching TV news while I try and rest to take my mind off it. I may buy a new one but Monday is a Bank Holiday. I don’t think I can wait till Tuesday! Help… Plus the cats are fed up!

Clunky thumb?

Posted on December 30, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged affected, Annoying, arthropathy?, click, clunk, joint space, Movement, right hand, Thumb2 Comments

Over the last few days I have been annoyed by my right thumb! It is clunking or clicking when I bend it, it gets to a certain position and then I can feel the moddle joint space click as it goes past a point as it bends inwards. I’m trying to keep it mobile. But is it because I type with my thumb on my phone, or could it be to do with the bug I’ve had? I have had post viral arthropathy (a swelling of the joints) a few years ago after a virus and I wonder if it’s that. I just hope it settles down and doesn’t affect my painting.

Trickle down

Posted on September 21, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Annoying, conservatives, economics, Government, Life, Rich, selfish, Share, taxes, Time, trickle down5 Comments

Cartoon by @cartoonralph, from an original idea by leftwinguk-f.b

Trickle down economics, the latest big idea of our UK government. Lift the cap on bankers bonuses, reduce taxes for the rich, reduce national insurance that will affect the tax burden more on the richest than the poorest (if you don’t earn enough to pay tax or NI in the first place cuts won’t affect you, you get zero benefit). Cut corporation tax for the richest. Our Prime minister, Liz Truss, says she wants to increase productivity whilst previously calling UK workers lazy and saying people must work if they can (in a gig economy). She says she doesn’t mind being unpopular! They have reduced the income if the poorest people on benefits. We are the sixth richest country in the UK and yet we have thousands of foodbanks where people have to depend on donated food. This idea is madness.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Annoying