What gets your goat??

Thought I would start a thread for all those silly things that annoy you.. Hope it is OK Tina! If not then can you take it off for me please.

As some of you know it is raining pretty good here in Perth ATM... Well our shire in their wisdom is still driving around in the truck that waters the trees, Watering the trees......
How dumb can they be. If we were watering on a day like today people would think we were wasting water. But the Shire thinks it's OK to do it!!

Oh that is pretty stupid what an absolute waste of water.....trees need the littlest amount of water once they are grown....and they get that from the rain....I can imagine how that would annoy any-one seeing that...

P.S Your sweet with this thread.....great idea to be able to vent.....

Have to think about what annoy's me though....lol.

stupid people who cant take an extra 5 secs out of their time to go around the block in the front of the school... no they have to block off the top of my street while they do an illegal U turn... grr that makes me angry (sorry vent over LOL)

TAILGATERS! Sorry, I know it's been said a thousand trillion times.

My DD had attended a funeral today and I was picking her up from the Crematorium (and your thoughts are on loved ones lost and being a 'safe' driver on the way home etc). We were on the limit at about 80-85 kph on the parkway and this idiot in his Leopard Tank 4WD sits about 1.5 metres behind me for about 7 klm on a one lane stretch - grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. I swear I could see the hairs up his nostrils he was that close. I seem to cop the worst of the tailgaters nearly every time I drive...

Arby wrote:

As some of you know it is raining pretty good here in Perth ATM... Well our shire in their wisdom is still driving around in the truck that waters the trees, Watering the trees......
How dumb can they be. If we were watering on a day like today people would think we were wasting water. But the Shire thinks it's OK to do it!!

I remember when they were doing the highway in Perth, the south one, and it had big water tanks there and some big writing on the side about saving water or something (cant remember) yet they were leaking every time we drove past!


Slow drivers! I got stuck behind someone doing 40 in a 60 zone for about 5 minutes!
People who walk out in front of you, or stop all of a sudden (but I have been guilty of this one myself)
People saying they will do something, or be somewhere and having to rearange stuff, only for them to not turn up or not do what they said they were going to do

i would have to agree with you anthea people saying they will do something then they dont do it annoys me also

getting on the scales after you know you have been good only to find that it hasn't budged or worse still it has gone up

ok this might sound a bit racist or something but before I begin I come from a nonenglish speaking background...but my pet grief would have to be ringing "Optus" for instance for a internet query only to be speaking to someone in another country and not only do you have to deal with bad lines but bad english what is it with that is our labour so expensive that this has to happen it sucks

I hear you there Lali, I think your not alone either! I tried to set up our net on a package and had to ask the person on the other end to repeat themselves so many times couase I just couldnt understand, and I didnt want to get a package that I didnt ask for.

People who dont move out of the way of prams GRRRRRRRR

Yep that is another one of mine too Kim...there are just so many rude people around

I know, going shopping, AND there is so much crap in the isles you cant get the prams down them

oooohhh yeah Anthea so have to agree with yo u there I lovce going into the two dollar shops because you can sopmetimes get really diffrent scrapbooking stuff....but these are usually the shopps whose isles are so packed with crap that even when you can gop down the m Anthony sits there and grabs at every little thing.....

I've gotten to the car and found Anabel has a nice little stash of stuff sitting next to her lol

lol...I remember when i was about 9 we were at a toy store and i remember i was playing with one of the dolls there anyway we were there for ages so when we left i forgot to put the doll back we had gotten to the car and i still had it, i was spewing coz my mum made me take it back.....lol...we hasd gotten away with it....lol...aren't i naughty

lol Tina, I didn't go back for the sake of a couple of $2 toys

Kids and 'helping themselves' LOL. About 12 years ago when my DD was 4, we'd just finished shopping in K-Mart. Jess was sitting in the trolley and we got back to the car. As I lifted her out, sitting in the trolley underneath her was a beautiful little pair of dress shoes...and amazingly just the right size for her! Boy, did she ever know how to pick them and where to hide them! We were a loooooooong way from the shops by then........LOL. I had to applaud her ingenuity and dexterity!

Gotta love kids hey NOT lol

Going away on scrap retreat and getting sick.... REALLY GETS MY GOAT

Oh that is a bummer...hope you get better soon

Not good planning there Arby! But good that you're on the mend. Next time don't pack the bug....

Something else that gets me so annoyed and frustrated is sitting on the phone.....on hold or in waiting queues for the phone company or electyricity ones....geez...it takes like an hour sometimes to get through to optus.....gggrrr

yep tina i got a letter the other day from child support saying if i didnt contact them they couldnt reassess my amount of payment... so i ring them and im on hold for 20 mins....grrrrr and the conversation lasted a whole 2 mins......

I hate it when the telemarketers ring at tea time!!! Or when you have just about got a kid down for their nap! And they wake them up and then they say "did we ring at a bad time?" Every time would be a bad time!!

yep telemarketers so such....i had one guy that rang every month for about 6 months about some stupid mobile phone deal that I was "lucky" to be able to recieve.... i kept telling him i wasn't interested and to stop calling me....so in the end asked to speak to his manager ...and told him to delete me off their system....haven't heard from them since....

I tell them I have to go find a pen and then just put the phone down and don't talk to them for half an hour. They are always gone by the time I bother to pick up the phone again!!