The sideview mirrors that say something like “Vehicles are closer than they appear.” When driving, it’s pretty important to know how close other cars are. Why is it ok to attach a distance-distorting fun-house mirror to a car?
Regarding bathroom decorations (towels, etc), I always thought such things were more important to women because when they are taking care if business they are facing away from a wall, and are looking at the rest of the room. Whereas men are typically focusing on their aim or on the wall that is 2 feet in front of them.
People who get overly chatty with bank tellers & cashiers when others are waiting in line behind them.
Fast food restaurants have now become so oriented toward the drive-up window & you can stand at the counter for minutes before anyone bothers to take your order.
TV commercials that make it seem like it’s perfectly normal to buy your spouse a $50,000 car as a present.
Expensive jewelry. Great, you’ve got a $10,000 rock hanging from some part of your body that serves no function at all. That makes sense?
Deli employees at grocery stores who chat and clean and cut instead of waiting on customers. This seems to be the norm at our chain. There is often 2-4 behind the counter, but only one actually waiting on customers. I understand all those chores (except perhaps chatting) are necessary, but can’t most be done when there is no one waiting in line?
Late reading all this but when mine were little (youngest is now 30), grocery stores still had people who loaded your groceries into your vehicle in front of the store. I’d take the boys to the van, strap them in and then drive up to have them load the groceries. Such luxury, right? I’d forgotten till all this discussion.
And I notice you “call” people on this a lot. There are so many threads. If it was just last week or last month, I can see it. Do you do a search for a key word or words before you start a new discussion? Does everyone? Just wondering. I don’t. I am not going to go back even a year, let alone forever, through hundreds of threads and pages to see if this subject has already been discussed. Sorry.
Plus many old threads are closed after six months or so, so after a certain point there isn’t much point in digging up old ones. Topics get recycled, new posts, new opinions. No biggie.
Calling customer service to purchase a product and getting someone whose English skills are so poor that you eventually give up in frustration because you just can’t understand them. Sling, I’m looking at you.
DJs on the radio that talk instead of play music. If I wanted to listen to talk radio, I’d do that. If you’re a DJ on a station that plays music, announce the song title and artist, but otherwise keep your trap shut.
Actually, the whole thing with people like deli workers wearing plastic gloves, but still doing things that get the gloves dirty! It’s as if the gloves are worn to keep their hands clean, not to keep germs from getting on the food they’re touching.
Yep. I am a little crazy over this. My local store had a beverage tasting and I requested a sample. The person providing the pour touched the entire rim of the plastic cup with her circled fingers. I declined the sample before it was dispensed. She then shouted at me that I needed to tell her why I declined the sample. Sorry, your employer needs to provide better training.
I have asked my dental hygienist to change her gloves before started cleaning my teeth because I saw her wearing those gloves touching other stuff. Like VeryHappy posted, it looked like the hygienist was wearing the gloves to keep her hands clean.
I thought of this thread today when I walked across the parking lot (about half the size of a medium Walmart parking lot) to return my cart to Trader Joe’s one corral. I was alone so I didn’t have any reason to NOT return it. I observed for a few minutes out of curiosity… Most mothers with children did not return their cart unless a second adult was also with them, and most teen or twenty-somethings didn’t either; however, all the older adults did.
It bothers me when other girls ages 15-17 in my choir act really immature whenever males (aside from dads) are mentioned, even in non-romantic contexts. That may be funny for young kids, but really, by sophomore year, girls should learn to interact with and discuss other sexes…