10 things I find irritating about… Well whatever really. Confession time.
January 9th, 2009Everyone has little niggles. Here are 10 of mine, what are yours?
1. As Al Hogg reminded me on Facebook… People who misuse apostrophes. Example: ”We sell cake’s on Tuesday’s here in Smokeys Café” No you don’t.
2. Most people in this country own a piece of Ché Guevarra merchandise. Supposedly this makes them deep, well versed in life and slightly ‘activitst’. Few of these people give a stuff about who Ché was and what he actually stood for. Would they wear his face if they did? Probably not.
3. The end of a bottle of shower gel – you always feel a bit dirty if you have not managed to squeeze out a satisfactory blob.
4. Peach toilet roll and household decorations (there may be exceptions to this rule)
5. People who have no power in their ordinary life, so do a job such as ‘car parking attendant’ for a one-off event and make up for lost time.
6. Einaudi CDs in every house I go to (sorry I know there will be a lot of fans out there!)
7. The fact that saucepans just don’t store easily anywhere
8. 0845 numbers and those on the other end!
9. Printers mixed with deadlines
10. Freeview – it just doesn’t work!
January 10th, 2009 at 11:24
I agree on the ‘one off’ car parking attendants….. so true! They love the ‘power’ of controlling the flow of traffic. They also direct you to a space you don’t want to park in. You can SEE a space near the entrance of the event that’s not reserved but they always put you next to some family yuppie-mobile where kids will fling open the doors and dent your car. If I was left to my own devices I’d avoid these spaces at all costs!
January 11th, 2009 at 16:59
I have had similar experiences with New Wine stewards! I ended up stewarding at Pebbles last year and had to work under the direction of a poser who constantly wore his florescent vest (probably when sleeping too) wore a number of ‘lanyards’ (love that word!) and kept his sunglasses on inside the venue for extra coolness.