Pet Peeves, yo.

[HarmlessSquirrel]

This is something that has deeply bothered me my entire life: People who fail to put their grocery carts away. I'm like, "If you can push that grocery cart all around the fucking store, you can walk the extra 50 feet to put the damn thing away."

:angry4:

I like to leave them where I park. It ensures that some poor kid will have a job going out there and getting them. If everyone put them where they belonged they wouldn't need to have as many employee man hours to go get them. Makes me feel all civic pride and stuff knowing i'm helping somebody survive in this world by keeping their job.

Ohhh... you should not have told me that!

It makes a certain amount of sense at first but there's other factors. Several times I've chased after rebel grocery carts just before they smashed into parked cars or people, plus they can make the lot difficult to drive through with random carts all over the place. Maybe if the created a "stall" by each parking place...but I bet folks still would leave them in the driving lanes.

So, anyway, I return mine to the building, for safety concerns, and if it costs a few people starvation jobs, I'm sorry, but safety first.

I heard that in London there is a "cart dispenser" where the shopper must insert a coin to get the cart, and in order to get the coin back, the person has to return the cart. And it works. People really want their coins.

I suspect Jerry was kidding or "taking the piss" as people say in some countries. :whistle:

 

[JerryBoBerry]

I suspect Jerry was kidding or "taking the piss" as people say in some countries. :whistle:

Half way right. If the cart return is within a few cars distance I'll return it there. Otherwise I'm less likely. If it's raining, nah. Not gonna happen then at all. I really do think it's job security too. Walmart's are renowned for getting rid of employee's, managers included. They will cut back anything they can without hesitation. I guarantee if everyone had the impulse to go even further and return the cart into the store itself they'd get rid of a couple employee's immediately.

The very reason it's hard to find employee's in the store now is because years back walmart discovered they could outsource a LOT of the work to vendor's hired by other companies. Those vendor's go in and stock shelves, change price tags, bring display's out to the floor...a massive amount of the work done in the store. The result was they could fire many employee's. The rest of the one's they still have are not that well paid to begin with.

I've worked as a vendor in walmart's (but hired by a different company) for around 7 years in the past. I really do think it's a good thing to give em job security in any way possible and think of just that every time I leave a cart way out in the middle of the lot. :lol:

 

[SaffronBurke]

I suspect Jerry was kidding or "taking the piss" as people say in some countries. :whistle:

Half way right. If the cart return is within a few cars distance I'll return it there. Otherwise I'm less likely. If it's raining, nah. Not gonna happen then at all. I really do think it's job security too. Walmart's are renowned for getting rid of employee's, managers included. They will cut back anything they can without hesitation. I guarantee if everyone had the impulse to go even further and return the cart into the store itself they'd get rid of a couple employee's immediately.

The very reason it's hard to find employee's in the store now is because years back walmart discovered they could outsource a LOT of the work to vendor's hired by other companies. Those vendor's go in and stock shelves, change price tags, bring display's out to the floor...a massive amount of the work done in the store. The result was they could fire many employee's. The rest of the one's they still have are not that well paid to begin with.

I've worked as a vendor in walmart's (but hired by a different company) for around 7 years in the past. I really do think it's a good thing to give em job security in any way possible and think of just that every time I leave a cart way out in the middle of the lot. :lol:

Related-ish ramble:
I used to loathe leaving things in the wrong place in stores, until my sister worked at Target and used those misplaced items as a way to have something to do or milk the clock. So now I don't feel so bad about leaving some items in weird places when I realize that I don't want or can't afford them if I'm at Walmart or Target. At smaller stores, like boutiques at the mall, I try to put everything where I found it, because I've worked at a few of those, and there's more stress to get everything done quickly at the end of the night.

I still want to crush the people who stick stuff like bacon or ice cream by the shoes or something. That's just wrong.

 

[Molison]

I heard that in London there is a "cart dispenser" where the shopper must insert a coin to get the cart, and in order to get the coin back, the person has to return the cart. And it works. People really want their coins.

Not just in London, it is like this in most if not all of the U.K. Costs you a £1 coin to use a shopping cart which is returned
on return of the cart.

.

 

[JerryBoBerry]

I heard that in London there is a "cart dispenser" where the shopper must insert a coin to get the cart, and in order to get the coin back, the person has to return the cart. And it works. People really want their coins.

Not just in London, it is like this in most if not all of the U.K. Costs you a £1 coin to use a shopping cart which is returned
on return of the cart.

.

Actually we have that system at one of the grocery stores here in my town too. ALDI's chain of grocery stores have all the carts locked together with chains from one handle to the next. On the handle is a steel box. That only lets the chain go for the first cart when a quarter is inserted in the second cart. You have to return it right there to get your quarter back.

But they also don't have free grocery bags. You either bring your own or grab empty boxes from within the store as you go, or all your groceries go home loose in your car.

I don't like shopping there at all.

 

[HarmlessSquirrel]

I suspect Jerry was kidding or "taking the piss" as people say in some countries. :whistle:

Half way right. If the cart return is within a few cars distance I'll return it there. Otherwise I'm less likely. If it's raining, nah. Not gonna happen then at all. I really do think it's job security too. Walmart's are renowned for getting rid of employee's, managers included. They will cut back anything they can without hesitation. I guarantee if everyone had the impulse to go even further and return the cart into the store itself they'd get rid of a couple employee's immediately.

The very reason it's hard to find employee's in the store now is because years back walmart discovered they could outsource a LOT of the work to vendor's hired by other companies. Those vendor's go in and stock shelves, change price tags, bring display's out to the floor...a massive amount of the work done in the store. The result was they could fire many employee's. The rest of the one's they still have are not that well paid to begin with.

I've worked as a vendor in walmart's (but hired by a different company) for around 7 years in the past. I really do think it's a good thing to give em job security in any way possible and think of just that every time I leave a cart way out in the middle of the lot. :lol:

Hmm, Walmart does have a reputation for not treating its employees well. I've only ever been in one once; I shop in a regular supermarket. There's a Walmart kind of in the area, but it's close to half an hour away, I think. The local markets just have the regular cart return spots every few rows in the parking lots. It does annoy me when people don't return them there because otherwise the carts tend to block parking spots.

 

[PlayboyMegan]

Backhanded compliments. :angry4:

 

[PlayboyMegan]

I heard that in London there is a "cart dispenser" where the shopper must insert a coin to get the cart, and in order to get the coin back, the person has to return the cart. And it works. People really want their coins.

Not just in London, it is like this in most if not all of the U.K. Costs you a £1 coin to use a shopping cart which is returned
on return of the cart.

.

But they also don't have free grocery bags.

That's a pet peeve of mine. The company's make enough money to provide free bags, people shouldn't have to pay for them. They've also replaced plastic bags with the shittiest paper bags that break all the time.

 

[AmberCutie]

I heard that in London there is a "cart dispenser" where the shopper must insert a coin to get the cart, and in order to get the coin back, the person has to return the cart. And it works. People really want their coins.

Not just in London, it is like this in most if not all of the U.K. Costs you a £1 coin to use a shopping cart which is returned
on return of the cart.

.

But they also don't have free grocery bags.

That's a pet peeve of mine. The company's make enough money to provide free bags, people shouldn't have to pay for them. They've also replaced plastic bags with the shittiest paper bags that break all the time.

In LA so many stores of gone "bag free" and you have to bring your own. You can buy paper bags for like 10 cents a piece but its annoying. Jawbs and I bought a handful of reusable canvas ones but if you go in the store and shop and forgot them... you're fucked. It's pretty lame.

Also on the subject of cart returns: I get annoyed at huge chain stores with giant parking lots when they don't have cart returns on every aisle of parking. So I'll leave my cart wherever there's other carts (likely left by others who are annoyed at their cart return situation) and let the people who are paid to deal with it to deal with it.

edit to add: It isn't annoying that I have to pay 10c a bag, it's annoying that people look at you weird in LA if you DON'T have your own bags and have to buy them. Feels like being a lesser citizen or something. It sucks.

 

[FirePlay69]

I heard that in London there is a "cart dispenser" where the shopper must insert a coin to get the cart, and in order to get the coin back, the person has to return the cart. And it works. People really want their coins.

Not just in London, it is like this in most if not all of the U.K. Costs you a £1 coin to use a shopping cart which is returned
on return of the cart.

.

Actually we have that system at one of the grocery stores here in my town too. ALDI's chain of grocery stores have all the carts locked together with chains from one handle to the next. On the handle is a steel box. That only lets the chain go for the first cart when a quarter is inserted in the second cart. You have to return it right there to get your quarter back.

But they also don't have free grocery bags. You either bring your own or grab empty boxes from within the store as you go, or all your groceries go home loose in your car.

I don't like shopping there at all.

Yeah, sounds way too much like work, LMAO

 

[FirePlay69]

But they also don't have free grocery bags.

In LA so many stores of gone "bag free" and you have to bring your own. You can buy paper bags for like 10 cents a piece but its annoying. Jawbs and I bought a handful of reusable canvas ones but if you go in the store and shop and forgot them... you're fucked. It's pretty lame.

Also on the subject of cart returns: I get annoyed at huge chain stores with giant parking lots when they don't have cart returns on every aisle of parking. So I'll leave my cart wherever there's other carts (likely left by others who are annoyed at their cart return situation) and let the people who are paid to deal with it to deal with it.

edit to add: It isn't annoying that I have to pay 10c a bag, it's annoying that people look at you weird in LA if you DON'T have your own bags and have to buy them. Feels like being a lesser citizen or something. It sucks.

I guess making you bring your own bag is an environmental thing?

 

[FirePlay69]

When I can't finish what I am doing because annoying people want to stand there and talk to me and distract me. So glad this is my last week of dealing the public!

 

[hapa74]

In LA so many stores of gone "bag free" and you have to bring your own. You can buy paper bags for like 10 cents a piece but its annoying. Jawbs and I bought a handful of reusable canvas ones but if you go in the store and shop and forgot them... you're fucked. It's pretty lame.

edit to add: It isn't annoying that I have to pay 10c a bag, it's annoying that people look at you weird in LA if you DON'T have your own bags and have to buy them. Feels like being a lesser citizen or something. It sucks.

This! It SUUUUCKS to forget your reusable bags. In the SF Bay Area most, if not all, of the counties have banned plastic bags in grocery stores. I have a bunch of canvas bags, but my favorite thing to do is to re use my old plastic bags, just to get the weird/haughty looks from people .

 

[PlayboyMegan]

In LA so many stores of gone "bag free" and you have to bring your own. You can buy paper bags for like 10 cents a piece but its annoying. Jawbs and I bought a handful of reusable canvas ones but if you go in the store and shop and forgot them... you're fucked. It's pretty lame.

edit to add: It isn't annoying that I have to pay 10c a bag, it's annoying that people look at you weird in LA if you DON'T have your own bags and have to buy them. Feels like being a lesser citizen or something. It sucks.

This! It SUUUUCKS to forget your reusable bags. In the SF Bay Area most, if not all, of the counties have banned plastic bags in grocery stores. I have a bunch of canvas bags, but my favorite thing to do is to re use my old plastic bags, just to get the weird/haughty looks from people .

Yes! I love re-using my plastic bags. They fit perfectly in my small trash cans in the bathroom.

 

[LilLitaRose]

I reuse the plastic bags for cat poop. I'm glad where I live they don't charge you for bags.

Is another pet peeve consisting of someone who domineers a conversation with things that don't pertain to what you say? For instance if you were having a conversation and a person interrupts everything you said with another statement that doesn't necessarily follow what was being said?

 

[Worship Jaclyn]

People sucking up to me.

 

[Nordling]

People who finish your sentence...even when you're not hesitating.

 

[AerynShade]

I heard that in London there is a "cart dispenser" where the shopper must insert a coin to get the cart, and in order to get the coin back, the person has to return the cart. And it works. People really want their coins.

Not just in London, it is like this in most if not all of the U.K. Costs you a £1 coin to use a shopping cart which is returned
on return of the cart.

.

Actually we have that system at one of the grocery stores here in my town too. ALDI's chain of grocery stores have all the carts locked together with chains from one handle to the next. On the handle is a steel box. That only lets the chain go for the first cart when a quarter is inserted in the second cart. You have to return it right there to get your quarter back.

But they also don't have free grocery bags. You either bring your own or grab empty boxes from within the store as you go, or all your groceries go home loose in your car.

I don't like shopping there at all.

ALDI is a German company. While living in Austria I discovered most stores have the lock mechanism on their carts. People look at you like a crazy person if you don't bring your own bags. In many shops in the UK (I'm looking at you Co-op) you get charged 3pence for a bag.

At stores that don't attempt to enslave their employees in the US those cart-pushers have lots of other duties. You not putting your cart away is a huge annoyance. It also keeps them out in the extreme heat, cold, rain, snow, hail... and opens them up for more chances to be hit by cars. Where I worked one of our cart-pushers had been hit three times in less than a year, once breaking his arm.

Feel free to leave non-perishables randomly around the store. Cashiers get to step away from dealing with people and put them away at their leisure.

/end grocery store rant

 

[JerryBoBerry]

It also keeps them out in the extreme heat, cold, rain, snow, hail... and opens them up for more chances to be hit by cars. Where I worked one of our cart-pushers had been hit three times in less than a year, once breaking his arm.

Sounds more like a bunch of bad drivers being the issue there rather than the carts.

 

[VeronicaChaos]

Last night a guy said something along the lines of "you're a terrible singer but you're hot" and it made me rage. Now, usually I can handle insults pretty well, I get them enough :lol: but this pissed me off pretty hardcore and I was thinking about it, trying to figure out why...it occurred to me that it's the "but you're hot" statement.

To me, it reads, "well, you're not talented, but since you're an attractive female that is acceptable. Attractive females only need to be attractive females, in my eyes." Like fuck, man. If you want to insult me, so be it, but don't cover up your bullshit with another layer of bullshit.

So that's my latest pet peeve. Men thinking they can insult a woman's hard work, as long as they point out she fits their narrow paradigm of acceptable physical standards.

I'd rather someone tell me I'm ugly and hilarious, any fucking day.

It also has occurred to me that I don't think telling a woman she fits your standard of beauty is a compliment at all.

Related: I have a pretty self-deprecating sense of humor. I tease myself constantly in pretty much every area, including physically. I'll mention that I'm kind of goofy looking. I am, in my opinion, kind of goofy looking. And guys will immediately jump in "don't say that! you're beautiful!" as if I'm this delicate flower who spends all day in front of the mirror crying, just needing assurance. No. First of all, there's nothing that says you can't be both goofy looking and attractive. Secondly, and here is where everyone puts on their Captain Save-a-Ho pants...do women really need to be beautiful? We're in this phase right now "all women are beautiful!" but what about all men? Men are allowed to be "ugly" and they can admit it, make fun of it, profit off of it, and we laugh right along, loving this ugly dude. But god forbid a woman actually not being physically attractive and still a completely worthwhile fucking human being. I call this the Danny Devito double standard, but you see it all the time.

Strange-looking man: Who cares if they're strange-looking, they have <insert other qualities>!

Strange-looking woman: NO THEY'RE BEAUTIFUL!!!!!

It just pisses me off that I can't tease myself without people thinking I'm on the verge of a breakdown. I'll let you know that none of my breakdowns had anything to do with being insecure about my looks.

 

[PlayboyMegan]

It also keeps them out in the extreme heat, cold, rain, snow, hail... and opens them up for more chances to be hit by cars. Where I worked one of our cart-pushers had been hit three times in less than a year, once breaking his arm.

Sounds more like a bunch of bad drivers being the issue there rather than the carts.

I believe most parking lots in LA have a speed limit of 5-10mph, so I don't think that happens too often here.
Also, you have to realize Amber is from LA. It's basically 70 degrees all year here.

 

[Shaun__]

When people tell me to smile. I can be happy and not be showing my teeth, which are great according to my dentist. I am not always expressive, but if you see a real smile I am probably very happy and would just like to bask in my glowy feelings. It is just not possible to be that happy twenty four seven.

 

[FirePlay69]

People who make incessant demands. I used to be a people pleaser. One day I woke up and realized, everyone else is happy, but I'm not happy. My whole life had been about making everyone else happy, doing what everyone else wanted me to do, walking around on eggshells trying not to upset people but they were pissing ME off!

So I stopped. I had to go through a crisis to learn how to stand up to people but once I did it I felt great and didn't even care that they were pissed at me. I'm like go ahead, be pissed at me, what the fuck are you going to do about it? Go talk about me behind my back - you do that anyway because you are a petty loser with no life.

Now I say no. I say no all the time. I love saying no. You don't want to respect my boundaries? You want to bug the hell out of me? Well I have this little app on my phone called "Mr Number" where I can BLOCK YOUR NUMBER! AND I USE IT! If it's someone I will have to deal with at some point, like a family member or boss, I don't block their number. I turn off my phone and go to sleep. If I feel like checking my voicemail when I wake up, I will. If not, I'll wait a few days till I'm ready to deal with it. I have friends who never turn off their phones and take almost all of their calls. I am like NO. I am not at everyone's beck and call. They can fucking wait.

I have my own demands that I put on myself and my plate is pretty full right now so I don't have time to worry about other people's bullshit.

 

[LilyMarie]

I heard that in London there is a "cart dispenser" where the shopper must insert a coin to get the cart, and in order to get the coin back, the person has to return the cart. And it works. People really want their coins.

Not just in London, it is like this in most if not all of the U.K. Costs you a £1 coin to use a shopping cart which is returned
on return of the cart.

.

But they also don't have free grocery bags.

That's a pet peeve of mine. The company's make enough money to provide free bags, people shouldn't have to pay for them. They've also replaced plastic bags with the shittiest paper bags that break all the time.

I'm all for saving the environment, but why do American grocery stores use paper bags? As soon as you put something in them that's somewhat heavy it's bound to break, isn't it? Same with frozen food that has condensed water around the packaging, I imagine. What if you put some frozen peas at the bottom or even the sides of the bag, and then you walk home for 15 minutes or so? Isn't the bag going to get brittle from the water, and break?

 

[Fay_Galore]

On the subject on grocery bags and stuff

I've noticed in the UK, the plastic ones might not be free but they do sell sturdy canvas/woven ones for like a pound? very cheap for that kind of bags.

Here in NL they're not free either, you can purchase a very large sturdy plastic bag for 40 cents, or one of those canvas ones. BUT, most supermarkets have a 'recycle' plastic bags bowl near the entrance where visitors can leave random plastic bags and when you forgot your own you can just take one from there (free of course) (there's also a bit of marketing invloved, sometimes random clothing shops put a bunch of bags with their logo's on in there just for the exposure, smart ánd handy)
there's also always a spot near the exit where you can take (free) a cardbord box. like those banana crates or something, handy if you're with a car and got lots of bottles.


I personally live by these, there's always one or two in my bag.

 

[weirdbr]

I'm all for saving the environment, but why do American grocery stores use paper bags? As soon as you put something in them that's somewhat heavy it's bound to break, isn't it? Same with frozen food that has condensed water around the packaging, I imagine. What if you put some frozen peas at the bottom or even the sides of the bag, and then you walk home for 15 minutes or so? Isn't the bag going to get brittle from the water, and break?

I have no experience with the US paper bags, but the ones available in the swiss supermarkets are surprisingly sturdy.. In fact, I just did a test - I put 24Kg (52lbs) of weights on one of those and it handled the load just fine.. It probably could handle more, I just got tired of looking for weights :-D As for humidity - the only time I had any issues was after walking in the (heavy) rain for about 10 minutes.

 

[Shaun__]

I'm all for saving the environment, but why do American grocery stores use paper bags? As soon as you put something in them that's somewhat heavy it's bound to break, isn't it? Same with frozen food that has condensed water around the packaging, I imagine. What if you put some frozen peas at the bottom or even the sides of the bag, and then you walk home for 15 minutes or so? Isn't the bag going to get brittle from the water, and break?

I have no experience with the US paper bags, but the ones available in the swiss supermarkets are surprisingly sturdy.. In fact, I just did a test - I put 24Kg (52lbs) of weights on one of those and it handled the load just fine.. It probably could handle more, I just got tired of looking for weights :-D As for humidity - the only time I had any issues was after walking in the (heavy) rain for about 10 minutes.

Most of our stores use recyclable plastic bags, but some places outlawed them. In parts of California they even forbid free paper ones which is why stores started to charge for them.

 

[GweenBlack]

I'm all for saving the environment, but why do American grocery stores use paper bags? As soon as you put something in them that's somewhat heavy it's bound to break, isn't it? Same with frozen food that has condensed water around the packaging, I imagine. What if you put some frozen peas at the bottom or even the sides of the bag, and then you walk home for 15 minutes or so? Isn't the bag going to get brittle from the water, and break?

I have no experience with the US paper bags, but the ones available in the swiss supermarkets are surprisingly sturdy.. In fact, I just did a test - I put 24Kg (52lbs) of weights on one of those and it handled the load just fine.. It probably could handle more, I just got tired of looking for weights :-D As for humidity - the only time I had any issues was after walking in the (heavy) rain for about 10 minutes.

This made me curious to get my hands in those bags, DANN this paper must ne so good to pack things in the mail! Hahah

 

[TacoBelle]

When people have the audacity to tell me to do/not do something.

Example: last night on cam, some random new guy said, "Don't bite your nails, Iris." No, fuck you, bucko. You're not my father nor anyone else who would have a right to tell me that. Hell, even if my dad said that now, I'd just laugh. "I'm grown. And I'll bite my fucking nails 'til they bleed if I want!!!"

 

[Worship Jaclyn]

Being told to smile.
Who just sits and smiles while nothing is going on? Or when they are reading or watching an intense tv show or something? That's creepy.