You know what pisses me off? / Rant Thread

[twisteroo]

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Going into a store and not having the price marked clearly on or right near the product on the shelf pisses me off. I will walk out empty handed before I go searching for a price check thingy.

[twisteroo]

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My answering machine says:
"Hello, you have reached the twisterosa, home of twist and mrs twist. Sorry, we are not home right now, please leave a message and we will get back to you."

The caller says:
"Hello, dr. Burns? I need to change my appointment for Tuesday the 23rd, please call me back."
or
"Hello, we are having a church chicken barbeque and need something to store the cooked chicken in, someone told us that you have containers for just such a thing, we normally use trash cans lined with foil, please call me back."

My number is similar to a doctors office number and the local restaurant supply store. LISTEN TO THE FUCKING MESSAGE BEFORE YOU START SPEWING YOUR PIE HOLE ALL OVER MY MACHINE!!!
Fucking dimwits. This shit goes on all the time.

[Rhubarb]

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Do they ever leave their number?

We had a classic one we kept on the phone for ages to to make us giggle.
'Hi I'm a Subaru owner and I think those Saab seats you are selling might fit my car, can you let me know before 5 'o'clock when I go to work or phone me back tomorrow'

Duh, no name, no number, which 5'o'clock? Subaru? Saab? Yes, course they will fit. Both cars start with the letter S.

We also get calls for the Blue Shutter Guest House. We fortunately know the house and although not the owners personally we exchange messages frequently in the summer. Last summer was good, we had a woman calling to speak to Mark, only to find she wanted her husband at the guest house. She suspected he was having an affair (we think) because when I called Mark to the phone she was furious with him
Mark was tempted to play along, but felt sorry for her husband.

The guest house get calls asking for V4 advise. Richard the owner gives them our number or better still JonSaab's, our friendly mechanics.
He was lovely too about people calling when Christine died. He called us to say he'd had calls and was sorry to see the news on TV. He collected all the messages and their numbers rather than give people our number and his wife dropped them off with a posy of flowers.
We don't even know them and it must have interrupted running the business.

People transpose the middle numbers from 81 to 18, that simple.

[twisteroo]

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They sometimes leave numbers.
I'm not that polite or patient. I just delete the messages.

[Twitchin Kitten]

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I'm like Twist - screw them. I get a lot of wrong numbers too but my answering message is great for messing with tele-sales and stuff. I have a "hello" with a pause long enough so they think I'm actually on the other end. They go on and on until the rest of the message kicks in. It's hysterical. It fools the same people time and again too, mostly my mom and Matt's dad.

I'll have to record it for you guys. I am pretty sure I posted a really funny conversation on the old board here where a prospective customer called me and got the hello. She was on one phone and her hubby was on the other and they actually had a full conversation with each other until the machine cut them off 4 minutes later. I should see if I have that still, it was a riot.

[twisteroo]

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You should hear my voice mail on my cell number.
I guess we actually have voice mail on the home phone too, but it is supposedly full, and we have never gone there to listen to it.

[LKTraz]

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How about idiots who call you and get no answer so they call you back 20 seconds later and again is another 20 seconds? Better yet...they get the answering machine or voice mail and STILL do the same shit!

Hey dumbass......if I didn't answer the first time I'm probably not going to answer the next two times either. How about waiting 10 minutes or so?

The pisser is that when you DO finally answer them their "urgent" need to call you is generally something like......"Hey, did you hear that Whozimawhatsis (who you don't even know) did (something banal)?"

What the fuck was so damned urgent about whatever some schmuck I don't even know did and why would I fucking care even if I DID know them?

[Gunnen4u]

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Just imagine if you had text messaging.

[Twitchin Kitten]

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I don't even allow text messages to go past three passes back and forth. Anyone who has my cell # knows I hate it and they should call me when they're free to talk. The only exception is anyone with an iPhone in England because phone calls are too expensive.

Know what's annoying? When you go shopping and everything you buy is the wrong item.

[twisteroo]

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I'll put this here because I probably can't find the thread where we were talking about the central farmer/tractor supply store or whatever the hell they call themselves today.

Yesterday I was in there to get a few nuts and an oil filter. I thought that I'd try on some work shoes being that I have money coming to me from my employer for new shoes. So I'm trying on cowboy style boots, wellingtons I think they were called. I decided that I can't wear them anyway.
So the last pair I grabbed had all this shredded paper from inside the box in them, and there as a hole in the inside lining in the boot. Hmph??? So I put them back in the box, and notice the paper all shredded up in the box too.
There had been a fucking mouse living inside the boot in the box. Funny. I hope he got away and is now living fat and happy in the dog food aisle.
I also think it is funny and will stop and watch when I see the wal-mart birds making trips to the pet food and bird seed aisles to eat. I've seen seed bells open and well fed on right on the shelves before. I always pull for the birds, resourceful little bastards.