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What is YOUR pet peeve? Let's have a laugh.

Today's peeve-

Swapping cell phones. Why does it have to be such a pain in the ass?

Sometimes, SOMETIMES, when I get a new phone, I just go to my carrier's web site, punch in the new IMEI, and viola, the new phone is active. But probably 75% of the time I have to call the broken-english call center to have some remote voodoo performed. Sometimes the phone isn't eligible for the plan I am on, so I have to change plans. Today, I had to actually drive to a store to pick up a different sim card (even though I double-checked that the new phone took the same type of sim card as my old phone). No, just because it fits doesn't mean diddly-dick, apparently. Got the new sim card, and it works now. BUT! Once it was on the network, the damn carrier started loading TONS of BS apps. One right after the next. I had to go in and uninstall them all.

Oh, and every phone-swapping app I have ever tried doesn't work (to my expectations, anyway). This latest one copied my contacts and my apps, but no app settings, so I had to set up every single app over again. Accounts, pins, etc. Good lord. It took like two full days of futzing around just to make this phone a suitable replacement for my old one.

I don't know why people look forward to getting new phones. Yeah, I like having a new gadget, but I DREAD the activation process, and triggering my OCD about putting all the apps where they "belong" and making them function the way I am used to them functioning on the old phone.
 
CoogarXR said:
Today's peeve-

Swapping cell phones. Why does it have to be such a pain in the ass?

Sometimes, SOMETIMES, when I get a new phone, I just go to my carrier's web site, punch in the new IMEI, and viola, the new phone is active. But probably 75% of the time I have to call the broken-english call center to have some remote voodoo performed. Sometimes the phone isn't eligible for the plan I am on, so I have to change plans. Today, I had to actually drive to a store to pick up a different sim card (even though I double-checked that the new phone took the same type of sim card as my old phone). No, just because it fits doesn't mean diddly-dick, apparently. Got the new sim card, and it works now. BUT! Once it was on the network, the damn carrier started loading TONS of BS apps. One right after the next. I had to go in and uninstall them all.

Oh, and every phone-swapping app I have ever tried doesn't work (to my expectations, anyway). This latest one copied my contacts and my apps, but no app settings, so I had to set up every single app over again. Accounts, pins, etc. Good lord. It took like two full days of futzing around just to make this phone a suitable replacement for my old one.

I don't know why people look forward to getting new phones. Yeah, I like having a new gadget, but I DREAD the activation process, and triggering my OCD about putting all the apps where they "belong" and making them function the way I am used to them functioning on the old phone.
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Simple answer: don`t have a cell phone, smart or otherwise ! End of hassles !
I`m cripple since late Nov. 1981 and had a cell phn and service. since 5/31/87, until last yr. when I pulled the plug (severed the umbilical cord !) last yr. when I was sent a free, but unasked for Generation something upgrade internet capable one to my barely used non internet capable Motorola flip phn. !
Sent it back and terminated my cell service.
 
Bill Ferris said:
Simple answer: don`t have a cell phone, smart or otherwise ! End of hassles !
I`m cripple since late Nov. 1981 and had a cell phn and service. since 5/31/87, until last yr. when I pulled the plug (severed the umbilical cord !) last yr. when I was sent a free, but unasked for Generation something upgrade internet capable one to my barely used non internet capable Motorola flip phn. !
Sent it back and terminated my cell service.
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I have a Flip Phone that I never use, I have no idea why I keep it. it was my wife's phone, she upgraded and gave this one to me. She always says " I tried to call you, why isn't your phone on?"
My answer is always " I told you I didn't want it and will never use it."
 
CoogarXR said:
putting all the apps where they "belong"
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Omg on my I phone that is such a pain in the ass and really sucks when you must have activated the button to move them somehow and you look down and they are in a different place, and you have to rearrange them again. it worse than those small plastic puzzle games where you move a little square up another down, slide over. At least those don't shift everything else to where you don't want them while trying to move one they just switched places on my old phone not move everything in the line. my old 5s was much easier to put things where you wanted them.
 
My wife and I have noticed lately that stock is not being rotated at our local supermarkets, causing older items to sit and lanquish on the back of the shelf. When they finally see the light of day, they are past date by 2 weeks or more. I know the use by date isn't a true indicator of freshness, but we have had milk, bread, and other items go bad in a short time and then noticed the date. I began checking each item's date and I found the further back I dug in the shelf, the older the date. Could be supply chain problems, maybe the shortage of workers, but we are very careful now.
 
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I worked grocery night stock for almost 2 years, so I am very aware of rotation.

I always look for the latest "sell by" date on any perishable commodity.

I suppose if everyone did this, it would defeat the system, but I'm not about to stop.

I want those extra days.


...but yes I have also noticed a lack of attention to rotation lately.
 
there was a budget grocery store by my sister which would have been my number one choice to shop.
I asked her if she had been there. she said yes and told me that she grabbed a can of something off of the shelf and when she saw the top it had some mice or roach turds on it so she gently placed it back and exited the store empty handed.
 
The grocery store up the street from me has had well past the sell by date on items way before all this supply chain Crap happened. I always check everything I buy from them. I only go there for the convenience of picking up a couple things I need, other than that I drive to the bigger better priced grocery store where I never find this issue happening.
 
Folks who leave their shopping cart in parking spaces when the cart corral/collector is just a few feet away. I can understand if it's an elderly person, or if it's raining, or some special circumstance, but it's usually just regular people being lazy. I watched a dude push and weave his cart through a host of parked cars, only to dump it between two other parked cars. It looked like he wanted to do the right thing, but he lost the motivation when he realized it would require a few more steps. He wore down. It was Walmart.
 
Shtig99 said:
Folks who leave their shopping cart in parking spaces when the cart corral/collector is just a few feet away. I can understand if it's an elderly person, or if it's raining, or some special circumstance, but it's usually just regular people being lazy. I watched a dude push and weave his cart through a host of parked cars, only to dump it between two other parked cars. It looked like he wanted to do the right thing, but he lost the motivation when he realized it would require a few more steps. He wore down. It was Walmart.
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what they do where I shop is buy some ice and a couple 12 packs, roll it out to their car, take all the beer out and put it and the ice in the cooler and leave all their trash in the buggy and haul ass
I also find tons of fast food trash and beer cans on my lawn people too lazy
my fav is the loaded diaper
 
Bill Ferris said:
Sets off my inner alarm bells for not trusting that individual !
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an unusual phenomenon is when they do finally look at you their eyes go into rapid flutter

had a guy do that to me that was part of a job interview panel seems my instincts were right as he continued to live up to every back stabbing quality imaginable

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Subtraction said:
an unusual phenomenon is when they do finally look at you their eyes go into rapid flutter

had a guy do that to me that was part of a job interview panel seems my instincts were right as he continued to live up to every back stabbing quality imaginable

:beerchug:
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Just like the Eagles` song and the chorus within "Lyin` Eyes".. :no:

A whimpy handshake from a man is usually another integrity questionable alarm bell warning, IMO/E. :mad:
 
I'm a little twisted, I just can't help it. One day I decided to stare at the forehead of all the people I talked to. It literally drove them crazy. After a minute or two they would ask me why I was looking at their forehead. I stopped before I got punched in the nose. It struck me how just changing your focal point would get that kind of reaction.
 
bobsvinyl said:
I'm a little twisted, I just can't help it. One day I decided to stare at the forehead of all the people I talked to. It literally drove them crazy. After a minute or two they would ask me why I was looking at their forehead. I stopped before I got punched in the nose. It struck me how just changing your focal point would get that kind of reaction.
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And women can say something similar to men looking lower than their eyes/mouth while conversing with them..

And I`ve also been told that some women who recently had "augmentation" prefer their "new store bought breasts outline/cleavage" be admired, and are not offended by the male/female chest eye focus, but rather proud of to show off their investment..
 
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