So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

[LizzieMaine]

I've been salaried for six years now, and have always had to punch a time clock. What irritates me is that since we were taken over by new ownership three years ago, I've also had to fill in a timesheet documenting how I spend my week -- which given the number of jobs I do here is pretty much impossible. At any given moment I'm usually doing three or four different tasks at once -- managing staff, projecting shows, doing building maintenance, dealing with the public, doing promotional work, etc. So basically I just take my total hours -- usually around 60 -- and make up a reasonable-looking breakdown for each day. Keeps them happy with minimal trouble on my end.

And I'm damn sure I count every last minute. Someone approaches me in the grocery store wanting to know what's showing next week? Put it down to marketing. Get a call from the security company at 2am when a passing car sets off the burglar alarm? Put it down to maintenance.

 

[swanson_eyes]

OK, neighbors who blast hip hop with lots of bass right on my wall. Hope they like my allergy-induced phleghmfest with Ella Fitzgerald. I may not be able to sing well today, but I can sing LOUD. Enjoy!

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

And I'm damn sure I count every last minute. Someone approaches me in the grocery store wanting to know what's showing next week? Put it down to marketing. Get a call from the security company at 2am when a passing car sets off the burglar alarm? Put it down to maintenance.

If you were a lawyer it would be called "billable hours."

 

[Stearmen]

OK, neighbors who blast hip hop with lots of bass right on my wall. Hope they like my allergy-induced phleghmfest with Ella Fitzgerald. I may not be able to sing well today, but I can sing LOUD. Enjoy!

Are you sure it is Hip Hop? A few years ago, my neighbors son would pull up in his truck and sit there listing to the radio, that thump, thump sound. I would say to my self how much I hate Rap, and hope he would turn it down! finally, one day, he was working on his truck, with the stereo blaring, but this time with the door open. It was not Rap, but Mariachi music, I like Mariachi! I had to laugh, if he was trying to make me mad, because of his taste in music, well he failed. Incidentally, he has grown up into a fine young man, I even hired him and his crew to paint my house, and do the trim on my Victorian, his company does great work, and at a good price! Which I guise it goes to shows you, just like us Heavy Metal kids, 90% will grow up to be perfectly nice people!

 

[Stearmen]

No Warning "signs" when the pier has been moved.

Just seconds before, he was heard to say, "here, hold my beer!"

 

[GHT]

I read somewhere that a third of all British drivers have never read a roadmap, they are totally dependent on sat/navs. If ever there was a gizmo to induce a profanity, it has to be the sat/nav. Why do I always end up arguing with it? A machine, and I'm having a row with it. Have to admit though, it's probably me. Most of today's technology frustrates me. Can't get my head around my smart phone, I've had it for three years and still haven't worked out how to get on line with it. Terms like I-pad, Apps, Kindle and such like, are fluent gibberish to me.

We went to a wonderful garden party last August, a couple that we know had a special celebration. They needed RSVP's returning so that they had an idea of numbers for catering. At the party, I asked the lady if all the guests responded. "Oh yes," she said, "but your's was the only card." My perplexed look was greeted by one word: "Facebook." adding, "Don't worry, I knew as soon as I saw the italic script on the envelope that it was your response," and then added: "And I loved it." I was treated to a tender kiss for that. You don't get that on Facebook.

 

[tonyb]

That's among my peeves as well, FF.

And then there are those systems that don't put the caller on the line until AFTER you answer. The dialing is automatic, of course, so that the company isn't paying people to call and wait for an answer, because, after all, their time is so much more precious than yours.

Perhaps I've mentioned this before, which is fine, because it bears repeating. (Hell, it bears a video billboard along a well-traveled route, and a 60-second spot during the Superbowl.) NEVER CALL ME ON THE PHONE AND HAVE FIRST WORDS OUT OF YOUR MOUTH AFTER I SAY "HELLO" BE "WHO"S THIS?" You called me, *******, you get to say who you are and just what your business might be before you have any business asking who I am.

 

[Fading Fast]

^ Drives me freakin' crazy. Really, do you have to start hawking that stuff now. When Lizzie is dictator (and I'm dead as she will have all libertarians shot immediately), she should pass a law that Christmas stuff can only be sold after Thanksgiving Weekend (so, the following Monday).

 

[LizzieMaine]

Consider it done. I'll go one further and ban all Christmas advertising and promotion of any kind. Christmas should be celebrated in the heart, not in the wallet.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Oh, and I'm also getting rid of all novelty Christmas records, except for the Singing Dogs version of "Jingle Bells."

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

^ Drives me freakin' crazy. Really, do you have to start hawking that stuff now. When Lizzie is dictator (and I'm dead as she will have all libertarians shot immediately), she should pass a law that Christmas stuff can only be sold after Thanksgiving Weekend (so, the following Monday).

And then there's the Valentines stuff in the stores on the day after Christmas.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

My personal Holiday favorite.

 

[GHT]

And then there's the Valentines stuff in the stores on the day after Christmas.

Lucky you, we get the ubiquitous Cadbury Cream Egg thrust at us, in practically every other commercial, from Christmas to Easter. How do you eat your's?

 

[Stearmen]

Consider it done. I'll go one further and ban all Christmas advertising and promotion of any kind. Christmas should be celebrated in the heart, not in the wallet.

Please Lizzie, when you take control, make it so stores are not allowed to put next years calendars for sale before my birthday in September!

 

[tonyb]

Another trivial gripe ...

If you make mention of "hippie" (which, whenever it is done in this joint, is almost done disparagingly), could you at least spell it that way? It's not "hippy," which, in my dictionary, is an adjective.

Yes, I know, "hippy" is often listed as an alternate spelling of "hippie," but I ain't buying it.

 

[Zombie_61]

Another trivial gripe ...

If you make mention of "hippie" (which, whenever it is done in this joint, is almost done disparagingly), could you at least spell it that way? It's not "hippy," which, in my dictionary, is an adjective.

Yes, I know, "hippy" is often listed as an alternate spelling of "hippie," but I ain't buying it.

I like hippy hippies myself, as long as they're female and have a good sense of humor.

 

[Panadora]

People gabbing loudly on trains...gawd! Or even louder on their phones, seem to think the entire carriage needs to hear their stupid conversation.

 

[GHT]

Another trivial gripe ...

If you make mention of "hippie" (which, whenever it is done in this joint, is almost done disparagingly), could you at least spell it that way? It's not "hippy," which, in my dictionary, is an adjective.

Does the hip replacement that I need make me a hippy or a hippie?

 

[Stearmen]

Does the hip replacement that I need make me a hippy or a hippie?

That makes you a Hippity Hop!

 

[GHT]

That makes you a Hippity Hop!

Yay! William Boyd, Hop-along Cassidy, do you know, I can still remember, word for word:
Hopalong Cassidy Clippity clippity clop! There again, I'm sure there's more than a few loungers who remember it too.
The show was on the BBC in the early 50's. Friday evening, 5:30pm. We also had The Cisco Kid, The Loan Ranger, Roy Rodgers and maybe Tex Ritter. I'm not absolutely sure because as a small boy, I and many other small boys, would go to the cinema on Saturday mornings, where we saw those heroes of the small screen, in feature films. That's where I may have seen Tex Ritter.