Contest: ENTER Misc Av Contest: The Little Things....

[auntiehill]

This week's contest is about all those little annoyances, pet peeves and daily irritants that drive us all a little nutty (or to be precise, nuttier). Is it the neighbor's dog who starts barking every morning at 6 am, the printer that keeps jamming, the idiot with his turn signal on for 20 miles, the grocery store parking lot full of shopping carts, or (you know who you are) Pumpkin Spice ANYTHING?

For me, it's always the little noises. With all the rain we've had, we have roof leafs and, to top it all off, a leak in the shower that hubby won't fix. I can hear it slowly dripping ALL. DAY. LONG.

For the contest, let's stick with 200 x 200 max and 1 MB max. No Media Allowed. The voting thread will go up Tuesday evening. Please only post avatars you intend to enter.

 

[Avro Arrow]

 

[auntiehill]

^ LOVE IT.

 

[DimesDan]

This is mine and it has three levels of significance. Although I prefer a self checkout over interacting with someone sat on a till, they can be rather annoying, it also signifies the annoyance that is bad customer service and it's from the company I used to work for.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Here we go:

"Please listen closely as our menu options randomly change. Press 1 for Spanish. Press 2 for indecipherable English. Press 3 for an occasional clicking sound. Press 4 for an obsolete fax number. Press 5 to be transferred to the menu for our billing vendor whose contract ended last Tuesday. Press 6 for an orphaned voice mailbox. Press 7 for a partial listing of ex-employees. Press 8 if you know your party's social security number. Press 9 for more options. Press the pound key to return to the dial tone. Pound the hash key to tweet on our Twitter feed. This call may be recorded for quality and press to on the line in a moment other customers."

 

[tharpdevenport]

I don't know if it works anymore, but a few years ago when I couldn't find what I needed from an endless menu and several minutes, it would ask me what I wanted and I kept saying "Operator" every time until it actually transfered me to an operator. Sweet.

 

[Owain Taggart]

"Please listen closely as our menu options randomly change. Press 1 for Spanish. Press 2 for indecipherable English. Press 3 for an occasional clicking sound. Press 4 for an obsolete fax number. Press 5 to be transferred to the menu for our billing vendor whose contract ended last Tuesday. Press 6 for an orphaned voice mailbox. Press 7 for a partial listing of ex-employees. Press 8 if you know your party's social security number. Press 9 for more options. Press the pound key to return to the dial tone. Pound the hash key to tweet on our Twitter feed. This call may be recorded for quality and press to on the line in a moment other customers."

That reminds me. We recently had a power failure and called the city hydro to report it and find out if they already knew about it. Their system was a little... antiquated. Something to the effect of "Press 9 for a live operator, or if you're on rotary dial, please stay on the line." Couldn't help but laugh as we were calling from a cell phone.

 

[Random_Spock]

Nice entries you guys!

@Avro Arrow You inspired me. Just came up with an idea.

Just got my entry done.

Here it is:

 

[auntiehill]

^ Nice one.

Other possible ideas: Adobe Acrobat (updates, anyone?), traffic, theater-goers with cell-phones, or the morning paper always landing in a puddle.

 

[Random_Spock]

Thanks.

And right on time, it messes up again. Can't log in.

So used to it, but it's annoying.

Those are some good ideas.

Got a new version of my entry. Feathered the letters a bit more and smoothed things out. Wasn't feeling too well when I first made it so it didn't turn out as good as I wanted.

Here's the version I want entered:

 

[auntiehill]

Keep those entries coming!

 

[tharpdevenport]

I can have a laugh at myself and obviously auntiehill is secretly wishing for it anyway, so:

 

[Avro Arrow]

I can have a laugh at myself and obviously auntiehill is secretly wishing for it anyway, so:

We'd all be disappointed if it wasn't there....

 

[auntiehill]

I can have a laugh at myself and obviously auntiehill is secretly wishing for it anyway, so:

And there it is!

Actually, it wasn't a secret at ALL; I just flat out said it in the OP!

 

[RJDiogenes]

I don't know if it works anymore, but a few years ago when I couldn't find what I needed from an endless menu and several minutes, it would ask me what I wanted and I kept saying "Operator" every time until it actually transfered me to an operator. Sweet.

Not all of them use the word "Operator," though. Some use alternate words like "Associate" or even more obscure terms. I sound like a thesaurus shouting guesses into the phone.

That reminds me. We recently had a power failure and called the city hydro to report it and find out if they already knew about it. Their system was a little... antiquated. Something to the effect of "Press 9 for a live operator, or if you're on rotary dial, please stay on the line." Couldn't help but laugh as we were calling from a cell phone.

Yeah, I still hear the rotary phone message occasionally. I wonder if rotary phones even still work in this day and age with digitized signals.

 

[tharpdevenport]

I initially thought of entering something else, but you have to have been a member here for a number of years and have a good memory to appreciate it:

I was going to get a screen grab of a page and lay on top of it -- believe it or not I actually have a copy of it saved for prosperity -- that shitty fucking ad (I think it was Orange Crush soda) that took up 90% of the page that dropped down to the bottom of the screen like an upside down mountain. It was righyt up there with "electrical superstorms" and the dragon that flew across your screen. The UGO days.

 

[auntiehill]

Still time for more entries! I might let this go on until Wednesday--give people a little more time.

 

[Owain Taggart]

I was initially going to go with a black bear, but I usually like taking pictures of what I experience and don't have any pictures of black bears. To say they've been a nuissance would be an understatement. I live in a residential area and because of the bad blueberry crops for the past two years or so, black bears have been roaming the neighbourhood in search of food. Was so bad last year that one of them ended up being shot on my street, and the police have had to create a bear hotline due to all the calls they have to deal with on a daily basis.

But the runner up would have to be the raccoon. These things are not shy at all. Last year, they'd wait until we had our backs turned to steal things from our campsite. They had stolen tons of stuff, and the kicker is they had even gotten to my Dad's bottle of Advil, after eating so much. This year, they wouldn't even wait until people were out of their campsites. They'd wander in and try to sneak around in plain view even when there were several of us in the campsite lounging around. Bold little fuckers. The parks have these bear ribbon programs where if after a stay, you haven't had any disruptive animal encounters, the ribbon will be put into a drawing. However, they count raccoons among them and if your campsite has been disrupted by them, it will get taken away. Seeing as how bold the raccoons are, even if you have nothing in your campsite but empty bottles, it gets to be a little difficult to go unscathe, as happened to a friend in our group who had their ribbon taken away.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

pretty at day but highly annoying at dark:

 

[auntiehill]

OOooo. Good one. Didn't even think of that. Not much more annoying than a mosquito!


Keep those entries coming! I'll try to get the poll done tonight.