When some nut calls you on the phone and asks for some woman you don't know and don't believe you when you tell him that he dialed a wrong number. He calls you three times the same day and only stops when you threaten to call the police. (his number wasn't even masked!!!).
Apparently my phone number is one digit off from some kind of maintenance service (not sure if plumbing or farm equipment or something else).
So for awhile I was getting calls from people wanting this service, and they refused to believe me when I told them they had the wrong number.
One idiot got mad at me for having the number I have, and when I informed him that my family had had that number for over 25 years, he said, "Then you should change it."
WTF?
So then I called the maintenance service myself, told them what was going on, and said, would you please remind your customers of what your phone number is so I don't have to deal with people looking for you?
He got rude, and I said, fine... I'll just be extremely rude to them, and if they think I work for you and you lose a customer over this, it won't be my problem.
That was many years ago. Haven't had a problem since.
Adults who do not know the difference between your/you're, there/their, and use apostrophes to make something plural.
It annoys me when people try to seem "sophisticated" by tossing a bit of French into their online posts. They include "N'est pas?" when they should really be saying "n'est-ce pas?"
Those two phrases do not mean the same thing, and if you use the wrong one, you're actually contradicting yourself.
Autocorrect is responsible for some real howlers. Recently I read a forum post where the poster meant to write "obstacles." Because he spelled it wrong, autocorrect changed it to "obstetricals"!
For some reason this reminds me of a forum I used to belong to. Whoever set the autocensor was an idiot. You cannot type out the entirety of "Walter Koenig" on that forum. It comes out as "Walter Koe[person of African-American descent]". If they'd just set the autocensor to "exact" instead of "loose" this wouldn't be a problem.
Or any other month.
EDIT: Sorry, I neglected the rest of the post!
It’s true that career politicians are scum, and just entertaining the thought of these vermin brings sick to my mouth. And that career politicians will cost me far more in hard cash, lost opportunities and peace of mind. But unlike a career politician, I will never be forced to recruit one, to enter a contract with them, and to be lulled in believing that they are a person, and approaching the transaction as if dealing with a person, with all the feats and failings shared by the human race. They are not people, they are fuckwits.
Some career politicians are wonderful people. There was an MP in British Columbia many years ago who would come to the aid of whoever among his constituents needed help, and advocate for them in Parliament. He supported physician-assisted death decades before it was finally legalized, and witnessed the assisted death of a women who was suffering from MS. He never revealed the identity of the doctor who helped her, though he was under a great deal of pressure to do that.
A minor frustration, people who don't specify what scale they are using when giving measurements.
Walmart has a scale all its own. Just do a search on their website for mirrors - the full-length kind you hang up in your bathroom. Apparently they come in boxes that are approximately 2-3 inches by 5 inches by 8 inches.
I sent an email, and pointed out that this had to be a mistake, and admittedly got a bit snarky - telling them that I realized that most of the furnishings they sold were "assembly required," so was this a case of they smashed the mirror before shipping it, and the customer was expected to glue it back together themselves?
