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Things that frustrate us all

Halloween. That pointless plastic tat has filled the shelves for a month, but when you actually need to buy that shite, it’s already gone and replaced with Christmas tat.

Hate Halloween, or orange Christmas, as a two year old once called it.
 
When you lay it all out on the line and give a loved one intimate details about yourself that you feel they should know and it just hangs out there without a response.
 
Futur Dracula said:
I hear some people can't recognize faces. They lack the part of the brain that's specialized in face identification or that part is damaged. However, that wasn't the case here.

It's probably someone that looks very much like me.
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I'm one of those people. My facial recognition software is completely borked.

On the other hand, my voice recognition software is state-of-the-art.
 
Screamble said:
I'm one of those people. My facial recognition software is completely borked.
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Me too. Absolutely terrible with faces, to the extent that dating was particularly traumatic as I’d sometimes forget who I was with. Evening picking out my own kids in a school assembly is a drain if they’re not wearing something obvious. The awful thing though, is not being able to picture loved ones I’ve lost, and seeing them in photos, I can’t be sure that it’s them.
 
Butternut Squash said:
Me too. Absolutely terrible with faces, to the extent that dating was particularly traumatic as I’d sometimes forget who I was with. Evening picking out my own kids in a school assembly is a drain if they’re not wearing something obvious. The awful thing though, is not being able to picture loved ones I’ve lost, and seeing them in photos, I can’t be sure that it’s them.
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My face recognition is probably average, even so, it happened to me a few times that I wasn't able to identify a person and I avoided embarrassment by a hair. Once I remember I was with a girl that I had known only for a few days, we were in her car and I needed cash so I asked her to stop near an ATM and when I was back I couldn't recognize her through the windshield. Somehow the slight distortion caused by the curve of the glass turned her into a complete stranger, plus her car was of a common type so I couldn't even be sure that it was that car! So I took a gamble and entered the car anyway. Luckily it was her!! She still asked me why I stood there looking puzzled for a couple of minutes so I told her the truth (always the best option) and she didn't believe me and laughed...
 
So, I loaded the winter tires into my very old car today hoping to get the tires changed at a drop in garage. I waited in line for like 20 minutes, which was nothing compared to a colleague who had to wait for two hours the other day. Well, my problem is that they refused to change my tires due to them being old. It's a 30 year old car which I bought this spring to use as a commuting car. They offered me to buy new tires from them but they costs the same as the price I payed for the car and I don't really feel like paying more money for this old car. I'll probably end up changing the tyres by myself. I just wanted to be lazy this year and let someone else deal with it.
 
Butternut Squash said:
Halloween. That pointless plastic tat has filled the shelves for a month, but when you actually need to buy that shite, it’s already gone and replaced with Christmas tat.
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I bet you're the type of individual who demands that supermarkets still have easter eggs post easter even though they'll make a loss on them.

I remember a few years ago I was working on Christmas eve (and had started at 5am to put the papers out) at Sainsburys and a customer asked if we still had Christmas Trees in stock, we did not and had not in a few weeks.
 
Dimesdan said:
I bet you're the type of individual who demands that supermarkets still have easter eggs post easter even though they'll make a loss on them.

I remember a few years ago I was working on Christmas eve (and had started at 5am to put the papers out) at Sainsburys and a customer asked if we still had Christmas Trees in stock, we did not and had not in a few weeks.
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I just expect to be able to buy something in the days preceding an event. Pumpkins have been on sale all month. Can I buy one on the day I actually want it, or even the day before? The whole month is obsessed with Halloween everything, even kitchen roll is orange. I don’t want that crap in the house any longer than necessary, but if don’t buy it a week before, it’s all gone.
It’s not like people will be out tonight buying their Christmas tat, it’s holloween, it’ll wait till tomorrow.
 
Dimesdan said:
Never worked in retail have we.
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I have as it happens. But my expectations as a consumer are quite detached from my working experiences.

And it can’t be the retailers intention to send a customer with £100 quid of discretionary spend in his pocket to go looking somewhere else, and picking up their daily shopping elsewhere too. I was far from being alone in asking, “where’s all the Halloween stuff?”

Call me crazy, but Halloween is the only time of the year that I want to buy Halloween stuff.
 
Butternut Squash said:
Call me crazy, but Halloween is the only time of the year that I want to buy Halloween stuff.
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Yes, I can see how alien a concept it must be that an infinite amount of stock isn't always avaliable and supermarket chains don't want a load of stuff hanging around and losing them money.
 
Dimesdan said:
Yes, I can see how alien a concept it must be that an infinite amount of stock isn't always avaliable and supermarket chains don't want a load of stuff hanging around and losing them money.
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I don’t need an infinite amount of stock, my house is finite.
 
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RunningValkyrie said:
So, I loaded the winter tires into my very old car today hoping to get the tires changed at a drop in garage. I waited in line for like 20 minutes, which was nothing compared to a colleague who had to wait for two hours the other day. Well, my problem is that they refused to change my tires due to them being old. It's a 30 year old car which I bought this spring to use as a commuting car. They offered me to buy new tires from them but they costs the same as the price I payed for the car and I don't really feel like paying more money for this old car. I'll probably end up changing the tyres by myself. I just wanted to be lazy this year and let someone else deal with it.
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Google used tire sales in your area. I have an 11 year old Honda Odyssey and I needed two winter tires, because two were still good. I went to the used tire place and they actually had matching snow tires (exact same manufacturer, size & style) so I lucked out. They were only two years old, and had plenty of use left. I didn't want to buy new ones, I'm trading the Odyssey in for a newer car/minivan in the spring.
 
Butternut Squash said:
This is the frustration thread. Understanding the logistical realities of the retail sector doesn’t make the lack of Halloween stuff, at Halloween, any less frustrating.
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Thanks for the clarification, I thought it was were a small handfull of individuals think up first world issues and try and out do each other.
 
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