What grinds your gears ?

[pratty]

People who reverse their cars out of their drives, especially when they have tall hedges surronding their drive which they or pedestrians can't see through.

If they weren't too lazy to reverse into their drive in the first place, they might actually stand a chance of seeing the pedestrians they are in danger of driving into when they leave home.

In response to Du_Sucol, the fraudulent banking system grinds my gears also, unfortunately it exists because we allow it to.

[Shinobi]

BMW drivers!! Getting Chinese last BMW parked on double yellow on the bend, tried to pull without indicating, almost caused a crash, BMW forced to move back in - rinse and repeat.. Come back from Chinese BMW is still boxed in, face a bright purple(actually indicating first for a BMW) all the cars tight against one another to stop BMW getting out.. No wonder there the most vandalised car, typing in BMW the first post is "all BMW's driver are pricks" and that's one of the printable one's

Smoking when driving... Having a cigarette in the steering wheel hand when changing gears gives you practically no control over the wheel, and keeping one in your mouth means you can hardly see a thing for the column of smoke spiralling past your eyes.. Not to mention there wind-screen have a permanent yellow film of tar over the window!! Normally some little hunchback with a cap and a track suit hunched over the wheel all over the road!!

[pratty]

I recall Tommy Boyd saying on the radio once that people would drive more carefully if cars came fitted with a spike attached to the steering wheel that pointed at the driver's chest.

[JazzFunk]

^It grinds my gears that Tommy Boyd no longer has a national radio show, I've missed the guy's TalkSport show for nearly a decade now.

Anyway, this is gonna be a predictable gear-grinder - 'travellers'. Little old guy at work, not far off retirement, lives on his own in a little house near a big field. Basically, gypsies have been scoping his house out, in order to nick the lead from his roof, he's been scared to death and has barely been sleeping. Wakes up Wednesday morning, finds some stepladders at the side of his house, assumes they belong to the neighbours, pays them no heed. Wakes up Thursday morning, all the lead off his roof has gone, as have the stepladders. Guy now has about three hundred+ quid to pay out and doesn't feel safe in his own home (I told him that he'd probably be safe now, just get a bit of flashing put up and he'd be sorted, as there was no more lead it would be unlikely they'd come back now).

Know there's a very small iota of brief amusement to be had at the audacious cheek of such activity, but what a set of f*cking c*nts, eh?

[Vyothric]

People on eBay who include something like this in the item description: "will need a clean"

Then bloody clean it! Aye carumba....

The stuff you find at car boot sales is always a mess too. People can't even be arsed to give things a quick wipe over.

[ahb]

what grinds my gears

sofa adverts, downloadable content and videogames fanboys

i just can't stand them

[necronom]

People who buy a bungalow,then go and get an extension built to add extra space . I think someone solved that problem of lack of space in a bungalow ,it's called a HOUSE .

Maybe houses are different where you live, but here bungalows have a much larger footprint than a house. Our bungalow is much bigger than the house next door, and the big advantage is that our rooms are much bigger. Whenever I've been in a house, the rooms are always tiny. We have a loft conversion in our bungalow and the rooms in the loft are bigger then most rooms in a house.

[DigitalDuck]

We have a loft conversion in our bungalow and the rooms in the loft are bigger then most rooms in a house.

Erm... haven't you just turned your bungalow into a house, then?

[necronom]

We have a loft conversion in our bungalow and the rooms in the loft are bigger then most rooms in a house.

Erm... haven't you just turned your bungalow into a house, then?

No. It looks just the same from the front (apart from a small window in the roof). It looks nothing like next door's house, but has much better rooms.

[shiftytigger]

People on eBay who include something like this in the item description: "will need a clean"

Then bloody clean it! Aye carumba....

The stuff you find at car boot sales is always a mess too. People can't even be arsed to give things a quick wipe over.

Having worked in both Cash Converters and Cash Generators I can still to this day never understand why it is so difficult to dust / clean something before selling / trading - as with boot sales - surely it represents the lack of care / pride of the seller. I will buy used consoles if they look rough but usually have to Servisol all the surfaces before i even plug it in. Even a quick swoosh with a wet wipe might make it look less like a bag of crap.

Even worse is seeing said item out in Converters with almost no effort made to rectify the look. I would never let anything onto my shop floor if it hadnt been cleaned,yet some stores dont seem to even bother.

[nokgod]

See, i don't mind buying dirty stuff (i'm only talking carboot here, not a shop) as usually, if they've gone to the trouble of cleaning and sprucing a console, game... whatever, up they'll be looking for top dollar or just understand its value. I don't mind picking up a grubby (whatever) a few stalls away, for half the price. More often than not, already passed over by someone, as being crap. I don't get to carboots early enough to be duking it out with the resellers, so i tend to pick up the leftovers.

Just my convoluted approach, but it seems to work ok for me.

Besides, i love cleaning stuff up....seeing an old console being rejuvinated makes me smile

[Vyothric]

I don't mind picking up a grubby (whatever) a few stalls away, for half the price. More often than not, already passed over by someone, as being crap. I don't get to carboots early enough to be duking it out with the resellers, so i tend to pick up the leftovers.

I'm very much the same really. I just have a problem with people who don't seem to have any common sense. Surely even if they're selling something they thought was crap, they'd at least want to try and make it look good.

[nokgod]

I don't mind picking up a grubby (whatever) a few stalls away, for half the price. More often than not, already passed over by someone, as being crap. I don't get to carboots early enough to be duking it out with the resellers, so i tend to pick up the leftovers.

I'm very much the same really. I just have a problem with people who don't seem to have any common sense. Surely even if they're selling something they thought was crap, they'd at least want to try and make it look good.

Completely agree with what you're saying. Surely you'd want to maximise your profit as a seller...but hey, their laziness (and that's all it is) is my leverage when it comes to bartering a price.

[Antiriad2097]

Surely even if they're selling something they thought was crap, they'd at least want to try and make it look good.

Not necessarily. I've done a couple of car boots to clear old stuff out. Its not so much a case of making a nice profit, its more about getting the stuff out of the house but not wanting to bin it. I don't really care if I get 50p or £1.50 for a DVD, as long as its gone. I really don't want the hassle of sorting things out, cleaning them up, I just want rid. Throw everything into the car, move it on asap. Condition and price don't much come into it. If it doesn't sell as is, its headed for the charity shop where someone else can make the effort if they think its worthwhile.

[TwoHeadedBoy]

Been a while since I had a little moan...
But yes, newspapers in general and specifically (predictably!) The Sun. Happily enough, I hid the 16 copies that arrived at work today, so we didn't sell a single one of them. But the point remains that the filthy thing exists, and now on a Sunday as well. Bah.