Grumpy Old Women (and men, you're welcome too, as long as you're grumpy) thread, post your grumps here

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Sadly, I probably have a few but to kick off, WHY do the ticket desk at MAJOR railway stations only have 2 people serving on a busy Friday night? Especially when you can SEE other staff milling around but not opening the blinds on their stations.

Tesco don't do it, they'd lose customers if they did. I had to wait 20 minutes to hand over £154 for my travelcard on Friday. So it's not as if I'm paying for some cheap, incredibly efficient, marvellous service, I just want to buy a ticket to travel on the fking train, that's all. And I won't have time on Monday morning. And they MUST know they're going to be busy on Friday nights. And when I said "I'd like to complain please" I was given a leaflet to fill in. And even if I can be arsed I'll probably get a letter saying

Dear WWW
We're sorry your customer experience failed our usual high standards. We are busy on Friday nights and would suggest you buy your tickets at another time. you can buy a ticket up to a year before travel.

yours most insincerely

customer service fuckwit

AAGGGGGGGGGHHH. And that's when the trains are running, Silverlink are striking EVERY Friday. (which I recognise is their right, blah blah but still grrr)

HERE IS MY GRUMP.

Spitting in the streets. Dirty filthy bastards, stop it!

If I had my way I'd make you all clean all the spittle and gob up with your own tongues! Filthy little turds!

And the same goes for chewing gum. Put it in paper and put it in a bin ffs!

My grump is simple.

Why do parents park right outside the school, when they have been asked not to as it is dangerous?

This is at pick up time, primary school, loads of children milling around.

Can't the selfish bastards park 3 mins walk away instead?

Oh no of course they can't, their legs might fall off

OUr local tesco rarely if ever have more than 2 people staffing their 5 tills!!!!

Laughingly called an 'express' store. To buy a newspaper (which they take off the shelves at about 4pm) takes a good 1/2 hour. Queue is often out the door.

Tescos round here also don't believe in having stock, so are unlikely to have anything you want ot buy.

I fricking hate Tesco (which is why I rarely, if ever use them).

Bad manners gets me - so many people don't seem to bother with manners nowadays

The rude receptionists at my local leisure centre are middle-aged rude, miserable, unfriendly women that don't look you in the when you hand them your gym card, they swipe it and throw it back at you so bloody rude- what happened to people skills training? or did that never exist .

Agree about the gobbing in the street HATE IT!

Seeing people littering the streets - my town is FULL of litter it is very sad and annoying .

People parking in disabled/mum & child spaces at supermarkets that are not disabled or don't have a child with them.

Parents that can't be bothered to check their kids hair for head lice/nits and I have spent a fortune on treatments to get rid of only for the problem to come back again and again.

There are more as I am a classic whinger so I will be back- as arnie said.

that should be 'look you in the eye' when you hand them ....

Bad mannered drivers who don't thank you when you give way/wait for them/let them out.

However if someone does thank me I am disproportionately happy and wave and smile happily at them.

I drive round muttering "how rude" and dd1 (3) now notices if someone has wound me up.

people that let their dogs poo on the pavement outisde my house (or anywhere for that matter) and not clear it up.

same as onepiece! driving brings out all the grumps in me

Ill mannered oiks who stand IN FRONT OF the yellow line at baggage carousels at the airport, blocking everybody's view and forcing you to leapfrog other people's trolleys to heave your suitcase off because you couldn't see it in time...

People who push past you on the tube when you're waiting for people to get off

wankers talking loudly on their phones on the train

people at work who can't be arsed to put the paper hand towels in the bin, I meant, how hard can it be?

Yes - people who don't clear up their dog shit poo.

People who snore all night and then crow about what a good night's sleep they've had. Yes that's you dh.

people who get up early and brag about it

Can I complain about how boring MN is these days? I scrape the bottom of the barrel finding something to post on. And it is Saturday night FGS! It used to be such fun here.

mine is DR's receptionists.

your a fecking receptionist not a GP. when you spend 5 years training in all things medical then i'll tell you whats wrong with me. in the meantime put me through to teh fookin GP like your job despriotion tells you to

it is hard to find things to post on, thursdays are always good on mn though.

Thursdays? Pourquoi?

i don't know. i suppose more people are around. (or my frame of mind on a thursday)

I know this isn't a pedant thread, but the thing that currently gets right on my tits is people saying 'meet with'. WHAT'S WRONG WITH 'MEET' YOU DUNDERHEADS?

You don't need to say 'with', it's an unnecessary extra word. You can hardly meet someone without them being present! And you didn't grow up bloody saying it, you've caught it from watching too many American TV shows. STOP IT! NOW!

And that includes you, Ian Hislop. When bloody Hislop on bloody Radio Four lets you down, the visigoths have not only arrived, they are ransacking the place.

Edam, isn't it the same when people say "self" as in "I will confirm this in writing to yourself at the earliest possible moment". Always said by young men trying to sound mor educated than they are and, with that one word, failing completely.

Lazy fucking smokers who wouldn't dream of littering (apparently) but think nothing of flicking their cigarette butts onto the pavement.

DO YOU THINK THE BUTT FAIRY WILL ATTEND TO THEM? You are not better than the spitters and the crisp packet droppers!

Stupid teenagers who think they know more than me about how to take care of my ds's.
Stupid teenagers who think they know more than me about anything.
Stupid teenagers, especially skinny ones that think they will never get fat. I used to be a size 8 once. Don't look me up and down like that you pillock! Put some clothes on, it is freezing!
Go home and do your homework.
Why are you hanging around the shopping centre trying to get boys, do you want to end up pregnant and mess up your life?
Idiots! DO SOMETING USEFUL!!!!

T H A T I S B E T T E R!

When I'm shopping during my lunch hour and people just don't move out of my way!! I've only got 30mins, I don't want to spend it playing dodge fgs!

Oh and smelly people on the bus - soap is cheap enough you filthy b'stards!

"meet with", "yourself/myself" - oh, yes, completely agree, those are just VILE.

People who eat with their mouths open. It is disgusting! Watch yourselves eat in the mirror, Yuck!
Why do people put their young daughters in high heels? When their poor little bones are still developing, oh I can't bear to think about their poor little joints, the pressure on their backs.....shudder!