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AthenaSurrenders -> RE: Things that really bug us..... (8/24/2013 1:18:57 PM)
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Am I too late to weigh in on the pavement debate?
American husband understood pavement to refer to the sidewalk - perhaps it's a regional thing? And 'motorway' refers to a very specific type of road with a higher speed limit, no stopping, no learner drivers, no pedestrians etc.
Things that annoy me: People who assume every photograph of a Victorian child is a post mortem, and feel the need to re-blog and re-pin them with that caption all over the internet. Yes I know post mortem photography was a thing, but it's not as though there was a rule that only deceased people were photographed. Some of those photos are like the new wave of urban myths.
The milkman - every time he sees me out running he feels the need to stop me, and I have to take out my earbuds to hear today's version of the same lame joke about how I'd better keep running and not walk. I'm trying! Maybe I'm actually annoyed at myself for being too polite to ignore him and run right past while he's trying to talk to me.
People who come in to work and make snidey, half-joking comments about how we're rolling in money and ripping them off. We are so freaking honest, we absolutely bend over backwards to be transparent. And it's not such a lucrative business as everyone seems to think. And then they give me a hard time for refusing to bend the law in their case. Oddly enough, 'it's just a few quid' isn't a compelling argument. I'm not going to risk losing the company license over any deal, let alone one that's probably worth pennies in profit to us.
Bluebottles. Argh! Every time I open a window...
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