grodscorp@grods.comAnother Grods whinge
 | Posted by Bron on Thursday 3 April 2008, 9:44 am Categories: Sydney, Things that shit me Tags: MobilePhones, StupidPeople |
Things that shit me #4: people who stop in the flow of pedestrians to answer their mobile phones
I realised as I rushed to catch my train yesterday evening, that not only do I loathe inappropriate and excessive ellipses used at the end of every sentence, I also hate people in general.
OK, let me modify that last statement, lest I should be accused of being a hateful lefty: I hate people who, in rush hour pedestrian traffic, will actually STOP to answer their ringing mobile phones, and may continue to stand still to have a conversation, much to the chagrin of rushing commuters walking behind them.
What? WHAT?! Why are you stopping in the middle of pedestrian traffic flow, just to answer and talk on your friggin’ phone? Why are you stopping right in front of me? Can’t you see I have a train to catch? Why? WHY?! DON’T YOU FEAR THAT YOUR STUPID ACTIONS MIGHT HARM THE GENERAL WELLBEING, HARMONY AND COHESIVENESS OF SOCIETY?! Never mind harm to your good self by me stepping on your heels, pushing my fingers into the small of your back in an attempt to stop myself propelling right up your arse, and murmuring a stunned, muffled “ooof” into the back of your head?!
And don’t you realise that there is a reason why a mobile phone is called a mobile phone, you git?!
Apart from that, I really do like people. Sometimes.
Also, admittedly it is less dangerous than trams and pedestrians and cars in Melbourne. I really shouldn’t complain. But it’s still so fucking annoying.
GrodsThink Ep.31 (16/9/08)
Thursday 3 April 2008, 9:58 am #single mum of two
I have to add the woman who alights from an escalator and stands right in the middle of the exit to get the ringing mobile phone from her handbag whilst my double pram is bringing up the rear. She is just asking to lose her achilles tendon…
Thursday 3 April 2008, 10:02 am #Bron
That would be especially annoying, yes. And if she wakes the kids slumbering happily in their pram, heaven help you.
Thursday 3 April 2008, 10:11 am #keri
What I love…..about people like that……is that they don’t seem to realise…..that they can walk and talk at the same time……
Thursday 3 April 2008, 11:03 am #Bron
You need a good spanking, Keri.
Thursday 3 April 2008, 11:08 am #Ant Rogenous
I feel your pain, Bron. Likewise, I get the screaming shits with people at train stations who get all the way to the ticket-validation barrier in a peak-hour crush and THEN remember they need to fish their ticket out of their handbag or wallet. These turkeys should receive a kick up the arse from every single inconvenienced person behind them.
Thursday 3 April 2008, 11:09 am #keri
Now there’s a proposition!
Thursday 3 April 2008, 11:34 am #The Editor
Similarly, when people get to the front of a really long line to pay for something and then decide to go searching for their wallet/purse in their handbag/jeans.
Thursday 3 April 2008, 12:12 pm #Bron
Or they haven’t pre-checked if they have the financial means to pay for said item. Like yesterday evening in Franklins, this lady in front of me had a shitload of groceries, it went through the register, comes to a total of $62.70, and she goes, “Whoops-a-daisy, I left my card at home and I don’t carry cash.”
In a meeting just now, I just came across a new stupid word: operationalisation.
What the fuck?
Thursday 3 April 2008, 12:20 pm #Ant Rogenous
I’m sure it gave the git who used it a warm, fuzzy feeling.
Thursday 3 April 2008, 12:43 pm #Bron
The git you speak of was my boss. I can’t say ANYTHING to her about her new word, dammit.
Thursday 3 April 2008, 12:56 pm #Ant Rogenous
Whoops. Well, I’m sure she’s lovely. For a git.
Thursday 3 April 2008, 12:56 pm #EC
I think I’m probably pissing off the people behind me at the train ticket barrier.
You know when it’s really busy at Town Hall station and everyone just keeps sticking their ticket in and moving through? I wait for it to close and then insert ticket and walk through.
This is because several months ago the barrier thingo at Central CLOSED ON MY FRACKING LEGS AND IT REALLY BLOODY HURT. They were very apologetic at Central & I was rushing to an expensive concert so just had to hobble off.
It really wasn’t my fault, but now I have major ticket barrier phobia.
Thursday 3 April 2008, 12:58 pm #The Editor
EC, you should sue the public transport operator, the State government, the Federal government, the Queen and the UN for pain and suffering.
Thursday 3 April 2008, 12:59 pm #skeptic
I really hate people who sit down with their personal belongings between them and the internal wall, so leaving minimal room for the person who might want to sit down next to them.
I will always make a point of saying something like “do you reckon your bags could stand so I can squeeze a cheek on this seat?”.
Or similar witty remarks like that.
And i hate the people who put up with this kind of behaviour by remaining silent.
Thursday 3 April 2008, 1:06 pm #The Editor
You’re a h8er, dude.
Thursday 3 April 2008, 1:25 pm #EC
Sue the UN as well?
*dreams of vast riches*
Thursday 3 April 2008, 1:32 pm #Wah
Or people who get to a station entrance, or bottom of an escalator and just stop right there instead of spreading across a platform that’s six fucking carriages long!
Then a crows forms making it hard for everyoen else to enter. Connex staff should be equipped with cattle prods. Cattle prods!
Speaking of mobile phones, the other week I was waiting to get a haircut and the customer who went before me decided to answer a mobile phone call in the barber’s chair, which meant the barber had to wait - what the fuck man?
I was hoping the barber would slash the fuckin’ bastard’s throat with the razor so all the other person on the other end of the line would hear was a disturbing gurgling sound as the life slowly escaped from the time wasting bastard’s trembling body.
Thursday 3 April 2008, 1:37 pm #The Editor
I’m feeling a little guilty that your second paragraph made me LOL so gratuitously, Wah.
Thursday 3 April 2008, 2:07 pm #Magic Bellybutton
Idiots who stand at the bottom of an escalator, internally debating whether they should get on, thereby incuring my wrath since I am capable of making a decision.
This morning when I was walking to work the guys in front of me decided they would stop for a coffee. So they stopped. Right there. Taking up the entire footpath because god knows, at 8am no-one is actually walking along behind them, trying to get their jobs!
I could probably go on for ages, but my head just exploded.
Thursday 3 April 2008, 2:13 pm #Bron
Yeah, it coulda been a scene out of the Godfather or something.
People who talk in their mobile phone while being served - whether in a shop or on a bus or whatever - and because they’re so busy chatting away about fuck all, they didn’t hear what the sales assistant/bus driver said, and then they get confused because they’re not sure who they’re meant to be replying to…
“Huh, pardon? Five more cents? Yeah, mate, Marty got real smashed last night and had to pay five more cents… I mean, what? Like, what did you say? No, I meant you, not you…”
And so on and so forth.
Time-delaying twits.
And I’ll wager that some of YOU PEOPLE do this, right?!
Thursday 3 April 2008, 2:16 pm #Andrea Rogenous, Administrator
And I’ll wager that some of YOU PEOPLE do this, right?!
My finger is hovering over the BAN button just in case anyone admits to any of these foul practices.
Thursday 3 April 2008, 2:27 pm #Bron
Teehee, Andrea Rogenous, you crack me up!
Thursday 3 April 2008, 3:25 pm #Wah
Who the fuck’s Andrea?
Thursday 3 April 2008, 3:45 pm #Ant Rogenous
“Andrea Harris, Administrator” — head of Timmeh Blair’s Gestapo.
Thursday 3 April 2008, 4:50 pm #John Surname
“You need a good spanking, Keri.”
Allow me!
Thursday 3 April 2008, 4:56 pm #The Editor
Get a room.
Thursday 3 April 2008, 4:56 pm #Bron
Gedoffit, you pervert, Surname.
Thursday 3 April 2008, 5:04 pm #The Editor
You know those occasional stories about dirty guys on the tram who have camera installed in their shoes so they can take photos up chicks’ skirts?
Well, I’m not connecting John Surname to that sort of behaviour at all.
Thursday 3 April 2008, 6:09 pm #THR
You know those occasional stories about dirty guys on the tram who have camera installed in their shoes so they can take photos up chicks’ skirts?
Well, I’m not connecting John Surname to that sort of behaviour at all.
Maybe it’s in his cubic zirconian-encrusted walking cane instead.
Thursday 3 April 2008, 10:53 pm #John Surname
“You know those occasional stories about dirty guys on the tram who have camera installed in their shoes so they can take photos up chicks’ skirts?”
That’s not fair. I always ask.