In no particular order
1. Businesses that change the spelling of words - Kwikee-mart, Sav Moor, Karl's Kar Wash. Uummm, don't patronize me with the wrong spelling of a name. I feel stupid signing a check for Kathy's Kute Kountry Kwilt Store or whatever...not that I quilt or anything.....
2. Customer hotlines that never take you to an actual person. "Press 1 to hear your account balance, 2 to make a payment, 3 to change your service,.....79 to have us come to your house and hit you over the head with a hammer..... Are we, the customer, such a nuisance to that businesses can't even speak to us in person?
3. The McDonald's Southern Chicken sandwich. What the hell? It's a stupid chicken breast with pickles! What's with all the advertising?
4. These new bands with stupid names like - Panic at the Disco and Gym Class Heroes. I'm still trying to figure out what a Red Jumpsuit Apparatus is (yes, that's an actual band name). What ever happened to classic band names like Wham! or Flock or Seagulls? Hmmm, ok, bad examples. Mr. Mister? Jethro Tull? ABBA? Damnit!
Found this link. Hilarious. Band Name Generator1. Businesses that change the spelling of words - Kwikee-mart, Sav Moor, Karl's Kar Wash. Uummm, don't patronize me with the wrong spelling of a name. I feel stupid signing a check for Kathy's Kute Kountry Kwilt Store or whatever...not that I quilt or anything.....
2. Customer hotlines that never take you to an actual person. "Press 1 to hear your account balance, 2 to make a payment, 3 to change your service,.....79 to have us come to your house and hit you over the head with a hammer..... Are we, the customer, such a nuisance to that businesses can't even speak to us in person?
3. The McDonald's Southern Chicken sandwich. What the hell? It's a stupid chicken breast with pickles! What's with all the advertising?
4. These new bands with stupid names like - Panic at the Disco and Gym Class Heroes. I'm still trying to figure out what a Red Jumpsuit Apparatus is (yes, that's an actual band name). What ever happened to classic band names like Wham! or Flock or Seagulls? Hmmm, ok, bad examples. Mr. Mister? Jethro Tull? ABBA? Damnit!
5. Chris Berman. Now that we are deep into Football season,I have to listen to Chris Berman "Whoop!" and pun his way through Sports Center every week. Why does a grown man purposely make those noises?
6. Skinny jeans. I tried on my first pair the other day and realized that the trick to looking good in skinny jeans is actually being skinny.
7. AIG, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Wall Street in general. The fact that the executives from these companies receive billions upon billions of dollars of OUR tax money and still have the balls to attend luxury spas and conferences makes me sick. Did you know that it is estimated that 6.7 BILLION dollars will still go towards year end bonuses for the executives of these companies? For what?!?! Good job on running your company into the ground - here's $600,00.
8. NPR. Not so much for it's content, but for the radio personalities voices. Someone over there must puposely make everyone talk in a low, bass-y, calm voice. Reminds me of the Saturday Night Live's NPR girls. Make sure you watch it for a laugh.
9. Email forwards that aren't funny. One of the funniest forwards I ever got was a link to this website: Crappy Children's Art. Warning: Lot's of swear words and will be offensive to people who truly think their kids art is genius.
10. Poor Hospitality. It's an epidemic. Everywhere I go, I get crappy service. Retail workers are always on the defensive. The 16 year old EMO kid McDonalds just hired could care less if I asked for no onion on my burger. It's almost too frustrating to think about. Maybe it's just me....
How big of a bummer am I today?
15 comments:
Cat-
Great post! In response to #2, I hate it when they make you talk to the stupid machine, "please say your account #", "is this correct, say yes or no". So ANNOYING! and if you call from work everyone is looking at ya like who the hell is she talking to?!
Trisha
Thanks for making my day with your post!! Just too think, all that crap put a smile on my face!!
LOL, I have to comment on a few of those...
#2-that happens all of the time! I usually just keep pushing buttons until someone comes on. I also like when they tell me to just go to the website...umm don't you think if that would help I would have already done it!
#3-I DESPISE pickles, and everytime I go to McDonalds the automatic thing asks me if I want one. Drives me nuts.
#4-what's worse is when you actually like those bands and are forced to say the name.
#6-I will never have the desire to try to squeeze my fat ass into skinny jeans. I know I'm fat, I don't need jeans to remind me of it.
#10-So true! I waitressed for years, it's not that hard. Just yesterday my friend came over for lunch with our girls and she ordered a hamburger happy meal...she got chicken nuggets. How hard was that to get right??
Anyway, great post, I'm sitting in the car line at school and enjoyed the entertainment!
Amen!! Particularly the customer service...I find myself apologizing to fast food employees when my order is screwed up, like, "I'm sorry, but this is iced tea and I ordered a coffee - would it be a problem to switch it?" WTH!
Ohhh man! I can make that list go on and on. I had a rough day with the insurance compnay..Unicare if you are reading this...U SUCK! Ok, much better! Thanks for the chuckle! Oh, and in response to the McDonald's Chicken Sandwhich...I don't know if you have Chik-fil-a?? Quite possible the worlds best chicken sandwhich, but I think it's trying to compete with them. Nothing but bun and pickles, but oh so divine!
Wow, yeah! I'm with you on all of this! Especially fast food idiots! I once ordered a #1 with cheese at Wendy's (burger) and got a chicken sandwich with no cheese. I was like did you listen to what I ordered or what?! I waitressed for years too and it really isn't that hard to listen to what someone wants, put it in the computer, check it and hand it over! Grrrr....
Wow! You are a krab apple to today!
Get a beer!! Drink one for me too!!
Wow! and I thought I was in a grumpy mood today! :P
I actually had that whole stupid machine thing happen to me yesterday.
I called about my internet bill because I had just made a payment and they sent me a disconection notice. That darn machine transfered me to the wrong department twice before I actually got to talk to a person!
SO FRUSTRATING!!!
It's like an old sailor is writing this blog, it's gone from PG to R rated! I am glad to see that your husband is not on your "Things that annoy me" list.
Your Husband is HOT!!!
ps I did not say that about your sister
Ok I am booking my flight to Michigan because now I believe we share a brain. Not only did I read your facebook e-mail at work and die with your Owen reference (and I feel the same way about Preston at times), but my 100th post is coming up soon. Everyone does 100 cool things or 100 nice things about them and I had already decided to do 100 things that annoy the living crap out of me.
Seriously.
Funny post. Love crappy artwork. That was the best forward ever.
A Flock of Seagulls...I am IMPRESSED at you and Dan's old school music knowledge. I don't feel old as dirt anymore!
Skip the beer, have a nice stout Maker's and diet coke...it always cures what ails me.
Here's a smiley face to add to your list! If you are like me and having a really annoying day, nothing adds to it like another damn smiley face....
:0)
Candi
YaYa to Bryan
Ditto on the McDonald's chicken sandwich....I HATE pickles!!!
How funny!!
Mott the Hoople
Toad the Wet Sprocket
Big Head Todd and the Monsters
Better than Ezra (must suck to be just Ezra!)
Gin Blossoms
Porno for Pyros
Stone Temple Pilots
Matchbox 20
7 Mary 3
Blink 182
Sum 41
Goo Goo Dolls
Chumbawamba
Hoobastank
Hootie and the Blowfish
im sure i cn keep going bt i dont no wht u wld do!
lol
Great post - hilarious and so true! I've been told that if you use **** words in response to those stupid animated machines that you'll get a person to pick up.
The good news is you probably felt better after you posted - right?? hopefully.
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