h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

And this would be policed how?

Yes, that would be a problem. Unless you made the space between the gates less. Or just do things the airport way, charge for excessive baggage. I mean on trains, if a suitcase is going to take up the space in a train that should be taken up by a extra person then it is only fair that they should have to pay.

Have you considered working for the government?

Ha Ha, no I haven't.

Another thing that annoys me is when we are told that something is free, but it has all sorts of hidden charges.

Ooh, you mean like "Claim your free watch! (£7.50 P&P)"

Hmm, think we might need to separate the hates in to urban hates and agrarian or something.
I've never had escalator rage with a suitcase or got cranky at shuffling bumbling types in busy streets( Umm I might be one of those)

My ire is directed towards people who dont bother waving when your driving along a narrow road or acknowledge you when you pull over to let them through with room to spare and then there's the itchy scratchy types who let their free range chooks wander all over the road

bad manners and discourteous driver...... don't get me started..... and, just what are those flashy orange light thingys for anyway??

Hmm... Dunno, what bothers me more is those flashing blue thingies that appear on the larger vehicles.

Did you know? My dad drives an ambulance and he tells me that if he is driving in the fast lane of a motorway when he puts his blue lights on then the person in front usually gets so scared they slam the brakes on.

As She Herself puts it, a woman might just conceivably be able to urinate on a compost heap provided it's a small one that can easily be straddled, it's in an out-of-the way and not-overlooked part of the garden, and no inconvenient nettles have been dumped on it, nor are growing out of it. (I have done my research here!)

Long hair tied up, especially on blokes.
I love long hair but, that's just a really petty hate of mine to see it tied up. I can cope if their driving or operating delicate machinery or the like, but generally .

Harrumph!

Unpriced goods in supermarkets.

Priced goods in poundshops.

Or worse, items priced at anything other than a pound in poundshops.

Harrumph?
It's not the person, just the hair tied up. I'm fine with it down.

Someone take the shovel away from me...
Ooh that annoys me, poundshops where it's really 99p

They found a way around that though, they now have 99p shops.

The new bendy buses are annoying, people with prams getting on at the front doors where they know there isn't enough space between the chairs to get through.

People who put those signs on their car's rear window..."Baby on board!"

What exactly is the message they wish to convey here?
Do I toot my horn and give a thumbs up for their fecundity or look at the other occupant of the car and wonder why they call him/her a baby?
Do I overtake very quietly or just pull funny faces at the driver hoping they will be conveyed to the little bundle of joy?

Oh the preciousness of it all...

People who take anything you say and turn it into an insult.

buying satsumas that are advertised as 'easy peel' and then spending 10 minutes picking big lumps of pith off them .


best fishes........tod

"People who put those signs on their car's rear window..."Baby on board!""

As someone once said, you're supposed to think "Okay, if I crash into the back of you I'll make sure to do it gently".

I think those signs are to let paramedics know there is a baby/child on board if you have an accident...

...but that makes them doubly annoying because people display them permanently rather than when baby/child is *actually* on board.