What annoys you? (2 Viewers)

[Kevin Hewell]

He was priding himself in being thorough with his patients rather than acknowledging bad time management on his part.

Being thorough is not a bad thing, I wish more GPs were that way.

 

[TJPC]

I had a 4:00 doctors appointment. I arrived 30 minutes early, went to a nurse, showed her my OHIP card and registered. Then I waited over an hour. Finally I went up to the desk again. The nurse said “oh, the doctor has left for the day”! She also said that her records showed I had never shown up!

To say I was pissed off is an understatement. At least they paid for my parking. I was also modified by a call from the doctor later that night. He was perfuse in his apology about the mix up and basically gave me the appointment over the phone.

 

[bmasters9]

He was perfuse in his apology about the mix up and basically gave me the appointment over the phone.

Think you might have wanted to say "profuse"!

 

[TJPC]

Think you might have wanted to say "profuse"!

You are correct of course. I couldn’t find the proper spelling of that definition for love or money!

 

[Dennis Nicholls]

 

[Clinton McClure]

I’m about to eat some awesome Chinese takeout so I don’t have any annoyances at the moment.

 

[Tony Bensley]

My Acer Laptop has been in "Repairing disk errors. This might take over an hour to complete." mode for nearly four hours and counting!

 

[John Dirk]

My Acer Laptop has been in "Repairing disk errors. This might take over an hour to complete." mode for nearly four hours and counting!

Hey Tony - Annoying for sure but do you have an acceptable backup? If so I would plan to replace the hard drive in that system as this sort of thing only gets worse with time. Laptop drives are relatively cheap and [somewhat] universal, assuming you don't have an Apple product.

 

[Tony Bensley]

Hey Tony - Annoying for sure but do you have an acceptable backup? If so I would plan to replace the hard drive in that system as this sort of thing only gets worse with time. Laptop drives are relatively cheap and [somewhat] universal, assuming you don't have an Apple product.

I'm afraid it's worse already, John. The hard drive is most likely toast, and my motherboard might be in bad shape, as well. It's the smaller alternative devices for the time being, I'm afraid.

CHEERS!

 

[John Dirk]

I'm afraid it's worse already, John. The hard drive is most likely toast, and my motherboard might be in bad shape, as well. It's the smaller alternative devices for the time being, I'm afraid.

CHEERS!

Sorry to hear that, Tony.

 

[Tony Bensley]

Sorry to hear that, Tony.

I actually haven't totally given up. Either tomorrow or Tuesday, I plan to make some local inquiries regarding an inexpensive, used but suitable hard drive for my Laptop. As the HD removal is really easy on this, I might even ask whether it would be ok for me to pop it into my Laptop. It should hopefully only take a few seconds for me to know whether it will likely fix my problems by what appears (Or doesn't!) on my screen.

CHEERS!

 

[dvdclon]

So I was reading this thread when I remembered how annoying it is for people to start a message with "So."
It always feels like they have left out the beginning of their story.

 

[Malcolm R]

So I was reading this thread when I remembered how annoying it is for people to start a message with "So."
It always feels like they have left out the beginning of their story.

Is that the equivalent of using the "yada yada yada" in the middle?

 

[Johnny Angell]

I don’t question their mission but I’m sick and tired of the St Jude Hospital ads on tv, in particular CNN. In an hour they’ll be on 4 times. Then there’s the use of the kids in the commercials, which borders on exploitation. One of the kids tries way to hard to be a professional pitchman.

They must have one helluva advertising budget. I love the 90’ buffer on my DTV DVR.

 

[JQuintana]

Annoys me that such a sad situation (that little girl that was shot and killed in Houston) has taken such a nasty twist. Even more annoying that the "witnesses" get a full pass for their accusation, had it been the other way around, we'd see it plastered all over CNN and similar news outlets not to mention we'd have riots in the streets most likely. As it stand, it's a full on "meh" from the "news" folks.

May the little girl R.I.P.

 

[John Dirk]

I don’t question their mission but I’m sick and tired of the St Jude Hospital ads on tv, in particular CNN. In an hour they’ll be on 4 times. Then there’s the use of the kids in the commercials, which borders on exploitation. One of the kids tries way to hard to be a professional pitchman.

They must have one helluva advertising budget. I love the 90’ buffer on my DTV DVR.

You have a point here. I think I know the kid you're speaking of and he's been doing this way too long to be an actual current patient I'd think. I do donate to St. Jude but they are constantly calling us asking for more while I endure endless commercials [not free] on both radio and TV.

 

[John Dirk]

The Direct TV and XFinity automatons I now see at every Wal-Mart, Costco etc. Even if you're already a customer you have to endure their initial approach should you dare venture into the TV section. Major kudos to Target for not allowing this in their stores.

 

[JQuintana]

We had the DTV sales drones in a few of our Walmart's maybe 2+ or so years ago, but I haven't seen them since.

 

[John Dirk]

We had the DTV sales drones in a few of our Walmart's maybe 2+ or so years ago, but I haven't seen them since.

Where I live they're more likely to be there than actual Wal-Mart employees. I wear headphones when I'm in the area so I can keep it moving.

 

[bmasters9]

The Direct TV and XFinity automatons I now see at every Wal-Mart, Costco etc. Even if you're already a customer you have to endure their initial approach should you dare venture into the TV section. Major kudos to Target for not allowing this in their stores.

Why would Wal-Mart and Costco allow that, while Target doesn't?