People Are Retarded:
There were two instances today where I felt like the most intelligent human ever (that doesn't happen very often!!)
1: I pulled out of the driveway in work, some gonk in a small car (almost as small as mine but with a 1L engine or less), they took the corner super wide and nearly took a group of people and a bus out of it. Then I looked up, an L driver. Now I have nothing about L drivers but it was the way that they had their L plate displayed. Upside down!! If someone cannot put an L plate onto their own vehicle so that it's readable by the general public, they shouldn't be allowed behind the wheel. Seriously, did they not look at thier handywork with the hatch back boot closed??
2: I went to Tesco to get some "messages" (as the aul wans say!) I decided to save time I would go to the self check out. BIG mistake! I don't understand how people do not know how to use them. Read the forking instructions you idiots! For a start the machines TALK to you, they also have lots of words explaining what to do written on the touch screen.
There were three people on front of me in the queue, three machines working and all of these were occupied. It took me 15 minutes of queuing to scan my two poxy items. Jasus wept! There was one woman, about 30 ish I would say, dressed like she had an important job, she obviously had no brain though unfortunatly. She asked for a plastic bag, the machine asked her (voice and words on screen) did she accept that she had to pay the bag tax. It said it CLEARLY on the screen, there were big massive YES and NO icons to touch on the screen, and she insisted on not looking at the screen and also trying to ram her fifty quid into the paper money receptical. Knobarama!!
Then the attendant came over, pressed yes, the Tesco lady ate her ?50 and then instead of listening to the electronic lady saying "Notes are dispensed below the scanner" she was looking UNDER the machine, on top of the machine, basically there could have been a giant flashing neon arrow pointing her in the direction of her change and she would have still been standing there looking bewildered. I actually wanted to kill her. I am not going in there again for a while. I just needed some spinnach for my dinner. :(
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People are muppets. Get used to it, it's not gonna change any time soon. In fact, it's probably going to get worse.
Posted by: Matt | January 30, 2008 10:40 PM
I know, I just find it hard to accept when I have my dinner in the oven in danger of being burnt to a crisp and waiting in line behind someone who obviously has no brain. Or a very small one at least. Normally it would have taken 5 mins, dinner would be safe, then they stopped doing normal transactions at the customer services desk, now you can only buy groceries there if you are also buying beer or fags, according to the horrible woman who is always at the desk.
She is also a retard. I buy booze in the same Tesco all the time, I have done for 5 years, she has been the till lady at the booze till the whole time. She still asks me for ID, I am 24 for fook sake. I did't mind at the start, but like, she knows my name at this stage and can't seem to remember that I am over-age. Idiot! She always has lipstick on her teeth, I never tell her, out of spite!! haha!
Posted by: Babs | January 31, 2008 10:58 AM