Mega Thread Things that Shit me part XI - The Eleventh One!

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It was three years ago. We were flying down to Melbourne on a Saturday for a night game. He has his own auto spare parts business and closes at 11.30 on Saturdays. The plane was due to leave at 1.00. Knowing that he often stays open longer than 11.30 I went around to his business at 11.15 to make sure he finished up then and there. I was going to follow him around to his house, leave his car at his house and drive my car to the airport. I had his bag in my car so all he had to do was drop his car off, hop in my car and straight to the airport.

When I got to his business at 11.15 he showed no signs of beginning to close up. I had to really push him to close up. I managed to get him out the door and into his car at 11.35. As I was driving off to his house I look in my rear vision mirror and he is hopping out of his car and going back into his shop. I wound down the window and yelled out, "What the **** are you doing?" He replies that he forgot to do something and goes back inside. I am sitting in the car starting to feel a bit frantic. About ten minutes later he comes back out and hops in his car. We drive to his place. I get out of my car and tell him to just hop in my car and let's go. He tells me that he needs to do something at home. So I tell him that he has five minutes. I sit in the car going out of my mind. Well, he takes about fifteen minutes. I have no idea what he was doing. When I asked him on the airport he just said that he needed to check on some stuff. So we leave his house about 12.15.

It takes about fifteen minutes to drive to the airport and the plane is leaving at 1. I am one of those people who like to be early to everywhere. I am usually at the airport one or two hours before departure. So I am almost having a nervous breakdown. . He grew up in this town and likes to think that he knows everybody. He is saying, "Don't worry. The people at the airport know me." I tell him that I don't give a **** who he knows because the airlines have a 30 minute prior check in policy. We arrive at the airport. I madly park my car, jump out, toss him the keys and tell him to bring the bags. Lucky we only had carry on bags. I run into the airport and up to the counter. The woman tells me that I only just made it. It turns out that she actually does know my mate and laughs as she sees him walking up behind me.
wow. my heart was beating outtta my chest reading that!!
 

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yahoo usa page. I like it because it provides a snapshot of news or non newsworthy things. however, scroll down to see headlines and the like, you click on it expecting redirection to the article you desire. instead it takes you to a truncated version where you read perhaps the opening paragraph, then need to click READ MORE to read more. It then takes you to their website.
 

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The Age website's envelopment of advertising on either side of the page. Unfortunately it's a necessary evil of modern media but it still shits me.
 

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I like it when people want to talk to me but sweet ******* jesus don't have to tell me detailed stories about events that are best told by being straight to the point.
my sister is that to a tee. She even imitates the voices of conversation participants. Shits me when the people she's talking about are dead beats who say "like" all the time.
 

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The Age website's envelopment of advertising on either side of the page. Unfortunately it's a necessary evil of modern media but it still shits me.
Nine.com.au mobile site has this ad half down as you're scrolling you have to scroll through the ad to get to other stories. ****en pisses me off
 

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My dad does it all the time.

Adds in irrelevant details (IE something he heard on the radio), will mention the person he said, what time, what segment, what it come after etc.

Rather than just saying I heard _____ on the radio. It is, after the 3 o'clock news they had person x and the radio and they do a segment on something different each day and today it was blah blah etc.
 
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