start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3

It happens about once in every four occasions in London. Yes, there are lunch schedules and breaks people have to factor in, but this is not the rational, reasonable thread, is it?

Do you not use the box light system?

http://i.imgur.com/c6JxjSn.jpg

Where a cashier about to go on break would turn her/his aisle's light off and then serve only the customers who are still in the line at that moment?

It's a Perfect system.

Like that stops people from getting in the queue!

But then it's on them if the cashier leaves for a break. THEY'RE the ones who tried to game the system.

You underestimate the belligerent Stupid of the Customer.

"Sorry! This lane is closed!"

Stupid Customers always going to be around.

i also hate cashiers/servers/baristas carrying on conversations with each other while customers are being served, even if they are ringing you up while doing it.

i dont need my arse kissed but basic politeness would be appreciated while I am exchanging monies for yr goods

Do you not use the box light system?

I worked at a very crappy, small supermarket with no 'this checkout is open' lights. We had the signs you put up and that was it.

VG, what about cashiers in small stores talking ON THE PHONE while they ring you up? Like, personal conversations. Encountered this everywhere in England, my IA was out of control.

i get IA (emphasis on the I) when i see cars rally parked in parking lots that are not anywhere near congested enough to require rally parking

what's the definiton of rally parking? is that nose pointing out? if so then yes super IA

xpost ugh I hate that too!

What is rally parking?

(Google only presents areas to place your car before political or motorcycle gatherings.)

I hate this too, but I have also been a checkout chick and I remember how at first I felt too bad closing up on a line of people, and I'd always just keep serving people until the line was gone...and then I would only have like 5 minutes of my break left. After a while it was like grab that 'closed' sign and *BOOM* FUCK YOU ALL I AM ON LUUUUUUUUNCH. I would try not to be oblivious though. Oblivious was reserved for the million customers who tried to ask me for help on my WAY to the break room. I learned head down/eyes averted/completely deaf very quickly.

i worked for a union place where working through meals or breaks was not an option, and the company wouldn't have let me stay clocked in for any more time than they had agreed to pay me for. i was often told "go clock out and take lunch right now" by a shift lead even though there was a line full of people. so try not to blame cashiers when this happens; most of the time they're not doing it to be dicks.

this is a management-level problem and probably a corporate-culture problem. and the unions, as imperfect as they are, are only protecting the employees by being so inflexible about things like breaks. those breaks matter.

good cashiers in places with the light-up indicators turn them off reasonably early and then usher a quick last cart through if there's time before a break.

Like that stops people from getting in the queue!

In my America they also block the lane with a chain, a sign on a post, or at least a shopping cart.

What is rally parking?

get bent otm

Yes. Those breaks matter. I think we all agree upon that.

what's the definiton of rally parking? is that nose pointing out? if so then yes super IA

xpost ugh I hate that too!

― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, January 18, 2015 8:49 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yep, rally parking is when you back the car in so the nose points out. it's just so smug

I park this way whenever I load groceries. It excites me to think there are people becoming angry at the sight of it.

backing into parking spaces is fun

aka COMBAT PARKING

paramedics & firefighters i know tend to habitually do this in case of quick getaway which is fine

but sitting in a parking lot waiting for some bozo to reverse his boat-sized pickup into a spot is enraging

90% of ppl that i encounter doing this are terrible drivers who suck at reversing & shd be murdered

everyone else, yr good

I saw I Australia angled parking spaces at the curb facing away from oncoming traffic to encourage this "rally" parking.

Also everyone had their rear view mirrors pulled toward them at a 45° angle which I couldn't understand either.

Never heard the phrase "rally parking" before this thread but when I visited a friend in Singapore he pointed out that 99% of the cars there are parked this way - something to do with orderliness or planning for the future or some other supposed shared cultural norm.

This friend had also lived in Thailand (where we were also going to visit) and told me to compare the parking there. When I got out of the Phuket airport and looked for a cab everything was just parked in a giant swarm with empty cars left in neutral so people could push them out of the way as needed. Our cabbie had to move a couple to get his car out.

now that's more like it

loool omg i love it

chaos!

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AHHGGGHHH

my (corporate) workplace has an online driving class as part of our yearly junk, required if you drive for work at all. it strongly encourages backing in to parking spaces as backing out of parking is responsible for something like 90% of parking lot accidents

having been hit in a parking lot, seems to make sense to me

also there are parking spots in my (north american!) city that are 45 degree angled like those pplains just mentioned. it's in an area that's been redone in the last decade, and yes, it's back-in parking

we're also getting a bizarre number of roundabouts/traffic circles now, with a bunch of idiots not really knowing how to use them. I have some anger for the people who refuse to acknowledge that different road patterns than they're used to might be ok

Thing about "rally" parking is having to wait for the person in front of you (and perhaps the person in front of them) taking two or more tries at backing in just right, especially when most of these [North American] fuckers are driving huge-ass SUVs. Whereas, parking front-in allows the driver to do this sensible thing of waiting until traffic behind them is gone and then backing out.

Making "rally" parking mandatory to cover for the mistakes of the stupid penalizes the other 95-percent of the drivers out there.

I'm all for roundabouts though. They should replace every four-way stop with one of those. (There, that's three IA threads now where I've stated that.)

I only bought into "rally" parking once I got a vehicle with a backing-up camera display that has little guide lines I can line up with the parking space lines

imo cars of the future, before they become self-driving, will be 90% cheats telling you how to drive better

I've still never driven a car with either GPS or even satellite radio.

hah, my friend has a garmin gps thing, of the stick-it-to-the-dashboard variety that we used on our trip to the chicago suburbs. given that apple maps' voice is siri, we decided that directions from the garmin thing needed a name. so we claimed it was steve giving us directions. steve garmin, navigator supreme

tbh I trust the google maps person more

xp never heard of that (guide lines on backup camera display), that's actually a brilliant idea

i think GPS is more common than satellite radio, these days, especially as the aforementioned Garmin boxes

but can you really trust steve

check siri any time you like
but you can never steve

We have a car iphone holder now and use google maps a lot driving in the city, only because traffic is so unpredictable.

Google saved me ten minutes by routing me in a way that had me crossing railroad tracks and walking over a bridge.

Amazon product Q&As where the As don't A the Qs

Q. Is it any good for gaming?

Sorry i do not no
JOHN answered on 3 Dec. 2014

I've never used it for gaming and its not a smart tv either so wouldn't know, just for viewing.
Martin J. answered on 3 Dec. 2014

I will be able to answer that on Xmas morning :-)
Shane Robson answered on 4 Dec. 2014

I am not a gamer so not sure sorry
LAMBROS answered on 4 Dec. 2014

Sorry Richard I can't help you as I'm not a gamer.
Giro answered on 4 Dec. 2014

"Rally" parkers oh god... i guess it's supposed to be some badass "i'm hot shit" thing but it just makes me think of fannypacks or pedometers

USPS claims a package was "delivered" to our "mailbox." It was a pregnancy body pillow. I don't think that fits in our mailbox.

lol was it sunday delivery? amazon's been helpfully using usps for sunday delivery now, and it's a complete crapshoot whether things actually arrive

I did pay extra for express delivery (I have Prime but this was a matter of H being able to sleep and I felt very urgent about it). And it was for Sunday, I mean I didn't specify Sunday but that was the date they gave me when I chose express.

When you say "been helpful" you mean you think I should call Amazon to complain about the delivery failure?

I couldn't reach USPS because of MLK day obviously.

Yes, tell Amazon that the USPS fucked up and they'll ship you another or refund your money.

And by "helpful" I mean "mean well but USPS's sunday delivery is not good"

Amazon product Q&As where the As don't A the Qs

Q. Is it any good for gaming?

Sorry i do not no
JOHN answered on 3 Dec. 2014

I've never used it for gaming and its not a smart tv either so wouldn't know, just for viewing.
Martin J. answered on 3 Dec. 2014

I will be able to answer that on Xmas morning :-)
Shane Robson answered on 4 Dec. 2014

I am not a gamer so not sure sorry
LAMBROS answered on 4 Dec. 2014

Sorry Richard I can't help you as I'm not a gamer.
Giro answered on 4 Dec. 2014

― give rob da bank a gun... (onimo), Monday, January 19, 2015 2:30 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

People who pipe up to answer support form questions like this:

Can this TV be controlled with PlayStation 3 Remote Control? 5 days ago
Sorry, I have no idea about that.

does it stream amazon instant video 3 days ago
Sorry, we haven't tried that. But it is the best tv in our house.

Can I use my amazon prime account to watch videos on this tv, without another devise? 6 days ago
As far as I know you can. I do not use that service so I am not 100% certain.

― Je55e, Monday, February 17, 2014 1:16 PM (11 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

on a related note, this happened to me recently:

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