Disco. It still exists. Only in nightmares. Or holidays
Why...
To add to the list of things you do on holiday and leave on holiday is dancing to disco music.
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Is it so difficult for simple things to do the one thing they were designed for? We have a set of drawers in our bathroom in the built in cabinets around the sink. However, they are all coy. Instead of fully opening they half open. I have checked the runners etc. They are specifically designed only to be drawn out half their depth! I spend my life with my arm half bent rummaging around at the dark recess of the back for medicines, pills, chargers and other bathroom paraphernalia having to sweep them to the front so I can see them. I would really like to meet that designer and warmly shake him by the throat.
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British rail steel teapots. These really are a doozy as they fail on multiple levels. Firstly they burn your hand as the handles themselves get as hot as lava. Secondly, it spills when you pour from the spout. Thirdly, they don’t hold enough water for a teabag. The three basic requirements of a teapot. Fails on every one yet some rocket scientist at British Rail ordered battalions of them!
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Loo paper. They say there are many things you can do without but the two essentials in life are washing up liquid and the other is loo paper. Now before you avert your eyes thinking I am about to say something that might upset a reader’s delicate sensibilities… fear not. What drives me nuts about loo paper is the way it’s so difficult to initially unravel. I don’t know about you but starting a new role can have flayed strips of paper going on for miles before everything ‘catches up’ and you actually have a solid square. Why? It doesn’t need the top glued.
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Band Aids. Yes, I hear you all cry. These are more difficult too get into than Mary Poppins’ knickers. I always end up with the sterilised pad ruined by my sticky fingers or worse dropped on the floor. How about a diagram for the digitally challenged on each wrapper? Or is this just a devious ploy to make us buy more as we have to get through three for every one that we attach correctly.
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I am amazed though how many repetitive actions people get wrong. Road markings spelt wrong, water fountains that either are a geyser and can blow your eyebrows off or let out a trickle that an 80 year old man having a pee would be ashamed of.
However, my favourite of all time was when I was living in LA. There was a massive poster of some lady diva on a billboard and it looked like a Picasso. The six individual plates that made up the poster had been stuck together in the wrong sequence. Maybe the poster guy just wasn’t a fan!
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If an airline can charge you for a seat on a plane that does not exist, why can they also charge you if you don’t appear at the gate?
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Are some airlines hellbent on pi##ing off their passengers, whilst some notable exceptions bend over backwards to be helpful? Let’s face it. Airports in certain cities are in chaos. I recently heard of a passenger checking into First Class on an international carrier asking for his bags to go to Rio as he went to New York. An exasperated check in staff called over the manager who explained this was simply impossible. Baggage had to accompany the passenger. “Well, you managed it last time I flew to New York”, came the response, to a ripple of applause from other passengers.
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