| PEOPLE
ASKING FAVOURS: What's the most annoying request? |
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Borrowing money
/ car / camera |
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Driving them around
(being a chauffer) |
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Take care of friends
pet |
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Babysitting |
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Help them move house
/ fixing up their house (eg making their furniture / moving
heavy stuff) |
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Boss asking you
to work late / boss is a "little-Hitler" |
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Management incompetence |
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Parents making you
work around the hose / business for no money (e.g. Kimchi preparation) |
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PEEVES - People who. |
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Are always late |
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Are always short
of money / borrowing money |
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Never return phone
calls / return things they borrow |
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Never listen to
what you are saying |
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Act differently
in front of people whom they are trying to impress |
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Always look messy
/ too neat |
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Never know when
to "go home" |
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People smoking in
restaurants / near you |
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People who push
in front of you in lines (cut-in) |
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Talk / eat during
the movie |
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Talk forever on
public phone that you need |
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Couples having PDAs
/ being all smoochy |
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Have you ever wanted
to complain but didn't? (In a restaurant (Yank vs. Pom style)) |
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Are you a complainer
or a "silent-sufferer"? |
| FAMILY
PROBLEMS |
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Living
with parents: |
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Don't respect privacy |
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Telling you what
to do all the time (about what?) |
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Don't listen to
you |
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They nag you about:
- Chores
- Curfew
- Getting married
- Don't like
partner
- Don't like friends
- Your appearance |
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Living
with kids: |
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They don't help
around the house / messy |
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They don't listen
to your advice |
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They dress badly |
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They are disrespectful
/ rude |
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They are lazy (watch
too much TV / computer games) |
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They don't work
hard enough |
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They have dodgy
friends |
| RELATIONSHIP
PROBLEMS |
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Do you fight with
your spouse / partner?
- About what?
- Is it a big deal? / A problem? |
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Are you non-confrontational
or feisty? |
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Do you like arguing? |
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Does arguing add
spice to a relationship? |
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What annoying traits
does your partner have - what would they say your worst traits
were? |
| ROAD
ISSUES: |
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Taxi drivers:
- Corrupt (drive too far)
- Want to take multiple
passengers
- Drive like loonies
- Never available when you
need one |
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AMBULANCES / EMERGENCY
VEHICLES - Drivers never move out of their way
- why? |
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AS
A DRIVER: |
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Traffic jams / congestion
/ not enough roads
- Do you car pool?
- What about day stickers (not
driving on a particular day of the week) |
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Not enough parking
/ too expensive |
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Too stressful =
Road rage / crazy drivers / crazy motorcyclists |
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Crazy pedestrians |
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People jaywalking? |
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Too many traffic
lights |
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Pollution in cars |
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Speed limits too
slow |
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Prices too high
too high for:
- Petrol
- Road tax
- Toll roads
- Insurance
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MOT |
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Too many tolls |
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Ever been in an
accident? What happened? |
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Too many drink drivers
- Have you ever driven drunk?
- Are there gross
adverts on TV to discourage people? |
| CONSUMER
COMPLAINTS - Which companies cause you most trouble: |
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Mail order
companies / QVC - Trouble returning
goods / low quality / looks different from catalog |
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Long distance
phone companies - Scams |
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Second-hand
car dealers / repair garages - Lemons
/ cut 'n' shut / overpricing + pushy / fake servicing |
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Landlords -
Keeping the deposit / not maintaining house |
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Home improvement
services - Cowboys / pay per day / buildings
collapsing |
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Repairmen -
Fake servicing |
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Banks -
Charge for having your money - Closing too early |
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Insurance
companies - Ever been shortchanged?
i.e. claimed and got little money |
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Travel services -
Ever been screwed?
Hotels
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brochure sounds good but
actually you get:
- Room that is Dirty / small / cold / smelly
/ bad view
- Unhelpful / rude / stupid staff
- Bad location
- Noisy
- Dangerous / theft |
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Shops -
Shops selling faulty goods?
* Ever
had trouble getting a refund / repair?
- Unhelpful / rude
/ stupid salesclerks
- Huge queues
- Adjumas pushing you
out the way
- Closing too early |
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Computers -
Ever used help desk? / Incompetent sales assistants? / 90%
stupidity of users |
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Pubs / bars -
Wait ages to get served
- Expensive drinks / watered down
- Bouncers are bastards
- Long queues to get into clubs
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Stupid dress restrictions
- Crap loud music
- Ugly girls/guys
inside! |
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Restaurants -
Rude / incompetent / slow staff
- Bad service
- waiters ignore
you
- Bad food / badly cooked
- Small portions
- Send food
back = spit in food |
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Airports -
Humourless immigration
- Hours of security checks
- rude/stupid
security
- Ever been rubber gloved? ("squat and cough")
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Ever been caught smuggling? (booze/trinkets/electrical goods)
- Ever been falsely accused? |
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Who complains
at you where you work? What complaints do you get? |
