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- Scented trash bags. Yuck! If your trash stinks or has a mild bad odor, then take it out! Why on earth would you try to hide garbage smell with scented trash bags? In my experience, the smell of those bags only reminds me of the trash smell. Therefore smelling a scented bag only reminds me of garbage. Companies are always trying to push scented products such as air freshener, fabric softener, candles, and heavily scented soaps. Those are not products I buy. - Big brand name commercial BBQ sauce and salad dressing from companies like Kraft: These modern conctions are horrible. They're gloppy and the flavors are more similar to paste and BBQ pit residue than real food. These big companies must spend millions of dollars on R&D, but they can't create good-tasting products? I think the companies are trying too hard and have totally forgotten what this food supposed to taste like. The same problem exists with deli turkey: the big brand name deli turkey is totally overprocessed crap and doesn't resemble real turkey at all. Think about Thanskgiving turkey- that's how good real turkey can be. Go over to the local health food store and buy deli turkey and you'll get a product that actually looks, smells, and tastes like REAL TURKEY. Imagine that. - People who leave voice mail and speak so fast that you have to listen to the message 3 times to get their correct phone number. - Obnoxious and loud automobile ads on radio, TV, and in print. - When the commercials on TV are louder than the non-commercials. - When a person standing in line behind me is very, very close to me. I get the feeling that people think they will get through the line faster if they stand close to me. - When a driver doesn't use his/her turn signal until right before the turn. What's the point? - When people don't understand that Microsoft Windows is a totally different product than Microsft Office. The best manifestation of this is when a person makes a comment such as, 'Can you install Microsoft on my computer?' The same problem exists with other software companies and their products, but this is sometimes the fault of the company for not stressing the name of their products over the name of the company. Back in the 1950's you bought "a Chevy", but now you don't. You buy a Chevy Tahoe or Corvette. - When ththere e water in urinals doesn't fully flush away and therefore is always yellow. - When bars and restaurants sell microbrews and other quality domestically-produced beers but include them in the 'import' pricing category. How are these beers imported? You can charge whatever price you want, but quit carrying on this inaccuracy. - When Hershey's increased the amount of chocolate in their Kit Kat bars back in the 1980's. I liked the bars better with less chocolate. - So many people are clueless about the correct use of the words "it's" and "its" and "your" and "you're". See this page. - That more retail establishments such as grocery stores don't use a single line of customers to feed all of the checkout stands. A Best Buy store near me started doing this around Christmas 2002 and it works well. Amazingly, the post office also does this and it works well too. That way you don't get stuck behind someone trying to mail 47 boxes to 47 different countries (unless there's only 1 clerk working). - When you call Steak and Ale restaurant and ask them what kind of ale they sell and they can't tell you. They do typically sell one ale; Bass Ale from the UK. - When someone gets into the express line at the grocery store with more items than are allowed. - That some elevators only have floor selection buttons on one side of the cab. - That elevators will beep or ding just before the door opens. What's the point? They should signal you several seconds before the door opens, so you can walk toward the door and be ready to get in when the cab arrives. |
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| Friday, September 03, 2010 |
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