Receipts, Pillows, Magazines….
W H I N Y W E D N E S D A Y
I only have three random complaints for today’s post. Maybe you’ll be able to relate?
DISCLAIMER
I take that back. Considering what these “complaints” are, I sound like a spoiled brat, ungrateful and whiny. It’s all relative, though. If I lived in a third world country I would be complaining about lack of water and medicine. I’m aware of that. But today I live in the NorthWest Chicago suburbs – and this is my life. This is what I moan and groan about. Okay, I feel better.
RECEIPTS– When I go to the drive-thru for a Diet Pepsi, usually Taco Bell, they always give me the receipt. I know you’re all thinking, “Well, Lisa, they’re supposed to do that.” I don’t care, I don’t want that extra little scrap of paper that I can barely read, handed back to me with my change. It’s annoying. I don’t even want the straw wrapper, really. I think it’s because it’s so small and insignificant that it bothers me. If it was a big sheet of paper I wouldn’t mind so much. So I end up crumpling the paper and throwing it on the floor of my car or in my purse, to be cleaned at a later time.
“Here’s your drink and garbage, enjoy!”
PILLOWS– Since when did decorative pillows become such an overwhelming feature of couches and beds? It’s gotten to the point that you can’t even see the furniture beneath the pillows. And when you go to get in bed, you have to plan for a 5 minute deconstruction of the pillow scape. You can’t just throw the pillows, even though they’re called “Throw pillows.” You have to put them gently away in stacks, so as not to dirty them. A couple throw pillows, fine. Pillows that go 3/4’s of the way down the bed, idiotic and inconvenient.
Why so many pillows? I only have one head!
MAGAZINES – When I go to peruse the magazines at Barnes and Noble or at the grocery store check-out, I’m always bothered by the little slips of subscription paper that fall out, those stupid inserts. Why do some magazines feel it necessary to put those offers in every 4th page. Don’t they know they just spill out everywhere? One or two would be sufficient. Sure, I realize I shouldn’t be standing there reading for free, but still… I feel like they put those in there on purpose to punish me for sneaking a read. Do I bend down and pick them up? Yes, usually. But I never put them back in the magazine. I just slide them behind the other periodicals. I know, so silly and passive aggressive.
In conclusion, less is usually more. Where as in a third world country, more is really never enough.
I keep wondering why the magazines I have subscriptions to are filled with the SUBSCRIBE!!! postcards.
Because I love seeing the deal you’re giving new readers, while I’m paying several dollars more…
Ha Ha! I didn’t even consider that angle! You’re right. The deals inside the mag are so much better.
For some reason I always feel like handing over my garbage at the drive-thru and asking, very politely of course, if they can take it, and I always stop myself when I realize what an utterly disgusting, arrogant move that would be. Like I’m too damn imPORTant to dispose of my own refuse, thus I should dish it off to the drive-thru plebes. But now I see that they are, in fact, handing ME THEIR garbage, in the form of receipts and straw wrappers! Those damn self-important drive-thru garbage pushers…
DEAR GOD!!! Tell me you’re going to do that, Brian!!!
Just for the confused reaction as they figure out what you’re asking!
The wheels are turning…
haha!! Well stated. Yeah, who do they think they are? The extra effort it takes me to separate that receipt from my change, roll up to the garbage can 10 feet ahead, roll down my electric window and throw it away, really makes me re-think that .99 cent purchase.
More like peeling the sopping receipt from your cup… now I’m even more outraged!
YES!!! UGH!!!
Receiped. They are everywhere. In every handbag I own, in my car and my pockets, reminding me I brought way more than I needed and where invented to compound buyers
It’s like consumer confetti in my car and purse. You’re right, I’d rather not have those little reminders EVERYWHERE. Haha!
YES YES AND Not so much haha!
I’m pretty sure I’ve just had de ja vu… anyway, I hate the receipt when I go to food places. Like fast food places as well you get them there, well there’s not much point in having a receipt from places like that because you’re hardly going to return anything. I suppose it comes in handy if they got your order wrong…
I hate all pillows apart from the ones that I lay my head on at night, they’re pointless. Whenever I’m at a friends house and there is a cushion on the sofa the first thing I do is throw it on the floor. It’s uncomfortable sitting on him, leaning on them and sometimes even looking at them. As for decorative pillows, it’s just madness. Probably something invented for the poor old Chinese sweat shop workers to do when they have nothing else on!
Me too! I throw them on the floor! Haha!
The receipt issue is annoying mostly in fast food places, because like you said, it’s for less than $5.00 usually. Who needs a receipt! Haha!
Haha great observations! You’re like a regular Jerry Seinfeld! I always say, “I don’t need a receipt.” So many death-stares ensue.
Pillows—yes ugh. 3 tops. Any more than that is annoy noy.
As for magazines, I literally dump them on the floor and let Barnes and Noble deal with them. It’s their fault for selling the magazines–I go straight to the source.
Haha! Thanks. Yeah, just a potpourri of crap that bugs me. I’m trying to save up little annoyances for my weekly entry. They’re all equally annoying : /
I drop the receipt in the tip jar with my tip. Win/Win
And, yes, what is up with the pillows? I can’t find my pillows for pillows–some nights, I just sleep at the bottom of the bed, it’s easier.
Haha! When I wake up I’m definitely not on the side I started. My pillows have to be just so. I even travel with a pillow sometimes.
Unfortunately there’s no tip jar at the drive thrus so I’m stuck with that receipt that I can’t read. Argh! So annoying.
Ha ha, love the pillows thing…I am always envious of people who have beds made up like they do in the home store catalogues, but now I feel happy mine is barely made before I get back into it again! Agree with Lily, brilliant observations…
Re the magazines, well I write advertising for a living and when things get urgent and clients get tetchy and start acting as though the leaflet we’re producing is going to change the world, I always remind myself (not them) that the stuff I write generally gets shaken out of magazines and ends up on the floor of the train! It’s my reality check!
Yeah, these are such little things and yet they are so annoying. Next time the magazine thing happens I’m going to think of you and it will make me laugh. I guess it’s better to be perfectionistic and care about your job than to be lazy? And I’m sure someone DOES read those little inserts, but it’s not usually me! Haha!
The pillow thing is crazy and out of control. Someone needs to intervene, maybe Martha Stewart, queen of all things having to do with the home? I’ll get on it right away. : )
PS Should have said…the comments link from my inbox to your blog isn’t working…wish I could tell you why but just getting a ‘page not found’ message…
I’ve gone to your page lately and haven’t been able to get on? just something else to complain about! Haha!
Hey, just read this comment about not getting on my page. No idea why…but no point in going right now anyway as I haven’t posted for weeks. Things are hectic but hope to be back soon. Will keep you posted and enjoy reading your updates meantime 🙂
I agree with all of this. The receipt thing is especially annoying if you have to pay for drinks in a pub with your card. The hand-held card machines they use are slowed down by the need to print out a receipt.
I don’t want the receipt, piss off.
Pillows annoy me. They are only needed on a bed.
Yeah, I think the receipt thing is the most annoying. Does anyone really hang onto them? Maybe there’s some little anal retentive man who goes home and puts them in an envelope in alphabetical order.
The pillows are just clutter. I think shopaholics buy them when they can’t afford anything else. It makes them feel like they’re decorating.
I love magazines amazingly hard, but sometimes they have this hard pages, mostly pubs for foundation or something, and that makes them uncomfortable to read… Grrr.
I know what you’re talking about. I think it ruins the enjoyment of reading the magazine if you have to be pulling stuff out of it. They must think they’re being clever but actually it’s just annoying. : /
Oh, and if you wonder why I just followed you for the third time, I have a problem with the link to your site on the Read Blogs page.
I think somebody else has an issue with my blog? I wonder if there’s something I should do about it? I’ll save that complaint for next week’s blog! haha!
🙂
I don’t know what you could do about it… I already unfolloowed and followed you, then the problem was solved, and then it just returned. Weird and not fun, because I don’t want to miss out on your posts! 😉
A couple of times I have clicked the link in the email alert for your new post, and got a message saying that the post doesn’t exist. If I then go to your homepage I see the post.
Are you making changes to the title of the post after you publish it?
Ah, you share my pain!
Yes, Michael, sometimes I do that. Is that the problem?
Have you done that with this post and the one about Whitney Houston?
Yes. Well, sort of.
When you change the title it changes the address automatically as well to match it. If you look underneath the title bar when editing posts there will be a bit called ‘Permalink’.
That’s the web address.
Yes, I did it with both of them. Hmmm… I guess I’ll have to put the title in when I’m sure about it.
Brilliant Michael! I may have more questions later. thanks!
I need two pillows for my head. Well, I guess I don’t NEED them. I prefer it that way.
Imagine if we didn’t have those little slips of paper in the magazines or the unneeded receipts what we could do with all that extra paper. We could…not do much but we’d feel good about not being so wasteful!
I suppose that means you sleep on your back? Does it also mean that you have a big and heavy head? JK!
Yeah, all those needless scraps of paper… So annoying. Hard to believe that’s somebody’s job?!
I do and I do.
Haha! I thought so!