Minor things that bother you

[Big John]

People who use bathroom stalls in airports as their personal offices.

I would remove "in airports" to make it accurate for me.

[roadman65]

People who use bathroom stalls in airports as their personal offices.

They do it in the workplace too.

[SEWIGuy]

Old people who clog up the aisles in grocery stores on evenings and weekends.

[JayhawkCO]

Old people who clog up the aisles in grocery stores on evenings and weekends.

Not sure if it's the same where you are, but basically none of the grocery stores have baskets anymore. So, if you need more than a few things, you HAVE to take a cart. It probably slows down my grocery shopping by 50% to have a cart if I go to the grocery store any time after 9:00 AM.

[SEWIGuy]

Old people who clog up the aisles in grocery stores on evenings and weekends.

Not sure if it's the same where you are, but basically none of the grocery stores have baskets anymore. So, if you need more than a few things, you HAVE to take a cart. It probably slows down my grocery shopping by 50% to have a cart if I go to the grocery store any time after 9:00 AM.

We have the mini-carts, which are incredibly easy to deal with.

But man, can't these old people go to the store at like 10:00 AM while the rest of us are actually generating economic activity?

[JayhawkCO]

Old people who clog up the aisles in grocery stores on evenings and weekends.

Not sure if it's the same where you are, but basically none of the grocery stores have baskets anymore. So, if you need more than a few things, you HAVE to take a cart. It probably slows down my grocery shopping by 50% to have a cart if I go to the grocery store any time after 9:00 AM.

We have the mini-carts, which are incredibly easy to deal with.

But man, can't these old people go to the store at like 10:00 AM while the rest of us are actually generating economic activity?

I feel like my main grocery store has about six of these, and they're always taken.

[thenetwork]

I am pretty sure this next nit I'm picking  has to do with a recent Android update on both my work and personal phones:

Until recently, when  I had hit the microphone for any speech-to-text actions (creating emails, texts, etc...) it recognized when I said "comma", "period", "new paragraph", etc. and insert the appropriate punctuation mark or paragraph break....

...Now it spells out the commands as words and not the punctuation anymore (period).

[1995hoo]

My wife's car has a built-in sat-nav and we have our home address saved (with a PIN, of course) for the "Go Home" option. So, of course, she just called me from Fairfax City to say she was lost. Apparently, when I said "go right at the second light, then left at the first light after that," it meant "go right two lights in a row so you're going north when you want to go south."

[webny99]

My wife's car has a built-in sat-nav and we have our home address saved (with a PIN, of course) for the "Go Home" option. So, of course, she just called me from Fairfax City to say she was lost. Apparently, when I said "go right at the second light, then left at the first light after that," it meant "go right two lights in a row so you're going north when you want to go south."

Wouldn't the GPS automatically reroute if you make a wrong turn?

[1995hoo]

My wife's car has a built-in sat-nav and we have our home address saved (with a PIN, of course) for the "Go Home" option. So, of course, she just called me from Fairfax City to say she was lost. Apparently, when I said "go right at the second light, then left at the first light after that," it meant "go right two lights in a row so you're going north when you want to go south."

Wouldn't the GPS automatically reroute if you make a wrong turn?

She hadn't told it where she was going. She shouldn't have needed it when she was going somewhere she's been several times before in the past month!

[webny99]

My wife's car has a built-in sat-nav and we have our home address saved (with a PIN, of course) for the "Go Home" option. So, of course, she just called me from Fairfax City to say she was lost. Apparently, when I said "go right at the second light, then left at the first light after that," it meant "go right two lights in a row so you're going north when you want to go south."

Wouldn't the GPS automatically reroute if you make a wrong turn?

She hadn't told it where she was going. She shouldn't have needed it when she was going somewhere she's been several times before in the past month!

OK, misunderstood your first sentence. I would tend to agree, but I guess she still should have entered it to be sure.   

[1995hoo]

My wife's car has a built-in sat-nav and we have our home address saved (with a PIN, of course) for the "Go Home" option. So, of course, she just called me from Fairfax City to say she was lost. Apparently, when I said "go right at the second light, then left at the first light after that," it meant "go right two lights in a row so you're going north when you want to go south."

Wouldn't the GPS automatically reroute if you make a wrong turn?

She hadn't told it where she was going. She shouldn't have needed it when she was going somewhere she's been several times before in the past month!

OK, misunderstood your first sentence. I would tend to agree, but I guess she still should have entered it to be sure.   

Yeah, I don't understand why, when she realizes she's gone in a direction she thinks is wrong, she doesn't just hit the voice command button, say "Go Home," and enter her PIN. Instead she calls me. I haven't asked her that since this most recent incident, of course. Have to wait for the right time that won't start an argument.

I personally would not need routing turned on to get home from where she was, but then I grew up a short distance east of there and could come up with a bunch of different options to get home from that location.

[CtrlAltDel]

Kleenex changed the designs of its boxes, and I don't like the style.

[vdeane]

I can't sign in to online banking anymore.  Whenever I go to my bank's website, I keep getting "connection closed" errors or incomplete page loading.  The bank says it's an issue with all Verizon customers (I have FiOS).  When I talk to Verizon, they just keep running me through the same basic individual troubleshooting steps over and over again and refuse to believe me when I tell them the problem is on their end and that they're somehow blocking access to my bank (and for a while, it ended up taking out all my internet access).  Since I don't have mobile tethering, I now have no way to do online banking at all.  Unfortunately, Spectrum internet/customer service is even worse, so I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do about all this.

[mgk920]

I can't sign in to online banking anymore.  Whenever I go to my bank's website, I keep getting "connection closed" errors or incomplete page loading.  The bank says it's an issue with all Verizon customers (I have FiOS).  When I talk to Verizon, they just keep running me through the same basic individual troubleshooting steps over and over again and refuse to believe me when I tell them the problem is on their end and that they're somehow blocking access to my bank (and for a while, it ended up taking out all my internet access).  Since I don't have mobile tethering, I now have no way to do online banking at all.  Unfortunately, Spectrum internet/customer service is even worse, so I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do about all this.

Go back to 'old school' live tellers at the bank?

< DUCKS and RUNS!! >

Mike

[Scott5114]

Go back to 'old school' live tellers at the bank?

Not always an option one can exercise at the spur of the moment. I haven't moved my money to a bank here in Nevada yet, so if online banking went down for me, I'd have an 1100 mile drive to the nearest branch.

[vdeane]

I can't sign in to online banking anymore.  Whenever I go to my bank's website, I keep getting "connection closed" errors or incomplete page loading.  The bank says it's an issue with all Verizon customers (I have FiOS).  When I talk to Verizon, they just keep running me through the same basic individual troubleshooting steps over and over again and refuse to believe me when I tell them the problem is on their end and that they're somehow blocking access to my bank (and for a while, it ended up taking out all my internet access).  Since I don't have mobile tethering, I now have no way to do online banking at all.  Unfortunately, Spectrum internet/customer service is even worse, so I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do about all this.

Go back to 'old school' live tellers at the bank?

< DUCKS and RUNS!! >

Mike

In my case, it would mean going back to paper statements, billing, and checks.  That would be extraordinarily inconvenient and I'm already all out of filing space with all of this stuff electronic.  Plus my handwriting is garbage and my hand cramps way too easily.  And why should my ISP be able to block me from online banking?

[jeffandnicole]

I can't sign in to online banking anymore.  Whenever I go to my bank's website, I keep getting "connection closed" errors or incomplete page loading.  The bank says it's an issue with all Verizon customers (I have FiOS).  When I talk to Verizon, they just keep running me through the same basic individual troubleshooting steps over and over again and refuse to believe me when I tell them the problem is on their end and that they're somehow blocking access to my bank (and for a while, it ended up taking out all my internet access).  Since I don't have mobile tethering, I now have no way to do online banking at all.  Unfortunately, Spectrum internet/customer service is even worse, so I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do about all this.

Go back to 'old school' live tellers at the bank?

< DUCKS and RUNS!! >

Mike

In my case, it would mean going back to paper statements, billing, and checks.  That would be extraordinarily inconvenient and I'm already all out of filing space with all of this stuff electronic.  Plus my handwriting is garbage and my hand cramps way too easily.  And why should my ISP be able to block me from online banking?

Have you verified the bank's claim it'sa Verizon issue? Is there a way to log in on a non-Verizon device?

If it is Verizon, with it affecting all Verizon customers, it's really an issue the bank needs to work out with Verizon. That does seem like something where general troubleshooting won't resolve the issue.

[SSOWorld]

you know well @jeffandnicole that they don't get to that point until someone files a lawsuit. 

[formulanone]

I know complaining about multi-factor authentication is pretty common by now, but my expense-reporting phone app wanted me to take photo of a QR code...which was also conveniently located on my phone in order to complete the authentication. Tried the Accessibility Options and that prompted me to make a phone call, but that's only available Monday – Friday.

It was faster to just uninstall the app and start over; since I just have to do that every few years anyhow, email confirmation is just easier.

[vdeane]

Have you verified the bank's claim it'sa Verizon issue? Is there a way to log in on a non-Verizon device?

If it is Verizon, with it affecting all Verizon customers, it's really an issue the bank needs to work out with Verizon. That does seem like something where general troubleshooting won't resolve the issue.

My phone seems to work better, though I don't like the idea of trying to do my banking over the phone.  The small screen size is really inconvenient (I don't have tethering), I'm not sure if the site would even work (even trying to book an eye exam triggers the "some content was removed to save memory" message, bricking the site), and the cell networks strike me as being basically the same as a giant public wifi network from a security perspective (can you Firesheep a cell phone?  No idea, but I don't see why not, other than SSL updates making the world move on from that particular threat).

[SSOWorld]

small screen's the trend.

[Hobart]

My university switched to having one of the classroom buildings be card-access only. This isn't a bad thing in itself.

However, with most of the new card readers they installed, the card reader is on the left side of the door, and the left door unlocks, requiring people to walk on the left side through doors despite walking on the right side being considered normal.

[SEWIGuy]

Have you verified the bank's claim it'sa Verizon issue? Is there a way to log in on a non-Verizon device?

If it is Verizon, with it affecting all Verizon customers, it's really an issue the bank needs to work out with Verizon. That does seem like something where general troubleshooting won't resolve the issue.

My phone seems to work better, though I don't like the idea of trying to do my banking over the phone.  The small screen size is really inconvenient (I don't have tethering), I'm not sure if the site would even work (even trying to book an eye exam triggers the "some content was removed to save memory" message, bricking the site), and the cell networks strike me as being basically the same as a giant public wifi network from a security perspective (can you Firesheep a cell phone?  No idea, but I don't see why not, other than SSL updates making the world move on from that particular threat).

I do all my banking over the phone on its app. It's very convenient. I do all my investing, retirement savings, bill paying, etc. in a similar manner.

But I only use my home wifi. I use the cellular network if I am away from home.

[SSOWorld]

Have you verified the bank's claim it'sa Verizon issue? Is there a way to log in on a non-Verizon device?

If it is Verizon, with it affecting all Verizon customers, it's really an issue the bank needs to work out with Verizon. That does seem like something where general troubleshooting won't resolve the issue.

My phone seems to work better, though I don't like the idea of trying to do my banking over the phone.  The small screen size is really inconvenient (I don't have tethering), I'm not sure if the site would even work (even trying to book an eye exam triggers the "some content was removed to save memory" message, bricking the site), and the cell networks strike me as being basically the same as a giant public wifi network from a security perspective (can you Firesheep a cell phone?  No idea, but I don't see why not, other than SSL updates making the world move on from that particular threat).

I do all my banking over the phone on its app. It's very convenient. I do all my investing, retirement savings, bill paying, etc. in a similar manner.

But I only use my home wifi. I use the cellular network if I am away from home.

Yea I agree - hands off the finances unless on home or cell wifi.