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Ranting at the drop of a hat
Feb. 7th, 2020 06:15 pmHere are 4 ultimately unimportant things I can rant about at the drop of a hat.
1. How women aren't allowed proper pockets. I mean, I bought a lightweight high vis jacket - surely an entirely practical garment with no question of fashion involved, no consideration of whether a pocket would disturb the sleek line. And what do I find? One pocket. Just one pocket, and a tiny one at that. A pocket just on one side without a matching one on the other, so when I peel my gloves off a few minutes into a run and try to fumble them into my pockets, one risks falling onto the floor. And don't even get me starting on fake pockets, or tiny shallow pockets that things pop out when you actually walk.
2. Double sided OS maps. Why? Why? WHY?
3. Those stupid all-in-one hand washing stations in public toilets, which give you soap, water and air in a predetemined cycle which can't be interrupted even if the person in front of you has walked off without drying their hands. It takes AGES to work through the cycle... and yet they invariably install only 1 or 2 of these things, even if there are 10 cubicles. And half the times, the sensors are slow to work, resulting in a sudden splurt of soap on your cuff as you're waving your hands around desperately trying to get something to happen.
4. How the BBC weather site shows average wind speeds in a white circle until the wind reached 25 mph, then switches to showing maximum gusts in a black circle, but don't clearly state that this is what they're doing - or, better still, always show both. Okay, this is rather less ranty, but having had to explain it today to two separate people, I do wish they made it clearer.
I'm sure I have more habitual yet trivial rants, but I can't remember them at the moment. So I will just grump about fallible memory instead.
1. How women aren't allowed proper pockets. I mean, I bought a lightweight high vis jacket - surely an entirely practical garment with no question of fashion involved, no consideration of whether a pocket would disturb the sleek line. And what do I find? One pocket. Just one pocket, and a tiny one at that. A pocket just on one side without a matching one on the other, so when I peel my gloves off a few minutes into a run and try to fumble them into my pockets, one risks falling onto the floor. And don't even get me starting on fake pockets, or tiny shallow pockets that things pop out when you actually walk.
2. Double sided OS maps. Why? Why? WHY?
3. Those stupid all-in-one hand washing stations in public toilets, which give you soap, water and air in a predetemined cycle which can't be interrupted even if the person in front of you has walked off without drying their hands. It takes AGES to work through the cycle... and yet they invariably install only 1 or 2 of these things, even if there are 10 cubicles. And half the times, the sensors are slow to work, resulting in a sudden splurt of soap on your cuff as you're waving your hands around desperately trying to get something to happen.
4. How the BBC weather site shows average wind speeds in a white circle until the wind reached 25 mph, then switches to showing maximum gusts in a black circle, but don't clearly state that this is what they're doing - or, better still, always show both. Okay, this is rather less ranty, but having had to explain it today to two separate people, I do wish they made it clearer.
I'm sure I have more habitual yet trivial rants, but I can't remember them at the moment. So I will just grump about fallible memory instead.
