I detest it when my boss (after observing me talking to a customer) says "So! How do you think that went?"
I don't know, you tell me!!! I wasn't the bloody one watching/listening to me was I?
Their fault?
False phrases; "I’m going up to London" (when they’re actually driving south).
Words; driv (from the word driven? when they actually meant drove). E.g. I driv my car up the road… (and I’m thinking, hmm, yes you probably did).
My fault?
Before the Co-op Share cards came out, using I.D. numbers...
Assistant: “What’s your share number?
Me: ***845.
Assistant: “245?”
Me: “No, 845.”
B&Q
Me: “I’m looking for curtain poles”
Assistant: “cotton poles?”
Me: “No. (I’m drawing with my hands) Em, window, cloth, blocks out the sunshine etc etc.”
Assistant: “Oh, curtain poles!”
P.s. I’m a Scottish by the by. North of the border I’ve no problem in speech or hearing!
ppl who rite in txt spk all the flippin tme....
or others which bug me are
sumfink !!
basically !!
some bike/car racers who say "we" all the time when they mean I or me
football supporters who say we about the team they support, err were they playing as well because i didn't see them on the pitch
"To be fair" (had a manager once who used to say that every other sentence) Arrggh
"your not seeing the big picture"
"do you know why i`ve stopped you ?"(well.....bite lip, bite lip)
commer and colon abuse!
sitting down, sat down, sat sitting,
and most of above!!