Annoyances

[Red Arrow]

I'm out of step with the world ... again.  I don't put ANY of my financial info on my computer.  I'll place an order but call in my credit card on the phone. I know my CC number goes directly on "their" computer. They hopefully have some kind of security. All I have is a firewall.

[nathanm]

quote:Originally posted by Red Arrow

I'm out of step with the world ... again.  I don't put ANY of my financial info on my computer.  I'll place an order but call in my credit card on the phone. I know my CC number goes directly on "their" computer. They hopefully have some kind of security. All I have is a firewall.

I'd never use my debit card online, but I honestly couldn't care less if someone gets my credit card number. It's not my problem.

Besides, it's the human that is the weak link, not the computers. (not that I particularly like my name/address/ssn being sent around in the clear over email..that's a little too lax for me)

[TheTed]

My annoyances:
*The downtown golf cart cop.
He makes us look Mayberry-esque.
He uses a golf cart to patrol a two block area.
He's not there when he'd do any good (evenings and weekends, when nobody's around to hear you scream)
He reinforces suburbanites stereotypes of scary downtown.

*Parking ticket writers who spend all day doling out expired meter tickets but ignore the delivery vehicles constantly parked on the sidewalk.

*Fax machines. Why does such an antiquated piece of technology exist? Shouldn't they have been replaced with some type of internet based fax? I find them frustrating to use and I'd rather just scan and email something.

*No left turn signs. There's no reason to prevent me from turning left during non rush hours.

[Red Arrow]

quote:Originally posted by TheTed

*Fax machines. Why does such an antiquated piece of technology exist? Shouldn't they have been replaced with some type of internet based fax? I find them frustrating to use and I'd rather just scan and email something.

They probably still exist because they are quick and easy to use.  Put your paper in, "dial" the fax/phone number, press go. It automatically scans and sends.  The only things I have found frustrating are paper handling problems and if the inkjet goes dry due to lack of use.

There are also still some computer illiterate, or at least reluctant, people out there.

[TheTed]

quote:Originally posted by Red Arrow

quote:Originally posted by TheTed

*Fax machines. Why does such an antiquated piece of technology exist? Shouldn't they have been replaced with some type of internet based fax? I find them frustrating to use and I'd rather just scan and email something.

They probably still exist because they are quick and easy to use.  Put your paper in, "dial" the fax/phone number, press go. It automatically scans and sends.  The only things I have found frustrating are paper handling problems and if the inkjet goes dry due to lack of use.

There are also still some computer illiterate, or at least reluctant, people out there.

I'm fax illiterate. When you get the fax then you end up having to type the information into a computer. We're supposed to be in the paperless age. Email would be a lot easier.

[Red Arrow]

quote:Originally posted by TheTed
I'm fax illiterate. When you get the fax then you end up having to type the information into a computer. We're supposed to be in the paperless age. Email would be a lot easier.

Fax iliterate?  Maybe someone has the office fax set up to be confusing.  If it has a dedicated line, it should take you about 30 seconds to learn the basics.  To send a couple pages to one recipient is not hard.  Learning to program one from all the menus to send copies to varied places is probably better handled by a regular computer.  


Depends on what's being faxed whether it's easier or not.  A lot of forms I get on the computer are not friendly toward entering data and resending. I expect the forms are poorly set up but that is my experience in receiving forms. I end up printing the forms out, filling in by hand, and then distributing by office mail or in person. A fax would be nice in that case for someone not nearby.

Everything I have heard about the paperless age is that we are using more paper, not less. We aren't there yet.  I have experienced a few computer crashes.  My hard copies have survived.

[ARGUS]

Trash blowing from residential construction sites (mostly fast food lunch item wrappers). Loud music from the same jobsites.
Lack of reflectors on the new sidewalk protusions at the end of parking lanes into Peoria in the Brookside area (waiting on warm weather to jump these on motorcycle).
People who text and drive.
The dog walkers who think your yard is the ONLY yard to pee (my own fault my dog is intact)but still.
Winter.

[RecycleMichael]

Peopl whu cant spel.

[inteller]

quote:Originally posted by TheTed

My annoyances:


*No left turn signs. There's no reason to prevent me from turning left during non rush hours.

where did you find these?  I'd like to move them to a few useful spots around town.  I thought their concept of use was foreign to Tulsa.

[Jonette]

1.People texting and driving. I will be so glad when they can pull people over for it!!

2.Lazy People......need I say more?

3.Neighbors with trashy yards!! Clean up your darn trash and put the junk away!! No one wants to look at your crap all over the place!
I am moving the second week of January just because of a neighbor with a trashy yard. I have been looking at it for 3 years and I am done!!!

Whew!!! I feel better now!!!


[}:)]

[sauerkraut]

The one pesky thing I hate is when I shop at stores like "Save-A-Lot" people go into the check-out line and still keep shopping as they wait, either they park the shopping basket in the line to save the place while they go away to shop some more, or they have a family member stand with the shopping basket while others go around the store picking out items and putting them in the shopping basket. Then they get to the front and the clerk starts ringing them up while waiting for the other family members who are running around the store to collect the last of the items on the shopping list.[xx(]

[sauerkraut]

quote:Originally posted by Hoss

quote:Originally posted by inteller

quote:Originally posted by sauerkraut

Peoria and the 56th street area is the pitts too, the road is narrow and cars turn out right in front of you. In fact much of Peoria is a street to avoid, the traffic lights are long and it's just a mess. Lewis is not much better. I take Harvard or RiverSide. Did I mention all the pot holes on those two streets geeesh![B)]

uh what?  Much like your posts, no one cares about that stretch of road.

And the fact he no longer lives here.  That stretch of road could have been rehabilitated and he would never have known it.

I'm in "T" towne alot. I drive that streach of road alot. A person does not have to live in a city to know what is bad and what is good about the place, or to know what roads to avoid.

[sauerkraut]

Now that I think of it there's tons of things that frost me, loud music is one and people who walk dogs and leave poop around the jogging trails, or don't have control over their dogs. Dogs should be banned from the jogging trails anyhow, The dogs can use the dog parks that Tulsa has and also many other cities have them. Let's keep the trail system for the runners.[}:)]

[ARGUS]

not having a frEEEking Santa Claus emoticom!