Two actually.
Do you talk to a 'hole in the wall', 'ATM' machine, or whatever they want to call it? I do. They are so annoying.
They have those 'serve yourself' checkouts at the supermarkets these days. The 'virtual assistant' constantly bleeps 'put your item into the bagging area', 'put your item into the bagging area'. My item is in the bagging area. I just can't get it into the bag. One has to scrabble to get the plastic shopping bag opened. They're either stuck together so well that both hands are needed to separate them or else they are not hooked up properly on the 'arms' which hold them and they have to be set up to hold the shopping. Again, both hands are needed to do this. In the meantime, there is the item to be bagged plus one's purse or handbag to be held onto too.
Add this to the small size of the bagging area - two full shopping bags max. And then the machine shuts down on you and you have to alert an assistant. And where are they? Nowhere near. Why not use the queue check out? Quite literally, because there's a queue and it's slow moving at that.
Does the 'virtual assistant' stopping bleeting? No. It's probably OK if you tell her to Shut Up. She can't accuse you of being rude.
The next is bus shelters. Excuse me, did you read 'bus shelters'? Who and what exactly are they meant to shelter?
It certainly is not people. They have a short and narrow roof, one side, and they make sure your feet freeze because they are open at the bottom, even when there is one side. It's hard to believe isn't it. Here in the UK, the weather is cold, wet or windy for at least 6 months of the year. There is often talk of getting people to 'use the bus' and 'be environmentally friendly'. With bus shelters like that, they've got to be joking.
The only people who benefit from those are the ones who designed and built them and managed to persuade some council to put them up. It really makes you wonder who's greasing whose palm.
