What Annoyed You Today? (2 Viewers)

[Greg Boeser]

Okay, I'm pissed. Why do we not at least have matter transmitters and warp drives? What were they doing during that extra 350,000 years? Playing golf?

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I'd settle for a mag-lev.

 

[GTX]

Hey, I'm just annoyed that we don't have this some ~25yrs after Sep 11 especially after all the investments made. It would make travel so much smoother.


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[MIflyer]

Hey, I'm just annoyed that we don't have this some ~25yrs after Sep 11 especially after all the investments made. It would make travel so much smoother.

The feminists would never allow that.

 

[GTX]

The feminists would never allow that.

It could be done at the same resolution and the like as current scanners. And from my experience, it isn't just "feminists" as you refer to them that would complain. I have seen more than a few men who are just as hypersensitive.

 

[Greg Boeser]

A package was supposed to be delivered today. I got a notice that it had arrived.
When I got home there was no package, and no sign that anyone had been to the house. Called the merchant. UPS had apparently delivered it to an apartment building across town. Hope they like the color, and it fits.
They are going to send a new item. Should have it by Christmas. Assuming UPS (pronounced "ooops!") doesn't screw it up again.

 

[cvairwerks]

We used to have problems with mail being incorrectly delivered. We lived on Commanche Trail, and were in one zip code. Nearby was another subdivision that had Commanche...same numbering scheme, same town, but different zip..

 

[Greg Boeser]

We used to have problems with mail being incorrectly delivered. We lived on Commanche Trail, and were in one zip code. Nearby was another subdivision that had Commanche...same numbering scheme, same town, but different zip..

I believe our problem is people can't tell the difference between east and west.

 

[MIflyer]

UPS had apparently delivered it to an apartment building across town.

I once mailed a package to Australia that did not show up. Turned out that in that city they had two different streets with the same name.

 

[special ed]

I suspect with the modern education system, the carriers can read numbers but they can't read readin'

 

[cvairwerks]

If people ever saw how the addressing was scanned, keyed in and then sent to the "correct" delivery sections, they would be brain fried...

 

[MiTasol]

I once mailed a package to Australia that did not show up. Turned out that in that city they had two different streets with the same name.

Like many sprawling cities about 50-60 years ago Auckland NZ had the same problem. Multiple suburbs that once were autonomous now part of a larger entity. Streets that stretched for long distances with a different name in each burb, or, like in so many Aus cities multiple names in the same burb (as in east of A st it is X street and west it is Y street).

They are the only city I know of that did the smart thing. They identified all the streets with multiple names and gave them a single name from end to end.

Then they found all the remaining streets with the same name, kept that name for one street only*, and renamed the rest.

I drove there about five years before and about five years after and the difference in navigating was unreal. It went from difficult to easy with just that one change. I have no doubt that the mail system was chaotic for a while tho.

Congratulations Auckland for having the brains that most, if not all, other cities lack.

*If my memory is correct there are two streets in Auckland named Queen St. One in a small burb that was the first street officially named in NZ or some such thing and the main drag in central Auckland city.

 

[MIflyer]

Well, it is common for places to have a name like Maple Street and connecting to it a street like Maple Circle. But having one named, say, Maple Street and one in the same town named Maple Drive is a bit much.

One Sunday, on the way home from the airport I was hailed by a small group of young Japanese men, asking for directions. I pulled into the parking lot they were in and we started comparing our GPS units. Another carload of them pulled up while we were talking. They wanted to go to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor's center; at least one of them spoke good English. I told them how to get there but they wanted a map. Finally they switched their GPS over to English and I saw what had occurred. They had typed in KSC Visitor Center and the first thing that showed up on their GPS was KSC Credit Union, and they had followed the directions to the credit union HQ parking lot, several miles to the South of their intended destination. After bowing in thanks, they finally set out in the correct direction. By the way, that is now called the Launch Credit Union and I wondered if they had changed the name to keep their parking lot from filling up with Japanese tourists.

 

[MIflyer]

I believe our problem is people can't tell the difference between east and west.

I was once trying to find hotel in the Sunnyvale CA area, located on the main north-south road, called them and asked if they were South or North of my location. The man on the phone replied "East." The road does run more or less East and West in that area but it is named South or North. I finally found the hotel. It was located essentially on the boundary between two municipalities, with the result that the street numbers go instantaneously from something like 10000 to 13000.