Technology and Me

Now i dont think i am that bad at using technology, i couldn't explain why uPnP on your modem is important but i thought technogoly and I could happily go for a pint and not end the day fighting.

Some technology is just plain annoying

Now food shopping at the best of times is usually nothing more than a tedium (and the more chunky person's weekly exercise) but I am lost to understand the purpose of self service check outs....

What is the point? You take a person from behind the tills to replace it with a mahcine only to have it supervised by a person! Thats like automating making breakfast for you to have to place all the ingredients in, watch it be cooked and then still have to take the pans off the stove...
And why do they take the world's most annoying person, wait for them to have a heady cold and wake them up in the middle of the night before doing the recordings? They could not be any more irritating.

I do have some sympathy for the person because the only thing I can think of worse than hearing them is having to record them. Why do they have to be so patronising?


If you want to play along hold your nose say the following phrases, see how long before you want to punch yourself in the face


"Please scan the first Item"
"Please Put the item in the bagging area"
"Please Scan the next Item" 
Repeat from top x far too many times

If you haven't got a black eye right now then you're probably not holding your nose tight enough

But it gets worse, I was recently in a very green coloured supermarket using the self service (because I like to inflict pain on myself like that) and was paying using my card. Now i can understand that some people might be thick enough to try to pay with their card without putting the card in the machine, but does it really really need to tell me 'Please put the card ALL the way into the reader?' What does it think Im going to do? Flirt with the reader by putting the card and taking it out several times over? Or just balance it on top hoping that somehow it can read the pin? I really don't understand the purpose

THE SINGLE MOST ANNOYING THING THOUGH
is it is probably quicker. 

Even if you want to unplug it and lick the socket after use.....