A poll of the things Britons most dislike about modern life had me clenching my fists and punching the air in agreement.
It was conducted by website freedelivery.co.uk which itself highlights another beef not in the top 10 – internet order deliveries.
Quite often you don’t even know what day to expect the item you ordered and, when you do, it could be any time between 8am and 8pm.
It makes me want to just go to the shop. But if I do, I might encounter the grumble that is top of the hate list – self service checkouts.
These are not designed for efficiency. They are there to cut staff and confuse customers.
Well, they confuse me.
Then come sales calls which, no matter how many times you join the Telephone Preference Service, still arrive at regular intervals during the day, usually from abroad: “Hello, I’m Ken” with a Mumbai accent or, increasingly, recorded messages.
Third on the list are selfies, those self indulgent photographs people take of themselves by stretching out an arm, reversing their phone camera and capturing a distorted face that should be in a Ripley’s Believe It Or Not show.
Then comes slow internet, mobile battery life, text speak, spam emails, celebrity fitness DVDs, Justin Bieber and autocorrect on mobile phones.
This last one also applies to computers that autocorrects my typing. Which can be embarrassing.
At least in the old days reporters only had themselves to blame when typing out a report and got: “He shot into an open net” one crucial letter wrong.
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