Missing people because they won't use the doorbell.
If I'm waiting for someone to call to do a job, or I'm expecting something in the post, I have to sit in the lounge in total silence till they've been. Why? Because they ignore the doorbell and knock on the door. I'm thinking of making a sign saying "we have a doorbell, please use it". We have a porch sticking out on the front of the house. Then a door to the hall. The hall has 2 doors off it, one to the lounge, one to the dining room. Then a door from each of them to the kitchen. If I'm in the kitchen when they knock, the sound has to travel through 3 doors, and even if I don't have the radio and/or washing machine on, with 3 fish tanks' filters, a fridge and a freezer all humming it is impossible to hear the knock.
The reason they don't use the doorbell? The battery might be flat.
If I'm waiting for someone to call to do a job, or I'm expecting something in the post, I have to sit in the lounge in total silence till they've been. Why? Because they ignore the doorbell and knock on the door. I'm thinking of making a sign saying "we have a doorbell, please use it". We have a porch sticking out on the front of the house. Then a door to the hall. The hall has 2 doors off it, one to the lounge, one to the dining room. Then a door from each of them to the kitchen. If I'm in the kitchen when they knock, the sound has to travel through 3 doors, and even if I don't have the radio and/or washing machine on, with 3 fish tanks' filters, a fridge and a freezer all humming it is impossible to hear the knock.
The reason they don't use the doorbell? The battery might be flat.
, I am so sick to death of people in the morning when I go to work decide that any old speed between the posted 80km/ hr and 50km/hr is fine and when they finally hit the 100km/hr sign do a vague 80-98km/hr. And just as you approach the one and only short over taking lane these same people suddenly discover they have an accelorator and do 105-110 , only to promptly slow down to their previous speed at the end of the overtaking lane 
. I then get almost the same on the way home, almost as soon as you come off the round about leaving town the speed is 80km and then a quick change to 100km. The trouble is people are so busy gawking at the horses or whatever at the pony club near the signs they miss the signs entirely and putter along doing a vague 80km. Once again they hit the one and only short overtaking lane and usually stay at putt putt speed or suddenly accelorate up to 100km, only to hit the picks and slow down suddenly because the over taking lane finishes just before a bend in the road. I know for a fact this bend can be taken at 130-140km, in either a ute or 4wd even a hatch back (my husband maintains I not only have a lead foot but also a brick attached) so 100km/hr is a doddle for any sedans etc. Getting this nearly every morning and afternoon 5 days a week, all year for the past 8 or so years is really driving me NUTS 
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