What is the most annoying and pointless instruction you have ever received.?

Question

Does it annoy anybody else as much as it annoys me, when shop assistants etc. tell you you "Insert your pin please" or "remove your card please" every time you use a debit or dredit card. I mean for god sake I use the damd things about five times a day,I now how to use them. I can read what is on the screen... I can see when the transaction is accepted. Of cause I am going to remove my card when things are finished, I need it in the next shop.... And it makes no difference how quickly I grab the card as soon as the screen so instructs me, the bloody shop assistant is always quicker with her inane instructions. Her screen must have a jump start on the one I am looking at.

Answer 1

As said first it is what shop assistants are paid for, the amount of people who just stand there before you tell them to remove their card or enter their pin or people who cannot read the screen, so dont get all huffy because we are only trying to help.

And no the screens dont have a jump start we just know what comes after what and how long it always takes.

Answer 2

The worst one I've had was on a plumbers blowlamp from B&Q...........

'Don't use while sleeping'

Answer 3

I hate it when old people say "its always the last place you look" why would i keep looking for it after I found it?

Answer 4

http://youtube.com/watch?v=lzmJr1a-BHU

Answer 5

They are just trying to be helpful. I love to backtalk those self check out machines at the grocery store. "Please take your change" lol like I'm gonna leave seven dollars behind. And they do that at the ATM too. Withdraw $60 and walk away empty handed.

Answer 6

I hate the instructions on opening things "Stand Upright".

Who in their right mind would open it upside down?

Answer 7

I bought a sun visor for the car - one of those metallic ones that cover the whole windscreen. The instructions say 'do not attempt to start the engine while visor is in place.'

Why? Is it an imobilisor as well??

Answer 8

i hate it when people say

enjoy being young as much as possible

but as soon as you do something childish

someone says grow up

also i love how the people at the airport ask you if you packed your bags ur self

OF COURSE I BLOODY DID

"has anyone put anything in your bag without you knowing"

HOW THE FUUUUUU*K

Answer 9

on packets of peanuts in the supermarket: 'warning, may contain traces of nuts'...well, YES, why else am I buying the stupid things?!!

Answer 10

I was on the phone to a gentleman from a printing company today.  He asked me to fax him a blank sheet of A4 paper so that he could check that I knew exactly what size it was!?  After half an hour trying to explain to him that it would be the size of paper that he had in his machine, I gave up trying!

Answer 11

It's not really an instruction, but it made me laugh so much.  On an egg box, it had the informative allergy warning - Contains eggs.

?!

Answer 12

I like how that is on directions and warning labels.

On a box of sleep aids: "Caution, may cause drowsiness." ... One would hope so.

Answer 13

When you talk on the phone and ask the other person to spell an address or  give you a phone number and they say "Got a pen?" . No,of course I haven't,I feel like saying,I  hadn't thought of that!

Answer 14

That's what they're paid to do though, the machine things are still relatively new and they don't know peoples experiece with them and they're not all the same! I've never felt bothered when they tell me what ta do but I might start noticing now...!

When you're looking for something you've misplaced and you're told "try to remember where ya left it" - that gets me every. single. time. Grrrrr!

Answer 15

I know how you feel and it annoys me too.  Having said that, I think the instruction comes up on their screen about one second before it comes up on that silly machine.  So they are told to ask the customer to remove the card before he even knows he can!  From the shops point of view, I can understand them asking.  Not everyone is on the ball like you and me.  Some people stand around  with a somewhat glazed look on their face and sadly, need this kind of instruction in order that they may function once again!

Ho hum.

Answer 16

"form a circle and make it straight"..

that was from a teacher.

Answer 17

On arrival in New York for the first time, Oscar Wild was asked, "Anything to declare?"  To which he replied, "Only my genius."

Most annoying when you step off a plane or the EuroStar - anything to declare.

Yes, 5,000,000 million cigarettes for personal smoking etc.

Droppen sie dead.

Answer 18

How true. I also like it when automated machines at certain car parks that dispense tickets say "welcome" and "please press the green button" and other c**p. I find if you press the button and take the ticket quickly it is still talking as you drive away.

Answer 19

An instruction I stupidly followed was 'do you take this man...blah de blah..'

I said at the time 'I do...'

lol

Answer 20

On a kitchen knife, warning sharp edge, honestly, it was made in china too, just so surprising!

On my 2 year olds card there was a badge which read 2 today and on the back it said,' not suitable for under three's'

need I go on...