I had the 'excited' one recently about a cat litter delivery. To be honest, I felt pretty 'meh' about it - but Puss was full of glee and was waiting eagerly for her chance to kick it all over the room.😂
A text from Specsavers about my appointment. Not sure ‘excited’ is the right word!
I have just had a message to tell me that the company that I ordered dish washer sheets from are "Just as excited as you are, to know that your order has been dispatched." Whoop-ti-do!
In my last appraisal with my manager before I left the job I made a mental list of the corporate BS he came out with-
I hear what your saying We're singing from the same hym sheet Lets circle back We've got to look at the wider picture I think youve lost your mojo It is what it is Changes in the nature of the profession Youve got to go with the flow
Haitch!!!! So many radio and TV presenters say this instead of aitch. Basically at the start of every sentence. Bored of. Should be bored with. Fur baby! Hate it!
Plus all those already mentioned. I’m so intolerant.
But I've swopped to my bigger dislike is when they make out/maybe even think they speak good English and they don't.
Cue for a heated discussion with a podiatrist here (in West Wales) where she kept confusing two anaesthetics and was busily rowing with me/planning to make life WAY more awkward for me because she confused LANAcane (an ointment for one purpose - and I am allergic to it) with LIDOcaine (an injectable for a totally different purpose that, as far as I know I'm not allergic to). I've checked since - and there's a totally different list of ingredients for them both and so I very much doubt I'd have found I was allergic to a 2nd thing in my life at my 70's (ie I'm obviously basically someone who doesnt have allergies). Boy did she ever have a heated row with me whilst doing what should have been a perfectly standard health questionnaire before minor foot operation!!!! She even called me "mad" !!! Cue for - not surprisingly - I'm now with a podiatrist quite some distance away from my little Welsh town and that "first language Welsh" podiatrist and he's English (so I know for a fact he's "first language English" and won't make those stupid mistakes and then yell at me for his mistakes). It's such a basic basic word podiatrists need to know - as they use LIDOcaine so often.
Wasn't too funny either the other day going into a local chemist and I couldnt see the sticking plaster and asked the young girl (in that job) behind the counter for it and she handed me something different. I said "No - sticking plaster" and she handed me something different again. Out came older woman and handed me the correct thing. I realised the young girl can't have known all the basic language to do her job at that point. We all need sticking plaster at intervals and we should all keep some in just in case.
So if someone's "first language" isn't English then = okay it isn't. But - do please know all the language connected to the job you do - especially if it's a medical type job and the word/phrase concerned is a very common one in your type of job.