Do these things bug you?

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Does it bug you when people tell you their age but they aren't that age yet or people tell you the time but it's not that time yet?

Like instead of saying it's four fifty, some people will say it's five o clock. Or when people say they are twenty seven lets say but instead they are actually twenty six and their birthday isn't even for another three months.

Feel free to add other things people say they aren't accurate about or when they are rounding other things that bug you.

I can strongly relate to the time issue. It makes me think of how nobody can really time what time it REALLY is because every watch and clock is probably different, and then I worry about being one minute late for class. It's annoying.

It annoys me when people don't get their ages right or how much an item costs or what time it is. If an item was $99.99, I let it slide for $100 because it's only a cent off.

People my age seem to be into understating rather than overstating their ages.



I'm one of the people who does this to others, but without meaning to. You see, I keep every clock under my control seven or eight minutes ahead of the actual time. For some odd reason even though I generally intellectually know the clocks are fast, the fact that the clock says what it does seems to override this emotionally in terms of me getting ready and going.

I need to do this since I seem to always underestimate how long it takes to get wherever I'm going. And when I kept clocks at the correct time I was late for everything. Now I'm pretty much always on time. Yes, its an irrational solution to an irrational problem...but I focus on the "solution" and not the "irrational" part.

Anyway, all of the preceding is just a long-winded way of saying that I often, umm, forget that my watch or clock in my car is fast. So if somebody asks me the time sometimes I remember to knock off those extra minutes, but a lot of the time I just tell them what the watch or clock says.

Sorry about that.

I can relate on the time thing. I always need to know the exact time, that's why I wear a digital watch whenever I remember to actually put it on

I like to round times, usually only to 5 minute marks, or 15. For 4.50 I might say that it's almost 5.

this kind of thing bugs me. One night i was in Border's. It closes at 10 pm. An announcement came over the PA system saying it was 9:45 and they were closing in 15 minutes and then I look at my watch and it says 9:36.

I hate it when places close early.

Hmm, I never knew people round their age but as for time, I don't really care as long as they have an accurate watch that is within 5 minutes.

I hate it when that happens, it would also have annoyed me the same way aswell because then I would be thinking that they are that age that they told me and I would feel confused and it would make it so much harder for me to remember their age.

I hate it when I order pizza, and than the person tells me, "We'll be there in 5." Five what? Minutes, hours or days?

One time my husband ordered pizza and they closed at eight. He got there a few minutes before eight and they were already closed. He complained to the manager. The lady wouldn't sell him his pizza so she tossed it out.

Yes.
There was one case where my mother was surprised about the price of a bicycle, saying it was 3000 euros when it was actually 2899 euros.
My father seems to take offence or has an extreme dislike for this sort of pedantism.

It doesn't bother me, because I tend to do that quite a bit myself.

It does for time. I've never heard of someone rounding their age, though. It seems to me like saying "I'll be X in Y" is better to say, because then you know their birthday and you've gotten to know them better.

If it's 10:25, it's not 10:30. And when it's 10:30, it's not "thirty", it's 10:30.

There is a user here who has said he is in his mid forties in 2009 but on the other forum, his profile says he is 48. That's not mid forties. He even said his partner is 47 but yet said she is in her mid forties too and they are the same age.

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