Just a stupid something that iritates me at the moment. There’s an RAC advert that’s played on Classic fm, in which the poor hapless motorist is stranded on a quiet country road at night. The voice over goes something like ‘here are a few things you’ll hear at night’. Cue hooting. ‘An owl, the hunter’ she says. Then there’s some scuffling - ‘a badger’ she informs us. Next, you hear the sound of a tyres on gravel as a vehicle comes to a halt, and then someone hauls on the handbrake without pressing the button on the end. ‘The RAC’ she intones - meanwhile, every mechanically minded soul within earshot is shuddering at the noise of the ratchet being mauled.
No self respecting mechanic, RAC trained or otherwise, would ever yank the hand brake on without pressing the button at the end. Ever.
Yes I know it’s a stupid, pointless point to make, but it irritates me. Hugely. Especially as my grandfather drilled it into me at the age of about 12 that you should never, ever put the handbrake on by just yanking on it, and he’d tell us the tale of seeing his neighbours car glide gracefully backwards out of the cul-de-sac and into the mainroad, because the driveway was sloped and this foolish man had never used the button on the end of his handbrake lever, and the ratchet just wore out.
Apart from that, I’ve had a pretty good day. 
