Things that PISS you off, but you can't really say so.

The Israeli government.

I used to work with a child who did this. His mum used to say that he looked like a vampire 🧛‍♂️

That’s even worse 🤣🤣🤣 god love him.

Put it in the oven on some bread, you get garlic bread 😀

Woman I sit next to at work with the fake nails, the sound of them tapping on the keyboard 😱

On the other side of me I have a woman who literally eats all day - 6 packets of crisps, share size M&Ms, 5 pack of doughnuts, 2 rounds of sandwiches, Haribo etc. She's slim so she can, but the constant eating is hard for me who due to a medical condition must not gain weight.

I want to work from home 😂

People who think of themselves as very empathetic but can only empathise with people who have the exact same problem as they do.

Eg sister in law suffers with anxiety which, by nature, comes with irrational worries.But if someone expresses anxiety about something she doesn’t share herself she’s not very understanding. It’s hard to give a specific example but imagine a person with a severe phobia of clowns who cannot go to certain public places in case a clown is there. She posts statuses about how disabling this is and shares events to spread awareness. Then she meets someone with a phobia of dogs and tells them that it’s silly and dogs are amazing and that they should just understand that the dog won’t hurt them. It’s not that but it’s along those lines in terms of baffling hypocrisy.

MIL (unrelated to SIL - the other side) is similar in that she thinks her exact experiences are normal and anything else is very strange.

She has various neurosis, is quite emotionally open and often talks about and reflects on her childhood. She often says “I’ve always been a bit like X because my mum always used to Y” which I initially assumed meant she was quite self aware.

But if anyone else shares anything from their own life that’s different she acts really shocked in a way that feels a bit uncomfortable.

As an example, she might share that her own own parents wouldn’t let her ride a bike as they were so scared of her falling off. She knows it’s irrational but shares it as a somewhat interesting anecdote and laughs it off. She says it’s just “how they were”.

But if I mention in passing that my family would only eat together at the table about half the time growing up, she acts as if it’s the craziest thing she’s ever heard and like my family is extremely dysfunctional or it is terribly sad that I grew up that way.

It’s really uncomfortable because she loves to have these really intense chats sharing stories from the past but I cannot share even passing mundane comments about myself or family or I feel like an alien. Or like I am speaking badly of my family.

A couple of her own family have a chronic but often misunderstood illness and she is always complaining about people making ignorant comments or not being understanding but when it comes to another illness that someone we know has, she is the worst for making ignorant comments or implying they’re being lazy.

The irony is that she’s training to be a therapist and I can only imagine her sitting gasping in horror at everyone who speaks to her.

My DH scratching his balls - gives me the absolute ick!

That is a very good point. So much so it may even stop me getting annoyed in the future - thank you!!

They’re not like fully open but they’re not fully closed and you can just see the whites of his eyes so he kind of looks like he’s possessed. I might tell him on my deathbed but I haven’t decided yet.

I've been suspecting my dad had a bit of a problem with drink for a while but not on the level of alcoholic. He's always been a bit useless and never put me first.

Recently asked him to pick me and my daughter up from hospital as we'd gone in by ambulance so didn't have the car. Dd has a life limiting condition and is 6. He oohed and ahhed, said he supposed he could miss having a drink that night (I rang him at 4pm to ask if he could pick us up at 8pm once the dr signed us off for home leave). He made a huge fuss about being unsure where to pick us up from, it was sunday so quiet and he works at the same hospital we were at! He huffed and puffed. I told him to forget it and we'd get a taxi. He definitely would have come but I also know he would purposely have been late/parked in an awkward place/been funny with us. I'm from a family where people are made to feel dreadful when they say they felt hurt by something.

I won't say anything, but have definitely been pulling away from them for a while now. I will never treat my DD like that.

I have a similar situation in my family & there were lot's of 'proud of you' quotes on Facebook. I wanted to write what? Proud of what? Getting pregnant at 17 with no job, money or home? Dad is unemployed as well & baby number 2 is now on the way. FFS!

My brother. Been a drug addict for 15 years, constantly on the edge of society. Just lost his job. Asks us all for money, self pitying the world owes him something. He has the audacity to be annoyed that I have a mortgage and car but I hold down a job and have always worked hard. I’ve lost patience with him.

One of my mum friends complains she has no time to herself, but despite being a single mum she has more childcare from her parents and her ex MIL than anyone I know. She says she can’t do exercise but on her free nights and days sits on the sofa watching trash telly eating chocolate.

Ah I feel better now 🤣 I’m going to hell!

I've done a will but not POA - yet. I don't really know what it means and it's one of those boring things I keep putting off. I know I should though.

In the bin? He's more advanced than mine, who puts rubbish on the counter top above the cupboard where the bins live.

Dont even get me started on clothes on top of the washing basket and dirty dishes on top on the dishwasher.

Fucking hell, that's one of the worst things I've read on here!

I didn’t even know this was a thing and I think it would freak me out (best not to tell him). 🤣

Can I also say crumbs.

FUCKING CRUMBS. They drive me mad. Especially when I've just vacuumed the whole house, and I have to do it daily. The sight of them in the corner of the kitchen makes my blood boil.

Another one of mine is people who forget to pluralise or make minor typographical errors…

I once sat on a bus with a woman who had given her toddler a snack pot full of celery and pak choi.

"Do you want some celery, Mummy?"

I want YOU to have that celery. I LOVE celery but I had SO MUCH celery before I came to get you that I want YOU to have ALL of that celery.

I think we were on that bus for about half an hour and not for 2 minutes did she stop with her paean to celery. Which, as well as know, is the food of Beelzebub.

Oh no…. that’s truly awful. Poor little lad! Some people don’t deserve children do they 😢

People who bring up mistakes you made over 15 years ago when you were a teenager, despite the fact you have grown massively and matured considerably since then.

Cook it upside down and it shouldn't leak

A friend likes to walk to do pickup together. My house is on her way so she says she’ll pick me up, fine. But evvverrry time she’s late which then messes with my timings for my younger child. I’ve tried leaving without her and texting but she’ll say ‘stop at the corner I’ll only be a second!’ Or she’ll not reply so I feel rude. I also hate walking back with her as her child is soooo slow, which makes my child slow and it infuriates me. But she’s nice and it’s not a reason to not be friend. Husband said to just tell her we can’t walk together, but he doesn’t realise she’d be upset and it would affect our friendship! But omg it’s annoying.

No, I absolutely would draw the line at that! My role is within education.

Whilst I am contacted sometimes by assessors for DLA/respite, I can only give what I see (and can evidence) in school.

Unfortunately however, unscrupulous parents who know that we have no right to say that we disagree with their experience of the child as we cannot see them in their own home exploit this.

All we can say is that we do not see XYZ in school but that they may present differently at home (as all children/YP do!). Unscrupulous parents can, and do, use this as leverage to ask for XYZ provision because they know it cannot possibly be verified.

Thank you for the good wishes, I really appreciate that! 🌸 Well on the road to recovery now.

I’d forgotten she said it until the PP reminded me with their self-centred in-laws! She repeated that comment to my mum, who was much more upset than me, not knowing my MIL well at the time. Takes all sorts to make a world, I guess!