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

I’m glad it’s not just me - I’ve been single for a few years now and I’m just so used to doing everything on my own including taking 2 children to A&E if I don’t have childcare for the other! Maybe my experience clouds my perspective!

People who break out the Kentucky Fried Chicken - which absolutely stunk btw, in the orthodontists’ waiting room corridor, where there are only 5 seats and you have no choice but to sit next to them but only last about 30” before having to get up to get away from them whilst scrolling through and listening to TikTok. With no AirPods.

Isn’t it usually ‘Let me be absolutely clear, before they proceed to slither around the subject like an oiled snake?

I can’t stand the following:

• Mums who go overboard to host the perfect instagram children’s birthday party. I’ve been to a few of them that must have cost £1000 and had everything: Hired venue with garden, entertainer, bounty caste, face painting, craft table, eco party bags for 20 children that costs £5 each, a four-tiered cake that took the mother 12 hours to prepare, and a spread that contained everything children desire including a lot of UPF like crispy, sausage rolls, ham sandwiches and squash juice.

These parties give me the ick and I feel sorry for mums who are less confident and feel pressured to host similar parties

• people who are constantly exaggerate their feelings. If they’re going to an ordinary event like a meal with colleagues then they’re not just looking forward to it. They say that they’re “ super thrilled and can’t wait “. When something happens to them they’re not happy about, for example, a date has been cancelled then they’re “ absolutely devastated “ instead of just disappointed.

I had a flower girl at my wedding 22 years ago

That's plain old jealousy I'm afraid. They haven't actually done anything wrong.

Laughing/cackling about nothing, eg after every sentence.

@LBFseBrom I so agree with this! I guess some people think they're funny, but with others it's after almost everything they say. I tell myself they might be nervous but it doesn't help me 😔

Ugh my PIL do this every time, except they like quite plain food and don’t like fish whereas I like strong flavours and I particularly like seafood so I don’t know why they do it, I started telling them I was ordering one thing then changing my mind when the waiter came over. It just felt a bit weird to sit there with 3 out of four of us eating the same thing.

They’re also quite racist but I don’t think that’s connected.

The lady who lives opposite me (it's a house spilt into 4 flats - 2 on the ground floor and 2 upstairs) smokes. I'm aware she's doing nothing wrong but urgh the smell

I can't bear families like this.

I’ll probably get shot down for this but I find SOME parents of very young children really entitled. Moaning about the funded childcare from 9 months is a good example, like if their child is a day too young for the cut off whinge whinge. FFS, some of us got 15 hours when our kids turned 3 and were grateful for that. And some of them think if you have older children then your life is suddenly easy and you have loads of time and you can’t wait to babysit their 2 year old. No I’ve been there and got the tshirt, thanks.

Performance parenting for everyone in ear shot’s benefit

On the few occasions that I have a meal out with 3 former colleagues. One of them always orders the same as me. One time, it was one of those places where you pay on ordering. I did the ordering and payment (they gave me cash) and I ordered something different to the former friend. She got into a right strop.

We stopped inviting her over other reasons. One was racist comments

I don't have takeaways often enough to have something I 'generally order'. And even if I did, I prefer to try something different.

Disney dads posting photos on social media of every single activity they drag their kids to on their contact weekend.
Their braindead followers lapping it up "what a great Dad" "top parenting right there". No, these clowns are paying minimum child maintenance and making minimum effort.

@Isittimeformynapyet

It's a fair cop!

Stand by my comment though.

Thank you so much for your answer.

We hear it with our ears.

Agree, a question would be "how are you?".

expostulate
/ɪkˈspɒstjʊleɪt,ɛkˈspɒstjʊleɪt/

verb
express strong disapproval or disagreement.

Tbf, deer bolt anyway, so I'm sure it thought nothing of it.

I am a scout leader and some of the parents piss me off.

The ones that forget we are volunteers or think we get paid and treat us like free childcare or moan about things but are not willing to donate any of their own time.

And politicians (and others) who say "Let me be clear" and spin whirling fairy dust all around you so you have absolutely no idea what they are talking about.

Car drivers who park part on the pavement and part on the road so, if you are in a wheelchair or pushing a buggy, you can't get past by continuing on the pavement. You have to bypass the flipping car by walking on the road!