Things that can 'ruin' your day *lighthearted*

[longtompot]

Cracking an egg to fry for a breakfast egg sandwich and the yolk breaks

Any small things, that in the scheme of things are nothing, but can put a tiny dampener on your day?

Walking upstairs in my slip-on slippers and one falls off and bounces down the stairs, now I either have to go down and retrieve it or continue upwards with one slipper on, really bloody irritating 🙄

@Seriouslymole

Stepping in a tiny puddle of water in socked feet in the bathroom 🤬

YES! I have read through all of these, nodding my head in agreement, but this one truly pisses me off. And I do it practically every sodding day. Why don't I wear my slippers? Why?

When the kids waken me up at 4.30 🤬

@titsbumfannythelot

When the kids waken me up at 4.30 🤬

See, that's not lighthearted and would seriously ruin ones day. Or, at least your ability to deal with such a day

Getting up in a morning to find that 17yo DSS has not only eaten half a loaf of thick white bread and a whole block of cheese for a snack in the night (literally half a loaf, no exaggeration) but he's also opened both ends of the packaging to allow him both crusts.

I honestly could have cried when I got up this morning as that loaf should have lasted us a few days, not 12 hours, and he outright refused to nip to the shop (about 4 doors down from us) to get another one. It's not like it's much effort for me to do either, but I wasn't the one who had such a ridiculous 'snack' when he was meant to be asleep, and I do the main weekly shop and get us enough food provided we eat reasonable amounts and don't just pig out for no good reason in the dead of night.

This thread, bizarrely, has cheered me up. I was given a beautiful pair of gloves at Christmas. I've lost them. I never lose anything. And the gloves are sold out. They were beautiful. I was so proud of those stupid little gloves.

Re stepping in a wet patch whilst wearing socks, we have an old joke in our house based on a mis-hearing. My oh was in another room when this happened to me. I exclaimed and OH called out to ask what was the matter. He was baffled thinking I said I'd soaked the spill up with my fat.

@purrswhileheeats ( love the user name )
My kitten thinks that 3am is the best time of day to do zoomies including leaping on and off my headboard every time a car passes the house so he can chase the light of the cars headlights across the wall

Getting a single pube stuck to the sticky side of a sanitary towel and experiencing a painful yank to the crotch with every other step.

A new loo roll balanced artfully on the empty tube - why??? It takes skill to get it to balance and it would take milliseconds to actually pull the empty tube off and put the new one on the holder.

Turning bluetooth noise-cancelling headphones on for some beautiful peace / music while cooking only to discover they need charging.

@dudsville

This thread, bizarrely, has cheered me up. I was given a beautiful pair of gloves at Christmas. I've lost them. I never lose anything. And the gloves are sold out. They were beautiful. I was so proud of those stupid little gloves.

Re stepping in a wet patch whilst wearing socks, we have an old joke in our house based on a mis-hearing. My oh was in another room when this happened to me. I exclaimed and OH called out to ask what was the matter. He was baffled thinking I said I'd soaked the spill up with my fat.

Ah, I'm sorry you've lost your lovely gloves, but glad my thread has cheered you up a bit. Where did they come from?

@LindaEllen that's awful! Your 'd'ss should be getting the bread from the shop! How rude, and selfish! I would have cried too.

@ElfAndSafetyInspector ooh yes! Pube stuck on the sticky back of san pro. Ouchie!

As for the loo roll, yes that's annoying, but one thing that gets my goat is a new roll which you can't get the first piece unstuck from the roll, and end up with long wispy bits of loo roll, or 6 ply as loads sticks together. It doesn't just happen with cheapo brands either.

Stepping on yet another cheerio the toddler has dropped

@strawbmilk

Stepping on yet another cheerio the toddler has dropped

At least it's not Lego! But I imagine a soggy circle is not nice to step on, with or without socks on.

When I go to make a gin and tonic and the tonic is in the pantry instead of the fridge and there’s no ice left in the freezer.

When someone leaves the cling film in a messed up, ragged state with no obvious end to pull.

When someone does the washing up (good) but then leaves the greasy, dirty water in the bowl to fester until I find it hours later (bad, very bad).

When someone leaves the dishcloth by the sink but NOT RUNG OUT. For some reason I hate having to ring out the cold water so I can use it.

Could this 'someone' be the same person, I wonder...?

I'm a guide dog puppy raiser. If said puppy doesn't do her poo in the spending area before we go out, my day is off to a very poor start.

When I’m in the middle of a lovely hot shower and one of the DC starts banging on the door and shrieking desperately that they MUST come in RIGHT NOW and I think oh god which end is it going to start from and have I got enough bleach but it just turns out they found a pleasant looking pebble in the garden or the cat waved its tail or there was a cloud in the sky shaped like Elsa but it’s gone now Mummy.

he's also opened both ends of the packaging to allow him both crusts
I do this all the time

Making a cup of tea with a new bottle of milk and a massive glug plops into your tea before you can control it, ruining the tea.

I would rather stick forks in my eyeballs than drink milky tea, so this ranks very highly on my list of most-hated occurances.

What can ruin my day?
A combination of the printer and the router deciding to take it in turns to be annoying.
Printer never has any paper, no matter how well I've stocked it. Then it mithers that it doesn't have any photo-magenta ink even though all I'm asking it to print is in black and white. Then it gives me a lecture about how I wouldn't be so foolish as to buy non Epson branded ink, would I?
Look, just print without all the huffing and chuffing, will you?
Then there's a howl of protest from upstairs because the wifi has gone out. Every morning last week at 9.30, almost exactly, the router sits and blinks its little lights at me. It's saying "Oh I have a connection to the internet, I really do, but I'm not letting the likes of YOU have it. No wifi!"
Eventually, I have managed to get the children set up with internet connected laptops and printed out work, so I get a cup of coffee and sit down...
"Muuuuuuuuuuummmmmmyyyyyyyyyyyy........ it says it's buffering....."
That's it. I'm off for a life of monastic isolation.

Discovering the box of wine I was given for Christmas had 6 bottles and not 12...

Trying to guess where the Labrador has put my shoe this time.

Having to leave voicemails for people who use gif-gaf. I hate gif-gaf man. Too fucking cheerful.

When you're rushing out the door and just need to quickly grab a snack for work and the whole bastarding contents of the fridge falls out and makes a mess all over the floor. Usually it's a yoghurt landing upside down. The twat.

When I’ve stripped the bed on a weekend but not put clean sheets back on and I want a nap.
Yes I’m a fully functioning adult woman but the heart wants what it wants, and mine wanted a Sunday afternoon nap.

Standing in cat sick in bare feet on my way to get my first coffee

When DH hands me a glass of wine only to find he's used the crap glasses with the skinny stem that I hate. So I have to either go and pour the wine into a more acceptable glass or lump it and inwardly seethe thus spoiling my wine.

Waking before 7am! It always puts me in a foul mood. No idea why.
Not even lack of sleep as could go tk bed earlier.
It's so irrational.