Grabbing breakfast...

[bumbelinabumsquash]

...is the worst thing I've ever heard anyone say. I hate it. I hate people who say it. And I hate people who do it. Grabbing. Yuk.

MN is a wonderful world, if a little removed from reality.
That’s why we love it.

@Riapia

When it’s a “ movie night” the whole family must “ snuggle” under a blanket with snacks. No self respecting MNer’s family ever tells them anything, it has to be “announced”,Formally one imagines, by a toastmaster.

Unless they're gently sitting somebody down and breaking something to them.

I don't eat breakfast but I hate the word grabZ if you suggest an item someone will say I'll grab one tomorrow and a grab bag on a larger packet of crisps - what does that even mean? Grab is just similar to snatch.

I've never heard the term 'kitchen supper' in my 43 years. What does it mean? Surely all suppers are made in the kitchen?

DH “jumps in the shower” every day. He always tells me beforehand. “I’m gonna jump in the shower”.

He also asks me if I’d like “a” tea.

@MrsDThomas

I don’t understand how someone cant sit down for a slice of toast and a coffee in the morning. 15 minutes out if your morning.

I'm up at 5-something.

There's no way on earth I'm wasting a precious fifteen minutes that could have been spent in bed on food.

Kitchen supper I really hate for some reason..I don't know what it means really. But I also have a kitchen the size of a tiny cupboard so maybe magical things happen if it's more of a reasonable size!

I think I use almost all these affectations.

Shoot me

I hate people who do it

Oehhw, please begeth thine pardon Mrs Buckett. Allow me to rephrase, would you like to place you’re perfectly bleached sphincter down on this freshly steamed Joules cushion and allow our waiter Jeeves to cater to your ever need this morning in this perfectly boujee back alley cafè?

Damn typos

"I'll pick up some pizzas on the way home". Like they were on the supermarket floor.

@Ilovetommycat

My worst two are 'a bite to eat ' and 'kitchen supper' Totally unrelated but aaagghh.

A lite bite. Makes me want to cry.

Sling, chuck or throw something in the slow cooker😡😡😡

My people!
Can't abide the constant grabbing of things.

@Christmasbird

The phrase "a meal out" I can't stand

I hate ‘we went out for food’, or worse ‘we went for food’. You mean out for/to dinner/lunch, not food. I always picture animals round a big communal trough.

@Bitofachinwag

"I'll pick up some pizzas on the way home". Like they were on the supermarket floor.

Id prefer picking up a pizza over grabbing one 😆

Im also up usually before 6🤷🏼‍♀️

No need to rush about that time is there?

@MrsDThomas

Im also up usually before 6🤷🏼‍♀️

No need to rush about that time is there?

Well that al depends how much you have to do and what time you have to leave!

Agree with all of these.

I also hate people in cafes asking if they can ‘get’ a coffee. Sounds rude and odd to me.

Picky bits too.

I thought I was alone in loathing this constant grabbing, chucking etc! Is it supposed to be edgy? 'I'm so frantically busy that I can't spare the nanosecond it would take to make a careful controlled movement, I have to grab or chuck instead and to hell with the risk of scalding/burning/dropping things'.

The modern phrase that annoys me more than any other, though, is 'Can I get ...?' My parents' early training has gone in very deep and every single time I hear this I want to glare and say in a very pointed way 'Please may I have ...?'.

@RaskolnikovsGarret

Agree with all of these.

I also hate people in cafes asking if they can ‘get’ a coffee. Sounds rude and odd to me.

Cross post! A kindred spirit. Thank god I'm not alone in these weird foibles.

@liveforsummer

I've never heard the term 'kitchen supper' in my 43 years. What does it mean? Surely all suppers are made in the kitchen?

It means a casual supper as opposed to dinner at the dining room table. I think Dave n Sam used to have them with Rebekah Wade.

I don’t like grab, but most of the chucking and throwing I don’t mind. It’s the stuff at the other end - pamper, snuggling, me-time, making memories that make me want to punch people.

@MrsDThomas

Im also up usually before 6🤷🏼‍♀️

No need to rush about that time is there?

When I have to be out of the house and at the bus stop clean, dressed and looking vaguely less likely to scare the locals than when I crowbar my eyes half open from my heady 3 hours 37 hours sleep on a good night by 6 at the latest?

There really is.

I'm watching Downton Abbey again at the moment, and I'm now hearing 'kitchen supper' in Lady Mary Crawley's voice. She made one of her many beaux a plate of scrambled eggs once in the Downton kitchen (after the night they spent wrestling pigs in mud) and to my horror they left them on the kitchen table, mostly untouched, because Daisy suddenly appeared to start her morning's work. I hate to see wasted food.