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Your minor annoyances tonight.

61 replies

WildRosie · 23/12/2022 22:06

Michael Buble singing some shitty Christmas song that I can't hear properly. Maybe that's a blessing but I can tell it's him. Coming straight after Nat King Cole singing The Christmas Song (chestnuts etc) it's an affront. I'm in a busy pub, by the way, and that isn't an annoyance 😉.

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Mezmer · 23/12/2022 22:12

Took kids out for a treat to restaurant in town and got put on table next to four blokes doing what blokes do so well: dominating the place, slouching in their chairs and being loud. Tbf they weren’t that bad it was just that it was a restaurant not a pub and the acoustics In restaurants nowadays are such that you can hear everyone’s conversations. I don’t want to spend £100 to soak up someone else’s night, thanks, and was annoyed as don’t go out often.

00100001 · 23/12/2022 22:14

My tea hasn't tasted as nice as it normally does...

30not13 · 23/12/2022 22:16

I want something to eat but I don't know what it is :(

forlornlorna1 · 23/12/2022 22:17

My adult dd has come in drunk from a night out and dropped Chinese in my Ugg boots

Hope she's hung over tomorrow lol

EineReiseDurchDieZeit · 23/12/2022 22:18

Surprise Christmas guests that I won't have time to sort a token gift for, should have got spares in

DontFeatureMeOnSocialMedia · 23/12/2022 22:20

My supermarket delivery was meant to be here between 7 and 9. It is still not here. Tracking is still updating and it is on its way. Just very late. The email I had shows that there's loads of substitutions. I want to go to bed, tempted to do just that and go shopping in the morning.

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WildRosie · 23/12/2022 22:21

Also, I thought I'd lost my earphones for my phone and tablet. I've just bought some replacements at Morrison's and have now found the ones I thought I'd lost. Some nincompoop put them in the wrong trouser pocket that I didn't look in. Fortunately, box not opened and receipt retained so refund forthcoming before long.

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flowerycurtain · 23/12/2022 22:22

Dh came through to watch the Motherland Xmas special with me. I'd told him I wanted to watch it, got my wine ready, the dog next to me.

He comes in, yawns loudly all the way through and the whole flipping episode is not what k was expected.

Roll on tomorrow night when I shall give in to watching tv with Dh and go for All craters great and small for a Christmassy vibe

somethingdifferenttoday · 23/12/2022 22:24

Guests

thistimelastweek · 23/12/2022 22:25

Three Christmas cards in the box. Four neighbours yet to send.

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WildRosie · 23/12/2022 22:28

All Craters Great And Small. I don't know what to say about that.

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Essexexile · 23/12/2022 22:31

I can’t find my can of espresso martini, I don’t want it now as I’ll be going to bed soon but it’s just bloody frustrating that it’s somewhere in the house but I can’t remember where 🥺

The3rdWatermelon · 23/12/2022 22:36

First Christmas with a new baby (9 weeks old). I’m still suffering post-birth complications and am on antidepressants for migraines and PND. We’ve been the ones driving up and down to relatives’ houses and ferrying drunk people about every Christmas Day for the past 10 years or so. Now we have our baby we’ve planned a day at home, in our pyjamas, eating party food that you can just whack in the oven for 15 minutes. Now relatives are upset that we’re “ruining Christmas” by not visiting them on the day and not driving them about, and are making plans for Boxing Day for us to drive all over the place instead and I kind of wish we’d just resigned ourselves to a shitty and exhausting Christmas Day as usual. At least it wouldn’t drag it out!

thelobsterquadrille · 23/12/2022 22:38

I keep feeling like I need to sneeze but it never quite happens 🤧

ohfacksake · 23/12/2022 22:39

DD was asleep but has woken up because she's hot. Now "can't sleep" and I still have fuck loads of presents to wrap and this is the last night to get it done 😩

CPL593H · 23/12/2022 22:41

I have somehow lost my kitchen scissors and am obsessed with finding them because they must be somewhere (have tried the bin)

HoundOfTheBasketballs · 23/12/2022 22:44

Every time I cut the wrapping paper it's the wrong fucking size for the present I'm trying to wrap.
It's either marginally too small so I'm left with about 2 square cm of exposed present, or its miles too big and I end up with masses of paper to fold into the ends which won't go flat to fold and the whole thing looks shit.
DP finds my hot, sweaty, sweary wrapping hilarious, much to my further rage and humiliation.

Brendabigbaps · 23/12/2022 22:46

I’m sat in a holiday resort in a tropical country and there’s a storm, I’ve got to get into the buffet for dinner but ours busy

ZZTopGuitarSolo · 23/12/2022 22:46

My Manhattan only has one cherry and I prefer two.

OnTheRunWithMannyMontana · 23/12/2022 22:48

I need to sleep as I need to be up early tomorrow but my brain won't get sleepy!

Boobahs · 23/12/2022 23:02

I've been to an Aldi and an Asda today and cannot get quiche, eggs, potato salad or coleslaw.

So annoying when the shops are so busy. Can't go tomorrow without taking the kids which will be a nightmare. Debating popping out to the 24 hour Tesco now to see what I can get.

dogtheted · 23/12/2022 23:04

ZZTopGuitarSolo · 23/12/2022 22:46

My Manhattan only has one cherry and I prefer two.

I request 4 in mine 😂

DH tells me it's against the cocktail rules. Then I ask for 6.

dogtheted · 23/12/2022 23:06

Brendabigbaps · 23/12/2022 22:46

I’m sat in a holiday resort in a tropical country and there’s a storm, I’ve got to get into the buffet for dinner but ours busy

I'll swap with you, if you'll come babysit my MIL who is pissed on baileys and ranting about the celebrity jungle saga, no idea what she's on about.

NewToWoo · 23/12/2022 23:06

I fell asleep half way through Knives Out 2. Then woke up and didn't want to disturb family by asking what had gone on. So it was completely incomprehensible to me. Also slightly annoying is DS opened a box of chocolates I planned to save until Boxing Day. Once opened they got passed around 3 times...

NewToWoo · 23/12/2022 23:08

HoundOfTheBasketballs · 23/12/2022 22:44

Every time I cut the wrapping paper it's the wrong fucking size for the present I'm trying to wrap.
It's either marginally too small so I'm left with about 2 square cm of exposed present, or its miles too big and I end up with masses of paper to fold into the ends which won't go flat to fold and the whole thing looks shit.
DP finds my hot, sweaty, sweary wrapping hilarious, much to my further rage and humiliation.

I feel your pain. I bloody hate wrapping.