How close did you come to committing a crime in the heatwave?

[ChristopherTalken]

Took DD to a stunning historical property this weekend that had fountains on for children to play in. It was idyllic, so beautiful and peaceful, nothing but the sounds of water and the delighted shrieks of children playing.

Until a family rocked up, set up camp and started blaring music.

It wasn't even through a decent speaker, but that horrible tinny shrill noise through someone's phone.

Why. Why. Why.

I dont understand peoples incessant need to always have sound playing whether its music or crap from their phones. Is it because the silence leaves the one thought in their head feeling lonely?

In the heat I had fantasies about picking up the phone and using it as a frisbee swiftly followed by a mild dropkick to their heads.

I know the heat was making me irrational. Any other close calls this weekend?

I mean... I did have to take myself in to the back garden for some nicotine based therapy a few times because when it's as hot as it has been, the word "mummy" 37 times before breakfast is even sorted, it kind of hits different. I don't think any crimes though as such. Except those committed against fashion because comfort is everything in this weather.

I wouldn’t say that’s an irrational thought OP.

I'm sorry you dealt with that OP, the day you had planned sounds beautiful! DH and I went to the British Museum this summer and it wasn't my cup of tea, I just wanted to murder someone to get us out of there, but stayed so as not to be a fussy boring brat lol

I'm on am extremely hot extremely delayed train and there is a man snoring in the seat in front of me. The train has no air con, too many people crowded on and I am having to resist from commiting a crime to stop the snoring.

It's absolutely not the man's fault, I'm just jealous because I've been up since 4am and I wish it was me sleeping

It absolutely is the man’s fault because he’s snoring in public, which is bloody antisocial. Permission to commit a crime granted.

@Insommmmnia I feel for you, I hope it's not a long journey. Grab yourself some cold water as soon as you're off that train x

@Secondwindplease to be fair its so hot and muggy and close on here that I think it was an involuntary sleep

Snoring man has now departed I should be off in the next 10 mins @Pandasandflowers so cold water coming up!!

Oh god, I thankfully managed to avoid all trains during the heatwave but I did have to take several busses where apparently deodorant was optional.

Why is this? Every time I get a bus I come across someone who clearly thinks they don't need it!

We were stuck on the M5 on Saturday afternoon for hours as everyone seemed to be heading to the beach... DH's questionable music made me want to stick his car keys in his eye... but I can't drive so I refrained!

I went round to a neighbour's at gone midnight during the weekday to tell them to stfu with their annoying music. I found a little group of teenagers huddled round a firepit and they got the shock of their lives when I appeared at the back fence. They apologised and scuttled indoors and turned the music off. I felt a bit guilty for going mad at them, but it meant ds could get some sleep and leave his window open as it was so hot.

Well done on recognising despite his shit musical tastes he still had some use to you! 😂

ha you big meanie!

Its never good music that people inflict on others is it?

My neighbour decided to start a huge bonfire in their garden Saturday afternoon. On the hottest day of the year. Make it make sense. The whole road was out the front in shock. We all had to shut our windows as the smell of burning was ridiculous. Plus we were slightly worried the dry grass was at risk of catching fire.

We tried to go to a local wild swimming spot beautiful and small. I should have known better as since Covid the world and his wife seem to have found it especially if weather is good.
That's fine I don't own it but there were hoards there with music and bags of cans and paddle boards!! It's tiny! little more than a large pond really.
We didn't go in but I wanted to torpedo the paddle boards.

Woman in front of me in the queue at a spar shop, buying lots of alcopops and exclaiming to the cashier "oh its wonderful, I just love this weather, don't you?" Had yo restrain myself from punching her in the back of the head with my clammy, sweaty arms.

Nope! Thought about going to the beach and decided against it when I realised what the reality of that would be rather than the idyll I’d imagined…
not being able to park, people setting up camp with nasty cheap barbecues, rabid dogs running loose everywhere.
shame really as it’s quite rare to get the chance to enjoy a hot day at the beach with flat sea .

"Im sorry you had to endure that". Seriously?

Am assuming this is some kind of spoof thread- reminded me of Catherine Tate's Posh Family sketches, with all the posters shuddering at the mere sight of alcohols and "cheap barbecues"

I visited a cathedral city yesterday and had a tea and cake break in the pedestrianised High Street doing a bit of people-watching. A couple pushing a baby in a buggy strolled down the whole street with music BLARING. People actually stopped to stare at them. So entitled!

Why should people have to put up with others incessant noise, don’t you think it is a tad entitled?

@WowIlikereallyhateyou

It's a bit annoying but not exactly a terrible
trauma to be endured

It was also the faux horrors at stereotypically lower class alcopops, tinny speakers and cheap bbqs. Would it be less unacceptable if people used Bose speakers to play some Verdic woman in the queue had been clutching a nice chilled Chateau d'Yquem, or the family at the wild swimming spot had set up a Webber to char a nice rib-eye?

(Gah- the typos. Verdi, Weber...)

Hell is other people crammed next to you on a hot day.

We stayed in our lovely garden, we made Mediterranean style lunches, I even set the table and read our books whilst drinking wine and listening to Spanish guitar music on decent speaker with a low volume.

It was bloody marvellous, upside of being retired. 👌

Before last year, DH would have been incarcerated in the front room and I would be running around making bits of myself.

I bloody love the heat.

We went to a farm – well, a “farm”: a handful of chickens and a soft play in a barn, a tea shop in a barn, crazy golf in a field, camping, that sort of farm. There was a corn maze.

Do you know how hot a corn maze gets in the sun? 10,000 hot. All the hot. Deep fat fryer hot. And – and I appreciate that this is the point – corn all looks the fucking same. There was miles of it and DD ran ahead, deep into the bastarding inferno, so we were instantly lost and committed and there was no shade, in any direction. I came very close to abandoning both children and simply running away through the corn until I hit freedom. No jury would convict me of child abandonment though once they themselves sampled the corn maze. They would give me a medal and call me a hero for saving myself.