Stupidest thing you've lost your shit over? Mine is spoons.

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Just now gone to get breakfast (I know it's quarter past 2, I was busy) and the ice cream sundae spoons and the serving spoons are in the same section of the cutlery tray as the table spoons. I had a mini tantrum to myself because this happens every. single. bloody. time. I put the spoons away properly - teaspoons in one section, tablespoons in one section, ice cream spoons in one section, serving spoons in ... you get the picture.
Yet whenever anyone else unloads the dishwasher, what do I later open the kitchen drawer to see?
Huge pile of assorted spoons in the tablespoon section.
If you can out trivial-shit me, I'll be surprised.

To save you all some time :D :D
Is this all I have to worry about?
No. I'm also deeply concerned about the beans being in the peas row of my tin cupboard and the loo roll getting hung 'over' instead of the right way, which is under.

Why don't I just do it myself if it bothers me so much?
Fuck off. :D there are 4 adults in this house and 3 of them are doing shit WRONG and I'm not rewarding them by turning into the housework fairy.

I do too, @pelargoniums - as God intended! 😉😁With extra sweary words each time, of course.

Fuck. That's awful, not least the news but the way it was given. 💐

@winniethepooped Nooooo I meant the toilet roll!!

I'm another one who is supremely irritated by the leaflets in packets of pills. If they wanted us to keep them and read them, then they should fold them in such a way as to not scrunch into an infuriating lump in the box every time you try to put the pills back in. Their current foldy-woldy concertina method simply encourages you to extract the offending leaflet immediately on opening a new packet, and chuck the sodding thing away.

Do it. The leaflets are all online if you ever need them. You just search PIL drugname and it's there.

I mean, read them the first time if it's a new drug (and maybe leave it there if it's OTC or shelf stuff and other people might want the leaflet). But after that, Google is right there.

Slight segue here - I’m intrigued by how many people put stuff on the stairs that’s destined to go up to be put away. Neither the DH nor I grew up in households that did this. In my case, my mother was blind so you can see why immediately. It’s certainly made me relatively obsessed with making sure things are always where I want to find them, I also put chairs/coffee tables in exact spots for the same reason.

For some insane reason, dh doesn't agree with loo roll holders and always takes the loo roll and puts it on the floor, back of the loo, or on the towel rail. I think okay, I'll leave that one where this insane person wants it to be and put another one on the holder. He again takes it off and puts it elsewhere. Sometimes there are 3 loo rolls all off the holder. It drives me crazy but is so trivial I won't lower myself to mention it.

Yeah, it's daft, especially when you have been taking the same medication pretty much daily for upwards of 40 years, like I have with Piriton for instance.

Me and XP had a blazing row once about which petrol station was closer. It was one of those arguments that you have to have a further three arguments about before you’ve sorted it out.

I just lost it tonight. I was infuriated by the amount of crap lying around, the shin guards on the kitchen table and the dancing shoes on the hall table enraged me but when I found an abandoned heap of orange peel in the bathroom I lost it.

The DC not opening the curtains downstairs in the morning nor closing them at night. When get in from work closing them and moaning at the DC for not having done so is the first thing I do.

The kitchen utensils drawer.
No matter how neatly I put it in, as soon as I close the drawer and walk away, the potato masher decides to move itself into a position which means you almost yank the drawer front off when you try to open it again.
I swear I can hear it laughing at my frustration of trying to open the drawer.

This is why I have a Joseph Joseph potato masher that can fold flat. 😁 I also have a potato ricer but I keep that in a cupboard.

I solved this problem but putting my large utensils like the masher and label in a ceramic pot buy the hob.

But...my cup measures also get stuck in the drawer 🤷‍♀️

DP’s stupid bastarding cheese knife with fucking holes in it so it doesn’t fully stick onto the magnetic knife strip and constantly falls off and threatens my feet, but the alternative is a sharp knife rattling around a drawer somewhere, or him buying some knife-specific storage for ONE knife. When I get his death skip (the skip I’m getting for all his stuff when he dies, I’m very excited), that hateful ugly pointless allegedly sentimental knife is the first in.

I actually did lose it yesterday, not at the knife but at DP’s habit of turning the bathroom fan off at the isolation switch, so it doesn’t come on automatically with the light. So I had to flick two switches instead of one, and the words “you stupid wanker bastard why the fucking fuck AGAIN” came out of my mouth. In my defence, I designed the bathroom lighting and switches so you could turn on a light without the fan, and if you want the fan, turn on a different light. There’s simply no need to turn it off! Other than to enrage me! And who would not be enraged by the extra one second it takes to flick an extra switch!

😂at the ‘death skip’ for your H’s stuff and your zeal at the thought of it!

Also the vengeful potato masher from hell.

You impress me! I would totally lower myself!!

In Terry Pratchett's Discworld books, Anoia is the goddess of kitchen utensils that jam the drawer shut.

@SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius and doesn't Hitchkiker's Guide have a universe for single socks? or is that also Pratchet?

Pratchett has an Eater of Socks, rather than a universe. Don't know about HHGTTG

Are you thinking of the planet of the biros?

www.goodreads.com/quotes/824143-somewhere-in-the-cosmos-he-said-along-with-all-the

Which reminds me... people walking off with your pens and pencils. Even posh ones with your name on them. However, when I inherited my DMs gold pen, that seemed to be immune.

Aaah, yes, I think I'm getting confused between socks and biros, and Pratchet and Adams.

The answer is probably 42!

I got my repeat prescriptions yesterday.

I decided to open all the packets in the interests of, I dunno.. science? Statistics? Boredom?

Out of 12 packets opened randomly, 8 were leaflet end and 4 were not.

Obviously the biros raid our sock drawers to provide themselves with cosy sleeping bags.