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

[IncompleteSenten]

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.

Mustard spoon? People need to stop teaching me new spoons now. I need them all and I'm getting crazy lady eye twitch.

Now if I add mustard to something I'll be doing it while wailing but it's not a proper mustard spoon.

Corned beef. With an ex
He insisted on buying the key one as it was 2p cheaper than the ring pull one
The key snapped and he didn't have a tin opener. I ended up going next door to borrow a tin opener off the neighbour which was "embarrassing" apparently
Pointed out it was more embarrassing he wouldn't spend the extra 2p on a ring pull

Oh and the iron
Galley kitchen, I was ironing and put the iron on the side
"Watch the iron, it's hot"
I got back "yeah I'm not stupid"
2 seconds later he leans over the iron... burns his arm

He’s a bigamist!

I lose my shit at myself fairly regularly. I have one of those crappy brains that holds on to bizarre stuff like drug names and Latin verbs, but refuses to function with everyday tasks. Yes, brain. Once again you have failed to remember to put ingredients back in the fridge after use. Once again you have failed to establish a stable sub-routine for tidying up after yourself. Why can this not be automatic? Why do I have to remind myself to do this Every. Single. Time?

We have a stilton spoon somewhere, which made its way to us when inlaws were having a clear out. Also have a honey spoon which you can hang on the side of the jar.
We had to buy more cutlery recently as items kept disappearing. We shall prob find them in the teenagers' rooms eventually. It's also annoying because although we bought the same style they are just slightly different and don't sit together properly in the cutlery pods.

Mice? 😯

Sorry!

By the way, do you have knickerbocker glory spoons?
<runs for cover>

At Glastonbury 1999 after four days of partying I was feeling awful. My normally fairly hopeless boyfriend at the time thoughtfully went to queue up for ages at an ice cream truck to buy me a Ribena. They had ordinary Ribena but for some reason he brought back a carton of that weird strawberry flavoured one. I was so disappointed I burst into tears and threw it at him unopened. Am still ashamed of myself now!

haha, mince. Typo's galore! Mice might actually help...

I have some tiny ceramic spoons that match the eggcups they came with, and an oversized Chinese soup spoon which is fabulously useful, and a decorative teaspoon gifted to me and every child at school to commemorate Charles and Diana's wedding day.

Whenever I open a packet of tablets I ALWAYS get the end with the stupid leaflet in the way.

EVERY F*ING TIME.

Absolutely send me livid.

When I have a bottle of water and DH wants some he will give it a wipe with his t shirt before he drinks. I feel massively offended and have pointed out that if I have some disease he will have caught it already.
on the way round tesco I pulled a bottle of water from a multipack in the trolley (don’t usually open before I’ve paid, I was gasping)
He asked for a sip and did the usual and I lost it. I tried to grab the bottle back and told him to get his own. He was holding it above his head telling me the plastic was flimsy and I’d spill it if I kept grabbing at it like a toddler.
Not my finest moment but when he triumphantly lowered it back down for a sip I clapped my hands together on the bottle and absolutely drenched him!

This made my entire life.

@OldTinHat

I live alone too. No dishwasher and no forks. Where the hell are they???

My worst temper tamtrum (still shocked at this) was in a supermarket queue. Not much of one, I was due to be served and a man behind me asked if he could go first as he only had one item. Snuff as it turns out. I think the problem was it was when you could get nothing in the shops. I wanted potatoes and had gone to three shops. Anyway instead of letting him go ahead like I normally would, my inner Karen came out of somewhere and I let him have it with both barrels. I was shocked at myself and did let him go in front in the end but bloody hell, why is there a Karen living rent free inside me??????

Today I'm quietly resigned to doing stuff. No energy to rage but the water splattered DH gives me great joy that there are people who stand up to the nonsense

Oh @IncompleteSenten I think I love your dad 🥰🤣😍

I thought of this thread when I did that this morning with my new packet of medication!

I'm trying to think if the packs are typically designed so you do that - the 'stupid leaflet' is something you really should read if you're starting on a new medication, so it would be entirely sensible if they were.

OK - it looks like things have got serious now! I have had to delve into the Weird Spoons compartment in the second drawer down on the left.

salt spoon*
mustard spoon*
honey spoon
measuring spoons
loose tea spoon
coffee measuring spoon
slotted spoon

Now don't make me verge any more into the utensil drawers.😠

(*these could be the other way round)

I live alone too. No dishwasher and no forks. Where the hell are they???

Also live alone and would like to know who the HELL is using all the teaspoons - EIGHT in the washing up the other day.

That is the extent of my interest in spoons.

You should sip soup from the side of the spoon, not shove the whole thing in your mouth
Table manners for eating soup. Hold the soup spoon by resting the end of the handle on your middle finger, with your thumb on top. Dip the spoon sideways into the soup at the near edge of the bowl, then skim from the front of the bowl to the back. Sip from the side of the spoon, avoid improper table manners and do not slurp. To retrieve the last spoonful of soup, slightly tip the bowl away from you and spoon in the way that works best

Etiquette. innit

@kittylion2 I'm in awe at your spoon collection and I definitely need a honey spoon in my life!
And a coffee measuring spoon!

I regularly lose my shit at just the general level of shitness in this house.
Although I do remember being pregnant and absolutely losing me mind with dh because he was buttoning the duvet cover up wrong. He wasn't buttoning from underneath which meant it would t sit right.

With hindsight the hormones may have played a part.

We have the same DH. 🙄

I thought the mice were for a pet snake or something!
Didn't even think it was a typo...!