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.

Have we had a jam spoon yet? I've got one of those.

DGM had a mustard spoon and mustard pot. It was a silver pot (damn thing always needed polishing with a (plastic?) insert pot which you could wash up.

My main cutlery set tablespoons ARE tablespoon sized and my teaspoons are also the correct size. The DC's matching children cutlery set comes with spoons that are slightly bigger than teaspoons (as well as egg spoons!) to keep us on our toes, but DS has it nailed.

Much to DM's horror, (with a nod to @kittylion2) when DH and I were doing our wedding list and choosing cutlery, we declined to have soup spoons and fruits spoons.

We do have desert spoons and bigger spoons which we use for cereal - but I have no idea what those ones actually are!

Just for you all, I've conducted a quick experiment and can confirm that the unknown spoons hold 15ml and fall exactly between the desert spoons and the serving/table spoons in size.

This thread has been highly educational - I have always thought of myself as a relatively cultured individual, but the fact that fruit spoons are a thing has opened my eyes.

(I do, however, own both a mustard and a jam spoon, in addition to the usual spoon collection, so I'm not a complete Neanderthal.)

In terms of ridiculous things that make you lose your shit, my OH is also guilty of leaving sopping wet sponges beside or in the sink.

However, he does all the washing up - I genuinely couldn't tell you the last time I washed anything - and is essentially Practically Perfect In Every (other) Way, so I tend to let it slide.

Most of the time.

Me too! It is infuriating.

I got very cross one day about tea, coffee and sugar containers and threw them in the bin. I had metal ones and the lettering had lost since worn off and every single time I wanted one, it was the other 2 I opened first. Coffee? Opened tea then sugar. Tea? Opened sugar then coffee.

Every time.

One day I did it again and realised I couldn't actually remember ever opening the right one first!
So I got some empty clip top jam jars (that's another spoon I've got. Jam spoon. Big long wooden spoon with a hook to hook it over the big jam making pot. Although I consider it a utensil ) , transferred the stuff to them and threw the old ones in the bin unnecessarily aggressively.

I'd tell you all about the time I lost my shit with my front door but I fear you'll decide I have anger issues

Are honey spoons different from the twirly thing you dip into honey? Because I've got one of those.

Proper committment both to spoons and to rage on this thread. I'm proud of you all. 😁

Regarding the instruction leaflet ALWAYS being at the end of the box at which you open it - simple probability would suggest that there should be a 50/50 hit rate, but I swear it far exceeds that.

I'm going to start measuring this. I'll be back in three months with a dataset and a PPT presentation.

That's excellent @AffIt. I think we can all agree that there needs to be more evidence-based research in this area.

If I get a quicky divorce from my husband, you and I could be married in a matter of months.

Our cutlery drawer. You should try it, it's very freeing.

Haha DP is the same as this but with toilet paper. He will have a go at me for leaving 1/2 sheets on it and not replacing it, but I argue that a) he doesn't use toilet paper (shake for wee, wet wipes otherwise) so it's nothing to do with him and b) I use ONE square per wee, so why would I change the roll when there's still 2 wees worth of paper on it??

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Exactly!! There are only 2 possible ends and you can bet your life I get the wrong one every time!

Could we all assist @AffIt with the medication leaflet research? I take several different tablets each day, three of which come in boxes, and I am happy to record my box-opening-leaflet results.

I am only on page 2 so far, smiling and nodding my head until I read @JellyBabiesSaveLives spoons: ' my spoons are Abroad '

I am sorry - not ! but my smiling and nodding my head has now gone up a notch ! and I have tears !!! of laughter. and a huge grin on my face !

and as I am the slowest typist in the world, my lunch is now burning in the oven.

I have the same with sticking a USB in the port. It NEVER goes in the right way first time. Never. I even sometimes consciously turn it incase there's some bias (due to weight) when I pick it up.

There was a thread on here a few months ago about the medicine packets. The theory was the leaflet was at the date stamp end...or was it the other end? I still don't know!! I put my tablets into a 7 day holder - so my frustration only happens once a week. That happens to be tonight - so I wonder if I will win or move the medicine packet lottery tonight😀

*win or lose

Going back to losing one's shit over stuff - I think dh is close to losing his shit with the cat - accurately nicknamed CatBastard. He (the cat) has a perfectly good cat flap, but prefers to sit in the hall and glare at the front door until one of the staff (aka dh and me) lets him out. He will then sprint round the house, come back in through the cat flap, which he has managed to remember, and then goes and sits by the front door again, glaring at it until we let him out again! This makes dh stomp round the house, swearing under his breath. An explosion cannot be far away.

I lost my shit at my sister's cat, when we were teenagers. We didn't have a cat flap in our house - my parents didn't want one in the front door, and we had a porch at the back, and two cat flaps was just too difficult to imagine.

My sister's cat used to want to go out at about 4 am, and decided I was the best person to let her out, so she'd come and scratch at the bottom of my bedroom door until I woke up and let her out. That was irritating enough - but then she decided to make it a game. She would scratch at my door, then run away and hide in the front room. I'd open my door, see no cat there, and go back to bed - whereupon she'd give me just enough time to drop off, then she'd come and scratch again - the feline version of Knock Down Ginger. If I didn't want to be woken twice, I had to go and find the cat and evict her from the house.

Eventually I got so sick of this that, one night, I got the cat, took her into my sister's bedroom, dumped her on my sister and said "Let your own blasted cat out!!" It relieved my feelings, but didn't change the cat's habits.

@CharlotteBog USB drives exist in the 4th dimension, hence why they never go in first time.

#science

Oh my god, @letmeeatinpeace.

I would say I admire your chaos energy, but I'm too horrified.

@SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius We had a fat ginger cat who was perfectly capable of using the cat flap out th eback, and did so most of the time. EXCEPT, at around 10pm when he would sit at the front door and miaow until one of his slaves got up to allow him to exit. Which he would then do by sauntering outside, tail high.... We used to joke he was heading out to party!

We were on holiday abroad, where 2 of my cousins & their partners live. DS1 was going through a difficult teenaged phase, he was 15 or 16. Mainly due to this, the holiday had been quite fraught. As my cousins came into our villa, DS1 threw a sweet in my direction - I think I'd just asked him if he was ready to go - definitely something totally innocuous.
MN I. Lost. My. Sh*t.
Bless her, after my explosion, my female cousin, who doesn't have kids, broke the charged silence by saying "Families" in her broad Florida accent. We all laughed & I gave her a big hug. What a star.

On hold to doctors for 40 minutes at number 2 in the queue the whole way through. Went to the loo and didn't bring phone, remembered so went back to get phone to bring in with me, bloody missed it.