Tiny disappointments in life

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Dh has just put on an episode of University Challenge. It disappoints me every time that the teams aren't actually sitting one on top of the other.

I'm always slightly disappointed when I check in for a flight that I never get upgraded to First Class.

There's no reason why I should get an upgrade but I live in hope that one day they'll look at me and utter the words 'Ah, Mrs Romaining, you look like a nice person so we've moved you to First Class in your own little pod with champagne and proper cutlery."

I'm always disappointed when this doesn't happen in hotels either! I always read / hear about people saying "oooh we got upgraded to a much bigger room" How?!?!?! The only upgrades I've ever had, I've paid for!

When you think there is one more sweet / crisp / biscuit left in the packet so you rummage around only to find its empty

I was expecting that fellow with the crown on his head from the Beano adverts for sure! Not a bloody flea.

Classic movies. I watched How to Marry a Millionaire last night (thank you BBC4). Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, Lauren Bacall.

It was fucking excruciating. Slow, awkward, poorly scripted, badly edited and entirely lacking laughs or sexual chemistry.

The ladies and their costumes were utterly stunning but they couldn't carry this utter stinker and all concerned looked embarrassed.

I mean come on 1953, look at Doris Day films. Do better!

Herbal teas smell so lovely and appealing but taste like ditch water.

It's a hotel (perhaps that was there first). My parents spent their wedding night there over sixty years ago. I'm Cumbrian. I always feel like I'm almost home when I get to Scotch Corner.
I think I've found my people.

It only happened to me once, I was impressed I'd taken one of my children to Ireland where my family come from. Receptionist asked if I was there on business or pleasure and I said I used to visit this area as a child and many years after to visit granddad and I'd brought DC to see where we came from. She said hold on I'm going to upgrade you. It was a lovely room.

A friend and I got upgraded to business class once. No idea why. But it was particularly gratifying because the other person we were flying with had bent our ear all the way to the airport about how clever he'd been checking in online, and buggered straight off to security and duty-frees having ditched his bag, leaving us to queue. How we enjoyed our fifteen minutes of texts to him in Economy ("Any idea what we should do with all this extra space?" "Can we bring you some complimentary cookies?") before we had to turn our phones off

Right I'm going to use that line going forward!!!

Empty after eight mint packets in the after eight mint box

I mean, I know the truth by now but I am still as disappointed as I was when I first found out that there are, in fact, no horses involved in water polo.

@ThePrologue
But those aren’t proper blueberries.
The proper ones taste a lot and your tongue turns purple 🤩
Get some myrteilles from France for the real experience!

I vividly remember my disappointment from those fake, huge, impostor berries.

I do like myrtel jam, tho!

My friend used hers a couple of Christmas’s ago and the sparks card said she was a lucky customer and her shopping was free. She checked with a member of staff and was told yes, it was on M&S.

I was once waiting to check in at a hotel and there was some issue with the room for the customer in front, they needed an accessible one or something, so the reception staff were having to juggle the room allocations around. The manager looked down the list on her screen and said "I'll upgrade him because he has a nice name!" I would love to know what 'his' name was!

Good luck. I was wondering if their might be a huge increase in people telling hotel receptionists they were visiting where their family originally came from.

My other tip was for GS. Putting him on train for his first long journey, about 3 or 4 hrs and he was 11 or 12. I asked the train manager if he could just keep an eye on him at his destination as it was his first long journey. He was moved into first class and given CocaCola and chocolate. He was well impressed.

Hopefully he was scouted for a top model agency, making an absolute fortune and you will get to see him again even if just in print!

Definitely agree with this but love a chocolate brownie!

I think you replied to wrong person!

I was disappointed to learn that the Bank of England Vault is not dim and dark, as I had imagined it, but very brightly lit inside, as shown by those photos of the Queen in the vault, surrounded by gold bars.

It always does! I have no idea why.

Thought of another. Maybe we can start a revolution about this:

screenshot and screenshotted.

i am disappointed that it is not acceptable to say, “screenshat” for past tense. it is a missed opportunity, especially when the screen shotee is shitting on their colleague by taking a screenshot,

“Yeah, Mike screenshat me to the boss”.

Iceland have some but they are small single portion size but very nice.

I got a hotel upgrade, but I asked for it. When the hotel is half empty I think they then tend to put people together or at least on one or two floors to make it easier for housekeeping / room service etc.

Maltesers, they used to be malty, crunchy and chocolaty, now they dissolve into a tasteless lump. I have tried them a few times thinking it must have been an odd packet but no, they really are disappointing.