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.

(Edited, I actually meant to put this in to the a special place in hell thread .

Not getting a ring of confidence from brushing my teeth with Colgate

Similarly the Dead Maids roundabout near my Mum in Somerset. Always a frisson of disappointment to drive past. Not sure what I'm expecting to see but something like The Sixth Sense...

Devils punch bowl in Hampshire ( I think it is)
(was only young tbf and I did think I'd spot a devil or two )
There's a huge roundabout called ' gallows corner ' in Essex and was ( again ) disappointed as a kid there isn't any actual gallows there anymore and it was a medieval thing!

I agree they were amazing

Oh my goodness....I came here to say that!!! My late husband and I had a real thing about it. We once watched a sitcom called "Love Soup". What you've described kept happening to the main character played by Tamsin Greig. Every time it happened to me or my husband, we would turn to each other and say "Arrrghhhh, Love Soup!" Glad I'm not the only one! Solidarity to you in the paracetamol instructions wrapped round tablets war!!!

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When you book a week off work and realise that your mean boss has booked the same week off so you don't benefit from the joy of them not being there and leaving you alone for a few days. Soul crushing.

You think you've done all the washing up and are mightily pleased with yourself. Then you turn round and see a load of other dirty plates etc on a different work surface that you forgot were there. I call it the "horror turn."

Worse is that on a Sunday morning you hear what sounds like unreasonably loud washing up sounds coming from the kitchen and go down, hopeful that it has been done....only to find soneone made all that noise while not managing to wash a single item! 🤣🤣 (and I fall for it most weeks!)

@Fizbosshoes Oh yes that old chestnut! I feel your pain! I know that "sink"ing feeling only too well. (Pardon the pun 😀)

Going back into the front room only to find that dirty cup you thought you'd taken out to be washed

Bath bombs. Always promise so much but just make a huge mess and leave you feeling greasy.

When I joined primary school I knew I could get married and have a job when I left school. A couple of years later I was gutted to learn there was another school I had to go to, scarily called “big school” after primary. I genuinely thought I would be a grown up when I got to 11.

This is so true!!!

@TigerRag Yes!!!!! So disappointing!

@Kenclucky I couldn't agree more. They promise so much and probably smell nice, but leave your skin feeling all slimy and weird and gritty. I receive some for Christmas from someone without fail, every year. And I always feel that tiny disappointment deep down inside. 😂

You don't even have to go abroad - there are parrots (well, parakeets to be strictly accurate) in London. DH and I spent a weekend at the Cannizaro House Hotel (now Hotel du Vin) on Wimbledon Common some years ago and there were LOADS of them in the trees and flying around - we were astonished to see them.

That when pigs are used to find truffles in the woods, they're not rooting up Ferrero Rocher.

Love a crunchie bar. (Although not eaten like that). Was sad to hear from veggie friends that (back then) they couldn't eat them as the shiny coating was made by boiling horses hooves or summat. Not sure if this is still true...

You can no longer buy Cheese Moments anywhere. And hardly anyone even remembers them!

I have parakeets in the trees outside my London flat - SO bright. And noisy.

I remember having some that was really rich with raisins or sultanas in it too … think it was from Sainsbury’s? Where did it go?!

I remember them, loved them and would love them to come back!

That Sainsburys Hash Brown's with Rosemary are no longer made.

They changed a fairly mundane potato product into Food of the Gods!