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.

Cappuccino can be extremely disappointing, when the froth is about 3/4 of the drink and there's a tiny bit of liquid in the bottom.

and you're charged nearly 4 quid for the privilege. I'm not violent but it makes me a bit stubby being cheated on what can be a delicious coffee when it's made properly and ripped off, grrrr!

I was furious when my mum explained to me wearily that doing things 'in my imagination' was just 'thinking them in my head' or you know....pretending. I was convinced that I just needed to practise hard enough and the air around me would go all wobbly and I would be TRANSPORTED to a different land of my own CREATION like in Sesame Street. Thanks a lot Bjg Bird

I think it used to be a corner (in Roman times). There was a battle there. It marks the point where you decide if you're going to east Scotland or west. But yeah, nothing to write home about nowadays.

Real foxes were a childhood disappointment. I had imagined them as big, fierce creatures that would eat you all up, like they do in stories.

When I was forced to stop there one Bank holiday Monday on an emergency dash to Scotland, the loos in the services were the foulest I've ever seen. Years ago we went into the hotel for coffee, it was the weirdest place imaginable.

Chocolate ice cream

Chocolate=awesome
Ice cream = awesome

Chocolate + ice cream should = double awesome but just isn't.

I don't understand how this can be.

I agree and the same goes for chocolate cake too!
I love coffee and I love milk, but I hate coffee with milk. Espresso or americano for me.

Being in the audience for Fun House

5 fecking hours sat on a bench and didn’t even get to see the go karts or run to the front

I know someone who went for the audience, got hit by a camera and missed the whole show.

Marks and Spencer do a bowl of profiteroles with chocolate sauce in the bottom at Christmas. It’s lovely, but I think it serves 10!

Presumably that's binary.

You beat me to it and one of them had best not be hungry.

Putting the rubbish out, then realising that I still need to put the new bin liner in….

It's usually food items for me. i.e. posh biscuits, finest cake, artisan bread or a posh cream tea. Eat it and think 'meh that's not what the packaging said it would taste like and I've just wasted those calories!'.

Thoroughly agree with the fruit teas. All of them are minging.

That Herbal Essence shampoo/conditioner has never made be orgasm in the shower. Bit disappointing that.

Worse still, realising that after you've dropped something in it, it's usually something messy too.

You should try Haagen-Dazs Belgian chocolate. Flakes of choc all the way through the ice cream make it just amazing 😋

Try the tartuffe ice cream from Tesco by that Italian firm, can't recall the name at the moment. A dark chocolate bombe with a vanilla centre, rolled in cocoa and hazelnuts. Ice cream for grown ups, it's not sweet and absolutely delicious. And I say this as a hater of chocolate ice cream usually, and don't eat much chocolate either, but tartuffe is heaven.

I don't drink alcohol because it's a migraine trigger. I like alcohol free cider. So many of the ciders with alcohol in sound tasty. (But not worth a migraine!)

Update: saw the vine leaves in M&S today. Still prefer the tinned ones…

This is the tiniest disappointment of all time but it gets me over and over. It's that when you put your towel on the floor to stand on after your shower at the gym, it doesn't dry your feet. It feels like it does. But when you put your jeans on, they do the damp feet judder which is so uncomfy and disappointing.

I'm sorry this didn't involve chocolate.

@MorrisZapp that foot judder in jeans is horrible. Makes me cringe and it takes ages for my shoulders to come back down from my ears afterwards.

That Aldi have stopped click and collect and aisle of crap deliveries. Our nearest Aldi is a trek to get to, and I found it easier to click and collect. Also liked the aisle of crap delivery with online reviews.

I ran upstairs after eating my first bowl, aged three, to admire myself in the mirror, and burst into tears.

That when you put really soft and fluffy slippers on your bare feet, you stop feeling them after a few minutes. I remember noticing this when I was four or five years old.

In the "innovations catalogue" in the 1990s, it described wearing one pair of sheep wool slippers as "sheer ecstasy". For a minute or two, maybe.

As a kid in the 70s, I loved a show called "the phoenix and the carpet" and was convinced that if I sat on our hallway rug for long enough, I'd fly off somewhere magical. I still don't know why it didn't work!

Also as a kid, I used to take a boring, bland packed lunch to school. On the day of the Christmas party one year, my mum went all out and my lunch was spectacular. Got to lunch time and the dinner lady whipped it off me. Turns out we were all supposed to bring in contributions to share! I was devastated. I hate sharing food to this day!