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.

That fruit polos don't exist anymore
That when I go to delightedly pull a fuck tonne of hair from the bath plug, there's none there.
Any coffee in a cafe, never ever as nice as what I make at home in my £25 machine.
A new one for me, when where we're staying on holiday doesn't have a hot tub (FWP)

Having to buy tomatoes because your home grown ones stubbornly refuse to ripen.

@DancingLions It's always terrible when things don't happen the way they do in stories. I was disappointed that Roald Dahl's BFG didn't really have a house built in Windsor Great Park; that pressing my belly button didn't make me turn invisible; and that Central Park was in America, so I couldn't easily visit James's peach stone house. I used to sit in a chair with my eyes closed, hoping it would fly, like it did when my parents blindfolded me (see my earlier post), but that never worked.

A recurring disappointment in my last year at infant school was that as we were the oldest class, we'd be the last to queue for lunch, and all the good puddings would have gone by the time we got there.

I used to sit in a chair with my eyes closed, hoping it would fly, like it did when my parents blindfolded me

I loved that post! I just thought what lovely parents you must have had to create something so magical for you 😊

I did remember another story one. We had a built in wardrobe in our room and so many times I'd open the door hoping to find Narnia on the other side!

I buy toast at work. It comes through the toaster a pale (literally) imitation of what toast should be. If you ask for it to be put through again it comes out burnt. 😔

Passport photos
It's impossible to have a neutral expression without looking
a) at least a decade older
b) like a murder suspect
Or both

Even worse is when you're coming to the end of your current passport and the officers look at the picture and then at you, several times because you've aged badly 😂

When you have a spray bottle of a cleaning product, but you have to waste the last 100ml or so because regardless of whatever twisting of the nozzle you do, it just wont work anymore.

Yes!

I used to warm the beef ones up in the microwave. This was in the early microwave days, and I melted a few bowls too. But omg, warmed beef puffs were amazing.

Plugging in the thick end of a phone charger, wrong way first time, wrong way second time try the first way again

and the first tug on the curtain cord is ALWAYS the wrong one.

Yep. Both of these. Every time. 😄

We like packets of Maynards wine gums and Bassett All Sorts. For long car journeys. DH likes the black wine gums and the aniseed sweets from the all sorts. He gets so disappointed when there are only one or two (once NONE) but elated if there are lots

Does a wander round the supermarket count as a long journey? That's when I eat most of my wine gums.

Every day for the last week I've got to about 4pm and had a hankering for a glass of wine but by the time I've finished work, done dinner/homework/activities/dog walk, I've been too tired to bother. I've finally managed take a glass out of the cupboard and remembered it's my turn to pick up from scouts. Bloody children.

So not just me then. Still green on the vines.

Even tho I've tried most of them, I still persist in trying to find a flavour I like but the little paper tab on the end of the string for the herbal tea bag? I wind the string round the handle of a cup so that when the hot water gets poured in, the paper tab won't get in the water. But it always does. My heart sinks everytime.

Just hold the paper tab while you're pouring the water in?