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.

Aged about 5... so disappointed when the new cushion flooring for our kitchen arrived. Parents should have managed my expectations!

As an adult I've wondered if some kids have been similarly let down by floating shelves.

Apples. Why can I never find any apples that are tangy rather than too sweet and bland? I’m sure I used to get them but even Cox's and Braeburn are disappointing now. Or is it just me? (Any recommendations?)

Sherbet fountains. The pipes, whether liquorice or plastic, don’t work to suck up the sherbet.

When I found out that Cadbury Creme Egg Easter eggs were not a giant creme egg but just a hollow chocolate egg with a couple of creme eggs in it

Chocolate cake. Always looks so yummy but never lives up to it in taste. Better off with a bar of chocolate

I was so excited to go on a plane aged about 4 because I thought we'd be able to stick our hands out the window and grab a bit of cloud. I still feel that disappointment when I see a big fluffy cloud.

Also herbal or fruit tea. Every so often I succumb to the temptation of the blurb on the packet and every single time they smell delicious but taste of hot water.

I take lots of tablets, some of which have to be taken at least 30 minutes before I can have my first cup of coffee and have to be taken at least 30 minutes apart.

Oh the disappointment when I get distracted by sorting out the dog and realise I havent started the routine so have an hour to wait before I can have a cup of coffee!

Definitely agree about opening the tablet packet at the wrong end.

Having to open another pack of tablets - I take 10 at a time of the same thing so finding I have to open another pack is another disappointment.

Realising I cant go to bed until I have taken all the tablets I need to take first.

Tablet taking is an ongoing disappointment.

Blueberries
Promise so much
Boring, tasteless little bastards

Patisserie Valerie - the cakes always looked amazing but we’re always a bit rubbish. They always tasted of a bargain cake - dry and fake. I wasn’t surprised at all when they went bust.

Use two
Brew for 5 minutes
Slightly better flavour, but twice as expensive

But no programmes or films are filmed 'sequentially'! Inexplicably knowing this annoys the pants off me! Filming should start on page 1 of script and work through subsequent pages!!
All to do with effects/availability of people/weather/vagaries of director. I think programmes involving the general public are probably a directors greatest challenge!

Scotch Corner.

Signposted for miles on the A1. It’s just a roundabout and a rubbish service station

Noooo Another childhood memory ruined.

So the 'lock-ins' weren't genuinely sitting alone, bored off their tits for an hour while the rest of the gang went off to win more crystals?

As PP said it obv makes sense not to film in sequence but still, I just don't want to believe it

Turkish Delight: Edmund (the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe) was so desperate to eat it that he sold his brother and sisters to the White Witch: I too was very disappointed when I sampled some.

😄 I feel this too! When I do get one (or more if I’m lucky!), I feel it’s a sign they are deeply regretting ignoring me for so long, and are desperate to win my affection once again 😁.

…and yet feels like an open prison anyway 🤷🏼‍♀️

Noooo Another childhood memory ruined.

So the 'lock-ins' weren't genuinely sitting alone, bored off their tits for an hour while the rest of the gang went off to win more crystals?

As PP said it obv makes sense not to film in sequence but still, I just don't want to believe it*
*ImDuranDuran *

I will believe but go ‘lalalalala’ and revert in my head to the way I thought it happened as a child. (Sorry scalt have just had too many disappointments in life to take this one😉😅)

As a kid I was totally gutted that a box of Kellogs Country Store did not contain a small cubed shelving unit with various fruits, nuts and grains in the cubby holes.

I still give the box a side eye if I ever see it, as a now 50 year old.

Realising as a child that the people I heard about on the news ‘helping police with their enquiries’ were actually suspects and not amateur detectives who had a good theory the police were too inept to see.

My dream of being a real life Enid Blyton-style child sleuth (or retiring to be Miss Marple) was over when my grandma explained it to me. Still remember the disappointment decades later when I listen to news reports.

Ah I'm with you on that one... I still eat Ready Brek and the best I can manage these days is a mild menopausal glow

That’s the age when it feels worse - and always will (58 here)

I have the same (very feminine) name as an American rock star's stage name. I was gutted when I was about 10 and discovered that they were a man.

I complained to my mum once when I was about five or six that I never got post. She secretly wrote a letter and posted it to me so I had something to open a day or two later. I've never forgotten it. She died when I was 11 and I so wish I still had that letter. I was thrilled to bits when it turned up 🤗

Nyah!!!!!!! Yes!!!!! Seriously? Again? I said this to a friend who sanctimoniously informed me that the way to deal with it was to just take the paper out. But it's the fact that the law of averages doesn't even apply - I always get the paper end of the packet - that I just find unfair.

Also, when I read the Thursday Muder Club by Richard Osman, I really enjoyed it, but felt a tiny twinge that the club were not the ones committing the murders.

@ICallPeopleDudeNow 🥰

How unsartorial my daughter’s first primary school uniform was.