Lighthearted things that give you the rage

[Lelophants]

When youre trying to pull out baby wipes when needing to clean something (often a baby’s bum!) very quickly and either none will come out or an absolutely massive wad of them!

The postie giving us the mail of someone who lives over a mile away (ie cant just drop it next door).

When technology doesnt just work.

That bottle caps that are now attached to the ring - if I keep it attached then I end up with drink dripping on me if I drink the last few drops of the drink, and if I snap it off in a rage I risk the drink spilling everywhere.

They've genuinely made my life a little worse (as someone with a clingy baby who survives off bottles of Huel). I wasn't planning on discarding my bottle caps all over a beach but if I get dripped on one more time while breastfeeding I may just go out there and personally strangle a turtle (jk, of course...)

Everyone had candles on their birthday cake when I was growing up and I’m 52, pretty standard everywhere before Covid 🤷‍♀️

How old are you?? I have pictures as far back as the 60’s of family blowing out candles on a cake.

Flasks, as in ones with hot water in. Can someone invent one that doesn't constantly tip over wherever you put it - and then start leaking.

Im 37. I did it growing up in the 90s obviously but i dont know if my parents didnt do it because they didnt have much money (and they were born in the 50s)

You wish when you blow out the candles, which are, obviously, on the cake. I'm 60, British and done this since I was a small child.

You see when i grew up it was

1. Sing happy birthday
2. Blow out candles
3. Cut the cake and make a wish
4. Everyone cheers

DH is australian and his childhood tradition was

1. Sing happy birthday, hip hip hooray, then "why was he born so beautiful why was he born at all" to the tune of sing hosanna
2. No candles on the cake
3. Cut the cake and make a wish, but dont touch the bottom or youll get green babies

Must just be an our family thing rather than standard

My kids love candles on a cake, every child I’ve ever seen have a cake had candles on.

Must be the “only on MN” thing where candles on a cake aren’t a thing

In our family nowadays we do a cake and if any of the kids want a candle type thing on their cake we do sparklers so they can go out on their own while we sing (they actually prefer sparklers because they look better. But i think the noveltys a bit thin now, the kids recently have been preferring no candles/burning things at all, just the song).

Then we go straight to cutting the cake

Child of the late 50s, early 60s here. Me and my friends/school mates all had cakes with candles at our birthday teas.

Do they really or is it just more a thing you love for them to have because you've always done it?

Because I've never met a kid who actually liked doing it

I wasn’t expecting this thread to be so dog and cake focused!

Oh my god i bloody hate them, especially on the big coke bottles!

Always cut my sodding hand on those things

Buying a net of lovely little oranges marked 'easy peelers', only to find they are impossible to peel without biting the skins off and, even then, they take half the juicy insides with them and squirt all over you.

People who can't understand a joke.

Yes well we do that. How else are you supposed to reference to your pets.? The dogs understand Moomy and Daddy and will (mostly) accept commands

Yes they like it. Never met a child who didn’t!

I’m British. I grew up in Britain. Nearly 60. I’ve had candles on my birthday cakes every year of my life. And so does every single person I know.

I often had to relight candles so that my other child could make a wish too.

Being called "Hun".

Yes I've never known anyone NOT to have a candle on their cake. And I've been to 100s of parties as a kid and over the 21 years being a parent.

Agree. And smiley faces emojis used in business and professional communication. I'm instantly annoyed by it.

When my coworker puts “Happy {Day of the week}” in all her emails. Irks the hell out of me for no reason.

I loved the smell of birthday candles ,1970s

Since covid we now use a balloon pump to blow out the candle. Which the kids love doing! It was only in covid that highlighted how gross blowing all over a cake is.