To wonder why my family only ever feel the need to talk to me when I'm trying to watch something I want to watch on the tv?

[FuckingSaggyOldClothCatPuss]

And why the hell I should have to Sky+ it and watch it later?!

I've all but given up watching TV for the same reason

I Sky plussed The Voice the other week and my DH decided to 'treat' me to his rendition of every fucking song so I couldn't hear the singers anyway

My DH always comes in with a burning question at the most crucial parts of whatever I am watching - particularly during F1 races

DH is the worst. He sits still and watches his programme, and then as soon as I sit down, decides to go from dining room to kitchen, repeatedly. Crossing in front of me, every time! Leaving all the doors wide open so a force nine gale blows up my gusset and shouting at the Dcs regarding school uniform etc!
Then DS wants to tell me about the last episode of Family Guy, and what Cameron did in school today. Dd wants me to run her a bath. When's dinner? Guess what Emily did today! Even the bloody dog gets in on the act! I REFUSE to watch tv at 11.30 when they have all gone to bed!
They just need to BE QUIET!

Saggs.

I'm intrugued about the drafty gusset.

How on earth are you sitting?

just on the sofa between two doors. We have a half dismantled bathroom at the moment, and the gale blows right past me, and out of the other door! Its bloody freezing!

My annoyance is that DH will talk to me AT ALL when I'm on MN

Not only that, I will stop typing, listen attentively, answer, satisfy myself he has finished. Then as soon as my fingers ht the keyboard to type, he bloody starts up again. Fucker.

god damn love ones and their desire to talk to us eh

I am home alone but get phone calls starting at 9pm - sadly now I don't hear them as I am 'in the garden and can't hear mobile above the lawnmower'

Leave the bastards!

If DH starts talking to me while I'm watching something I will press pause so I can listen to him without missing the programme which is annoying enough, but every time he says "don't pause it"' so I press play but he continues to talk so I miss it anyway, AHhHhHHHHHHHHH.

DH can be bad, but usually knows to shut up while I watch (rare) programmes. And they are all on about 9-10 at night. Whereas the au pair comes in from her classes or down from studying for a cup of tea about that time - and yacks yacks yacks until not only have I missed it the first time, but I've even missed it on +1 - yet a-bloody-gain!! I have given up trying to follow "The Good Wife" this season....

My kids always want to talk to me just after I have left the room or when I am half way up the stairs.
When I express annoyance once I have walked down the stairs to see what they want they say it doesn't matter!

My two always start a fight when I'm on the phone to someone I want to impress.

It's always at the important bit isn't it? The bit that if you miss it the rest of the film/program doesn't make sense. Never during the adverts.
I will put my hand up and say a quick "just a minute", and so they repeat what they are saying. "Just a minute" again, so they repeat and so on and so on.

And another thing ;) - when you are driving, all will be quiet as you trundle along the boring stretches, but the minute you hit the bit where you have to concentrate on lane changes, mirror, junctions etc, they start talking at you.
Make note next time you are out - seriously. I have pointed this out to friends over the years and they always come back and say "It's true! It does happen" Must be something about the car slowing down, or maybe we adopt an expression that says we are now concentrating and they instictively think "We are your family. We shall steal your thoughts"

upahill Yes! Mine always start a conversation once I've gone into a different room. Always.

yup. My lot can ignore me for hours and then the second i pick up the phone/turn to a programme I have been looking forward to - they have to talk to me right there and then about something stupid vital. And I am most unreasonable to point out that they've had hours and hours to talk to me and not bothered so shut up

I particularly love it when my husband says something, after hours of silence while he reads the kenyan news on the net and I say honey, my programme is on and he says oh sorry and then carries on talking.

One day I'll shove the remote where the sun don't shine.

oh, and yes yes YES to the car thing. quiet stretch - silence. Busy roundabout with other drivers apparently wanting me dead - it's time to tell me all about some book you were thinking of getting but then decided not to

You're lucky. Mine want to talk to me then too. AND when I'm in the loo, the bath or on the phone.

Yes. i haven't had an undisturbed shit since 1999.

Some women want diamonds, some want romantic trips to paris, some want flowers delivered on bended knee

I just want to take a dump without someone outside the door, telling me about fence panels or asking me where something they own, they use and they saw last is...

There's that time of year also when not only do they insist on talking at you but all the topics involve numbers. - Do I pack 4 jeans or 3? Is John 15 or 16? Does Granny live at no 27.
The time of year? Tax returns. (and the convo always starts just as you have added up 127 number)(and have to start again)

A second tv in another closed off room is my answer

Hmm for me tv is not the problem - it's the second I stick my nose in my Kindle that there's suddenly a queue for my undivided attention.