to think 40 years old is too young to become a miserable old git?!

[MrDobalina]

I'm so irritable. With strangers

1. was at event at the weekend with kids area-small kids area, really good and popular with lots of kids. Some nit-wit parked their buggy in the small space (completely filling it) between the toddlers playmat/toy cars n trucks and the face painting stall!!! grrr....it was piled high with coats and bags and stuff...more bags stacked behind it and balloons hanging off the side! I manoeuvred the balloons so I could sit with my 2 year old because she is going through a snatchy/grabby/pushy stage.

Not only that but 2 women sat on the adjacent side of play mat with legs stretched out in front of them...completely blocking access to that side of mat!

Owner of pushchair comes along, fiddlers a bit, releasing balloons from where i had positioned them, leaving no space for my head!! I got up and removed dc...I couldnt bring myself to say anything because it was so fucking obvious they were being difficult IMO, i couldnt have been polite

2. pedestrians WALKING IN THE CYCLE LANE with headphones in!!! I fucking hate headphones..i could rip them all out and toss them into the road! YOU CANT HEAR ANYTHING YOU IDIOTS!

3. Ill be back with more...just warming up!

AIU so far?

no, embrace the miserable old git.
Completely Not Unreasonable.

I have been a grumpy old woman since I was 18. I am far too old to change now.
I hiss(under my breath because I'm too timid to say anything unless I'm in uniform) at:-

1. People who spit
2. People who throw litter 3)Cars and bike who don't put lights on and for bike wear something bright.
3. people who stop dead in the middle of the pavement for a chat leaving me to walk in the road 5)People who don't say thank you when I hold doors open for them

and breathe......

I'll think of some more in a minute.

ach im 41 and getting grumpier by the day I can't be bothered being nice to anybody i don't want to go out I am just grumpy I am on a bit of a short fuse tbh

Every single sentence I utter at work starts with: well in my day........

Goodness me no!

I am fully 9 years into grumpy 40 yr old and you know what? I stopped caring. I think at my time of life I really really don't need to put up with stuff I don't like and don't agree with.

People who stop at the top of escalators and look around gormlessly deciding where to go next while people pile up in a heap behind them are my current bugbear.

A loud 'Excuse Me! and a gentle nudge under the kidney soon shifts them.

A loud 'Excuse Me! and a gentle nudge under the kidney soon shifts them.

I had too EXCUSE ME loudly at the weekend
god did they realy need to stop and chat in the middle of the aisle as i was cutting through DID THEY REALLY

Uch no, I can't be bothered with people anymore if they don't have decent manners. I even like going to Dobbies for tea and scones. I'm 42.

I think I better start ordering from Cotton Traders and M&S Classics...

I'm working nights at the weekend, the end of freshers week and will be channeling my inner grumpy old woman.

My favourite quote from a colleague last year who is my age and level of grumpiness was ' if you tell me your name is Darren Pubic Hair one more time I will lose my temper' Said drunken teenager was a lot more polite after that.

OP are you my DH? No, seriously, I think you are.

no, no dont encourage me!!

WRT litter life i have taken to stopping people and handing it back to them/ telling them they dropped something

yesterday evening- i pulled up along side a man who had just parked by the side of the road, to ask him, in shades of passive aggressive, 'do you know youve parked in a cycle lane?'

and i mumble and frown alot......

but its normal then?

Its not just normal its positively healthy.

Repressing emotions and firmly held beliefs is never a good thing at our age.

I, too, have been a grumpy old woman since I was about 18. I'm 43 and truly embrace my curmudgeon misanthropic ways.

My son starts pre-school on Monday. The playground mummies won't know what hit them...

In 29 and I'm a grumpy old woman. By the time I'm 40 I may spontaneously combust!

YABU you are never too young to be grumpy! Heck, even my 19 month old is having a good old practice.

DM tells me I was born middle aged... And now I am an "angry breastfeeder" and "grumpy old woman" and "angry parent".

I don't think it is me.

It's them.

The ignorant people.

Grrrrrrrrr! I would be cheerful and non-grumpy if they had better manners! So no, YANBU.

Thanks Maryz, you gave me a good idea for my hoverereereererrreer.

My good friend and I joke about this all the time -we hit 40 and have NO tolerance whatsoever now for anyone or anything!!

We text each other most evenings listing the things people have done to piss us off - very cathartic

Just popping my head in to say I'm a miserable old git and 23.

Picture the scene yesterday. Me sat on an empty beach reading my kindle. Along come a family of adults and plonk themselves less than a metre away from me and sit there jabbering away constantly. WHY WOULD ANYONE DO THIS?! I got up and moved in the end and about a minute later they left. Bastards.

It's at times like that spotted I am glad there are gun laws in this country!

I've been a grumpy old woman for years!

My name is Maat, I am 50 and I am a grumpy old woman.

I no longer mutter things under my breath but say them out loud.

I talk to myself at the bus stop and spend a lot of time tutting.

I am a professional pedestrian and hate it when people do not follow the RULES.

The only thing that annoys me are those people who get upset about anything and everything, who shout "excuse me!" all the time, and who really just need to step back for a moment, look at themselves, and chill a bit.

It could be a funny sketch, someone accidentally pushing a buggy into one of you, and not apologising, upon which you would combust and shout " excUUUUse me you wanker, that was actualy fecking rude! You could at least apologise, you fecker!"

runswalks leisurely from thread....

ah SHADDUP chandon!

intrigued maat what ARE the rules?!

My DH has been a grumpy old git since the day he was born...

Maat- does one of the rules say how annoying it is when someone just suddenly stops in front of you? Often seem around central London.

To the couple who my mum and 3 aunts just suddenly stopped on front of in the middle of st. pancras station the other day- I am so sorry. They were totally oblivious to the fact you were there. I did try calling their names but they were oblivious to me too. I hope my mouth hanging open showed you how shocked I was!