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Vent your extremely trivial irritations here (yes, WABU)

207 replies

JeanneDeMontbaston · 09/07/2015 10:36

My neighbour is engaging in her daily chat right outside my door. She has a voice like someone strangling a duck, and she spends half her life having loud conversations in the middle of the street. Her daughter lives down the road and has the same voice, but half an octave higher and a bit louder.

She is also the most middle-class woman in the world and has now been talking for about twenty minutes about her front step and how it improves the look of the street.

She's very sweet, but her voice is going right through my head. What utterly unreasonable things are you irritated by today?

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Lottapianos · 09/07/2015 13:55

Deladion, ok you're allowed Wink Time to update your prescription sunnies though < stern look >

TheJiminyConjecture · 09/07/2015 13:55

I woke up this morning with a sore, swollen eyelid. I'm either growing a stye or I've bashed my face and not remembered. It hurts, looks unsightly and of course it's open afternoon at school so I can't just hide behind sunglasses at pick up

BoyFromTheBigBadCity · 09/07/2015 14:00

See also the adverts for that married at first sight programme. I can't imagine a stupider idea (well, not right now).

FanFuckingTastic · 09/07/2015 14:02

Old man next door, must be blind (I hope) as well as in a wheelchair.

Son walks in - he lives with dad usually, this is disabled housing and I have him three nights a week when I am well enough.

Oh. Is that your grandson?

WHAT!! I am thirty two years old. I could possibly be a grandmother, but having a ten year old grandson would only be possible if me and mine had children when we were eleven.

And he complained to the council that I had a horde of cats. I have two (well had, one got run over a couple of months ago) cats. Council lady was unimpressed by his counting skills.

Lottapianos · 09/07/2015 14:02

Boy, I am dying to watch that program! I'm really interested to find out what would motivate someone to do something so bonkers. I wonder if they're people who expect life to be like a Disney fantasy rather that a bit more, um, realistic

AmberFool · 09/07/2015 14:02

I am in between jobs at the moment. DP doesn't work Thursdays. He normally goes to his friends house for his hobby on Thursday. I was looking forward to a quiet day at home by myself as it's the last day I get all to myself. Nope, he is here with his mate. They are in a different part of the house but I know they are here. Grr.

binkiesandpopcorns · 09/07/2015 14:03

Lavender Grin

I have struggled in the heat for 2 and a half hours this morning with both hoover and steam cleaner and the house doesn't look that much different from before I started. I should have sat outside in the sun instead.

Notasinglefuckwasgiven · 09/07/2015 14:10

I'm generally irritated. But I have hormonal issues. Annoying because I now have to wait nearly a fortnight to have blood taken to see if I'm in early menopause. So I'm irritated by everything. Everyone. Bizarrely I like my DP when he's with me. Then get irritated with everything about him when we are separated at work.

ChristmasZombie · 09/07/2015 14:15

Re: Married at First Sight
Back in the 90s a local radio station ran a contest called Two Strangers at a Wedding, which was exactly what it sounds like. The couple got divorced pretty quickly, and Jeremy Kyle ran off with the bride.

NotOneIota · 09/07/2015 14:19

I have a squawky seagull with 2 chicks on a flat roof 20 feet away from my open bedroom window. The chicks have a relentless high pitched 'weep weep weep' one note call. I just want them to have a lie in occasionally. Every morning I'm disturbed from 4.30am onwards by a rousing performance by Squawky and the Weep Weeps.

Lottapianos · 09/07/2015 14:26

ChristmasZombie, I remember it well - ITV did a program about it. The bride was obviously a woman of exquisite taste and judgement Wink

itsmine · 09/07/2015 14:29

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Lottapianos · 09/07/2015 14:33

I feel your pain itsmine, people take up so much flipping space. And don't get me started on family excursions to supermarkets - parents, 4-5 kids, what look like grandparents and maybe a couple of other hangers on. WHY???????? Surely that's no fun at all for anyone especially me

whatlifestylechoice · 09/07/2015 14:37

We have a right of way through our property, right beside the house. Some dickwad has just walked through twice leaving the fences open for the dogs and hens to escape out of. They haven't, but that's beside the point.

Imma gonna get me a shotgun. Angry

StUmbrageinSkelt · 09/07/2015 14:38

The scales needed a new battery and it took us weeks to buy one.

Sitting on my arse and eating and drinking too much has actually meant I have gained kilos and kilos. Fuck it. I blame the scales.

DS2 has been asked to attend a Centrelink review of his disability pension. I am full of rage at this as he's been on this pension for 18 months, nothing has changed and to randomly review him is a total waste of money. Total. And a waste of my time. Surely the computer could have said no?

I was an adult today and went and set up an account so I can do a term deposit like a real grownup instead of having money sitting in my current account with no interest. The bloody internet banking portal won't let me in so I can adult.

shadowfax07 · 09/07/2015 14:46

DP folds everything wrong when he brings the washing in from the line. I have to refold it before I can put it away. It irritates me far more than it should.

horseygeorgie · 09/07/2015 14:48

I have run out of coffee. Plus Jeremy Kyle earlier did one of those extremely sad life stories with sad music ones, not rampaging chavs failing lie detectors and nicking old Aunt Mabels gold earrings. I want swearing and chavs TYVM.

Plus i NEED to clean the bathroom and I am too lazy. So i am annoyed with the bathroom for being dirty.

Plus my terrier is coming into season and is tempting my spaniel by rubbing her bits in his nose and cocking her tail over. He is oblivious bless him, but it means i will have to take her for a stay at my parents house. 15 mins drive FFS!!

itsmine · 09/07/2015 14:53

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Ohfourfoxache · 09/07/2015 14:54

First online shopping delivery - nappies, cat food and lemonade (offer on where there is money off your first shop).

DH has ordered the wrong fucking lemonade Angry a whole 6 bottles of it.

I'm getting through loads and loads of diet lemonade ATM (BFeeding) and he ordered full sugar stuff. Neither of us drink full sugar stuff. I have no space to store it and I could just throw a hissy fit quite happily......

Treeceratops · 09/07/2015 14:58

Pinksuitcase- when we were waiting for DS to be born (at 40+14) DH put a FB status of 'still no baby' then we ignored all texts. I agree they're bloody irritating.

SistersofPercy · 09/07/2015 15:01

I've spent all morning weeding the back garden. This afternoon I was planning on jet washing the decking and patio ready to stain tomorrow. I've done one step and the bloody jet wash has packed in.

Treeceratops · 09/07/2015 15:01

In a similar vein to Jimijack- DS has got up at 4.30-5 every day for 3 weeks. The last 2 days he's had a lie in until 5.40 but can I benefit? No, because I've got a ducking virus to add to the joy of the tiredness.

toomuchtooold · 09/07/2015 15:02

The other day I got on the train with buggy, 3 year old twins and massive bag that carries all our lunches/my German class books. I went in at the place where there is some space for bikes so I could put the buggy out of the way. It is never a crowded train and there was space to sit both further down and further up the train. However, the bank of 4 seats I had my eye on for us to sit down and eat our lunch was the only one we could sit at as there were no others free in that bit of the carriage and the gangway on the train is normal width, I can't get the buggy down it, so to move down the train I would have to get off and go back in another door. This was about 2 mins before the train was due to leave. I parked the buggy, removed my big bag and put it and one of the kids on the bank of 4 seats, turn round to get the other kid, turn back and kid 1 is sitting looking confusedly at 2 adults who have taken the remaining 2 seats facing her. To be clear, they could have walked another 10m down the train and I couldn't, so I had to remove kid 1 and bag and give DDs lunch in their much-hated buggy while I sat on the floor. Oh and the two adults were on a nice trip out to an art exhibition. WasIBU to "accidentally" run over the bloke's ankle on the way out of the train door?

Crosbybeach · 09/07/2015 15:05

My work colleague is chewing chewing gum loudly and with obvious pleasure. The will spit it in his bin that never gets emptied, so is gradually being lined with little bits of chewed up gum. Not that I can see his bin, I just know....

toomuchtooold · 09/07/2015 15:06

Oh aye, and when I am out with the buggy and it's busy, people who are actually walking more slowly than me "overtaking" me by stepping into the 50cm or so of clearance I leave between the front of the buggy and the people in front of me. They are exactly the same people who switch their brains off when they get in the car and then end up fucking tailgating you at 80mph.