Vent your extremely trivial irritations here (yes, WABU)

[JeanneDeMontbaston]

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?

Mine happened this morning.

DH gets up a fair bit earlier than me to get to work. Fine, except he forgot that he had only hit the snooze button on his alarm clock, not turned the alarm off until tomorrow morning. So the fucking thing wakes ME up and he is nowhere to be seen!!! Grrrrrrr!! I considered throwing it out of the window.

Mine is just movement, I go into a shop (my biggest problem this week has been B&M Bargains) - I know what I want, where it is and how much it is. I walk to said place and they have reorganised the whole store. Now I have to spend an hour looking for the thing I wanted and went there especially to get. They are BU in messing up my day.

It might be trivial but it is incredibly annoying!

And another thing. I moved to Switzerland and I thought I had left behind the world of condescending Sure Start Family Support Officers telling me how to raise my kids and live my life and then I made the mistake of doing a German class in a language school that mostly takes people on unemployment benefit. So we've been told we need to use formal modes of address with our teachers so we can get used to what it's like in the world of work in Switzerland as if none of us had ever had a job. ODFO. I have worked here and people use informal modes of address all the time, that is when they are not using English which is the lingua franca and more commonly spoken in international companies than anything else.

Tiz I used to work as a shelf stacker in a supermarket and that drove us nuts as well!

I'm too hot with the fan off but if I put it on its bugging me (sensory issues, having a flare up). Have spent all day with the remote turning it on and off, the poor thing doesn't know what it's doing!

All I want to eat is Galaxy, but one bar is just too small. It needs one, possibly two more rectangles and then it would be perfect.

And either my cat has got better at walloping me in the face (yes, she's evil, but I adore her), or pregnancy has made my reactions slower. I always dodged out the way in time before.

I painted my toenails especially for karate camp (grade order colours ).

I don't like them- every time I catch sight of them they irk me.

I don't like being irked by nails, therefore I am going to redo them in one colour.

When I can be bothered.

tiz I hate that fucking "BOOK" advert too.

I'm in work and there's a man coughing about every three minutes It sounds like he's going to to throw up every time he coughs. He didn't cough for a long period of time (it occurs when he drinks heavily)

The retching sound is turning my stomach and it's starting to irk me!!!

I need to polish my toenails this evening because I'm planning on wearing sandals on Saturday for a christening back home. I hate hate HATE polishing my toenails, it's so bloody awkward!

WHY are the wee bottles at the antenatal clinic so narrow? Wee covered hands again...

tiz I also hate the BOOK advert...but not as much as I hate the new Lloyds advert. That woman's singing makes me feel unreasonably angry. I try to change the channel every time it comes on but occasionally I can't reach the TV remote when bf DD and get stuck listening to it.

Still no cheese balls.

DD2 insisting she wants pretty hairclips in her hair and then pulling them out/bending the metal/pulling the flowers off/losing them/giving them away at nursery!
DH this morning made me wonder why I married him. The semi skinned (green) milk had the whole milk (blue) cap on, and vice versa. I didn't notice until it was too late; and had been in anticipation of that tea for two hours.

I ordered a tesco delivery and forgot to add 2 items. It irritates me how forgetful I am at the moment.
It's a lovely day so I have the back door open but bluebottles keep coming in my kitchen and I had to spay Raid on them.
Oh my god, life is SUCH a bind!

DP has put Frasier on the series link on the Sky Box.

On sodding HD record.

Why? They certainly weren't recorded in HD! There's no need for HD!

But no, HD record it is, and each sodding episode takes up 1% of the planner.

There are a lot of episodes of Frasier.

For some reason this is driving me up the wall.

Sympathies to Thurlow, it's DH's Foyle's War here. If it's any comfort, perhaps your DH actually watches Fraiser?

FreeButtonBee - wee into a throwaway plastic cup, then transfer to little bottle.

My gripe is that I am poorly and off work. There is LOADS to do at home, but I'm too poorly. I wish I was skiving so I could do all the housework. And I have visitors this weekend and no money and what if I'm still poorly? I have planned cheap/free things to do but they involve me being well!

I take it you have a planner half full of unwatched Foyle's War then?

We were running out of space so much I had to delete some episodes of Banshee

I like to walk and chose my routes carefully to avoid other people

This morning on my normally peaceful route there were 3 other walkers and 2 cyclists! that is the epitome of unreasonable

I am also very tired because instead of an early night after finishing my night shifts I had to go to an awards ceremony at ds1's school to see him collect an award stealth boast

My new £7 sandals from Tesco have given me blisters.

I've had to buy NINE pairs of shoes because they're not available in store so have had buy them online in each colour in two sizes so I get the best combination of shade and fit

But gin if you bought them in 2 colours how did you end up with nine pairs? Was one colour/size combo out of stock or did you not order it on purpose?