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?

Crohnically
Yes, you've reminded me! One pair was only available in one size - the other size is going to be the one I want isn't it

Oh - and another thing.

On the bus home from work tonight the bus driver slammed on the brakes, my shopping bag fell over and a punnet of strawberries tipped out and emptied all over the floor. I could have cried

Fortunately the bottle of wine that I had minutes before taken out of the bag and put into another bag to balance out the weight remained unscathed. Otherwise I really would have cried.

The woman who works in our local asda. She talks incessantly and I know far too many details of her life, I know which bus her son gets every day, in a city 300 miles from where we live...And her constant remarks, comments and questions about every single thing I'm buying as she scans it...Just fucking stop it! I now self scan a full trolley of shopping rather than go to her till.

Middle aged lady pushing people out of the way on the tube this morning to leave more room for her elbows while she watched EastEnders on a rather large tablet. Selfish cow, another person could have easily used the space her tablet took up.

If the train/tube is packed, please remove your suitcase sized shoulder bag from your shoulder to leave more space and not whack me in the stomach with it every time you bloody move.

To the woman who believed her bags deserved a seat to themselves on a busy commuter train the other night. NO THEY DON'T when its the last seat and do not give me the evil eye and big sighs because I made you move them.

Ah that's better

DS2 has ASD and is a really, really poor eater. Whenever I tell anybody they sympathise by saying 'Oh I know how you feel, DD only ever eats......' and then they reel off a list long enough to keep a small country fed for a year.

Its not the same!!!

People using kitchen metaphors with regards to pregnancy, it really winds me up for some reason

"Baby was born at 36 weeks but was definitely fully cooked"

"I'm scared I'm in premature labour, I want her to bake a little longer!"

NO. You are having a baby not baking a goddamn cake. I don't even know why this annoys me so much but it really does. Fully aware IABU.

Mum has given me a card and present for DBFs (Dear Boyfriend) birthday this weekend. In the card she has written something gushy about us as a couple. The gift is a framed photo of the pair of us that she's stolen from facebook. There's absolutely No Way I'm giving him these terrifying pair of objets.

*this, not these. Even my grammar is U.

Congratulations paddy!

NDN's chickens are making a complete racket and waking 9 mo DD up who still will only sleep on me during daytime naps but that's another story.

So I've had to shut the window but it's hot, damn it!

Friends of NDN knock on my door at 11:30 at night (block of flats) holding a large nervous dog by the collar. They tell me «you are the lady who has lots of pets» me «errrr...no I have no pets»
Them «but you do, you have lots of dogs and cats and a parrot»
Me « errr....no I haven't even a tiny fish or a tiny bird, nothing»
Them «but NDN says you have lots of pets. We have found this big dog and NDN said to bring it over for you to keep until morning as you'll know what to do with it and tomorrow you can find the owner.

Did you take it?!

No, I live in a small one bedroom flat. I know that sounds like a lame excuse but I don't know what I could have done with it next day.
I have seen the dog since being walked by a young couple who live in the building.
I don't know the neighbours and hadn't noticed them before but recognised the dog. Glad they were reunited

It doesn't sound like a lame excuse at all, I wouldn't have taken it. Why couldn't your neighbour have taken it!

Glad it was sorted though

That's what I thought! They'd found it, their problem. Also if the'd left it alone he'd have gone home seeing he lives in the building

Thanks Woonerism

I still haven't done a big shop and we will be living off Quavers, apples and bread soon!

I will mention the situation with the chickens to my DH who's trying to talk me into getting some. I'm refusing on the basis that I will end up looking after them! x

I got a snotty note put on my car the other day. I'd had the audacity to park behind some shops on a gravel, unmarked car park that apparently, despite there being no signs whatsoever, is private land. I'd been at sports day at school. I'd apparently prevented customers parking. Maybe they could have parked elsewhere on the unmarked, undesignated as private land, gravel?

I was most irritated. Aside from anything else, they'd put "Dear Parent" on the letter. I might have been at one of the shops for all they know.

The accountancy firm that put that note on my car have assured themselves of never getting my custom, that's for sure. Not that I have any need for that but that's beside the point!

Tesco have stopped doing an essential ingredient of one of my most frequently cooked meals. I will have to go to a different supermarket to get it.

I have no wine. It's Friday night where I am and DH has been away all week and I have forgotten to get some every day this week.
I am sick of washing up. I seem to do it 5-6 times a day. I want a dishwasher, but we live in a rented place with no room for one.

LadyCassandra I have no wine but at least here it's morning and I may be able to buy some later. Have a dentist's appointment later so if I do buy wine DH will be a little disaproving. I'll ignore,ignore ignore.
He won't say anything but will look in a dissaproving sort of way Kim

Kim?? Who is Kim?? Where did Kim come from??

Carrots.
Fucking carrots.
Why are they all so SMALL at the moment?
Can't seem to buy any bigger than 3cm long anywhere.
By the time I've peeled them I'm left with nothing bigger than a matchstick.
Bah

NotOneIota - I have to disagree with Cigars - I think Squawky and the Weep Weeps sounds like a name for an Indy band. Probably appearing in one of the smaller venues at T in the Park this weekend.

My trivial irritation is twofold. Firstly, the dses have, in recent weeks, developed an addiction to home made banana smoothies - so last week, I purchased a lot of bananas for them. They have stopped making the bloody smoothies, so now I have two enormous bunches of completely black bananas.

Secondly, when I noticed how bad they'd got, and said to dh that it would be a good idea to dump them into the food waste bin, which was outside, waiting to be emptied - so they'd go straight into the lorry and not spend another week festering outside the back door, he insisted that the lorry had already been. He was wrong, but by the time I realised this, they were outside the house, emptying the bin, and I didn't have time to get out there with my bananas.

Tesco don't deliver alcohol in the morning.
Now now, before you start hoisting up those judgy pants and clutching your pearls, That's the only delivery time that suits us.

the supermarket near my house has recently closed and the next one is at least 15mins walk away. I am 37 weeks pregnant and dying for some ice cream. I have been debating for at least 2 days whether I should brave the walk and get ice cream.
why is nobody delivering Ben&Jerrys to pregnant women when it is sunny?