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?

Thenumberseven, why would your dh disapprove?

I hate my neighbours cats. They shit in both our front and back garden and one tries to get in the house. So with this hot weather I can't leave the back door open as I have a newborn and I have to check the garden every time my toddler wants to play outside.

Awwww hello Babypaddypants

Did you get a GoodyBag from The Adsa for going into labour in their shop? It used to be The Law that if you were in a shop when your waters went, they gave you gifts.
(Which was probably why the checkout operator is Sainsburys whoosed my shopping through when i told her DC1 was due the next day. "Oh bugger, another instore birth" she thught)

And now I have no Co-Yo yoghurt and I cannot be arsed going to Big Tesco.

Sigh
Looks at empty pot.

Milkingmachine
get cat repellent crystals from your nearest pet shop or amazon. they look and smell a bit funny at first but we have only used them for a couple of weeks and never had any problems since (that was nearly 2 years ago). Neighbour's cat is still in our garden but not using it as a toilet anymore!

We've got painters at the back of the house and the front of the house and coming in and out to use the loo - nowhere is private. And, the jasmine is in flower which I have been looking forward to for months and I can't smell it because the paint smell is so strong.

Milking, we have the exact same problem with our neighbours cats, they never let them in either so they're always trying to sneak into our house if we dare to leave the back door open in hot weather. The crystals don't seem to phase them, so we are thinking of investing in a super soaker!

Thanks 70islimit! I said hello from you and he let out a little snore in response.

Sadly my waters didn't break in store, I had been having mild pains all morning but I suddenly began having very strong contractions, very close together. Cue me limping out of the store in a panic while DH dragged 2.5yo out by the arm whilst she was having a tantrum. (We were choosing something for her.) Hence no goody bag!

Thank you Maya and Poosweats. At least I'm not alone with this issue!

We have tried several different techniques. I have fantasies of soaking the cats with the hosepipe, but in reality I'm just not fast enough!

Going around sprinkling urine around the boarders of our property worked for a few days but as soon as it rained the cats were back.

My dog has we'ed on the carpet, despite the fact that the door to the garden has been open all day. He has NEVER done this before and of course it in the room where we have visitors staying on Monday. I want to watch Wimbledon, not clean dog wee.

And my knee hurts a bit and Djokovic is winning (Gasquet is prettier).

And everything!

Lol!

I have to book help with train travel in advance (I need a staff member to set up the ramps for me) andwas told by the train company's disability helpline that the strike meant help would be available at my destination station and they'd book that for me but that my local station would be operating unmanned so I'd have to find a way to manage or not travel. So I didn't travel. And I just popped into the station to post a letter. There are staff there.

Yesterday I qas given a free sample of posh smoked salmon. Used it up to make dinner. There wasn't enough and I was still a bit hungry afterwards.

I can't please everybody and I really really want to.

Maya 15

A few years back, pizza hut would deliver ice cream. You didn't have to order pizza so you might be able get your Ben and Jerry fix without leaving your house.

brussels He thinks if you've had anesthesia you should'nt have alcohol

I really want to shove a council worker's strimmer up his arse.

Ahhhh ... thanks everyone, this has really cheered me up.

And countess, that is rubbish - hope the jasmine is good next year.

Totally agree with those fed up with slow checkout types. Grrr!

Also, can we agree that topless men need to die? Yes?

Thenumber7, rubbish I'm sure you'll just get drunker faster...

jeanneIt depends on the half naked man...

And also which half is naked?

Pub chalkboards which say "lunch served from 12pm".

No. You mean "12 noon". At that time, it is neither pm (post meridian) or am (anti meridian). It is just meridian.

Similarly, "12am" doesn't mean anything, despite the fact some seem to think it means midnight.

Having to sit at someone else's desk and use their icky phone and mouse.

The bicycle outside my house was briefly moved yesterday. I pounced and removed the gate he was locking it to, the gatepost is hard to the wall so no way of locking to it. I then piled my recycling bins in the space where the bike was (is bin day today so perfectly acceptable to have them out on the path). This pleased me a lot and the bike is no where to be seen. It is petty but I am a lot happier.

at brussels.

I am thinking of the half-naked kind who is rather sweaty, unpleasant smelling, and scratching his armpits. Copious examples round here at the moment! Bleugh.