To be driven mad by....

[kimi]

People who let their dogs poop on the pavement, grass etc. and dont clean it up.

People who walk in the middle of the path very very slowly and dont leave you room to get past so you have to drag along or walk in the road.

The stupid parents who park on the zigzag lines outside the school, same ones everyday, god forbid little johnney should have to walk more then 10 steps.

Mothers who stop to gossip in the middle of the sumermarket alse or street blocking everyone with their prams and buggies.

People who leave their shopping trollies in the middle of the alse and wonder around the shop, to retern with an arm full of shopping put it in the trolly and go off again.

Kids on heelies.

Young people who dont give up their seat for elderly people on buses.

People who talk through the whole film in the cinama, (if you want to talk go for a meal instead.)

People who tell you the ending of the book you are only half way through.

Shop staff to busy chatting to each other to serve you.

People who put their feet on seats, or their bags, shopping ect.

Or am i just becoming my mother, if so please shoot me now!

Yes I hate all those things too

I also can't stand it when people say "little Johnny" when talking about someone else's random child, never in all my born days have I met a child who was actually called ^little Johnny"

Sorry to add to your catalogue of miseries kimi, but it brings me out in weals

I know a little johnny, his dad was john and the poor child got called little johnny, and still does although he is in his 30s now!!!
I also have a friend who is forever called big Al, but he is 6 feet 7 so it suits.

OK, so there's one

but it still irks me

grumpy old woman syndrome, it comes to us all!
am guilty of leaving my shopping trolley though
but i do pick up my dog's poo

They all get me going. I have become my mother and i'm 10 times worse. you can shoot me too!

Pass the blindfolds please!!

1 -no
2 -a bit. just walk round them, theyre prob not doing it one purpose
3 -no i guess not
4 -again, cant you go round?
5 -yes. i do that sometimes... esp if in a hurry...
6 -dont come across kids on heelies out here in the sticks... can imagine they might be annoying...?
6 -not at all. is a terrible thing.
7 -no. v annoying that would be
8 -people do this?
9 -oh god no, that is sooo annoying.
10 -pos a little bit..

i dont know your mother... but id say your last hypothesis may be a factor here...??

My mother is a very lovely woman, and is the GOD of babysitters, but when i turned of top of the pops saying "its just noise no decent songs anymore" i thought it might be time to take up bingo

Nappies you're still young, and after another 10 years of walking around them, you too will be fed up!

Buggies are getting bigger and wider and have extras now like those seat board things, throw some shopping bags and maybe a scooter and its a wide load! Path tax the lot of them! joke!

its not my youth... its my zen-like inner peace

I could do with some of that!

Kimi, I am just as unreasonable as you!!! Have you noticed that the parents that park on the zig zags are the ones that would benefit from a bit of a walk???? I have a right trek from the car park at DD's school (we are lucky, we have a car park) and I have to carry a 16 mth old monkey to get there, rain or shine (or snow as it was last week). HOWEVER, there are some fat back ended ladies that park right outside the school and wait for their kids to walk up to the gates, they don't even get out of the car to help them with their bags!!! It winds me up no end, if my 16 mth old can do it, why can't they???? Christ, I used to do it carrying the babyseat too and I am a bit of a weakling and would huff and puff whilst thinking 'it's good for you, it's good for you!!!'

Funny, it's the skinny minnies at our school who do it.

Gingermonkey, are you my long lost twin?
I think i love you

NO - vile.

Yes - say excuse me, and shove past.

NO - they're idiots and need educating on road safety...not that they'll take any notice, cos they think it won't apply to them.

Yes - we've probably all done it at some stage.

NO - tell em to take the trolley with them, lol.

Yes - but then my boys haven't discovered heelies and tbh I've yet to see any in action around here.

Yes - blame the parents for failing to instil some basic manners into them. (well the parents get blamed for everything else).

NO - tell em to sod off to the cafe instead.

Yes - I'd forget anyway.

NO - tis RUDE.

NO - again tis RUDE.

I am definitely turning into my mother, a fact that I'm proud of, lol. (disclaimer my mother has been dead for 8 years and everyone remembers her with a rosy tint, lol)

Kimi, you know, I have always felt I was missig a twin and now I've found you . I love you too!

oops, missing!

I feel the love

Agree with all those except heelies - I love them and would buy a pair for myself if I weren't too damn old.

Greensleeves: we're calling our baby Jonny, and I'm hoping he'll be reasonably little as he's due in three weeks.

Can I add a specific London niggle: skinny girls who stand with their hips & elbows pushed out on the tube escalator so you can't walk past them. Overweight people make an effort to make room - skinny girls are oblivious.

Can we not just dislike skinny girls in genreal?
(having a fat day)

I'm skinny but I keep my hips and elbows tucked in! (they bruise easily! )

Then we must like skinny girls!!

Hooray! I thought I'd killed the thread by being skinny!!! I may be a skinny minnie but I'm not keen on obsessive skinnies that don't eat cake or drink whole milk and push their salad around the plate before saying 'oh, I am really stuffed, I couldn't eat another thing'.

I love my food, but i am on a diet at the moment.
Being sponsered in memory of a friend who died.

Well, don't diet too much coz it's bad for you . Whereas eating cake is not (and one day I will prove it!) Good on you though, and it's a good incentive to be sponsered (because if you give up noone will want to pay up!!!! )