AIBU? Don't care if I am! Getting grumpy!

[strawberrisc]

Don't get me wrong I'm not an unhappy person by any means and I have a lovely circle of friends (of varying ages) who "get me" but the older I get the more the little, tiny things PISS ME OFF. You don't even need to answer as I know I'm BU but the feelings are real. Things such as people dropping litter or putting their feet on the seats on trains have always been up there but is it weird to be apoplectic with rage inside about such things as?:

Grown adults using the term "simples"?

Ditto "Snowflake"?

Haribo adverts where adults are dubbed as babies?

That kid that keep harping on in a simpering voice about how long Daddy is taking with the washing up bottle?

Young people (DD included) saying "like" every third word in a sentence?

People taking pads and pens to the most brief meetings at work?

Same people asking a thousand irrelevant questions when everyone just wants to go home?

Having a brief comment about old people annoying me deleted from MN when all around people are calling each other "see you next Tuesdays?"

Women on adverts having multiple orgasms about air freshener?

People checking sheafs of lottery tickets at the local shop during the lunch hour. Or ever, actually?

Any train station outside of London not having a self-service ticket machine?

People thinking their birthday should be some kind of national holiday?

People in front of you staring at the ATM like they just landed on Mars?

People turnng up at your castle house unnanounced?

Constant references to "Brexit" - or the DM in general?

Stupid new buzzwords like 'babymoon' and 'throwback snap (i.e a photo taken a week ago).

Plastic chairs.

Breastfeeding Nazis (and I breastfed).

Prams with the kid's name emblazoned on the quilt and hinges.

Asda changing the tinned mixed-bean recipe to cut out all sugar/flavour?

Lorraine Kelly?

Idiots always winning the National Lottery?

Ok, all irrational and I know I'll be flamed off here but that felt SO GOOD.

strawberrisc can I redeem myself by adding people who faff about finding their cards, coupons, etc. at the supermarket checkout when they've had all that time queuing to get them out?

And why can't they move their trolley away and put stuff away so I can get on with my shopping??

The older I get the grumpier I get. And that makes me grumpy in itself - I'm such a fucking stereotype. I'm so bloody intolerant of faffing and delays and incompetence, even my own, that I annoy myself.

Hang on...

This is the Friday drunk thread under another name, isn't it?!

Big Brother not recording. Fuming.

I always offer scribble. I thought of posting the definition of irreverent, but decided that was too po-faced. Whatever happened to the drunk thread?

Scribblegirl. Not sure what that is. But I am a bit drunk while DD is on her "holibobbs" with my ex "co-parent".

I can't find tonight's. Although that might be because I'm too drunk

I've gotten very grumpy and impatient over the last few years (I'm only 32). I'm intolerant of stupidity mainly. Possibly because I deal with it all day at work.

(Ignores that Glumglowworm said "gotten" because she sounds like-minded)

Anyone remember the TV show "Grumpy old women" ?

Yep I loved it, I was every one of those women.

And we can have a rant and say it out, so why not?

I like reallly seriously really hate like you know how it's impossible like for young people inc my DD to actually like really you know say a like sentence properly without like seriously saying several you know unnecessary words which like aren't really like seriously aren't really needed.

Me: what did you have for lunch?
DD: it was like lasagne.
Me: cannelloni?
DD: ?

YANBU with most of those. However, I have to take a notebook and pen with me where ever I go because someone will say something which I have to write down or I'll bloody well forget it before I have the opportunity to either do it or write it on a list.

Also the cash machine thing - normally I agree, but I went into Santander to take money out the other day and they've completely changed it and now it takes six times as long to do a simple transaction. And don't get me started on paying things in (I gave up and went to speak to a cashier which was far, far quicker and that included standing in a queue)!

Same as scribblegirl

Never go anywhere at work with pen and paper. Nothing makes you look more foolish that having to ask for instructions again when you could have just written them down.

*without pen and paper
*than

Despite the above post, I can write.

I want to grump about the visitors who insist on hovering round me while I'm cooking, commenting, criticizing or just chatting to each other so I have to manoeuvre round them.

GET THE HELL OUT OF MY KITCHEN WHILE I'M COOKING!

If you ask me once more what it is, or moan that I'm not using every millimetre of the sodding leek, I may be forced to drain the potatoes down your neck!

But as for the rest, you are being perfectly reasonable.

I think I love you OP heading towards 50 and getting crabbier every day

Literally. OMG I like literally died! NO, you fucking didn't. If you had I wouldn't be listening to this mutilation of the fucking English language. Fuck off.

And "spelling/using the right word doesn't matter. It's not an essay" Yes it does. Saying it doesn't just makes you look even more unintelligent.

People who just stop in the middle of the street
People who put bags on seats on a clearly busy train/bus and refuse to let anyone sit next to them
That bloody oral b advert boils my piss
Groups of people who walk side by side and refuse to go single file for a minute so you can walk past and essentially force you into the road
Things served in/on boards, dustpans, jars anything that is not a socially acceptable item of crockery

I could go on, I'm such a grumpy and I'm only 24

'Grumpy old women' was FAB. Especially the Christmas episodes where they were just recounting a day of complete drudgery.

I think Jenny Eclair is possibly the OP

Mentioning you breast fed when talking about breastfeeding nazis, adds to the stigma- you feel the need to justify your views. Otherwise YANBU on most of your reasons

Oh starry how couldI forget? "I literally had a heart attack!" No you fucking didn't. Nor are you "1000% sure" it's his baby on Jeremy Kyle. Nor have you been on an "emotional rollercoaster" where you "went on a journey" and "learned so much about myself".

milkchops even you wouldn't want to know what I've inflicted on those Oral B whores in my mind...

saysomething it's the best only way to have a 1/100 chance to deflect them.