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Tell me something trivial that has pissed you off today

185 replies

monkeymamma · 28/09/2017 14:08

I'm working from home. In the middle of some very urgent work that requires my concentration also in the middle of a migraine oh the joy. My otherwise very nice opposite neighbour is sitting in his car outside his house taking a business call. The volume has got to be literally on full. I feel like screaming! It's going on, and on, and on. I'm like - dude your house is literally next to you. Go inside and take the call properly. Don't spend half an hour blasting the neighbourhood with intermittent, muffled sound. All my windows are closed btw so that's just how loud it is.
He's actually SO nice (so is his wife) that I don't want to go and say anything I'm a complete wimp. This just makes it MORE annoying.

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SallyOMalley · 28/09/2017 14:31

The student sitting at the table next to me in the uni where I work, loudly telling her friend:

"I mean, OMG, I have like xx for my supervisor this year? I mean, oh my god, like really?? I mean she is like SO RUDE!! She wrote, like, 'really?' in the margin of my report. I mean like, oh my god [etc, etc]"

First week of term. Welcome back.

MrsPear · 28/09/2017 14:32

I made a naice cottage pie two nights ago and had left overs. I put them in the freezer as two lunches for myself. Except I didn't. I found it in the cooker when I went to put a cake in. I hate wasting food but seriously even I can't eat a meat dish that has been left out that long. Sad to admit but I'm cross at myself.

trevortrevorslattery · 28/09/2017 14:33

Also Flowers to you all!

Rubyslippers7780 · 28/09/2017 14:34

Toddler stood in dog shit. His wee shoes are stinking. Have had enough of lazy dicks not picking up after dogs.
Am gagging trying to clean shoes. Stinking. Bowk.

TheNoodlesIncident · 28/09/2017 14:34

In response to a plaintive email from school, I took in a huge bag of lovely crafty stuff for the craft club's use. I used to make Christmas tree decorations so had loads of really nice bits. I gave the bag to the office staff member, who peered at me very carefully before saying, "thanks, I'm sure they'll be really pleased with this".

They were. They even wrote out a thank you card, saying how lovely it was, they were very grateful, and furthermore it had given them some fresh ideas on things to make. You'd think I'd be delighted, wouldn't you? Well....

The card was addressed to DSis, who had her dc in the same school as I subsequently sent my dc to. Office staff didn't bother to check just which parent she was speaking to.

I'm a bit pissed because she could have checked, I wouldn't have minded. And also with DSis, who takes the kudos for MY good deed and doesn't want to mention to staff that it was actually someone else who brought in the naice craft clobber, not her.

It does sound so trivial, but I could never take the credit for someone else's good deeds. Even if it doesn't seem that important.

Changebagsandgladrags · 28/09/2017 14:36

I used an automated form to request school experience in a local high school. It said I'd get an email to confirm. Nope. Bastards.

RubbishRobotFromTheDawnOfTime · 28/09/2017 14:37

When the woman in front of me at the cash machine finally finished conducting her annual review of her various bank accounts and general finances, she walked off and her dog sat still on its stretched lead, meaning I had to continue to stand looking with desperation at the cash machine while she tried to convince her dog to move.

I ended up not having time to read Twitter before picking DD up from nursery Sad

Deathraystare · 28/09/2017 14:38

I actually have nothing to moan about (but the afternoon is not over yet!). Now yesterday, when it bucketed down (and my eyes were stinging so crossing the road was v dangerous) and my oyster card had run out of credit, so I had to trudge to the shop as the machines in the station were not working, and no umbrella..... Then I would have whinged for England!!!

Deathraystare · 28/09/2017 14:39

Mind you, at work we have had free pizza again! Can't moan at that especially as it is a basic cheese and tomato one so I can eat it! Yaya!!

Nousernameforme · 28/09/2017 14:40

Bloody nintendo ive ordered a 2ds yesterday for ds after getting a refund for his broken one paid extra for next day delivery only to get an email this morning saying it would be delivered tommorow. I am in and out all day tommorow so i expect i shall miss it.
Meaning an even longer wait and a traipse to the arse end of nowhere to pick it up having paid 4 sodding quid for the privalige.

subsy1a · 28/09/2017 14:41

trevor could it be meant as a joke/ pun?

EvilDoctorBallerinaDuckKeidis · 28/09/2017 14:42

My trolley got nicked from the "corral" in the Sainsbury's café. Luckily I hadn't paid for anything, but it meant walking out of the electronic gates, getting another trolley, then trying to remember what I'd picked up. I always chuck the list when I've finished. 😠

BeALert · 28/09/2017 14:44

My newly created Recent smartfolder in my Mac Finder sidebar is showing me all the folders on Dropbox that other people have opened, when all I want it to show me is folders I've opened, and I don't know how to fix it.

Hortonlovesahoo · 28/09/2017 14:45

I went to a store to get a replacement buggy. The people on the check out were so incompetent that it took an age to serve anyone. I'm regretting going to the store and just wished I'd ordered online

BeALert · 28/09/2017 14:46

OP my Dh finishes business calls outside in the car because as soon as he comes in we all tell him to shut up.

It's not really a good excuse, and it doesn't help your migraine (sorry).

Sweetpea55 · 28/09/2017 14:46

I had breakfast at the garden centre and my toast arrived all ready buttered,,,im not 3 for christ sake..

BeALert · 28/09/2017 14:46

Also I'm too hot. (Sorry again.)

Polyethyl · 28/09/2017 14:48

My graduate trainee was tasked with giving someone the keys to Property A. He couldn't find those keys. He didn't ask anyone. Instead he grabbed a random set of keys for a different property and handed those over.
Why?! Why?!
Then he looked petulant when I asked him to get those keys back and pointed out the various ways he could have found or asked for the correct keys.
Why would you hand over keys you know are the wrong ones!?!? Thank God he moves on to another department next month.

Deathraystare · 28/09/2017 14:52

Mind you I have TWICE bought a dongle (cannot justify a contract at the moment though I know it is cheaper in long run). First tiem was not sure how to put sim card in so asked flat mate who is in IT. He put it in wrong. I took it back to Amazon who where not at all interested. I bought another from another branch. The instructions were not that clear and alsthough was same make, the sime seemed to go in somewhere else. I even checked with another friend. We decided to give up in the end. GBut each time the dongle was £9 and I paid an extra £10 to get online.

The annoying thing is, I have had this same dongle in the past!!!

user1495451339 · 28/09/2017 14:52

I work at home too and the most annoying thing is my mum calling me at 2.30 just when I have planned to finish some work off before collected children at 3pm. I can't not pick the phone up in case it is the school but sometimes I leave it and call 1471. I keep telling her to call me in the evening but she thinks it is better to call in the day when I am not busy with the children!!! She is impossible to get off the phone once she is on it!!!

SilverySurfer · 28/09/2017 14:54

Builders working on the outside of my house - leant through the kitchen window to attach hose to tsp (another issue is that they have been using my water for three days and it's metered) and they have somehow broken the key to my window so I can't lock it. I don't have a duplicate and I'm not a happy bunny.

EvilDoctorBallerinaDuckKeidis · 28/09/2017 14:54

Forgot to put heating on this morning to dry the DC's pyjamas, have just had to put it on so that they're dry for when they come out of school.

Fatarseflanagan09 · 28/09/2017 14:56

My husband insists on having bird feeders hanging above the paving slabs in the garden and the ungrateful spoilt little bastards keep throwing it onto the floor.

Clovertoast · 28/09/2017 14:57

Heating !!! Its bloody boiling here today and THATS pissing me off !
Where's my lovely chilly Autumn !!
I was raosting trying to sleep last night Angry

smoothieooo · 28/09/2017 14:57

A woman sat beside me on my morning commute with a huge yoga mat and knocked my phone slightly but didn't acknowledge.... she soon realised the extent of my wrath. Yes, that's right, an earth-shattering, passive aggressive tut! Grin