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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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CamelliaSinensis35 · 28/09/2017 16:16

50 minutes on a packed bus complete with small child who found it amusing to screech at ear-splitting volume every few seconds and bang his arm on the bus window. After a few half-hearted 'aw stop it will ya' mum gave up and started chatting to her friend. The people immediately near them were looking desperate after a while and I've got a feeling quite a few got off before their usual stop..

Funnyface1 · 28/09/2017 16:23

My neighbour whose garden backs onto my garden has installed some kind of garden fire pit with a massive chimney inches from the fence. He's lit a fire and it's been burning most of the day. It's boiling and I can't sit in the conservatory/open windows/put washing out because it stinks. Luckily my house is sold subject to contract.

SomewhatIdiosyncratic · 28/09/2017 16:29

Getting stuck behind a Sunday Driver still coming home from their Sunday lunch at 25 mph on a NSL road. The type of NSL road that is fine for 50-60 mph, wide, no street lamps, no houses, no turnings etc. They sped up to 35 mph for the reduction to the 40 zone.

This caused the traffic to bunch up into a packed trail which then meant a junction where (including a slip road) 3 lanes merged into 1 became dicey as there was less space between vehicles than there should be when people follow the speed limit.

Sunday driver might make it home by Friday evening rush hour. Hmm

Laiste · 28/09/2017 16:33

I took ages in Dunhelm Mill fingering all the sample duvets and trying to decide which one to buy. Eventually chose a lovely duck down one. (treating myself £££).

Then spent ages more trying to track down ''bay 28'' where my chosen duvet would apparently be.

Then spent bloody ages trying to find a sales assistant to tell me where the fuck bay 28 is and the x, y, z duvet is.

Only to be told that duvet is no longer available and hasn't been for ages!! Arrrgggghhh what a waste of 40 minutes. Why the hell is the sample still out then?

FuzzyOwl · 28/09/2017 16:35

Someone at the ticket machine in a car park asked me if I had £5 in change so they didn't have to leave, change a note and come back. I have them five £1 coins and they have me an old £5 note that I can't use and I only noticed once it was too late.

LittleLights · 28/09/2017 16:42

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strugglingthroughlife · 28/09/2017 16:43

I'm at work, my charge is asleep. His aunt keeps leaving me with his cousin who is 18months. I've been at work 9 hours and haven't had a break yet.

trevortrevorslattery · 28/09/2017 16:45

subsya1 hmm maybe. I think he just didn't know though Angry

needtimewithwineandlesswhine · 28/09/2017 16:46

Getting time to nap but not being able to nap.

My trousers don't fit properly and sag at the arse.

My trainer are dirty but really comfy but make me look like a slobby teen.

Having a root pulled out at dentist. (But didn't need surgery so I win.)

Tuscansausage · 28/09/2017 16:50

I had to cover a PE lesson.

karmacoma1 · 28/09/2017 16:55

Whilst waiting at a junction, a bus next to me made that loud CUHHHH noise.

I still feel startled and resentful.

Tuscansausage · 28/09/2017 17:09

I discovered that my lovely new bedding I ordered has gone to my old house I sold 6 months ago. Because I hadn't updated my account details.

Taffeta · 28/09/2017 17:15

Everyone just getting in my fucking way. Everywhere I turn today, there's some bastard in my way.

DD watching Victorious on telly. Ariana Grande's voice makes me want to scream.

AnyFarrahFowler · 28/09/2017 17:16

I'm very heavily pregnant and could only manage to eat half of my lunch today. It was really delicious. I'm still devastated.

pieceofpurplesky · 28/09/2017 17:22

Only losing 1.5lbs at slimming world.

Littlechinagirl · 28/09/2017 17:22

I'd received an email I didn't like so when I got to the train station and wanted to get a drink, I had a massive sh#t fit when it wouldn't accept my card and told it do one as I walked away Grin

shaggedthruahedgebackwards · 28/09/2017 17:26

Not today but in the last 24 hours

Watching Doctor Foster and had to pause the telly, get off my arse and move nearer so I could read the text messages & post-it notes. It would seem that we are all expected to own 80 inch screens now! (or perhaps my eyesight is shit but I don't think it is)

Annoyed me immensely (even more than the bonkers plot & vile characters!)

lozzylizzy · 28/09/2017 17:29

I cannot seem to be able to find a 90cm ish white floating shelf without it being all battered on the corners!

NotSoEagerBeaver · 28/09/2017 17:32

I thought I would buy and try a bottle of zoflora today, as it is always being raved about on here. I picked up the first flavour I came to (bouquet) which was a BIG mistake! My bathroom is now very clean, bit also reeks of old people Sad

(Any recommendations of better flavours welcome).

MattAffleck · 28/09/2017 17:32

My online shop got cancelled and I'm feeling pants. Takeaway for us tonight.

Heathen4Hire · 28/09/2017 17:32

I have a VERY fluffy cat. If she is "loose" she gets poo on her furry bum. So I have to clean her up like a toddler. Yuck.

Tell me something trivial that has pissed you off today
PetitFilous123 · 28/09/2017 17:33

I sometimes sit in my car to finish a call if it's on bluetooth cause i'm not sure how to switch to handset without hanging up Blush

Aeroflotgirl · 28/09/2017 17:37

DS 5 not getting star of the day. All the popular, brainy kids get it first. DS haven't even got it despite it being the end of the month. I mentioned it to the teacher as well, what a loon I am😮😮

Aeroflotgirl · 28/09/2017 17:38

Awww heathen, how cutex

Lules · 28/09/2017 17:38

I asked my mum to do some ironing for me (she asked what she could do as a have a newborn and a toddler). Instead of the pile of my clothes I wanted she ironed the toddler's pyjamas. What a waste of effort.

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