Tell me something trivial that has pissed you off today

[monkeymamma]

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.

Dog walkers constantly letting their dogs wee on my front garden.

I sneezed and bit my tongue. It will be a massive mouth ulcer soon.

Clovertoast yes but they won't dry in the air at this time of year, and their other pairs were in the washing machine.

Someone buggered up the only working colour copier on the floor while doing copies of black and white text when there are some of us who regularly print coloured material. May the fleas of a thousand camels infest the miscreant's armpits. And that's a euphemism.

The parking meter wouldnt take my card. So i used dhs instead.

Man wouldn't let me in to the exit lane this morning, I left plenty of time and I was a little ahead of him anyway so I signalled and sped up a little more to be able to get in the gap in front of him but he sped up to close the damned gap and draw level with me! I wasn't too bothered about that, I just thought "OK then, whatever, asswipe. I'll get in behind you instead." So I slowed down to get behind him but he slowed down to stay level with me. I couldn't safely slow down any more because there was traffic coming behind and I missed the turn off. The next exit is only a mile or so further on and it's mere minutes to the journey to come at my office from that direction but even so it pissed me off all morning that anyone could be so petty.

In the time I took helping DS2 to get dressed, DD had put on her tshirt, knickers and socks and was playing on DS2's tablet (inset day). We're supposed to be going to the Sainsbury's café for breakfast.

LeakyLittleBoat
Man wouldn't let me in to the exit lane this morning, I left plenty of time and I was a little ahead of him anyway so I signalled and sped up a little more to be able to get in the gap in front of him but he sped up to close the damned gap and draw level with me

So you hadn't left plenty of time (if you had, you'd have been queuing like the man in the exit lane), you "signalled and sped up" where you should only signal at the point you are about to move over and once you have checked there is a safe space for you to move in to so signalling is the second action, not the first, and then you attempted to push into the queue of traffic on the exit lane. Then you sped up and slowed down (dangerous!) on lane 1 as you tried again to push into the queue, causing all sorts of problems for those not taking the exit.

And you are the pissed off one?

Hoovering and having to look at the passive aggressive smile on the fucking Henry every time he gets stuck behind the door/sofa/his own cables

I bought a cake from a Macmillan sale and I can’t find it

franklin I thought leaky was on about one of those lanes where all the traffic is moving at a reasonable speed and everyone needs to be aware of other drivers and moderate their speed so as to make gaps for people to get on/off the motorway sensibly.

trevortrevorslatter She said she wanted to get on the exit lane/slipway off. There is no such thing in the Highway Code about "making gaps". It is up to each driver to move over well in advance and join the queuing traffic on the slipway off a motorway if, and only if, there is a safe gap to move into. Gaps are other drivers' safe stopping distance. Pushing into a gap that is not big enough for them to maintain their stopping distance and another car means you are endangering their safety, as well as queue jumping. There is no reason at all why the man in the leaky's post should have had to "moderate his speed" ie. take evasive action just because leaky had left it too late and wanted to push in. Like she said, she was only just ahead of him. She probably signalled first and tried to butt in - dangerous and against correct motorway driving. He protected his stopping distance gap and was probably pissed off that this driver was pushing in and putting him in danger at the same time. Leaky, and every other -dangerous driver you see on lane 1 with their indicator flashing needs to stop being a danger to others and immediately admit they've left it too late and proceed to the next junction.

It was on the freeway, USA, there was no queue, it was fairly light traffic at that time, why the need for posters to make things up? I had left plenty of time, it's a long exit and it was right before the dotted line that indicates that lane becomes exit only, and even after that there was approx 3/4 of a mile of the dotted line where it's still legal to cross before it becomes solid i.e. do not cross. I wasn't trying to queue jump or beat anyone. The lane ahead of him and behind him were empty so since I was already ahead it made more sense for me to accelerate to enter that lane leaving plenty of space cushion in front of him rather than slow down and fall behind him. Either way there was NO need for him to change his speed at all but he did - twice - seeming determined to stay level with me whatever speed I did and not let me in. I could have understood it if conditions were as some posters imagine and it looked like I was trying to cut in unsafely at the last minute and if I were that sort of driver I'd have sped up way past a safe speed or slowed down to such an extent that I impeded traffic behind me in my lane and got in regardless but I chose not to play games with an asshole and drive on.

Leaky - I'm getting a dashcam because of that kind of thing happening.

We also have much shorter entrances and exits on our freeways than the motorways do in the UK, as well as those crazy setups where the people getting on the freeway are sharing the same lane as the people trying to get off, so it's even more important that people drive civilly rather than like wankers. One bit of freeway near me has accidents every day because of that.

I volunteer for a playgroup. I've been on the rota for three and a half years. My eldest is now two and I work part time. I feel like I have done my bit. I would like to step back, but if I do, the playgroup will fold.

Every week I -beg- ask for volunteers to come forward, but they all avoid eye contact and ignore me.

DH is snoring. I can't get to sleep.

I won a huge chocolate cake - 2 hours before the doctor phoned me to say my blood sugar is too high and I need to change my lifestyle.

LeakyLittleBoat It sounded like he was in a queue as he was already on the slipway, but now you've explained it more he seems he was truly an ass. Sorry if I stamped on you, but in the UK we have a serious problem with dangerous/loopy drivers on the motorways who do a variety of dangerous stuff, but one I see every time I'm on the motorway is drivers slowing right down in lane 1, indicators on, at something like 30-50mph trying to push their way into a queue of traffic on the exiting lane full of people who have been waiting a while to get off. It is so terribly dangerous. But like I said, now you've painted the fuller picture, this doesn't seem like the case for you, and I would be pissed off too.

No worries, Franklin, I know exactly the kind of driver you are talking about, and I guess I wasn't clear enough in my post. I'm still a bit baffled as to what the guy was playing at unless he's been cut up so many times at exits he now just automatically 'blocks' EVERYONE trying to change into his lane at ALL times regardless of whether they're doing it safely or not! I'm lucky enough to have a 'reverse' commute to work ie most traffic at that time is going the other direction and wanker drivers are the rule rather than the exception. At commute times it's a clusterfuck of freeways merging/exiting/on ramping meter lights all causing gridlocks interspersed with demolition derbies and drag races across 6 lanes.

Done a huge food shop.
What's for tea?🤔

My MIL keeps talking to me about my (reasonably demanding and tough-to-get-into) career as if she’s asking a four year old about their Shopkins collection - “ooh, you do work hard! Never mind, you keep at it! You’ll get there!”

And I already AM fucking there! She said it again today. I had to remind myself why it’s not okay to kill her.

In August, a client asked me to organise a report. I allocated it , told the client and colleague and client agreed a deadline.

Today the colleague went to our overlord boss and cried about how she has too much work to do. She hasn't done the fucking report, or in fact looked at any of the information. I now have to do it, because I'm less busy. That might be because I don't spend the whole fucking day playing on my phone.

I tried to sit on the floor to retrieve something from underneath a cabinet which some shoes are lined up against & sat on a high heeled shoe, spike side up

I've had a bed delivered by Very and have booked and paid for home assembly who are due to come tomorrow

Rang the home assemblers who said "Oh yeah - we don't work for Very anymore so we won't be coming, you'll have to take it up with them"

I've been waiting 6 weeks for this bed and now it's not getting built. I could ask DH to do it but wanted to not have the swearing / near divorce / moment 20 minutes in where he declare the thing fucked and unbuildable and had been happy to pay to avoid that.

Then a found out the mattress won't come for two weeks.

Then I lost a client

Then I cut my finger cleaning the bath

Then I went to clean DS's room and found he'd opened a massive bag a bright green kinetic sand which was all over his carpet, mattress, sheets and everywhere else

Today can bite me.

Big stone hit my windscreen and cracked it. Going to cost me £75 excess and the insurance company's approved repairer can't fix it until next Thursday!!! :-(