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Original poster

Minor irritants that are actually awful.

277 replies

CredulousThickos · 11/10/2017 12:08

Going to bed to discover you stripped the sheets earlier and failed to remake the bed.

Running a fabulous bubble bath and realising it’s run cold.

Waking up feeling crappy and remembering you oven-prided the oven yesterday in a fit of domesticated goddessing and you have to deal with it today.

Spilling your only glass of wine.

Making toast and then realising someone’s used the last of the butter and put it back in the fridge.

Day ruiners, all of these.

AIBU?

OP posts:
MrsPussinBoots · 14/10/2017 10:09

Marriage Grin
I have found my people.

MrKaplan · 14/10/2017 11:19

Walking to the far end of the car park (10 min walk) when I leave in the evening and realise I've left my keys on my desk.

Arriving in to work, go to get my specially bought smaller size cup and bowl from the cupboard and some fuckers made off with them. I've had to start just using company stuff as I get totally irrational when my personal stuff goes missing.

Going to pack lunch on the first day back after school hols to find lunch box still in school bag from 2 weeks prior.

And definitely the sheet thing.

Waking at 3 am to the sound of cat vomiting. On the bed.

MrKaplan · 14/10/2017 11:19

Oh and waking at 3am to the cat patting your face with cold wet paws and the only source of water is....

AprilLady4 · 14/10/2017 13:25

Forgetting to put colander in sink when draining pasta.....

Original poster
CredulousThickos · 14/10/2017 14:02

Ooh April I see your pasta and raise you

Merrily straining the stock you’ve spent two hours lovingly creating STRAIGHT INTO THE SINK.

OP posts:
SongforSal · 14/10/2017 14:18

Going to work and remembering my lunch is still at home.

Half way through a wash and the washing machine dies

Going to make dinner and realising you forgot to defrost anything the night before.

Really fancying a takeaway the one night it's shut.

TakemedowntoPotatoCity · 14/10/2017 14:42

Retrieving a Paint pot from the garage to touch up a wall with dad's fingerprints on it, seeing cobwebs on top and thinking there is spider so dropping paint pot, breaking open the seal and flooding paint all over the garage floor including splashes on old toddler bed and xmas decorations. Me on Tues .

minesapintofwine · 14/10/2017 16:27

Getting the keys,going to the shed,un locking the shed,searching through the shed,finding the small tool needed,doing the tiniest bit of days, back to shed,locking shed,putting keys back.

We have so much stuff lying around the house that never made it back to the shedGrin

My dad asked me the other day if we had any cable ties. Dh: (looking at me Hmm) "in the shed I think". Me: "No we haven't" we have but I can't be arsed doing the shed dance

minesapintofwine · 14/10/2017 16:28

Diy not days

HappenstanceMarmite · 14/10/2017 19:50

Completing makeup for a special occasion. It has all gone very well and you are feeling pleased with yourself. Just one more flick of mascara to those outer lashes...SHIT! Poked in the eye with mascara brush! Spend whole evening dabbing at ever-weeping, once-perfect smokey eye which now looks naked and red in contrast to the other unaffected eye 😭

ThomasRichard · 14/10/2017 19:54

Trying to pay for something using your Tesco club card, again, because their new design is dark blue with a red rim, just like my faithful Nationwide debit card Angry

Minor irritants that are actually awful.
mumonashoestring · 14/10/2017 20:05

Happenstance oh gawd yes - I either get all the way through getting my foundation perfect only for my nose to start running like a feckin' tap, or get my eyes perfect and immediately feel a loose eyelash or have something blow into my eye the second I leave the house Angry

ohhelpohnoitsa · 14/10/2017 21:05

Haven't read rhis thread for a day or so but has anyone said
Taking care to it in something like a tailored shirt, panel by panel to thwn find a grease mark in the last panel and have to chuck it back in the laundry basket.

ohhelpohnoitsa · 14/10/2017 21:10

*I meant "taking time to iron"

CallMeDollFace · 14/10/2017 23:51

Dark wash, white tissue.

Bearwithverylittlebrain · 15/10/2017 01:34

Looking forward to a small gin only to find that "D"P has drunk the last of it but put the empty bottle back in the cupboard 😡

We currently have a digger in the garden. I briefly considered using it to dig a large hole to put him in but was too knackered to carry this through so I just sulked instead.

EvilDoctorBallerinaVampireDuck · 15/10/2017 03:51

Carrying a very tired and heavy DS2 to bed, only to discover that DH has decided at that moment to turn the light on and "make his bed" (it was already made, with the quilt folded back ready), then on the 2nd attempt noticing that he's propped his pillow up so I can't just put him in.

Needadvicetoleave · 15/10/2017 04:03

Having filled the dishwasher of an evening to within an inch of its life having user every last bowl, plate and piece of cutlery then coming down in the morning to realise that you forgot to press on so everything is still dirty and you have to reach in to the cold and yucky machine to handwash stuff for breakfast.

jmh740 · 15/10/2017 07:33

Ordering take away curry and nan bread for self Chinese for oh and dd and pizza for ds because no-one likes the same thing and I'm fed up with never having curry and always compromising on Chinese so I only have to drive to collect 2 take aways. Drive round the 3 take aways plate everyone else's food up they are all sat happily eatting food. Open my bag and I have curry and rice no nan to be seen I could have cried sat ate my curry and nan and sulked because I really wanted nan and if I'd have wanted something with rice I could have just had Chinese with the others 😭

ipswichwitch · 15/10/2017 08:47

DH not bothering to either buy more wet cat food when he opens the last packet, or tell me so I can buy some. Now I've got up this morning to no wet cat food in the house, the shops don't open yet and the cat keeps making sad faces at me. She has plenty of biscuits left, but no. She wants her wet cat food. DH is snoring off his hangover upstairs, and I've half a mind to let the cat up to breathe on him and give him the sad face.

Damnthatonestaken · 15/10/2017 12:07

Omg are you all me?.Grin

iklboo · 15/10/2017 15:29

Having done three loads of washing I was having a nice cup of tea. DH was wandering in and out of the kitchen 'doing jobs'. On about the third time he came in holding up a wet sock (obviously dropped between washer and dryer).

'Is this sock on the floor for a reason?'

Oh, yes DH. Glad you noticed. It's all part of my new interior design look. Kirsty Allsop was banging on about 'soggy sock on the lino' decorations only last week you fucking titspanner.

Actual words from me: 'oh, right. Just put it in the dryer with the others please'.

MrsJayy · 15/10/2017 15:42

Having the dryer tank leak all over you is a tad annoying in fact i hate the condeser dryer concept and wish i hadn't bought the bugger

Meadowflowers · 15/10/2017 22:29

Getting to my nearest large supermarket 5 miles away to discover I've left my purse at home.

plominoagain · 17/10/2017 15:04

Hearing the washing machine finish , and open it to hang up the load ... to find it empty . Forgot to load it in the first place . Idiot .