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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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:
MusicToMyEars800 · 11/10/2017 13:23

Yes to all of those you listed OP.
And what tocas said, going to the shop and coming back without the item you went for in the first place.

dustarr73 · 11/10/2017 13:46

Going upstairs and forgetting what you actually went up for.
Looking forward to a bath and getting in and its only lukewarm.

And this is the biggest bugbear.

Ordering food,ask partner do you want anything,no he says.Then demolishes half of your.

AllToadsLeadToHome · 11/10/2017 13:48

Getting up half awake, desperate for a cup of tea and finding you have walked in cat vomit and you are wearing clean socks.

ladystarkers · 11/10/2017 13:55

Smashing cups, plates etc especially if full.

Sunnystars · 11/10/2017 14:01

The hellish period pains that woke me up at 3.30 this morning and eased off just enough to allow me to fall asleep at some point after 5.30.
My alarm going off at 6.30....

MrsJayy · 11/10/2017 14:05

This past month i have smashed a pyrex dish salt cellar 2 cups and a wine glass full of wine im a disaster and bloody annoying my pyrex dish i have had 20odd years and i can't find a right size replacement.

iklboo · 11/10/2017 14:08

The joy of emptying the washing basket then going upstairs half an hour later to find DH has 3/4 filled it again with stuff he's had down his side of the bed Angry

AllToadsLeadToHome · 11/10/2017 14:10

Running a lovely relaxing bath and getting in it to find that there is a line of scum across the back when you lean on it because the last person in hasn't cleaned it all the way round.

ItsNiceItsDifferentItsUnusual · 11/10/2017 14:13

Playing washing dare - hanging it out on a windy but grey day. Washing dries nicely, you get on with something and then look out the window: fucking pissing it down.

Neuroticwoman · 11/10/2017 14:17

Or indeed rushing outside to pull washing all back in, only to find the sun comes out 5 mins later.....

Seeyamonday · 11/10/2017 14:19

My dog howling at 2am, me thinking she needs to wee, come downstairs, open the back door and she proceeds to have a mad 5 mins of zoomies around the garden, comes back inside, straight to her bed and is asleep by the time I've locked the door, I go back to bed and fall asleep at 4!!

ladystarkers · 11/10/2017 14:22

The door bell or phone ringing when I’m napping. Sod off.

BaggypantsCrimplesnitch · 11/10/2017 14:27

Really looking forward to having the last couple of expensive (i.e. not supermarket own brand) pickled onions with your lunch, only to find DP has eaten them and left the jar in the fridge Angry

Not having very long to get home from work, get changed and go to doctors appointment to find DDog has chosen that day to have diarrhoea on the doormat (the only piece of carpet in the whole kitchen), piss on it, then decide (not unreasonably) that he wants to get away from it so has jumped up and down in it at the back door, pounding it all into a sludge with which he has decorated the rest of the floor, the back door and halfway up his back legs too.

StillSmallVoice · 11/10/2017 14:29

Getting half way round Tesco and realising the Fitbit is at home charging and you have 'missed' 2,000 steps.

ladystarkers · 11/10/2017 14:32

Finding nits😱

punter · 11/10/2017 14:34

In bed at 5.30am desperate for a wee but daren't get up as puppy will wake. Creep to the loo - woof the day starts for puppy. He then wakes up older dog so we all end up watching teleshopping at 6am.
Later I put on collars, harnesses and leads (on the dogs) whilst DH watches, get car keys, poo bags and treats, still watching, open front door - DH decides he needs the loo. Aaargh

1wokeuplikethis · 11/10/2017 14:38

Driving into town & parking in a pay as you leave car park and realising you left your purse at home. Also discovering all this after you've wrestled with the pushchair and getting toddler out of car into it.

Gleefully looking forward to a child free day at home to be told the night before your husband is working from home because a plumber is coming round for 5hrs.

cloudchasing · 11/10/2017 14:42

Oh 1wokeuplikethis that's awful. I would want to cry!

alphajuliet123 · 11/10/2017 14:44

Putting on a gorgeous new top for an important occasion, only to get there and discover there's a really obvious hole in it that everyone (but me) can see.

Happened to me last week and I felt really self conscious all day. Hoping the shop will exchange it even though the tags have been cut out and it's been worn.

EvilDoctorBallerinaVampireDuck · 11/10/2017 14:46

Being in bed and realising you should have made 2 packed suppers, making them, going back to bed and realising you only needed to make one. Happened last night.

oldlaundbooth · 11/10/2017 14:46

Fresh coffee going cold.

Total sacrilege.

GrandDesespoir · 11/10/2017 14:47

Making a concerted effort to leave home early despite being tired and not in the mood to rush, only to spend all the extra time you gained waiting for the bus/train to turn up.

Waving a cheery goodbye to a useless boss, only for him to be replaced by someone who, within weeks, starts taking away the most satisfying parts of your job which are the main reason you applied for it in the first place.

alphajuliet123 · 11/10/2017 14:48

Prepping a meal and putting it in the slow cooker all day knowing you have bugger all left in the fridge and have to feed everyone as soon as you get home because you;re going straight back out again. And then not switching the bastard thing on.

EvilDoctorBallerinaVampireDuck · 11/10/2017 14:49

Going to make sausage sandwiches and realising that DH has used the last of the butter.

usualGubbins · 11/10/2017 14:49

Having lovely bubblebath, putting pjs on, getting into bed and remembering that you've forgotten to put the bin out for the binmen in the morning.