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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:
AtLeastThreeDrinks · 11/10/2017 15:00

Making a lovely meal plan for the week because you're trying to be economical and organised, and then wanting to eat anything but said planned meal when it's ready.

Note to self: you never want salad when it's chilly outside.

QuestionableMouse · 11/10/2017 15:01

Getting in the bath/shower and someone wanting to be on the loo.

SecretSmellies · 11/10/2017 15:09

Dh has done this forthe entire 5 years we have been together...... he leaves half empty cans of cat and dog food on the kicthen worktop because he plans to 'top them up' later and always, always forgets.

Then he wonders why we have flies.

I have told him of the wonders of plastic lids designed specifically for tinned cat food. I have told him of the wonders of putting foil on the top and putting the tin back in the fridge. I have told him of the wonders of him suffering through a third divorce because I can't take it anymore.

does my head in. And it stinks. A dI refuse tosee why i should take over the pet feeding as well as everything else I do (which is pretty much everything).

On the upside he is a wonderfully warm, kind, generous, soft hearted, honest person. But I will go bananas one day over this, I know.

SecretSmellies · 11/10/2017 15:09

*15 years we have been together.

parentallyadept · 11/10/2017 15:11

Filling the kettle in a post night shift fug, going to do something else then coming back and pouring water on the tea bag only to realise you didn’t actually put the kettle on, just refilled it and let the water filter through, so you’ve used cold water and wasted a tea bag to boot

Nessalina · 11/10/2017 15:15

Stripped sheets is serious trauma. Also ordering food in a restaurant that's a bit rubbish when you've been looking forward to it all day Sad
Also agree with accidental wetness - stepping in water in socks, or when you finish washing up and realise you have a damp midriff.
OMG yes to 'charging' phone when it's been switched off at the wall Angry
Argh! And wasted Fitbit steps!

My personal all-too-regular trauma is going upstairs to get something, then coming down without it. Going back up to get it again, getting distracted, and coming back down AGAIN without it! I blame baby brain.

Being trapped under sleeping baby and realising my cup of tea is juuuust out of reach.

Having a letter in my handbag for a week straight because I'm incapable of remembering to post it when I'm out!

NeurodiverseNancy · 11/10/2017 15:30

Presuming you've escaped catching your partner's cold, then waking up with it 2 days later.

EdmundCleverClogs · 11/10/2017 15:34

Only being allowed one coffee a day, and it's naff. Not bad enough to make another, but that one coffee sets the day.

Finally getting the toddler off for a nap, plan on using precious free time to do chores and perhaps even have five minutes to read/game/have own programs on until he wakes up and that's when someone decides to have a full blown text conversation.

Going all the way to the local Lidl in the cold and rain (bus ride then walk), only to find they don't have the very Lidl-specific thing you were looking for.

toomanydicksonthedancefloor1 · 11/10/2017 15:36

These are all so good.

Remembering to preheat the oven. But then when you come back in an hour to take the shepherds pie out of the oven, realising you didn’t actually put it into the nice hot oven, it’s sat on the worktop all cold! And you’re starving!! I do this at least 2 or 3 Times a year.

SheRaaarghPrincessOfPower · 11/10/2017 15:38

"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"

Grin @ zoomies

EdmundSlackbladder · 11/10/2017 15:42

Not getting to drink my cup of tea while it's still hot. Getting up to discover that husband has used the last tea bag and not bought anymore. Tea is a very emotive subject.

minesapintofwine · 11/10/2017 15:48

Putting the dishwasher on and forgetting about it until you have a pile of dirty dishes but have to empty it instead. I've never been so lazy that I've just stuck the dirty dishes in and rewashed the whole thing oh no not me

When Dh doesn't put diesel in surprising me with an empty fuel tank Angry

When the tumble dryer breaks down on a rainy day. That's me today.

MargoLovebutter · 11/10/2017 15:58

Going to the loo and realising that the previous family member finished the loo roll & did not replace it!

DCs putting absurd amounts of milk on their cereal & leaving a whole load of cereally milk uneaten, but have used up all the fresh milk & you can't have tea with their left over cereally milk, so you can't have tea at all.

BackInTheRoom · 11/10/2017 16:05

Ironing a white top you're just about to wear and the steam iron vomits brown gunge all over it😩

Tinksee · 11/10/2017 16:16

Your useless flat mate forgetting to pass on a letter he picked up from the doormat and then left under a stack of his junk mail.

When he finally remembers that give it to you, it is an invitation for a second interview for that dream job you thought you’d not got.

Tinksee · 11/10/2017 16:17

to

ApproachingATunnel · 11/10/2017 16:18

Going to bed and after making yourself comfortable hearing a faint mosquito buzz... I cannot rest until i find and squash the fucker!

Oysterbabe · 11/10/2017 16:18

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

I couldn't get past the first sentence, this is the worst thing in the world.

Tinksee · 11/10/2017 16:19

Waking up on a Monday and thinking it is Sunday.

Your dog waking you at 2.30 am just because it wants to go under the duvet.

Oysterbabe · 11/10/2017 16:21

Getting into bed then remembering you didn't put the leftovers in the fridge or get your laundry out of the washing machine.

Nessalina · 11/10/2017 16:32

@Tinksee that's not a minor irritant, that's a murderable offence!!! Angry Hope you found something else as good...

Sanoffyhighstepson · 11/10/2017 16:39

Getting up at 3:00am for work instead of 3:30am so you can tidy up and have a relaxed dinner when you come home. Coming back to a river of shit ( breakfast dishes and pjs ) all over the fucking lounge and having to tidy up and do dishes again. Hoovering thoroughly then nipping for a wee, coming back down to find dds fat fucking bastard wood pigeon halfway in the patio doors and FUCKING SEEDS EVERYWHERE ( thanks for that dd )

lynmilne65 · 11/10/2017 16:40

Spider the size of a small house appeared whilst I
was ‘ bethroned’ naturally by th time I had leapt off it had vanished!!!!

QuestionableMouse · 11/10/2017 16:49

When you come on early Angry

Tinksee · 11/10/2017 16:56

Ness

Thanks, yes it was awful. It was a long time ago but I do sometimes wonder about what might have been!

I was so cross with him.

Yes, I found something in the end but it wasn’t my dream job.

I run my own business now and really enjoy it.