I know I am. Stupid little 'jobs'

[WinkyisbackontheButterBeer]

I've just gone to make a cup of tea and realised that it means opening a new 4 pinter of milk.
I was unreasonably pissed off at this.

The cap hurts my hand and I hate pulling of the stupid, silver seal then having to throw it away.

I have no idea why this upsets me so much but it made me realise that I although I will do it. I am stupidly annoyed every time I have to and if that if I can find a way to get dh to do it, without actually telling him about my unreasonable dislike of the task, I will.

It made me wonder... is anyone else pissed off by anything as ridiculously small and insignificant, or am I alone in my unreasonableness?

Ffs the hoover wire!! I'm quite sure there is a little squatter that hides in my loft or something, that when I've gone to bed they spend the whole night putting actual knots in my hoover wire, or else how the fuck do these happen? And today I whacked my ankle bone with the plug while unknotting, safe to say Tyson the Dyson's days are now numbered.

My local 'Chinese' (think pound shop type, not grub) will sell me a wonderful free standing loo roll tower made of bathroom type metal wire for less than two euros. I just drop half a dozen loo rolls onto it, no fiddling, lasts for ages, visiting kids love doing it, sorted. Am sure would be available in UK.

Putting fuel in car. There is a little clicky thing on the pump handle. Dial up amount, put in nozzle, put on clicky thing, let go. stand and marvel at pain free hands as car fills itself up and stops when done,

Bras and arthritis, me too, and fat. DO up at front, swivel round to back, drop in boobs. To undress, reverse procedure.

This is not really in the spirit of the thread, is it!

Shoes and putting them away, I've got 5 or six "shoe cupboards/ storage type things" but shoes are like the crumbs from hansel and Gretal around my house, kids and dh can never find a matching pair

Coats - again I have a cupboard for them but they are left draped over every chair and doors in my house

Tuna - its why it's got such a long shelf life

Ellie What shoe cupboards do you have? I am in desperate need of some. All of mine are shoved at the bottom of the wardrobe in my kid's room. I can never see them and wear the same ones all the time.

Emptying the dishwasher. If my husband goes to work without doing it I will wash up my dirty dishes all day to avoid having to empty the dishwasher and put them in.

Hoovering, because my Henry is a clumsy prick, falls over constantly and can't suck anything up properly.

Yes!! And he just lies there looking at you like butter wouldn't melt.

Emptying my handbags.

This is probably because I rarely change bags but when I do I end up with multiple open packets of pocket tissues, half a pack of baby wipes, off lipsticks and lip balms, phone charger, coins and receipts. I don’t have ‘placed’ for these things, I’m usually in a hurry and I throw them in a pile on my bedroom floor where it remains for at least a fortnight.

Having to open massive jars of things like gherkins that DH insists on buying. They are roughly the same size as post boxes. My tiny childlike hands cannot span them, so I can never get the bastarding things open and it's usually when DD2 is shouting "Want pickles mummy, want pickles" while doing big eyes and saying "Pwease, mummy, pwease" and clinging hopefully to my legs but DH is at work so it's just me and this jar and I have to use the rubber gloves to grip it and run it under the hot tap and use all my strength and promise to buy it a pony IF ONLY IT WOULD JUST OPEN!!! AAAARGH.

Oh, also buttons on children's clothing. Not normal buttons, no, the ones usually at the back of the neck that don't have a nice proper buttonhole to go in, NO they have a loop of material that you are supposed to slide the button through well fuck me if it's not like trying to get a tyre through a sodding cat flap.

I quite like emptying the fluff from the filter on the tumble dryer

I do not like emptying the dishwasher yet again.

Putting fucking washing away, hanging it out, emptying bins, cleaning the cat’s disgusting bowls, tidying up AGAIN and worst of all CHANGING FUCKING SHEETS.

And. Changing bloody revolting moth traps.

olennas I will also confess to liking doing the fluff thing on a tumble dryer . It comes out so neatly when you run it around itself, like Blu tacking dust. It all comes out cleanly.

I hate clothes hangers. Always have. They tangle.

Breadcrumbs and tiny bits of grated cheese that fly everywhere. I hate grating cheese actually and DH does it well BUT always leaves a spray of tiny cheese shreds on the worktop and floor.

Cleaning the veg drawer in the fridge. I admit I am lazy though, the other day I found some wet sticky bits of ancient disintegrated cucumber on the bottom. Totally gross.

There is a little clicky thing on the pump handle

Really? On all petrol pumps? I've never seen such a thing..but then I've never looked

I see Henry has been mentioned.
I love my Hetty because she doesn't get blocked up easily, she is easy to unblock if she does, she is simple and reliable and a small child can ride around on her while you hoover.

BUT I hate getting her out or putting her away. I hate carrying her up the stairs. I hate that you can't store her tools with her and that my dog has taken a liking to the upholstery doobry so I have to keep fetching it out of his basket and its all bitten and catches on the fabric every time I use it.

I hate cleaning bathroom tiles.
I have kids with lots of hair and three dogs.
Hair is HORRIBLE to clean off tiles.
You chase it around rather than get it off.
Despite me knowing its head and dog hair, curly hair has gross connotations in the bathroom so it bleughs me out.

Passthecake the clicky thing is the sound the pump makes. When there’s enough diesel/petrol in the tank it makes a clicky sound and stops for a sec. Are you continuing to pump diesel after this happens, so overflowing?

All laundry and bin related for me

Dishwasher is hated by both me and dh but we grudgingly do it. I have to restack when he does it but can live with that

Laundry though- hate every aspect aside from the smell of clean washing on a radiator. Husband puts wet towels/ cleaning cloths in the hamper so it all gets wet. Puts stuff on airer in a way that means it all needs ironing and the bin? Well the swing bin lid not working is no barrier to putting more in. Simply remove the lid and pile up until I weep and take it out AGAIN
AND BREATHE......

I hate the thick plastic that is wrapped tightly round cucumbers . I find it difficult to open these and I do wonder why they have it. The half cucumbers for sale are loosely wrapped and it's easy to undo, but I refuse to buy half cucumbers as it's so unthrifty :)

Sorting the odd socks out. Ergh I get indescribable rage from just looking at them as I know there will be one random smug bastard that doesn’t match.
Also replacing the air freshener refills, they cost a bomb so should therefore last eternity!

Hate my dyson handheld. Picking out bits of fuzz from the wheels with tweezers at least twice a week.

Look at this. Just look at it! That is the (actually fairly capacious) corner cupboard in my kitchen where we store frying pans, loaf tins, mixing bowls and baking trays (and a million other bits of crap we've nowhere else to store.

Whoever designed it is clearly either a simpleton or a sadist.

MarchEliza I also have that batshit and cruel kitchen cupboard configuration. Getting anything out from it causes pans and cookwear to launch themselves at me, with subsequent clattering that renders me deaf FFS. The rage! 😡😡😡

Putting the Hoover away. I don't mind getting it out and doing the hoovering but I hate putting the bastarding thing away. I always bash my head on the under stairs cupboard.

Also the ironing board, folding and unfolding the ironing board - I crave one of those nifty flip down from the wall ones they always had in old American houses.

Opening the mail. It's never anything interesting and then it needs bloody sorted and filed and the envelopes recycled and it's just a hassle .

Putting away clean laundry. I can do the washing, drying, folding, sorting but then CBA to put it away.

I too have realized that there are so many annoying wee jobs I hate!

Happenstance it is good to know I don't suffer alone. Maddening.