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Hatred of inanimate objects..😂

56 replies

user1483390742 · 03/01/2018 17:51

At the moment, these are the things that are really peeing me off:

Remote controls- we have 3 and a simple task like turning the tv on can be a huge mission- standby/waking up/source/HDMI. Aaarrrgghh..i just want on/off!

Lurpak spreadable- they have lied! It does not spread, it rolls across the bread! Aaarrrggghh!

And don't even get me started on the wind..😂

Anyone else hate 'things'?

OP posts:
TheIntrovertedMum · 03/01/2018 19:28

My husband put our cupboard door locks for baby proofing our kitchen too far into the cupboard and I can't stick my short fingers in enough to open them. I have to use a pair of scissors!!

Justkeepleft · 03/01/2018 19:29

Printers. Work of the devil. I am sure they are The first generation Artificial intelligence sent to send us insane.

Exercisejunkieforlife · 03/01/2018 19:29

I have to agree with the coat hangers, I have been known to rip them all down in a rage and leave them on the floor.

Today it's been random items jumping out of cupboards to attack me, I now refuse to open another cupboard until tomorrow 😆.

HermionesRightHook · 03/01/2018 19:29

The lurpack with olive oil in is slightly less of a bastard.

Pinkywoo · 03/01/2018 19:35

The bloody bastard hand rail at the top of the stairs, every morning it grabs my sleeve and tries to kill me!

ShotsFired · 03/01/2018 19:47

The one rattling bolt on my car exhaust. Makes me sound like I'm driving a Hillbilly car and people have actually turned round to look.

MotherofaSurvivor · 03/01/2018 19:56

Fitted sheets. Will cause me a nervous breakdown one day

MotherofaSurvivor · 03/01/2018 19:57

The electric cupboard door outside that WILL NOT STAY CLOSED even if LOCKED!

Have driven Jeep right up to it. Thought I'd won..... 🤦🏼‍♀️

CesareBorgiasSkeletonOnesie · 03/01/2018 19:59

DS1's ride-on fire engine. He's constantly abandoning it in doorways and it's below my line of sight if I have DS2 in the sling. I'm always tripping over it or catching my ankles on the stupid sticky out metal bits for hanging the ladders on. I hate it with passion, but he lovvvves it and it was an heirloomy christening present from my dsis. Whenever I seriously consider putting it out with the bins I try to look forward instead to producing it from the depths of my garage with an evil cackle in 30 years or so, once he has a toddler of his own to use it as a mobile booby trap.

Salvadore · 03/01/2018 20:06

I have a double cupboard, with no handles so you push the right hand door and it pops open, no springy thing on the left door so you have to open right door regardless, then you have to push the right door hard to close the springy thing again.

wildbuttercup · 03/01/2018 20:06

Skyllo30 your coat hangers are felt? Do enlighten me - will it solve all my coathanger problems?!

RhiWrites · 03/01/2018 20:19

All my coat hangers are felt too. I have black, green and pink becayse I like to constraint then against my clothes.

Here’s an example: amzn.to/2E2pGEP

Fekko · 03/01/2018 20:21

My door handles attack me too. They grab my sleeves and hook the handles of my handbag. Evil bastards.

stopfuckingshoutingatme · 03/01/2018 20:24

Phone charger cables 💣💣💣
Hangers
Things in the garden shed that I can’t get out

Dothedamnthang · 03/01/2018 20:24

95% of socks I own that, without fail, sneak their way down my lower leg and slip right off my heels despite claiming to be my size.
I particularly hate those bitches when I've got boots on.

Bumbumtaloo · 03/01/2018 20:29

Our ridiculous cooker! It’s a range style that I never wanted but my mum bought it for DH for his birthday because he’d been hankering after one for years. We had to remove two cupboards (not a problem storage wise as we have loads) and now our kitchen wall needs to be replastered and then we need to decorate. It gives me the absolute rage anytime I go in the kitchen.

Pikmin · 03/01/2018 20:35

The vax at work - this week rather than trip me up for a change it bit me, and left some splintery bit in my hand, so now I'm part vax. It's favourite game is dropping its whole tube out of the bit you hold when I'm near a mirror or glass table, just to keep me on my toes. I think it's upped the ante since the week I took my Dyson.

GreenPillow · 03/01/2018 20:40

My Henry Hoover is definitely out to get me. His current trick is to get his wire all tangled in his wheels Sad

whoareyoukidding · 03/01/2018 20:43

Since childhood I have always hated buttons. It's hard to explain but I hate their feel and their roundness. I manage to cope with strictly necessary buttons on clothing but I have serious problems with buttons as a decorative feature. It quite put me off Prince for a while when he was wearing that strange outfit full of buttons.

There's even a word for it too, the fear of buttons, it's called Koumpounophobia.

LightDrizzle · 03/01/2018 20:52

Yes to coat hangers, door handles, printers and so-called fitted sheets.
I’d like to add washing machine detergent drawers. Why do they get manky? I only put detergent and fabric softener in there, not mushrooms, live yoghurt and compost.
Also the filter/drainage pipe, so positioned that you can only shimmy a shallow oven dish beneath it which overflows immediately and is impossible to carry without sloshing.
I can also spend hours fighting in any coat cupboard.

whoareyoukidding · 03/01/2018 20:56

I've never thought about it before but yes, how odd that washing machine drawers get so manky. If the powder is biological, I suppose that must mean that there's some alive substance in it and that's what turns into a black growth over time. I am happy to be corrected, I'm just guessing.

stopfuckingshoutingatme · 03/01/2018 21:26

So true about washing machine drawers
Why ? I have to buy a vile toxic chemical thing that i use to clean it

I shall be moving to another methodology in 2018

LakieLady · 03/01/2018 21:40

Coat hangers are the work of the devil.

I hate my back door. It's been so wet that it has swollen up and is hard to open. I have to yank it with all my might, then it suddenly opens and I hurtle backwards across the kitchen. Shutting it is almost as bad.

Nectarines · 03/01/2018 21:42

That round bit on the milk. The bit you peel off when you open a new carton.

I hate that. Hate it. Round little shitty crappy circle.

leighdinglady · 03/01/2018 21:48

Hair grips. When you want some, they've vanished, when you don't, they're wedging themselves in to your hoover.