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Things people are pissed off at you about that you actually have nothing to do with.

100 replies

Beeinthecity · 23/01/2018 12:40

I currently have a neighbour who is pissed off at me because our joint landlord is doing work on the neighbouring empty flat which involves drilling into her wall and I didn't tell her.

I didn't know! Just as she didn't because the empty flat is nothing to do with me.

Capped off with her telling me it was a good job they were doing it today or she wouldn't have been impressed if it carries on tomorrow when she is on nights.

Confused

Anyone else deal with people like this.

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sashh · 23/01/2018 15:21

Supply teacher here. On a long term supply the previous teacher had not marked ANY work so I started to mark it, found paganism everywhere, not even a good attempt at plagiarism a C and P from an American site talking about American law so referred the work. Another was a copy from the main text book.

The students then went to head of department and told her I had changed their grades from passes to fails.

But no one told me this is what they had said. Apparently before going off on sick leave she had verbally told many students they had passed!

I got screamed at across a learning area by another teacher because I wouldn't pass a student who had copied and pasted all her work.

Mummyoflittledragon

I feel your pain.

At about age 10 I had to share a hotel bed with my older and stronger brother, just for the one night.

Brother wouldn't let me sleep in the bed, literately kicked me out until I eventually slept on the floor.

Tried to tell my mum in the morning and got a bollocking for sleeping on the floor.

Mummyoflittledragon · 23/01/2018 15:29

sashh - I feel your pain. Elder brothers can be such wankers Flowers

SeaToSki · 23/01/2018 15:29

My cardiologist is mad at me for still not being better. It might be something to do with the fact that he bollocksed up 2 of the last 3 operations he did on me.

Whitecurrants · 23/01/2018 15:33

I was browsing in a department store when a woman came up to me and said “Where are the scarves?” She hadn’t asked particularly politely so I just said “No idea I’m afraid”. She then marched over to the department manager and started berating her because her “staff member” hadn’t been helpful.

misscheery · 23/01/2018 15:46

Also work in a bank and almost everyone is pissed off directly at me

I'm to blame for
-Queues
-Low interest rates
-They can't get loans because of poor credit
-They can't get a loan when they're unemployed

So on and so forthGrin

paranoidpammywhammy2 · 23/01/2018 15:49

Your car is parked in my parking place - I don't have a car.

Your cat keeps coming in my garden - I don't have a cat.

The smell of your cigarette smoke is blowing into our house - I don't smoke.

Leaves from your garden are blowing into my garden - they're not actually leaves from my trees but neighbouring ones, I have conifers and twisted willows.

Slugs from your garden are coming into my house.....

TandemBanana · 23/01/2018 16:36

My mum has been cross with me because she has not been invited to events/shows at my DCs school that haven't actually taken place. How do I solve that one? Confused

Fekko · 23/01/2018 16:41

I offended the receptionist at a past job when I came for the interview.

I was perfectly nice and polite to her, but had made a dreadful and inexcusable faux pas.

I pinned my (extremely messy) hair up. It made me look like a teacher apparently.

She (and her minions) was a complete cow to me until my last month when she realised that I was actually a nice person. Then she was nice (and one of the secretaries told me the back story).

🦇 💩!

Didntcomeheretofuckspiders · 23/01/2018 16:47

Elderly next door neighbour had a cross word with DP about a tradesperson parking outside her house to do some work at our house. Whilst I appreciate that she may have had to park further down the road and she is elderly, I also cannot dictate where someone else parks on a public road. Plus, she was out all day so was she expecting the space to be unused all day just in case?

CalypsoValdez · 23/01/2018 17:44

My sister maintains I'm the reason she failed the 11+ exam. I'm FOURTEEN years younger than her!! I'm used to my family blaming me for everything but blaming me for things that happened 3 years before I was born is stretching it....

Hoppinggreen · 23/01/2018 17:51

It’s also my fault that my brother had to go to the local sink comp, despite the fact that he WANTED to because 4 years later I got a scholarship to a Private School
Mind you he’s an arsehole anyway

steppemum · 23/01/2018 18:01

I am school governor.
A few years ago, the head called a meeting and explained to us a decision she had made.
It was to do with mixing two classes, and as such was a daily running of the school decision, and not in any way a decision we had control over. It was a courtesy to us that she explained the reasons why she had to do it.

I could see, with my governor hat on, why she had to do it, and why all the alternatives were not possible.

3 governors had kids in the classes to be mixed and all 3 kids were really unhappy about it. In fact my normally very sensible dd was in floods of tears several times over it. I even went in to see her teacher, who I knew well, and sat and cried about how badly she was coping.

One other parent was furious over the changes and went round and told all the other parents that we (the governors with kids in that year group) had deliberately made this decision because it suited OUR kids and sod everyone else's kids.

The chair spoke to him, and explained that while we had been informed, it was not our decision, that was an operational decision, so the remit of the head and SLT. And that if we were ever so unprofessional as to make decision based on our own kids we would be asked to step down as governors.

made not one jot of difference. He just continued to tell the whoel school that we had done this for our own interests.

Original poster
Beeinthecity · 23/01/2018 18:02

'Slugs from your garden are coming into my house.....'

Brilliant Grin

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Glitterspy · 23/01/2018 18:09

Contacting a dear old friend to see if she is ready to talk yet. Evidently, she is not.

waterlily200 · 23/01/2018 18:11

I qualified for a bursary at Uni as I was the first person in my family to go to university. Another student felt it was completely unfair that I got it and she didn't as her Dad had gone to Uni but had left her mum and remarried and started a new family and it was my fault that my parents were still married and I had a happy family.

The only criteria was no family member previously attending uni not if your parents were married/happy. But over 3 years she brought up how unfair it was I got a bursary because my family were happy! If her parents were still together she still wouldn't have qualified!

SproutsWithLiverAndOnions · 23/01/2018 18:14

Patient complained when I refused to book her an ambulance for admission stating winter pressures, plus she had never had an ambulance before, And she was fit and well, apart from what she was coming in for.

She then sighed and said, ‘ oh well, I’ll ask my dh to bring me in then, he normally does.....’

Bitsandbobsalot · 23/01/2018 18:18

A manager/site owner at my work is making me keep a log of how many toilet rolls I take because IM USING TO MANY 😡. I’m a cleaner who cleans 11 toilets daily and suply 80 + staff with toilet roll so they can wipe there backsides but I’m using to much. This person is a bloody millionaire complaining about toilet roll. I’ve lost the will to live over this shit. No pun intended

DarthNigel · 23/01/2018 18:18

My new neighbour is quite pissed off at me because his house appears to be riddled with damp and mine is not (touch wood).And also someone had told
Him that our drain always blocked up and we have been here four months so far with no issues.

Whisperingstories · 23/01/2018 18:45

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This has been withdrawn by MNHQ at the request of the OP.

BalloonSlayer · 23/01/2018 18:51

veuveo when my DSis told my DNephew to brush his teeth he grumbled "I have to do everything round here!"

greenscreens · 23/01/2018 18:58

NC for this one Grin

My neighbour is pissed off with me for reporting her to the ASBO officer at the local council. Thing is... I'm about the only person in the entire street who hasn't but she doesn't believe me.

yousignup · 23/01/2018 19:01

A few years ago Britain did something a bit crap to the country I live in and have dual nationality of. As I'm also British, I keep getting personally blamed for this. It gets a bit wearing.

Fekko · 23/01/2018 19:04

Did you start a war or invasion? Naughty.

yousignup · 23/01/2018 19:08

Not exactly, but we did insult country number 2 in a roundabout way. Who knows what it could lead to...

Snowdrop18 · 23/01/2018 19:12

OP what did you say to her? Confused

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