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Asking what's pissed you off today!

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Timeisslippingaway · 11/09/2018 21:38

Walked into my son's room to put him to bed and notice he has drawn on his shelves in felt tip pen for the third time in 2 days and tried to cover it up with his brothers school clothes! Gave him into trouble and what did his fucking dad say?... "Well it's your fault for buying him pens". What the actual fuck, he can't be trusted to have some pens and not draw on the furniture! He has been told not to do this countless times, I even made him clean it himself yesterday. I'm not even pissed at my son I'm pissed at his dad. He had a whole big argument with me over it! My son is 4 and a half and is at school, surely he can be trusted to not draw on the furniture?

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Timeisslippingaway · 11/09/2018 21:39

Still sitting here blood boiling, so come people tell me what's pissed you off in real life today?

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Neverender · 11/09/2018 21:40

Star chart? I was fucked of just because I had to clean the fucking kitchen again. The day my husband learns to use a cloth and a loo brush, I'll piss myself in shock. Sorry, but I'm so done with today. It feels like it's lasted 1000 years!

WhatAmISupposedToBeDoing · 11/09/2018 21:41

4 year olds are just starting to develop impulse control and the temptation was obviously just too much. I keep all the colouring stuff locked away from my 4yo and brought out under supervision. Sorry but if you've had to tell him countless times you know he can't be trusted and you do need to shoulder a little of the blame. Sorry.

rightknockered · 11/09/2018 21:41

Idiot driver that pulled out into the road just as I drove by, saw me, as I did an emergency stop and then tried to carry on. I rolled down my window and enquired about his knowledge of the highway code, not very politely. It's always male drivers that do shit like this.

Aprilshowersnowastorm · 11/09/2018 21:41

Ndn yappy fucking dog woke me up barking at 630. Shouted out the window - shut that bloody dog up!!
Other side had vans revving soon after.
Not pd off just sad that neither of dc schools mentioned 9/11today.

iklboo · 11/09/2018 21:42

DH has eaten most of the flapjacks I made today. I've had one - there's only two left (DS had two). There were 12.

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Timeisslippingaway · 11/09/2018 21:43

Yup mine is the same he made a huge mess making himself breakfast this morning and left it there for me to clean. Asked him to do the dishes tonight and was swiftly told no!

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NewYearNewMe18 · 11/09/2018 21:43

He has been told not to do this countless times

My son is 4 and a half and is at school, surely he can be trusted to not draw on the furniture?

Clearly not, if you've told him countless times not to draw on furniture.

I wouldn't have bought the pens or they would have been used under supervision. He's 4, not 24.

Lauren0rder · 11/09/2018 21:43

My mother.

Wants to take the family away for a week ((lovely you might think)) but it HAS to be the week before DD’s Alevels.

As if that’s going to happen. 🙄🙄🙄🙄

‘Well she can take a book and read it in the corner.’

Idiotic stupid woman.

So inflexible. She has no commitments and doesn’t work.

Faster · 11/09/2018 21:45

The cold I’ve had for a week had moved onto my chest and I feel shit. Today was my only day off with DS in 10 days and it’s been wasted with me being ill. And I have to go to work tomorrow cos I can’t afford to not get paid.

YouTheCat · 11/09/2018 21:45

Colleague tried to get me to go along with breaking a really basic rule and I told her that wasn't going to happen. Pissed off that I was expected to go along with it but quite proud of myself for saying 'no'.

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Timeisslippingaway · 11/09/2018 21:45

@WhatAmISupposedToBeDoing

He's at school where they have pens on display for them to use all the time. Don't see him drawing on tables there. Perhaps it's his dad's attitude to what he does that makes him think ah well he will let me away with it.

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Idontbelieveinthemoon · 11/09/2018 21:46

4 and a half is still quite young to be trusted with pens in his room; take them away and put them somewhere he has to ask for them when he wants to use them. Make a big fuss of him when he uses them appropriately (which sounds babyish but maybe he just needs to know you're paying attention when he's doing the right thing if he's just started school?) I'm not sure what to suggest about his Dad, other than sitting down with him when you're both calmer and talking through the fact that you need him to back you up on stuff like that.

DS2 took a Sharpie to bed with him once without me noticing. He got out of bed about 10pm and shouted down the stairs that he needed me; I went up and he was stood at the top of the stairs with just a vest on, with big blue patches all over his nether regions, having spent a good hour or two colouring himself in. It took days and days for the blue to come off and he still giggles about it now.

Dobbythesockelf · 11/09/2018 21:46

My dh complaining about the baby crying and not settling down tonight. He had only been home an hour whereas I have been home all day but you would have thought he had been dealing with it for 6 hours. DS is 10 weeks old and is a bit colicy. I snapped at him and now I'm upstairs in bed and he is downstairs with baby. Sometimes getting pissed off works in your favour haha

PinkLady01 · 11/09/2018 21:47

Having to board my house up for Hurricane Florence and hoping that it doesn’t get totally destroyed Sad

Doidontimmm · 11/09/2018 21:50

Being text by my work today whilst I’m on holiday. Every single holiday. Pisses me off soooo much!

LotsToThinkOf · 11/09/2018 21:50

Having very little sleep because of my DCs deciding to be awake all night, they're well past the baby stage and no one was poorly. I've spent the day like a zombie and I had a really important meeting.

My DH who decided that watching football was the most important thing to do tonight, even though we have a thousand and one admin things that I don't have the mental energy to deal with.

Myself. Firstly, I haven't kept up with my exercises which keep chronic pain at bay and so I've suffered all day. Then I ate an unhealthy tea because it was the quickest option and I couldn't be bothered to cook. I'm now eating chocolate I don't need.

So really, I'm pissed off with myself because although the initial lack of sleep wasn't my fault, the rest of it really was and now I'm mentally berating myself. I make things difficult for myself.

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Timeisslippingaway · 11/09/2018 21:51

@PinkLady01

Oh my god. You win. Stay safe!

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FinallyFree123456789 · 11/09/2018 21:51

Having to re-wash the clean bed sheets that I put on about 3 hours ago - and re-make the bed because dd thought it would be "fun" to drink from a glass and spill Ribena all over my bed Hmm calmly sitting here waiting for the tumble dryer to finish before I can actually go to sleep .....

Notfastjustfurious · 11/09/2018 21:51

My 4yr old has been tired and grumpy today - 3 bloody tantrums because the word no offends her.

Op I feel your pain my will go wild with a felt tip pen given half a chance and she too has been told many times not to. Unfortunately she has an older sister who loves nothing more than colouring in with... felt tip pens. I'm forever going on about not leaving them out. I bore my bloody self.

Lethaldrizzle · 11/09/2018 21:52

It's not something I would get cross about. My kids have all had drawing phases. Just wash it off.

Idontbelieveinthemoon · 11/09/2018 21:53

Also my irritant today was when a man pulled out of his drive, saw me coming, tried to pull out in front of me and skimmed the bonnet of my car by about 4mm then slammed his brakes and horn on as I went by. He followed me to school about 6cms from my arse the whole way, beeping his horn, watched me pull into the car park, pulled up and got out, shouting "fucking women drivers thinking they're entitled to drive however the fuck they like" before realising I teach his child's class and taking his child into the before school club with the speed of Usain Bolt.

I did have a Heather Small "what have you done today to make you feel proud" moment when I realised I hadn't given him the finger and shouted back that he was a titwank with no driving skills (because I'm desperately trying to stop swearing in my car) despite his shitty behaviour.

WhatAmISupposedToBeDoing · 11/09/2018 21:54

Notfastjustfurious I am starting to think that grumpy and stroppy is the default setting of virtually all four year olds. I had a public stand off with mine after she chucked things off the buggy so she could sit in it and I told her to pick them up again. Jeeeez it was painful.

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Timeisslippingaway · 11/09/2018 21:55

@Idontbelieveinthemoon

😂 I didn't give him the pens in his room he took one out the drawing cupboard. I work with children, have done for a long time and have 2 of my own, I know what I'm doing. No more pens or pencils for him, he's had his chance!

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Eliza9917 · 11/09/2018 21:56

Clutch went on my car. Luckily it was while I was parking outside the house and not on the nsl road on the way home. But now we only have one car which is a pain but on the other hand at least we didn't have one car and now have no car.

Gotta keep the glass half full.