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To ask for your first world problems?

220 replies

Faerie87 · 11/12/2018 21:10

Just thought I would put a silly thread together based on problems we face.

I realised one first world problem I had today!

I was in the supermarket cafe and wanted to surf the internet on my phone, I then realised my phone had connected to the supermarket WiFi and it wouldn’t allow me to open any web pages up, so I had to turn off my WiFi and use my data, I then forget to turn my WiFi back on and then use up all my data!!

Anyone else got any first world problems?

OP posts:
IchWill · 12/12/2018 19:41

Love this thread OP. Thank you for starting it.

Mine are:

  1. The queues are always longer for the petrol pumps on my petrol cap side of my car. I can put petrol in from the opposite side but it's a ballache and I usually have to get back in my car to manoeuvre it.
  1. Only having £2.00 in £1.00 coins for £1.50 parking meter charge, when the machine doesn't give change. I begrudge giving the parking company 50p extra more, than I'd care to admit quite frankly.
  1. Only having one vegan 'option' on a restaurant menu. Imagine if a meat eater went to a restaurant and had one dish on offer?!
  1. How you can't ever buy fresh rosemary around Easter time. Sold out everywhere.
  1. The price of mouthwash, bin bags, light bulbs and washing powder / tablets. Why so expensive?
  1. Sky+ ending a recording before the programme has finished. Like, seriously?
  1. Top coat on nail varnish that's purportedly quick drying, but you paint your nails a couple of hours before bed and wake up with hair ridge marks on your nails next morning.
  1. Paying £5.00 for a bag of popcorn at the bastard pictures.
  1. How much restaurants and off licenses charge for a bottle of cava, when it costs exactly the same as normal wine in supermarkets.
  1. The price of vet bills. I'm in the wrong job.
IchWill · 12/12/2018 19:41

My DP asked me to add... being charged to withdraw your own money at ATMs.

I concur.

IchWill · 12/12/2018 19:43

@Twuntsrule Oh yes. I hear you on that one.

ASundayWellSpent · 12/12/2018 19:43

My mum just got back home from visiting our family who live far away and told me her bags are full of stuff for me and my family off everyone. That is so sweet and generous but my gut instinct was I am still trying to find home for things since we moved in a year ago and am mid pre Christmas clear out to make room for the children’s gifts in two weeks 🙈

Noviceoftheweek · 12/12/2018 19:43

Managing the team of people who help run my home (housekeeper, PA, gardener, window cleaner etc).
Mislaying various pieces of expensive jewellery

Mummabear2212 · 12/12/2018 19:44

Tesco not having my favourite beloved pesto this evening.

delboysskinandblister · 12/12/2018 19:48

Waitrose not having a Steak and Ale pie in tonight for our dinner having done an 18mile round trip with flu at the wheel slobbering like a bloodhound

IchWill · 12/12/2018 19:50

The middle class first world problems are just fabulous. Love them!

I'm looking at you @underneaththeash (paté problems), @Embmum (en-suite annoyance) and @talktomegently (delicatessen difficulties).

😉😂😂😂😂

caffelatte100 · 12/12/2018 20:06

We live abroad and we are lucky to have a ski chalet about 120 km from where we live so go most weekends in the winter. However, I always find it completely tiresome to have to pack, travel and unpack between the two homes.
The other first world problem is that my family love to ski, but I can't always be bothered and end up alone while they go out.

FascinatingCarrot · 12/12/2018 20:22

The dog chewed my TV remote and now I have to order a new one
get up and manually turn it over from satellite to game settings when we put the PS on.

The works tin opener only opens half a tin and it gives me the absolute rage. I forget this once a week when I take a tin of smartprice beans in.

Its no longer environmentall friendly to use microfibre cloths.

I live a 40 minute drive away from Slatterys.

Fashionista101 · 12/12/2018 20:30

@Firesuit god save the fucking insects

Cakemonger · 12/12/2018 20:49

My local Aldi has stopped stocking frangipane mince pies

Stillnoidea · 12/12/2018 20:54

i left an avocado next to the bananas for too long and now it's too squishy.

TicketyBoo83 · 12/12/2018 20:58

Every weekend my computer at work resets my default printer to the one at the far end of the corridor instead of the one in the room next door to me. I often forgot to change it back on a Monday morning and have to traipse to the end of the corridor and back to get my printing 😫

katseyes7 · 12/12/2018 21:02

Receiving an email from M & S about their current Chinese Dine in for £10, and looking forward to picking one up tomorrow. Except every main is meat (which l don't eat) except the prawn one (which l do) but it has a chilli dip. l'm allergic to chilli.

MargotLovedTom1 · 12/12/2018 21:09

I need the loo but the cat's asleep on my lap, and I don't like the taste of the elderflower Fever Tree tonic I got to go in my G&T. So I can't have one. Scandalous.

Sweetooth92 · 12/12/2018 21:21

I need a glass of wine but don’t want to wake the sleeping dogs up from either side of me on the sofa to fetch one, which will be a degree too warm as my son likes playing with the wine fridge and turning it up and popping the lights on.
I want to go to bed but the pillows are too fluffy and luxurious I can’t sleep on two without giving myself an ache neck.
Oh & the cleaner finishes this week for four whole weeks so I’ll have to clean up after myself for the whole of the holidays, with my son, husband and two dogs leaving a trail for me.
Frankly it’s all the tradgedies here

MiddlingMum · 12/12/2018 21:29

Another two.

There isn't any guacamole left, and I can't get to Waitrose until Saturday.

I'm in the process of changing my work and can't decide whether to work two and a half or three days a week.

longtompot · 13/12/2018 00:12

I've got too cold drinking my g & t, and would rather have had a nice glass of red to warm up with, but I don't have any in.

We are getting a Fortnum & Mason delivery tomorrow, but no idea who from, suspect a client, and no idea what might be in it. What if its full of fancy pants stuff?

meow1989 · 13/12/2018 00:15

I got stroppy that m&s didn't have any tapenade last week BlushI've had similar tantrums about lack of sea salt focaccia in shops (private tantrums that only DH has been privy to and made fun of me for!)

Klobuchar · 13/12/2018 00:29

Took a few days off to do some jobs around the house and get all our things ready for a trip back home at the weekend but other than have my hair done, I have done the sun total of sod all. Today all I have done is lay on the sofa and watch films and warmed up crap food in the oven.

mimibunz · 13/12/2018 00:32

Should we have our holiday next year overseas,

Hellosunshine33 · 13/12/2018 00:43

I just chipped my freshly painted nail trying to undo my bra

manicinsomniac · 13/12/2018 00:44

My boiler is broken and I'm really cold.

There are mice in my basement.

CarolsSecretCookieRecipe · 13/12/2018 00:51

These are funny! Especially having too many BMWs and the KitchenAid not matching the new kitchen Grin

My issue is that the hot and sunny weather outside does not match my traditional-twinkly-snow-covered-Christmas-decor theme I've set up inside, plus I have no mantlepiece to hang stockings from Angry. It's just not RIGHT, dammit.