To have no time for 'nonsense' anymore

[scoobydoobydoooooh]

People expecting me to travel thousands of miles to attend their destination wedding.

People putting their name on waiting lists for designer handbags that cost thousands of pounds.

Pamper parties for 9 year olds.

Any other grumpy old ladies like to list the modern day nonsense they can live without?

Air fresheners/smelly candles/reed diffusers everywhere. I can't go into most shops now as they make me feel ill and give me painful sinusitis. Everywhere stinks and god knows how people with asthma manage.

The dog walkers who let their dogs piss on my front path leading up to my front door. The shrub is dying due to it and the place is horrible and dirty. You disgusting people. Take your stupid mutts and make them piss onto a drain or something. Are these animals so stupid that they can't be trained? The owners are the stupid ones as well.

I don't like the the word doggos, can I call them doggies please? I have a doggie!

I'm a man but agree with the OPs sentiment, especially spending a fortune on a handbag.

Yes to the handbag thing and hysteria about shoes. FFS, it's so tedious.

Anti vaxxers

Baby led weaning in public places- please clean up your baby’s mess
Parents who allow their dcs to run riot around other people’s tables in cafes whilst smiling indulgently
Blaming everthing on Brexit

I love this thread, how do I nominate it for classics?

Pouting in selfies

Minor celebs now (and, increasingly, many teenage girls) all now look like a drawing of Kim Kardashian and generally look computer-generated.

'Nom nom"'

Dusty tiny cramped cafes/vintage shops with odd tea cups and charge a fortune.

'For free" Things are free than cannot be 'for free'.

The sudden replacement of dead with 'passed'.

The look of shocked surprise by people, ahead of you in the queue, when they have to pay and haven't even taken their purse out yet.

Communal canteen eating, slowing taking one salad leaf at a time, hurry the fuck up!

News presenters reporting live from the scene
Could not agree more @Onlyjoinedforthisthread
I hate time-wasters of all kinds. The older I get, the more impatient I become. My reasoning is this: I haven't got long left in this life so I don't want to waste the precious time I have left on silly slow people who can't get their act together.

People who ask on forums or what’s app groups something could easily googled. Honestly it’s far quicker just to do that yourself and stop acting useless.

Car drivers who think as long as they start indicating after you have started crossing a side road that gives them right of way just to keep going.

Local councils that place bus stops directly outside busy shops so there is always a pile up trying to get in and out of the shop. When a few metres down the road would be much easier.

Snapchat filters.

People who constantly talk about how "busy" they are and how “I don’t have time for all of that”. Everyone is busy ffs. Manage your time better.

First time parents telling me how they had to get a huge expensive new car on finance due to the new baby because their average car wasn't big enough, while I'm still bombing around with 2 kids in a 2010 Corsa (which fits 2 ERF seats in the back).

Hen weekends costing £300+.

Champagne socialists.

Queue jumpers.

Work colleagues who stay late to look good where they actually just need to be more efficient and/or need to stop browsing social media all day.

A 2 hour meeting that should have been a fucking email.

Cake smashes.

Parents who try to “live through” their children.

Parents of one child who happen to see me at soft play holding my non-mobile baby and not noticing my 3 year old, and giving me a lecture about how easy I have it because my baby isn’t crawling yet and I’ll have to “have eyes in the back of my head”.

Rude and/or entitled types who deem their needs stratospherically more important than anyone else’s.

Stuck-up people who you end up holding the door open longer for because they breeze through the doorway behind you not wanting to touch the door. That really winds me up.

And reporters on the late evening news broadcasting live from some court/workplace/museum that has long since closed for the day, in the dark and pouring rain. What’s the point???

@solongthen - if self checkout tills let me put my reusable bag down first without having a fucking conniption and crying for their fucking mummy, I'd happily pack straight into the bag. Given that I often have to get calpol/wine/razors approved, I wait until the end to get that done and then pack, rather than doubling the delay by having to have my bag approved before I start scanning. I fucking hate self checkout. I take malicious delight in muting that patronising voice every time.

what is a CAKE SMASH???

Hacks
Rocking ... to describe whatever clothes people are wearing

Both make me feel murderously stabby

@thecatsthecats

Exercising judgment is not the same as judging people just going about their daily lives, making their own choices, choices which don’t affect anyone else.

oh, and drivers behind me with their high beams on

When we travelled a lot the children had a mirror in the back seat for such people, they soon put their dipped lights on!

what is a CAKE SMASH???

Doing my best not to sound judgmental - it's a cake that is intended to be smashed, mashed, mooshed up and messed over a baby that is celebrating a 1 Year birthday.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/education-39656299/cake-smash-the-new-way-to-celebrate-your-baby-s-first-birthday

You can buy a professional photography package to show your angel gazing at the cake in wonder and then smashing it through to being covered with chocolate, buttercream and utter mess.

Still here agreeing with everything!!
This thread makes me feel a whole lot better about not being as tolerant of peoples' shit anymore!!

People who have a one way monologue at you for about 30 minutes, without realising you have no interest whatsoever.

We must share a friend there! It can be quite funny, I usually start talking about a totally different thing to see if he notices, my daughter thought I was going mad at first. He doesn't say We went to XYZ, he will give a cm by cm account of the journey, you feel intimately close to every lamp-post and pothole.

Tilly that's a brilliant move!!

The mirrors not the cake. Obviously.

I work in a school with children.

Children who spend all their spare time looking at a screen, be it a phone, computer or Tv. I'm not grumpy with them, but I'm very grumpy with the parents who provide all the screens. I see so many pale, thin weedy boys who drink litres of energy drink daily and have no social skills. The poor kids don't know what they're missing.