Final straws - share yours

[DrizzleandDamp]

AIBU to have hit the wall here, it’s been a shit (5) year, I’ve worked my ass off to make sure tonight I could finish my wrapping with a nice bottle of red bought from supermarket hell with a Christmas film.

I opened the car boot and what falls our onto the drive and smashes? Not the shit Boxing Day ones my NICE red. FML I’m done.

What’s your final straw been?

Dd has toothache - its sent my anxiety spiralling.

My mum died last week and me and DP have covid.

I have a hamper from john Lewis from my employer, it has a bottle of merlot in it. That would definitely finish me off. I intend to have this hamper when we feel better.

Hyper hyper children I try to ignore happy noise but my god I needed a dark room .

@TheoriginalLEM so sorry about your mum

Ah TheOriginal that’s really bad

Drizzle, yes, its shit but it doesnt take away how difficult things are for all of us just now. I feel your pain re the wine

My brand new iPhone cracked in my pocket (HOW??) on the 17th. Desperately snatched a last minute repair for the 22nd at Apple store and cursing the costs in an already v expensive month. Decided to have a bath to chill and relax.

Then discovered no hot water, and found the boiler dripping sludge. Called the v expensive emergency plumber who said the entire thing needed replacing. Oh, and the back up immersion boiler also broke. Booked the v expensive per hour repair man to fix the back up, not wanting to have no water or Heating when family came for Christmas, including new born nephew. Plumber said it was a two hour job. Turned out to be 8 (including a 2 hour parts buying trip, which he could have done while waiting for the system to drain!!)

Luckily found a local company to replace the boiler on the weekend, well into the thousands in cost but thought we need to get this done by Christmas - hadn’t seen family all year and we will have a fucking excellent and warm Christmas damn it!

Just as the plumber drove away tier four lockdown announced. No family celebration. Had some tears, DC devastated not to see granny and cousin. Realised phone repair would be cancelled so typing this on a very shattered (brand new) phone.

As we dried our tears noticed that all the Christmas lights had gone. Yup. Cats chewed through the cord. So spent the last couple of days madly purchasing last minute Christmas lights and taking EVERY GODDAMN decoration and restringing the lights and redecorating the tree.

That was it. The fucking Christmas light. That was the straw. I cannot wait to see the end of 2020.