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Come and be irrationally irritated alongside me and tell me why you're overreacting

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MrsMaryMystery · 31/03/2021 18:23

Tell me your stories of being irrationally irritated.
I have the irrational rage (IR) because I weighed a parcel twice on a good scales which I tested with a tin of beans, and the parcel came in at under 500g. I stuck some stamps on it, rounding up as I only have 1st class.

I checked out the price on the royal mail get a price website. It's going to Germany so came up as requiring 12 stamps.
Sent child and his grandma on a lovely walk to the Post office. They came back and told me the weight was wrong - in fact it was twice what I thought it was so they had to pay more.

Why has this given me such a rage? I went down the post office to ask them nicely to weigh it for me to see, but alas, it's been picked up. I know that my weight was correct because of what was in the parcel, and the package was a standard cardboard box. Not a 500g box. Just a box. Maybe the sellotape was lead lined 🤔🤔🤔🤔

Soothe me with similar stories of minor woe!

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MouseInCatsClaws · 01/04/2021 21:04

Thank you everyone for sharing, you've really cheered me up.
I am irrationally raging because my children are still up. Their bedtime is 9pm and I've given them ten minutes grace because they're on holidays.

I do know I'm being unreasonable but just fucking GO TO BED so I can have some peace.

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MrsMaryMystery · 01/04/2021 23:30

@CosyAcorn

My parents bought Cadbury's Mini Eggs Easter Eggs for DD, DH and me. Would be lovely but each one comes with a huge ugly mug. Bright yellow with Cadbury's mini eggs logo all over it.

I already have too many mugs. These are hideous.

The mugs are taking up room in the box that could have been chocolate instead!

Ha ha! I haven't seen a Cadbury's Easter mug since about 1997. I recently went into a warehouse style charity shop. They had an entire section for the things. It was like an Easter egg graveyard. Memories of chocolate past.

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MrsMaryMystery · 01/04/2021 23:31

@MouseInCatsClaws

Thank you everyone for sharing, you've really cheered me up. I am irrationally raging because my children are still up. Their bedtime is 9pm and I've given them ten minutes grace because they're on holidays.

I do know I'm being unreasonable but just fucking GO TO BED so I can have some peace.

You wrote that at 9.04pm. Very irrational, well done :-D

But yes, go to bed baby mice!

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dottiedaisee · 01/04/2021 23:33

Husband washes apple with washing up liquid...WTF ..only started recently but I am actually getting quite agitated!!

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MrsMaryMystery · 01/04/2021 23:35

@1stTimeMama

I get IR about bottle feeding. The absolute faff of it all, washing, sterilising, putting the bottles together. The cost of the milk, and inconvenience of having to do it the middle of the night. If my body would've just been able provide enough milk, I wouldn't need to do all the bloody heft of bottle feeding. Damn it to hell.

This.

If I tell you really quietly that I make up all my night bottles at 11pm and line them up next to the bed, will you judge me harshly?!

I make it up with boiling water so my brain tells me it's ok.

Baby is thriving.

Boobs are not. Sat here on pump. Worried now that Google is filming me through the webcam.

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MrsMaryMystery · 01/04/2021 23:36

Oh, and, baby has reflux, so vom to that!

Irrational reflux, shall we say!

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MrsMaryMystery · 01/04/2021 23:37

@dottiedaisee

Husband washes apple with washing up liquid...WTF ..only started recently but I am actually getting quite agitated!!

Ask him if he's trying to kill two birds with one stone by fairy liquiding his teeth whilst eating the apple.

PLEASE. ask him. ASK HIM!!!!

Then come and tell us what he said.

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NoParticularPattern · 01/04/2021 23:41

I’m irrationally irritated because I’m 9.5 months pregnant and I’m STILL FUCKING PREGNANT. I’m not even slightly in labour.

Oh and the company we sell to has just sent an easter hamper to all their producers. Addressed to BIL. Who doesn’t actually work on the production side of things. Or at all really. But since I didn’t know they were sending it here or what it was I’ve just passed it on to him as it had his name on. And now I’m pissed off that the one who does the least had got the most. Again. For a change.

NoParticularPattern · 01/04/2021 23:42

Oh and just to add some more shouty capitals. IF YOU ARE GOING TO SEND OUT HAMPERS TO PRODUCERS WHY NOT ADDRESS THEM TO THE FUCKING BUSINESS NAME WHO SUPPLIES YOU?!

NoParticularPattern · 01/04/2021 23:43

Also the postman won’t stop asking me why I’ve not had the baby yet. And my first batch of hot cross buns didn’t rise. Might throw them at his face when I next see him on Tuesday.

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MrsMaryMystery · 01/04/2021 23:45

@StrictlyAFemaleFemale

The way dh picks up the playing pieces of Splendor REALLY gives me rage.

We bought splendor. It looked amazing and it has sold seventy billion copies etc etc. Am I alone in finding it a bit of a let down?

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SD1978 · 01/04/2021 23:45

Because a woman in a shop made me download a card for Afterpay that was unecessary, wasted 20minutes and wanted to do it the old way. Which wouldn't work now she'd made me down load the bloody card. All whilst telling me not to shout when I was making damn sure I wasn't shouting, because shouting is what I really wanted to do......

OwlinaTree · 01/04/2021 23:47

I had the IR when I went to a birthday party and had to take my toddler to the toilet and missed the cake and the singing. That's the only good bit of a 1 year old's birthday party let's face it!

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MrsMaryMystery · 01/04/2021 23:48

@NoParticularPattern

Also the postman won’t stop asking me why I’ve not had the baby yet. And my first batch of hot cross buns didn’t rise. Might throw them at his face when I next see him on Tuesday.

Here are some ideas:

I'm not really pregnant, it's a cushion to defraud HMRC
I'm not pregnant, I just eat a lot
Because I dance to my own tune
The baby is a robot
The baby is not yours
The baby is not human. Longer gestation period.
I'm only three months pregnant but it's octuplets, which is why I'm huge
Give me the damn letters
I don't speak English

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MrsMaryMystery · 01/04/2021 23:50

@OwlinaTree

I had the IR when I went to a birthday party and had to take my toddler to the toilet and missed the cake and the singing. That's the only good bit of a 1 year old's birthday party let's face it!

The last 1 year old birthday party I went to, they had cake. And then took it back to the kitchen where we never saw it again. Big rage there. I like cake.

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Catmummyof2 · 02/04/2021 00:01

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NouvelleMamanNouvelleVie · 03/05/2021 12:58

@NoParticularPattern

I’m irrationally irritated because I’m 9.5 months pregnant and I’m STILL FUCKING PREGNANT. I’m not even slightly in labour.

How much longer did you have to wait @NoParticularPattern 🙂

Diggingaholeformyself · 03/05/2021 13:06

I've got the rage today because my neighbours had a huge delivery lorry pull up this morning and due to the way they parked and the van door swinging open, I couldn't actually see what they had delivered.

I'm thinking of asking for the driver to be reprimanded, I need to know what it was!

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