Name one thing that's the bane of your life

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Can be lighthearted or heavy.

Mine is doing the packed lunches. Fucking hate it, especially those stupid Sistema lunchboxes with the compartments that nothing fits in not my best ever purchase

You?

I have to say that this thread has cheered me up because people are posting about stuff that used to be a huge bane of my life too but now that the DC are older it's blissfully absent from my life - bedtimes and school runs are prime examples; it felt like it would never end and I hated hated them, but now the kids make their own way to bed and school and my only role is to occasionally chivy them to be on time, wonderful!

So many things at the moment!!

Dishwasher - all elements thereof!!
Small boys who won’t flush the loo!
My Boss who is intent on promotion, regardless of who he tramples over en route
My lawnmower - very heavy and hardwork
The school deciding to do sats after all!
The government for messing about with my pension
My family for being so abnormal!!
My soon to be ex for still looking at me in a predominantly disapproving manner!!

And breathe! Feel better now, thank you!

Cooking an evening meal. Dh won't allow the older dcs to do it, so it falls to us. I absolutely hate meal prep and would happily live on scrambled eggs, ham, salad etc.

Ground elder and hoovering

Grey squirrels

@echt

My dog's current mission to nab the possum that's set up home on my balcony.

Update.

The dog caught the possum last night and now it is deaded.

The bloody sparrow who sits on my neighbour's gutter with his cheep cheep cheeping at the break of dawn trying to entice a lady sparrow. My double glazed window doesn't muffle his incessant cheeping.

@Bearnecessity

God yes home printers......the misery they can generate...built in feckin...uselessness to go wrong, not work and money pits....

Printers have to be the only piece of technology that has not improved!!!!

They work fine when you print out numerous stupid colouring pages for the children but when you need to print out something even slightly important then error
You have paper, you have ink, you have a plug to yourself, you have been updated. What more do you want? My first born child?

😂 Don't be offering up your first born to the devil Gods not running printers Pandora...it is good to know I don't suffer alone...

It is a happy day in paradise when children can walk themselves to school and can put themselves to bed!
It's not so happy when they are much older eighteen year olds out and about up the pub or out with their friends and decide to come home plastered at one in the morning. The bit inbetween these years can be good though!

Agreeing to buy a house with a wide variety of hidden defects that I now have to fix

Fucking chin hairs

@hennybeans

Letting the dog in and out. She's not so bad during the day, but from dinner time until kids bed time that's all she does. And if she's outside, she tends to bark as soon as I sit down so I have to jump up and call her in. And I can never seem to ignore her asking to go out because I always think - what if she really needs a wee? Of course she doesn't, she wants to bark at a pigeon or something.

Ha, I feel your pain

@gelatodipistacchio

Agreeing to buy a house with a wide variety of hidden defects that I now have to fix

Sellers are so good at covering up the faults arnt they? I felt for our neighbour when they moved in to the house next to me as the old neighbours left old milk in the fridge , a leaking radiator behind a nice rad cover and loads of dog poo in the garden. They were so disappointed. Bad sellers should be held to account, but rarely are! We knew our place needed a lot of work when we bought it but it's still annoying when they cover stuff up deliberately

Neighbours that buy big vans that they promise to keep on their driveways. You cheeky lying fuckers.

OP, as I read the title, my first thought was making stupid, fucking packed lunches. I bloody hate it. My children are fussy little buggers and don't like the schools offerings. I also look after children and have to make their school lunches. I feel like sending them in with a bar of chocolate and a drink. All the lovingly prepared, healthy stuff just travels back and forth, settling finally in the bin. I hate it too!

Always tired until I want to sleep!

Oh, I hear you on that one. (Note time of post).

Night shifts

My boss. She will not set up work emails to go to my home email address. I miss sooooo much. Also the amount of overtime I do and get no thanks from her. My colleague says thank you every time. She’s lovely.
My dh. I asked him to take the P plates of sons car , so son could drive my car this morning. Guess what he didn’t do. Grrrrrr

Being responsible for getting everyone up every morning.
Dishes. Never-ending dishes. No space for a dish washer.
Picking up after lazy teens who are untrainable.
Moving stuff from the recycling bin to the house bin as no one is capable of remembering or reading packets.

I should live alone, clearly.

Having type 1 diabetes and POTS

The school run. I fucking hate it. I actually can't stand most of the people I see on it. They all just get on my every last nerve.

People who put the toilet roll the wrong way round.... How do they think it's acceptable I will never know!!

Agreeing to buy a house with a wide variety of hidden defects that I now have to fix

I hear you. We won a bidding war on this house and every time we discover yet another bloody problem I wish we'd never won.

@Arrowheart

The school run. I fucking hate it. I actually can't stand most of the people I see on it. They all just get on my every last nerve.

This was my pure hatred for 10 years. I whooped with joy when DS (11 year 6) was able to walk to school independently. My teeth itch when I'm in that playground with people I have nothing in common with and no desire to speak to.