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‘Nice’ Things That Aren’t Actually

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WheelieBinPrincess · 14/09/2021 12:22

Just a random musing.

Breakfast in bed- lovely idea, reality is you need to get up for a wee and then a tray is plonked on your lap, and groggy from sleep you are supposed to exclaim in delight over bits of pastry flaking into your sheets and slopping coffee down yourself and trying to subtly get the sluggy bits of fat off the bacon because you usually just get medallions.

Relaxing massage- I went the other day and I kept thinking ‘I’ll switch off and enjoy it in a minute’ but just kept thinking about whether to get the tube or the bus home and if there are oven chips in the freezer or not or if I watered my peace lily last week and if not it’s probably died. Then it was finished and it cost me £80.

Anyone got anything they can add to things that sound so nice as an idea but in reality are just not really?

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IrisLilyRose · 14/09/2021 12:24

Houseguests.

IrisLilyRose · 14/09/2021 12:25

Being a houseguest.

Letsallscreamatthesistene · 14/09/2021 12:26

Eating outside

HappyAsASandboy · 14/09/2021 12:27

BBQs

HappyAsASandboy · 14/09/2021 12:27

Going to the beach with young kids!

IrisLilyRose · 14/09/2021 12:27

Oh yes, picnics.
Camping.

MichaelGovesBeard · 14/09/2021 12:28

Beach days

LeafOfTruth · 14/09/2021 12:28

Anything involving a spa. Spa Days honestly sound like torture days, to me.

If someone gave me the option of a spa day or a day cleaning the fat out the sewers, I'd take the latter Grin

TheWayTheLightFalls · 14/09/2021 12:28

BBQs
Picnics
Taking under 5s to the beach or pool

IrisLilyRose · 14/09/2021 12:28

Close knit family.
(Can go either way ime.)

furbabymama87 · 14/09/2021 12:28

Christmas dinner. Look forward to it for ages, spend ages making it. By the time it's ready, you've been picking at bits of it and are sick of the sight of it and can't eat much of it.

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WheelieBinPrincess · 14/09/2021 12:29

I’ll add baths- I get hot and bothered and want to haul myself out, but feel guilty about all the water so miserably force myself to sit there with a face mask on until the acceptable point where I think it’s ok to waste all the water down the plug hole.

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Aroundtheworldin80moves · 14/09/2021 12:29

Ski holidays
DH taking the kids out to give me a break... I.e. Time to clean uninterrupted.

BlameItOnTheBlackStar · 14/09/2021 12:30

Cocktails.

Oh thanks, I've got to pay £11 for a vodka and tomato juice in a wanky glass, because your bar staff dress like Tommy Shelby and chuck a cocktail shaker about for 30 seconds Confused

Letsallscreamatthesistene · 14/09/2021 12:30

@WheelieBinPrincess

I’ll add baths- I get hot and bothered and want to haul myself out, but feel guilty about all the water so miserably force myself to sit there with a face mask on until the acceptable point where I think it’s ok to waste all the water down the plug hole.
Oh I disagree! In fact im going to have one right now
DinosaurPantz · 14/09/2021 12:31

Naps.

I can’t be the only one who wakes up hot, dry mouth, headache feeling worse and more tired than I did before I dropped off. Doesn’t matter if I nap for 10 mins, 30 mins or an hour. Sounds nice, but you wake up wishing you had just rode the day out.

Steelesauce · 14/09/2021 12:31

Days out with little kids. They tantrum and there's always some kind of drama. Always costs a fortune as they want everything.

DoormatBob · 14/09/2021 12:31

Having a bath. Takes an age to run, always too hot as what feels right on your hand cannot be sat in! Immediately bored, not relaxing to sit half submerged in water in a bathroom.

Anordinarymum · 14/09/2021 12:33

@BlameItOnTheBlackStar

Cocktails.

Oh thanks, I've got to pay £11 for a vodka and tomato juice in a wanky glass, because your bar staff dress like Tommy Shelby and chuck a cocktail shaker about for 30 seconds Confused

You clearly have not had a pornstar martini then !
JesusInTheCabbageVan · 14/09/2021 12:33

Family walks

onlychildhamster · 14/09/2021 12:34

lush bath bombs- its just coloured water. Give me bubbles anyday (and you don't need to pay £££ as its just sodium laureth sulfate).

Massages- I don't feel relaxed at all.

BlameItOnTheBlackStar · 14/09/2021 12:35

Yes I have and it was still a fucking rip off. How do people afford to drink cocktails all night? On a night out I'd have, say, six beers. Which would cost about £30. Six cocktails would cost more than the shoes I'd be wearing. It's absolute wankery. It's just a measure of alcohol and a mixer, maybe some random herb thrown in.

JesusInTheCabbageVan · 14/09/2021 12:35

Our last family walk was over a year ago, and I got fed up with the literally non-stop monologue from both DH and DS, so sped up and left them behind and then got hopelessly lost Grin

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WheelieBinPrincess · 14/09/2021 12:35

YES cocktails. ‘Going out for cocktails’ can cost a bloody fortune!! Just give me my own bottle of wine and leave me alone 😂

Resented having a ‘mocktail’ sooooo much once when pregnant and wanting to feel as though I was ‘joining in’ - £9 for a martini glass of concentrated apple juice with a sprig of basil in Angry

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JesusInTheCabbageVan · 14/09/2021 12:37

Martinis. I suspect that only about 3% of people who order them actually like them.