‘Nice’ Things That Aren’t Actually

[WheelieBinPrincess]

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?

Baths
Camping
Weddings
Parties
Eating outside
Pizza
Ice cream
Beach holidays
Sun bathing

Afternoon tea. Who wants to eat sarnies, cake,tea and Prosecco all at the same time

Weddings. Mismatch of guests. B&G faffing about, speeches. Lacklustre food and bubbly
Baby showers. I mean who gives a fuck? Just give mum to be a present and stop all the fake fuss
Christenings/Baptism They’re only doing it to get a school place pretending to be practicing Christians
Children’s parties. No more with the animal man or inept magicians or rubbish food. Just no

Manicures - just leave my cuticles alone, you sadist!

Wedding receptions.

@DinosaurPantz

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.

I hate naps. The idea of having to wake up twice in one day is torture.

Clubbing and night clubs! What in the world is so fun about being crammed into an overcrowded dim lit room with loads of drunken screaming people off their heads, not being able to hear each other talk over the 500 decibels music?

@windysocks

Afternoon tea. Who wants to eat sarnies, cake,tea and Prosecco all at the same time

I do

Many congratulations @WheelieBinPrincess!!!

How come I never had friends like you ladies on here— where can you be found!!! My friends all like Spa days, camping, Prosecco, festivals etc ( probably because they are all about 18 years younger than me)!! I do sometimes feel a right grouch!!

Sundays, pamper day/session anything, fancy cupcakes that taste like pish as they have too much stupid icing, family “fun day” events and theme parks urgh

Having the house to myself. I yearn for it, then get bored shitless after an hour!

Oh camping and outdoor fires with marshmallows - always end up covered in black stuff and trying like the arse end of an aircraft

Work Christmas meals. Secret Santa!
Love Christmas but find these aspects torture.

A nice night in with a movie.

Parties of any kind
Especially work dos
Big meals of any kind but think Christmas, that I have to cook. Hours of faff and 20 mins of semi enjoyment. The dirty dishes take days to disappear. The left overs make you feel guilty.
Going out for drinks. Spend ages deciding what to wear, in extremis buy something new that is uncomfortable, drink hysterically to try and get into the fun, ewww at the venue toilets, wet myself at the front door after walking home in the cold. See also-parties.
Going to National Trust houses. Expensive! Expensive ponsy cafes. Children bored.
Agree with 'adventurous sex' and 69. Uncomfortable and often feel like laughing or just disappointing.

1. drinks parties - all that juggling a glass while trying to pick up unsatisfying 'nibbles' from a napkin
2. blow dry at the hairdressers - stop 'sectioning' it off - just f*ckin DRY it - ends up being so flyaway/static
3. wedding evening dos - see 1) above

Christmas in general. All that build up and hype. Hours agonising over what to buy people. The wrapping, the shopping....debates over who is going where
Then it's all over in a matter of hours. Nobody can remember what you actually bought them, wrapping all discarded, everyone feeling stuffed and too hot....
Urgh - why do we put ourselves through it??

Hair colouring day in salons - what an endurance.

Sit there in a very noisy room that STINKS of chemicals/ammonia. Long and boring wait of 40min to process, can't really read the mags due to loud chat around your and hairdriers AND music.

Then the horrible look when the colour sets around your hairline, and generally you always look shit in the mirror under those harsh lights.
Then off to the washing with the most uncomfortable sinks digging into your meck for 20min as usually they spread the colour first. While washing hair getting onto your ears and eyes, need to use cotton wool to avoid.

On and off small talk with hairdresser/shampoo person.

Sometimes compensated by hair loking perfect afterwards, but often it has not set evenly enough or comes out too dark/too light which will then settle, but on the day could go either way.

*water getting into your eyes

New York

@thelionqwueen

New York

Paris gone downhill some years ago, too.

Has anyone said bank holiday Mondays yet?

There's the weight of expectation that you are supposed to be having an amazing day of liberation from work, whereas the reality is paying through the nose to watch your DC have a tantrum on a bouncy castle in the rain.

Also agree with baths (though, weirdly, this thread is making me want one), breakfast in bed, lie ins generally, hot tubs and pamper days.

Disagree with camping as no one in their right mind would think it sounds nice in the first place.

It’s not the bank holidays per se it’s the increase in referrals,from GP, social services,etc they all suddenly raise an urgent issue day or so before the BH

Hen do's
Weddings
Christenings
Entertaining
Sunday afternoons

Maybe it's because I don't have little children or a massive family but Christmas Day 😩

I love the run up to the big day, decorations, parties, food but the 25th Dec, I get up, have breakfast, spend ages cooking Christmas Dinner, eat, feel stuffed, sleepy, wash up and then sit and watch shite TV. Then it's tea time, more eating, more shite TV.

Sometimes parents turn up with my brother, who DH hates.. They literally eat and go. Like we're a restaurant 🤬 Then the gift side, I never know what to buy anymore but hating buying stuff which no one will like toiletteries!!

Much prefer boxing day actually. Sale shopping and nice pub meal 😊