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‘Nice’ Things That Aren’t Actually

849 replies

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?

OP posts:
ShagMeRiggins · 15/09/2021 21:04

Jo Malone candles.

peaceanddove · 15/09/2021 21:08

@Klaudiagal

Sex on the beach. Bloody sand everywhere and usually either too cold or to hot. Sex in the bath. Water everywhere and I keep getting distracted with the thought of cleaning the flooded bathroom in a very near future...
I only ever like sex in a bed. Ever.
savethatkitty01 · 15/09/2021 21:08

Pedicures

staceyflack · 15/09/2021 21:10

French fancies 🤮

MidgeKiller1 · 15/09/2021 21:11

Play dates…. Loathe them, bored out of my skull.

Covidconfuse · 15/09/2021 21:13

Cut and blow dry. Have never found a hairdresser who doesn’t pull my hair. Am always relieve when the ordeal is over

greenandblue432 · 15/09/2021 21:15

BBQ's for sure. The mess, the charcoaled meat, the cleaning after.

Al fresco eating in the summer. Looks lovely on the outside. When you are actually doing it, you get the wind blowing your hair into your mouth, insects flying around, weather feels colder than it looks...

Beeinalily · 15/09/2021 21:18

Now, I haven't rtft, but I must object. Baths and naps are both lovely, and a nap IN the bath is sublime. I agree mostly about cocktails, but once went to a cocktail bar where I had a banana daiquiri made with fresh banana and fresh cream, and forty years later it's still the loveliest drink I've ever tasted!

EspressoDoubleShot · 15/09/2021 21:19

@staceyflack

French fancies 🤮
Yes they’re a Glucky sweet mess of a cake
LostpencilSOS · 15/09/2021 21:26

I'm going to add The White Company.
Now that I can afford it, I've realised how shit it is.
The candles are massively overpriced and the scent and scent throw are nothing amazingly different to the scented candles from home bargains for a fraction of the price. Their gowns and bed sheets are also nothing amazing or different. The diffuser that I was coveting wasn't what I expected and some of the oils smell like piss mixed with bleach. Grin I wasn't missing out on much !

Marmitecake · 15/09/2021 21:26

All the mentions of BBQs, I raise you fire pits Angry. BBQs at least have a purpose, a means to an end. Fire pits just cause a nuisance to those living nearby.

Pliudev · 15/09/2021 21:27

And Barbados. On a cruise with DH who was lecturing. It was raining hard. I asked a taxi driver to take us to somewhere that locals would eat and we sat in a portacabin eating macaroni cheese.

HotMummaSummer · 15/09/2021 21:34

@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 don't enjoy naps either! I'd much rather sleep in or get to bed early Grin
nopuppiesallowed · 15/09/2021 21:37

A pedicure. The thought of anyone touching my feet makes me want to scream. And baths? Yuck. Boring.
But I love everything about Christmas - the real meaning of it all, the present buying (I love it - really!), the cooking (and I've done it for all the family for most of 48 years) is knackering. But you know what? I actually love all my family and we all get on and we actually like being together. And there's no three line whip. No one has to come and they know it. And when family have actually been living abroad and couldn't come, we ask friends over. So far, no -one's said no unless they've been invited elsewhere even if they've been before, so it must be an okay occasion. Having said that, a glass of wine when everyone's gone is mandatory!

MissLucyEyelesbarrow · 15/09/2021 21:42

@Pliudev

And Barbados. On a cruise with DH who was lecturing. It was raining hard. I asked a taxi driver to take us to somewhere that locals would eat and we sat in a portacabin eating macaroni cheese.
😆

I'll see you Barbados and raise you Sicily. Love Italy- lived there for a bit - hate Sicily, especially Palermo. If you're not being mown down by a twat on a scooter, you're being ripped off in some Mafia-themed café playing The Godfather soundtrack . They have Disneyfied mass murder- it's like going to Gloucester and finding a Fred West-themed Costa.

nopuppiesallowed · 15/09/2021 21:44

@Pliudev

Birthdays. Mine. The last was a big one and I felt like jumping off a cliff. I resisted that urge and pulled the front of my car off on the railing of a trolley bay at ASDA.
That made me snort with laughter!
Xtraincome · 15/09/2021 21:47

Hot tubs
BBQs
Speeches
Christmas Dinner

PUGMEISTER21 · 15/09/2021 21:49

Agree, I can't stand breakfast in bed. I am also no good with baths, there supposed to be relaxing, 5 minutes in I am bored and then I feel stressed that I should be relaxing and not bored.

Lightisnotwhite · 15/09/2021 21:50

Christmas - a few school bits, the odd carol service for old times sake is lovely. Two weeks before. Then enjoy Christmas Eve, Day and Boxing Day.
Start in October tree up in November and it’s stress and over expectation for months. Ready for the disappointment of the New Years Eve party in a tight dress, sweaty shoes and loads of people that you should be singing Auld Lang Syne about, not with.

Xtraincome · 15/09/2021 21:51

DH just added:

  • The Cinema
  • Going shopping for gifts (he loves online shopping)
SingleMamaGY · 15/09/2021 22:07

Surprises- can’t stand any sort of surprise
Just tell me and I’ll decide if I want to go/accept

merrymelody · 15/09/2021 22:09

Oral sex

riceuten · 15/09/2021 22:12

Reading outside - even the lightest breeze makes it impossible. Eating al fresco abroad, particularly in countries where eating outside means being stationed next to a chain smoker for hours.

Diversion · 15/09/2021 22:15

Somebody else at work brewing up. Often their version of a cup of tea is not mine. Luke warm, too much milk, sugar when I don't take any. Much easier if I just play tea girl and make a decent brew for everyone and myself.

EspressoDoubleShot · 15/09/2021 22:18

@Diversion

Somebody else at work brewing up. Often their version of a cup of tea is not mine. Luke warm, too much milk, sugar when I don't take any. Much easier if I just play tea girl and make a decent brew for everyone and myself.
So true! Sometimes I decline a cuppa so I don’t have to endure tepid fetid tea