Ridiculously petty things that you can’t even say out loud

[TheSlowRush]

I’ll start.

This has been bugging me all day but I can’t say it out loud to anyone as it’s really not that bigger deal.

Parking is a huge issue where I live, not many people have ORP.

My elderly neighbour got rid of her car a few years ago, we are quite close and she has a driveway, so it was agreed that I could now park over her driveway meaning I am pretty much guaranteed a space right outside my house, rather than having to park halfway down the street.

My lodger has now begun using this space, she works from home a lot too so it’s there for days now sometimes. WAAAaa 🙈🙈.

I can say anything as I will sound like a selfish loon.

I think so too. There’s no need for it. Just as there was no need for the pp’s allusion to “boomers”.

Yes

then this same person is sharing their thoughts and ideas in meetings too

we want to leave the meeting and actually get on wirh some work

I have come to realise there are some colleagues who prefer boring pointless training days and
waste of time meetings than actual work

I wish people on mn would embed images, like this - (especially on dress threads) rather than having a link, which will take me seven seconds to click, load and come out of.

Once your shopping is on the belt, get your purse ready, dig it out of your mammoth bag and have it ready at the top! I manage to do so with 4 kids in tow too!

Whole families shopping- and every child has a mini trolley!

Stop hitting my ankles, stop rolling over my foot and stop blocking the aisle 😡

I bloody well hope Tesco doesn't spell 'your' like that.

Dear kind people who feel compelled to approach me in public to tell me how glorious parenting small children is and how I should "love every minute of it, it goes so fast" when you can see I'm trying to manoeuvre my toddler who is having an almighty wobbler because I won't let them eat gravel off the floor. You coming and telling me this at the precise moment my child has inadvertently kicked me in the crotch is impeccably good timing. Most definitely something I'll be filing under "loved this moment, wish it would never end, would highly recommend to others". Thanks ever so for your contribution.

Dear SIL, please do not tell me about how tired you are from a girls weekend away after I spent the whole weekend caring for my toddler with D&V that they caught from your kids after you brought them to a family social gathering without warning anyone because you "didn't want to miss out". Being tired from too much wine and dancing, and being tired from cleaning bodily fluids up at all hours are not the same thing.

Dear work colleagues, please don't stop saying "there is no such thing as a silly question" to staff who repeatedly ask silly questions. I think Sandra's recent question about if she should park in the designated car park that she's been told to park in, is proof enough.

Gosh that feels better

@Allwelcone @cruisebaba1

Dh turning over noisily in bed to face me and BREATHING like feeeeee feeeeee in my ear.
He's asleep. He can't help it. Still makes me boil with raaaage.

Upend a pillow between your pillows.

@YappyCamper When I was with my ex, we would both go so we could get it done in one trip. We don't drive (him through choice, me for medical reasons), so getting the shopping back on my own with my disabilities was a challenge. We didn't have anyone to watch DS, so he had to come too. I'm not obviously disabled, so I imagine people judged us many a time, but that was the simplest way to manage things at the time, so I'm not going to lose any sleep over that. I don't speak for everyone, but that's an explanation for our circumstances at the time.

People who have a problem with work vehicles in residential streets and areas. If a tradesperson works out of his home, where is he supposed to park?

People who insist on swimming around the pool, its a rectangle! everyone else is going up and down. It infuriates me, I purposely swim into them.

@FelineUK At my private American school, some British teachers insisted on British spellings for certain words. American teachers insisted on American Spellings for the same words. After many unfair corrections, the headmistress made a list of over one hundred words that could be spelled either way with out penalty.

Something else that pisses me off:

People who deliberately swim into weaker swimmers who need to stay near to the edge.

It's physical bullying.

I totally agree, if they park them in a car park or other area away from home the chances are they will have their vans broken into.

Similarly, I don’t understand people complaining about workmen turning up in a van each, they can’t all arrive in one van-they have their own tools and equipment.

Oh heck yes. And ditto ‘migraine’. No Betty, if you’re conducting this meeting perfectly competently, you most definitely haven’t got ‘the migraine from hell’. Makes me irrationally angry.

Hi this refers to the disability parking I am disabled and have a blue badge . I rang the council to get a parking space and I have to pay for it but that's OK as I live next to a pub and have to park up the street but it don't mean it's mine if people park init I can't get them to move that's wot council said to me so it's a waste of my money how did you get urs oldtinhat ?

You are not " a bit OCD" if you like your shoes neatly lined up or prefer one colour of pencil.

If you had OCD your life would be mostly destroyed by it and the voice in your head. Ask my daughter. She says saying you are a bit OCD is like saying you are a bit pregnant.

That's fine as long as the van isn't parked right outside your neighbour's living room window so that instead of looking out at the world they get only see the side of your van!

My friend has this issue and when I visit, it feels really claustrophobic to have the side of a van taking up the whole of the window, just a few feet away.

So if it's your van, park it outside your own window or no-ones!

Absolutely. Until I knew someone with OCD, I had no idea just how horrific a condition it is. Now that I do, it infuriates me to hear people say this, with a smile that says it's really funny.

THIS!!!!!! OCD is one of the most brutal mental illnesses going. Disgusting how it gets reduced down to being neat and tidy.

Not at all. As a wheelchair user, I can't cross the road if people park on the drop curb. They're not just there for drivers/driveways.

To ignore that fact and address your op: the arrangement was between you and your neighbour, not your lodger. I don't think it would be unreasonable to ask the lodger not to park there.

I literally use the trolley as a walker because I can't push a trolley and use my walking sticks at the same time

😄Brilliant!

They’re usually annoying, because the households are generally multi car and the nice car gets parked on the front and the ugly transit van is blocking someone else’s view way from the owners property.

Drink all your tea or pour the dregs away. Don't leave half an inch in the bottom of the cup for the person doing the washing up to deal with