AIBU to ask, what's making you angry today?

[LovingLivingLife]

I have got this constant background level of anger at the moment. Unfortunately I can't quite work out what's causing it. But it's making me into a grumpy and reactive parent that I just don't want to be.

For background, kids are mostly lovely (if somewhat hard work), DH is not completely useless and finances aren't a nightmare just now.

What's making you angry at the moment? Perhaps I can get to the bottom of it myself and stop being such a cranky arse!

I’ve lost two friends for making my feelings known, in a gentle way.

People not vaccinating their kids because they don’t believe in it. I have a 6w old baby and a toddler in nursery. 46w to go until I can get the baby vaccinated against measles. I just have to hope if there are any cases in nursery that the toddler’s vaccine holds. I’m scared for my baby and incandescent with rage with anti-vaxxers.

I'll take anyone's dp who has a cold and raise them my dp who has pulled his shoulder out

He would rather eat his liver than go to the gp to get painkillers

I've had a week of him grumping and moaning his fucking shoulder hurts but won't take anything for it

It's because he thinks it's a waste of nhs money to go and doesn't want to pay for his medication

Fucking sick of him (in every other way,he's great-its just this issue)

Health stuff aside, today nothing went right, every bit of food I made was crap. The bus driver for dd insisted that I was lying when I said I couldn't sleep through the storm and that she heard nothing so there wasn't a storm. People talking over me, I've tried now to keep on talking until they shut the fuck up but they just keep rabbiting on. Every programme I put on the women are screaming, can no one actually speak properly anymore.

Yes this in spades! Add to that that I'm obviously the nag when I dare to mention it again...
I have been waiting for DH to sort out a blind in our bedroom for 3 weeks now.

I'm usually mainly like this so it's been a bit of a shock to the system how much things are getting to me.

People not doing as they were told.

I warned you.

It happened.

Then it somehow became my responsibility to sort it out. Grrrrrr.

I heard about the HMRC trying to get people to pay in advance. How absolutely infuriating, hope you find a way to avoid it.

I'm sick of people in their huge SUVs that can't drive or park and take up all the space. Selfish pricks. Makes me angry everymorning at drop off. They are also always the people who will block people's drives or park up on the footpath. Argggghhh

Someone at work being pedantic. Does it matter as long as the job gets done. Said person has been a thorn all day for absolutely no reason. Then expects everyone to rejoice in their good news

£600 a month??? Surely not?

Wow. We are living parallel lives! I could have written that!

😂no I don't even have that excuse! I am still on mat leave with my youngest so I feel I have done enough dry months to last at least the next 10 years.

And watching the beginning of climate emergency unfold in front of my eyes while people still eat too much meat and dairy, fly and travel excessively, breed pets, have more that one or two children, buy food flown in then waste it, buy cheap throw away clothes and things etc. it’s now making my blood boil. We are arseholes !

DH is fucking infuriating me! We have a 13 week old puppy and we're just not singing from the same hymn sheet! He's worked ( barely) from home for a month and is undoing everything I'm moving forward on. Caught him mindlessly popping unearned treats into pups mouth earlier!!! Gggrrrrr

...and park on the pavement blocking it for prams and wheelchairs 😡. My reception aged DD now mutters under her breath whenever we come across one and I can't help being just a little proud 😆

Customer shouting because of queues and price increases.

It's a daily thing, and gone worse since lockdown

Me son will not stay in bed! He’s been up every 5 minutes the last 2 hours crying and whining and I lost my temper with him!
I just want to sit down and have 5 minutes peace 😫

Snap! I had a 90 minute 1 on 1 project milestone meeting in which the person preceded to both ask me a question and then answer it for me. When they had finally finished pontificating and I added in the reems of process steps they missed they got rather snippy and complained that I wasn’t seeing the bigger picture….

And to top it off I made a jacket potato with cheese and beans and as I reached for the cutlery off the draining board I knocked it on the floor - plate smashed and beans up the cabinets and wall! I could weep.

Parents who send their clearly unwell children into school. Selfish bastards.

I'm low level seething constantly because I feel like life is just unfair. I love my kids and I have a house and a job. I'm very lucky. But I'm a single parent because I had kids with what I can only describe as a con artist. And because I had kids with him I can't forget him like you do with other ended relationships. And I have to facilitate video calls where he's parent of the year but has seen them once in 6 weeks. Arghhhhh. Surface level I'm fine. I work. I have fun. I love the sprogs. Deep deep deep deep down I'm bubbling with unhealthy rage. 😅🤣

Anyway this was cathartic. Thanks.

I've spent time today arguing the toss with a £££multi-million organisation which doesn't want to pay our £60 invoice. FFS.

My narcissistic controlling mother telling me that 'this time round' (expecting DC2) I need to be less fussy and picky about how things are done. Then my husband partially agreed as a joke. My mother uses 'controlling' to mean 'you didn't agree with my every view' so not in a valid way...even if she has a point.... I had postnatal anxiety and depression with my first which they both know. Fuck off both of you! So angry! 😡

Driving, well more specifically, other people driving, fucking maniacs who keep coming at you over the white line when you can’t go anywhere and you actually have right of way because you’re already there / going uphill / whatever. The ones who don’t indicate, or worse, they indicate wrong at roundabouts.
Bastard super bright headlights, whether coming towards you or in your rear view.

TV programmes, especially documentaries, they spend time repetitively explaining what’s going on, WE KNOW because we’re fucking watching it!

Then after the break, they tell you again in terms better suited to a 3 year old.

Somone I'm doing some work for didn't book in enough time for a meeting resulting in another person being rude to me. No biggie. But it pissed me off.

I have a bit of a think about rudeness anyway and definitely struggle with it when it's not my 'fault'