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To ask for your tiny tragedies

229 replies

Thispupsgottofly · 26/08/2025 20:05

Was looking forward to having some strawberries with some nice thick greek yoghurt I had in the fridge and it turns out I just bought boring natural yoghurt by mistake 😭

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minipie · 26/08/2025 21:55

I’ve been very carefully not plucking 3 chin hairs so I can get them electrolysed. Left them long all through my holiday (forgot razor) even though it made me feel crone like. Absentmindedly pulled them out on the journey home 🙄

Also, we have no chocolate.

theunbreakablecleopatrajones · 26/08/2025 21:55

The mini Tesco only had Finest steak ragu (tasteless) and not the spaghetti bolognaise (remarkably good)

I bought two because I thought it would be similarly decent 😢

update - and the 'Finest' Victoria sponge it not even fine it is rancid.

Obimumkinobi · 26/08/2025 21:56

I'm sad I won't be able to swim in the sea for a while.

theunbreakablecleopatrajones · 26/08/2025 21:58

smallpinecone · 26/08/2025 21:35

DD ripped some of the property cards in my Monopoly set earlier 😢

Laughable to anyone else I know, but it was my great-great-grandparents’ set from 1940. I loved playing with it as a child and it’s the only thing I’ve ever inherited, so it did upset me!

Tiny thing though, I know.

That is not a tiny tragedy, it is a proper small one.

I am sorry PP

Dappy777 · 26/08/2025 21:59

I’m a chocoholic. It’s a serious problem, but there’s nothing I can do about it. Now chocolate is so f-ing expensive I need to save up to buy my favourite bars. Even the disgusting, ‘cheap’ Sainsbury’s own brand is £2.50. At this rate I might have to find a dealer.

TokyoSushi · 26/08/2025 22:01

I was amazing in my body pump class on Sunday, felt on top of the world, I aced that class, 2 days later and I can still barely walk, every single muscle hurts! 😭

Canijustsayonething · 26/08/2025 22:02

Pressed too hard on my amazing stick of lip balm and it broke off cos it was half melted from the heat 😔

TokyoSushi · 26/08/2025 22:04

Also, I spent a lot of money (for me) on a fancy pillow - I hate it!

MyDogHumpsThings · 26/08/2025 22:04

I forgot my earbuds were in my pocket and I washed them.

theunbreakablecleopatrajones · 26/08/2025 22:04

theunbreakablecleopatrajones · 26/08/2025 21:55

The mini Tesco only had Finest steak ragu (tasteless) and not the spaghetti bolognaise (remarkably good)

I bought two because I thought it would be similarly decent 😢

update - and the 'Finest' Victoria sponge it not even fine it is rancid.

Edited

Update 2 - I still ate a massive chunk of it and have no consumed my full ration of chemicals for 2025, and have a weird aftertaste thing

Andthatrightsoon · 26/08/2025 22:05

It started spitting just after I hung out my washing. Big dilemma whether to get it all back in again or leave it to get darked on ...

Sharkpenis · 26/08/2025 22:05

Poobs2022 · 26/08/2025 20:49

I found 5 grey hairs in my fringe today 😭

I read that as fridge and was rather confused

iamnotalemon · 26/08/2025 22:08

I took leftovers home from lunch and it wasn’t in a suitable container and fell out in my tote bag. Lovely!

CheeseWisely · 26/08/2025 22:08

aperolspritzbasicbitch · 26/08/2025 20:42

I actually didn’t think this was possible.
don’t we all pack as if we are going to soil ourselves thrice daily?

I certainly do. 2 pairs per day and a spare 2-3 pairs.

My tiny tragedy is that I couldn’t be arsed to wash and dry my hair today so I’ve got to get up early enough to do it tomorrow.

Laura95167 · 26/08/2025 22:09

Pancakeflipper · 26/08/2025 20:09

My grocer had run out of strawberries 🍓. And I made meringues.

We had to have raspberries.

That sounds better

tinofbeans · 26/08/2025 22:10

I am visiting my parents with DC. I have a cold, have used all the tissues in the house and now have a sore nose.

Blessedbethefruitz · 26/08/2025 22:10

I bought flowers in bud to make a bouquet for my wedding this week but they've not opened 😅

onwardandupwards · 26/08/2025 22:10

I treated myself to a chicken kebab, came in living room to eat it, tripped over the hoover and the entire kebab went all over the rug and sofa.

Honeyandwine · 26/08/2025 22:12

I ordered a Starbucks coffee , a sandwich and a muffin as a treat from Deliveroo and they forgot my coffee 😭😭

thesugarbumfairy · 26/08/2025 22:13

They didn't have any Biscoff frappe the last time I visited McDonalds, specifically for a Biscoff frappe. There is nothing else I want from McDonalds. Only a Biscoff frappe. Fuckers.

Noseylittlemoo · 26/08/2025 22:13

I went to the Oval to watch the last day of the India test a few weeks ago and there was an amazing looking cheese toastie van in the grounds. It was too early for one when we arrived but by the time we left it had already closed!! We went again to watch the Hundred last night and i was almost as excited about having the cheese toastie as the cricket - but the van wasn't there!!

BourgeoisBabe · 26/08/2025 22:13

Reallybadidea · 26/08/2025 20:31

This isn't a tiny tragedy at all, I forgot to take tea bags on holiday with me so I haven't had a cup of tea for almost a week 😭

Disaster of epic proportions

MrsMillyFluff · 26/08/2025 22:14

I was so looking forward to the cherry shortbread I'd just put in the oven...till I realised I'd accidentally used self raising flour instead of plain. I was dreading getting them out of oven, but actually they didn't taste or look too dissimilar to my normal ones 😁

KelsCommemorativeSausage · 26/08/2025 22:16

Ocado sent the wrong hummus.

I accidentally threw a very good vegetable peeler away with the peelings and I am BEREFT.

wizzbitt · 26/08/2025 22:17

Dissappearedupmyownarse · 26/08/2025 21:38

The server at the bakery put my fresh cream, iced bun in a paper bag and spun it round to twist the ends .... 😭😭😭
Irreparable damage......lost the jam splodge, half the cream and most of the icing 😭😭😭

Put in a strong complaint and hopefully they’ll STB (sack the bastard)! I’d be devastated.