Things you hate.

[divorcinganabsolutewanker]

We've had 2 birthdays in work today and I didn't join in with the singing of happy birthday. I hate it. Have a great day and all that but I don't feel the need to go and join in.

I also hate Christmas, it's a waste of money. Love the time with family but the rest of it can fuck off.

I also hate going for a wee and stopping for diesel.

What do you hate?

I'm glad you're not longer working with teens as your lack of knowledge re neurodiversity is clear. I'm no snowflake over the 'popularity ' of these diagnoses either but you'd do well to educate yourself on things such as hyperfocus behaviours.

I hate spitting

Neighbours allowing dogs to bark incessantly when I want to sit in the garden
Being woken up from a nice sleep by noise outside or inside
People talking too loudly in public
Winter weather - esp grey and rainy days
Groups of people walking across the pavement straight at you
People congregating in exits/entrances
The miserable staff in our post office - I can’t go in any more
Feeling cold
Untidy house
Housework
My husband’s snoring - resorted to separate rooms
Having eye problems
Having teeth problems
Bad drivers
Cancelled trains
Insomnia
Blinding car headlights - now don’t drive at night
TV adverts
Adverts on social media

Cars in general, large ones parked in the wrong places in particular
Motorcycles, especially loud ones
Cats shitting in my garden

Fly-tipping and littering generally. Radios or music on in the background where it's not loud enough to hear properly but you get a tinny noise. People, usually men, who take up too much space with their loud voices and massive feet.

Ever thought about contact lenses or laser eye surgery?

When you message a colleague on Teams a question that could be answered with a simple yes or no, yet they feel it necessary to video call you.

Getting dressed after swimming. Love pools and spas etc but trying to get dressed gets me so cross.

My neighbours and their awful, feral children and disgusting bins
Putting on duvet covers
Deciding whats for dinner every fucking night
Litter
Racists
Doctors pushing anti-anxiety meds but refusing to blood test me for menopause first
Faffers
My ex
Online dating

God I hate this too. Surely the whole point of messaging is to avoid having to do calls. Such a waste of time 😡

Brushing my teeth (still do it though)

When people say 'bless you' after a sneeze and the expectation that I should say it when other people sneeze. I really, really hate it.

The little puff of air that comes out the bin bag when you close it.

Laser surgery is life changing! Go for it!
Now old so long sighted which can’t be righted.
Not being able to find my glasses.
Not being able to find things
Not being able to remember lyrics, poems, apt quotes

Big Teams meetings where people get themselves wound up and screech loudly at the beginning before the presenter mutes it all. The rest of us really don't need to hear you Mavis.

Q&A at the end of big Teams meetings where people don't bother to read the questions already there or ask about things that have got sod all to do with the meeting. Every sodding time.

Drying and straightening my hair but if i don’t do it it’s a fuzzball

I don’t like Christmas nowadays. I just think of the people who aren’t there any more. I find it really bittersweet these days. I try to get it over and back to the everyday world as fast as I can!

How odd- what. Is it about them that you don’t like?

• Doing the ironing - repetitive, dull and makes my shoulder ache!
• People who walk slowly and/or take up the entire pavement - so bloody inconsiderate….MOVE!
• The winter - cold, wet, dark….roll on the summer and longer days!
• Mushrooms - it’s a fungus….who willingly eats a grey, slimy fungus?!!
• Bad drivers - middle lane hoggers, lazy sods who don’t use their indicators and those that don’t thank you after you've let them through when the obstruction is on their side - discourteous, lazy and entitled.
• Liverpool FC and the vast majority of their fans (and I include my darling husband here!) - as a club just classless, jammy buggers who behaved appallingly when looking to expand their ground by buying houses and leaving them empty to force the area into decline to drive the remaining residents out of their homes, supported increasingly by tourist fans with their iPads out and printed off lyrics for that dirge they insist on singing for that “famous Anfield atmosphere 🙄” and no footballing nous amongst them!
• Wind chimes and my Mum’s wall clock that chimes at the hour and at half past - unnecessarily loud, intrusive and annoying!

• My manager, his attitude, and his hatred of women in general. I’m yet to hear anyone say a good word about him. How he has managed to keep hold of his job is beyond those of us who have to endure him.
• People at work who tell tales, or lie, and carry these things to the manager.
• People who think nothing of generously sharing their germs with others. Be selfish and keep them to yourself!
• People who drive slowly/dawdle in supermarkets/assume that I am DESPERATE to be in a relationship/assume that I am available to answer the phone whenever they call (always when I’m in work)
• Flies. I don’t care for you outdoors, and if you venture indoors, you will die.
• Plagues of cyclists
• Being the centre of (unwanted) attention. I know that I’m fabulous, but it feels really awkward.
• Housework. I don’t have the time or inclination to do it after work…
• Ticking clocks. Shush! I’m trying to concentrate!
• The radio and on-screen advertisements. Please stop interrupting the best part of the song with your inane chatter!
• Anything that requires me to remember it, e.g. passwords. My memory is shocking at the best of times, so please just send me a passcode/verification email instead.
• Excessive temperatures. I work outdoors, and like to be able to feel my fingers in the winter, and not overheat in summer!

This can be narrowed down to mainly ‘people’ in general. Unfortunately, unless I move to an uninhabited Scottish island at some point soon, I am going to have to persevere with putting up with them!

Sodding speakerphone conversations in public!
Same with playing music / videos on loudspeaker. Sigh...

Making sandwiches.
Making dinner.
Dusting.
Reality TV.

I hate when you are watching a performance and they tell you to stand, tell you to sit, tell you clap. Recently I had one tell me to get up and stretch so everyone did like performing monkeys. I want to just sit and relax but if I feel like if I don't do what we're told I'll look like a grumpy bitch just sitting there refusing.

People who stand in shop doorways blowing smoke/vapes everywhere.
Lazy work colleagues.
Putting the bins out.
washing up.

My list is long and gets longer the older I get.

Expectant mothers/fathers smoking in the hospital doorway. Or anywhere.

Ditto people wearing face masks buying cigarettes. Last saw one yesterday. I mean, really?!

Men
In particular the men at the backpackers I am staying at currently (summer here). The women are all lovely, chatty about their cool jobs and what they are up to. The men (not with the women) are surly and fucking weird. And piss on the toilet floor- grim.

Fog lights when it’s not foggy
tinned ravioli
the colour pink
trout pouts
that horrible plastic look from too much Botox
carrots
dogs that jump up
my mum’s dementia
people who play music on their phones without earphones