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AIBU?

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Does no one think anymore?

140 replies

Wanttofly · 05/07/2010 19:45

I am having a bad day.

Im fed up of the following:

  1. People leaving the pub at night shouting and waking up my baby. The pub is near house is it too much to ask that people think that they should not shout as there may be children asleep in the houses?

  2. those stupid recorded phone calls offering debt advice? They call in the afternoon and wake my baby and there isn't a real person on the other end I can shout at for waking my baby up.

  3. people who shout at their dogs to be quiet when it barks. Not only is the dog waking up the baby, but so is the person shouting. If they want quiet why are they shouting?

  4. people who drive at 40mph in a 60 zone but upon entering a 30mph area they continue to drive at 40mph. Why is speeding in a built up area with more potential hazards ok when it clearly isn't safe to go fast on a more open road?

  5. people who park on the pavement blocking it so you have to go on the road with your pushchair to get past.

  6. people who point to their wrist when asking the time as if I wouldn't know where my watch is.

OK rant over.

Anyone want to add anything else?

OP posts:
Psammead · 06/07/2010 10:53

Oh, I am quite relieved that I am not the only one who goes postal as soon as anything even threatens to wake the baby. I once spent a train journey glaring murderously at anyone who had the utter gall to enter the train by the doors closest to where DD was sleeping, because the sound of them shutting kept waking her.

BoffinMum · 06/07/2010 11:01

People who won't talk to me about our household appliances because they assume DH has bought them and that they are in his name.

Why?

Because I am Dr BoffinMum, and they assume therefore I must be a MAN if I do not have Mrs in front of my name, and if my voice is FEMALE then I cannot be the owner of our white goods and they must speak to my HUSBAND instead, even though I bought them.

Goddammit, what century are we in, really?

superv1xen · 06/07/2010 11:03

great thread!

i too hate people that randomly stop in the street, ie while shopping in town etc.

and people that get in the way of the buggy, and then kind of tut / look pissed off as if you are in THEIR way and have NO RIGHT to be near them, in the way, with a BUGGY.

people that stare if your babys crying as if they are about to call social services.

shops that dont have sufficient room for buggys. these are usually (but not limited to) trendy clothes shops or the like, as if to make you feel, well, you are a mum, hence not relevant enough to be shopping in here anyway, so why should we accomodate your buggy as well. {paranoid emoticon}

when i get on the bus and there are already 2 buggies on there. i have a small baby and a buggy that doesnt fold, it comes apart which is impossible to do with a non-walking baby) and at least one has a walking child sat in it and folds up but the mum just looks at you as if to say, no, i wont tell my kid to get out so i can fold it to make room for you.

mine are all buggy-centric!!

but i am sure more will come to me!

Diamondback · 06/07/2010 11:50

I'm currently 9 weeks pregnant, so my current bugbears are:

People in front of me in the queue for food.

Colleagues who want to have a lovely chat when I want to go for food.

Anyone between me and the fridge.

Anyone wearing perfume.

The canteen, for making the whole office smell of grease.

Anyone currently eating breaded fish with lemon - I want it, it's mine!

5Foot5 · 06/07/2010 13:09

valleyqueen "People who cross the road when the traffic lights are still on green, then have the audacity to give me the evil eye when I nearly mow them down. "

Oh yes and closely related to that are the people who start to cross when they clearly know they shouldn't so they do so at a little run - but then they lose interest / concentration half way over the road so then just slow to an amble.

Plus the people using some sort of self service checkout e.g. supermarket or library and then when they have finished they still stand there for ages fiddling about in there bag / talking to their partner / looking about them doing anything but clearing out of the way so the next person in the queue can get to the till.

Which is closely related to people who step off of a busy escalator and instantly stop at the top to get their bearings oblivious to the fact that everyone behind them crashes in to each other like dominoes.

Butterbur · 06/07/2010 13:26

People who don't push their supermarket trolleys into another one of the same shape in the trolley park, so four trolleys fill it up, and they all spill into the roadway.

People who don't indicate on roundabouts. Honestly. Is it optional now or something?

Confuzled · 06/07/2010 21:37

"Which is closely related to people who step off of a busy escalator and instantly stop at the top to get their bearings oblivious to the fact that everyone behind them crashes in to each other like dominoes."

I HATE THAT SO MUCH.

PaulineCampbellJones · 06/07/2010 21:47

People who stand really close to you at the supermarket till as your shopping is being beeped
People who run to get onto planes from the gate like they are going to leave without them
Stupid speeding/ cutting me up - wish I was a plain clothes police car
O2 for their iPhone 4 debacle
Arse coverers at work

queribus · 06/07/2010 21:58

Parents at the local private school - the dropped kerbs at the entrance do NOT imbue the pavement with some magical road-type properties. It is still a pavement and I - as a pedstrian - still have right of way. No amount of shouting, swearing or giving me the finger will make me (or my 2 year old) move any faster. In fact, I may move even sloooower, just for you!

People at the front of the supermarket queue who look startled and fumble about for money - you have to pay. It's not a new phenomenon! Get with the programme!!!!!

Elderly people who do their weekly shop in M&S or Waitrose and then complain about being 'poor' - MIL, this means YOU!

Anyone who says "fancy a brew?" - I want to tear you limb from limb

Thank you. Carry on.

muffint · 06/07/2010 22:11

People who park right outside the pre-school door, putting all the children in danger, when there's a giant sign asking them not to, because they're too lazy to walk 5 metres. This is quite therapeutic!

Jammyrella · 06/07/2010 22:26

I hate the obsession many people seem to have with the dividers at the tills in supermarkets. So many will NOT put their shopping out until there is a divider behind my shopping, despite the fact that the belt has moved up so there is now a 2 foot gap between the end of my shopping and where theirs would go! Why? Do you think I want to hand over my hard earned cash for your groceries? Oh and the panic they go into if I dare to start unloading my shopping before there is a divider available for them to put out. Again, why? I have just hunted round the shop for my shopping and am keen to take it home with me, not let you have my treats!

Mmmm, perhaps DH is right and I DO get overly worked up about that one?

tinkletinklelittlestar · 06/07/2010 22:44

People who park against the flow of traffic - arseholes. Had a stupid old witch trying to do it to me last week when I parked in the space she wanted and she mouthed something at me and if I hadn't been in a rush I think I would have ended up spending a night in the cells.

Men - when they are 'looking' for something and really they want you to go and get it for them - grrr. I have been that daft but have said recently, 'if you can't see it,you obviously don't want it that badly'

Dillie · 06/07/2010 23:04

All of the above and:

Salespeople that ring the door bell,just at the same time as you need to put the potatoes on/food is ready, or just as your going upstairs for a wee! (I hate NPower with a passion!)

Telesales people that always seem to phone just as your DD needs the toilet/getting to bed and when tea is ready!

Boy racers riding up and down the street as noisily (sp) as possible at 11.30pm

Parents that are too lazy to walk an extra 20 yards and insist on parking on the pavement blocking it entirely so you have to walk in the road risking life and limb!

Car users that insist on driving at 30mph on a 50mph road when you are late for work

Thanks, I feel better now .. I will be able to sleep tonight!

darksideofthemooncup · 06/07/2010 23:12

Groups of people having a good old catch up in the supermarket aisle and blocking it when you are trying to get past

People that don't move up enough at the checkout so you can't start unloading your shopping and then its all a big rush and you can't start packing it into bags because there is still half of it in the trolley.

Having to ask the cashier to start packing said shopping for me when you have run out of conveyor belt - its not going to magically extend to get the last lot on you know!
And the fact that supermarket carrier bags are becoming progressively flimsier, I know I should have the thousands of reusable bags with me but they are by the front door where I leave them, obviously!

mrspir8 · 06/07/2010 23:18

Random strangers who try to over enthusuastically engage with your DC's, especially when they are sleepy and grumpy in thier pushchairs. Dont you realise my child simply doesn't want to talk right now, shes a little person, not a zoo exhibit.

PS Of course my DD is gorgeous and I totally understand why they do it, they simply cant help themselves

Confuzled · 06/07/2010 23:27

People who coo extravagantly over babies and absolutely ignore the older child, who is standing right there. SO RUDE.

moiunreasonable · 06/07/2010 23:39

yanbu!
dropping litter
letting your kids behave like spoilt brats and spoiling the party for the other kids
someone else put the 'dishes on the bench above the dishwasher thing' ditto, and also the underpants and socks on the floor next to the dirty linen basket - dh guilty of both
general bad manners
dog poo - we once lived in a house that had no path to it only grass and someone let their dog poo 3 feet away from the entrance to our yard
i'm sure i could think of a load more as i have decided i am just an irritable old moo

Jux · 06/07/2010 23:54

People who buy houses near pubs and then complain about the noise. Known of two excellent pubs who had to pull their live music nights - doing musicians out of jobs - because new neighbours complained. Then fewer people went to the pub because there was no live music, pub eventually closed down - so all the bar staff and cleaners lose their jobs, as well as the musicians. Also, the community loses a good and popular pub because 1 family have complained. Check out the neighbourhood first; if you're near a pub and like quiet then buy elsewhere.

Bugbear of mine.

SolidGoldBrass · 07/07/2010 00:08

Jux: I so agree. We recently had some problems when dancing by a (very old, very popular) riverside pub - one household in the newly built flats behind the pub rang up the pub and the police, whining about the noise at, er, 8.30 pm.

Ryuk · 07/07/2010 00:22

Dillie, I once answered the door blinking in my dressing gown, clearly having just woken up.

Guy on step: 'patter about why my company is cheaper than yours'. Me: 'we've recently switched, we're happy with our new company.' Guy: 'what rates are you on?' Me: 'I don't remember, but we're happy with them.' /starts moving to close door. Guy: 'Could you try to find a bill with the rates on it?' Erm, I've clearly just been woken up, am not interested and would like to go back to bed! Me: 'I'm going back to sleep. Thanks for calling.' Guy: (as I'm once again trying to close door) 'oh, do you work nights?'

Arrrgh.

BuzzingNoise · 07/07/2010 08:35

Jammyrella, I agree about the dividers, but why don't you just put them down after your shopping?

Darksideofthemooncup, I have tonnes of reusable shopping bags, all ready and waiting to be used. In my car boot. When I am at the till.

Can I add another that happened this morning? People doing a census on the road. Grrrrrrr. In the rush hour. It made us late for work this morning just so we could be told that we should know the postcode of where I work (I'm a supply teacher - how do I know). The other week it cost us £20 because we were late to pick up DS from nursery because of the queue caused by a census.

AmazingBouncingFerret · 07/07/2010 08:46

Pedestrians who run for the crossing when it is flashing amber and then once they get onto the road they stop running and start strolling across staring at you as if to say "ha ha your light's on green but you cant go because I am"

sarah293 · 07/07/2010 08:56

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PfftTheMagicDragon · 07/07/2010 09:21

People who decide to stop and have a conversation in the middle of the school gates at 8:45am. Right there. In the middle. Muppets.

GMajor7 · 07/07/2010 09:28

all of the above

Plus pavements in my area with no drop kerbs for miles so I have to nigh on push the pram off a fackin' cliff to cross the road!!

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