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Life's little disappointments?

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IsChippyMintonExDirectory · 21/04/2014 18:43

Today I had a Krispy Kreme donut for the first time. Bleurgh. £1.25 of mediocre-ness. I thought it would be a little slice of heaven.

Also disappointing:
Lukewarm baths when you know that no amount of adding hot water will make it hot enough
The cherry blossom tree in the front garden refusing to blossom with the rest of the street
Not fitting into your pre-baby clothes despite being back to your pre-baby weight (stupid widened hips!)
When you order a curry or sticky toffee pudding and it has the nerve to contain raisins.

Any more?

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OneWaySystemBlues · 22/04/2014 21:00

Hersheys chocolate. I'd read about it, seen it on films etc, my husband brought some back from the US and it was SUCH a disappointment. Tastes like vomit. Vile.

PricillaQueenOfTheDessert · 23/04/2014 00:24

Wanting a change from my usual takeaway and having something yuk, why didn't I order/go to my usual?
Oh yes, definitely luke-warm baths!
Finally getting to sit down to that cuppa tea, and it's cold.
Visiting friends and they put milk in my tea, despite saying I drink it black.
Topping up a lovely glass of wine, to realise the bottle's empty (oops).
Going to my favourite caff to get my favourite sabich, but they've run out of aubergine. Ruins my afternoon.
Booking a day off work because I'm exhausted, and spending it doing chores instead of the lovely walk with the dog I'd planned.
Looking forward to snuggling down into freshly laundered pjs but hadn't set the tumble drier for long enough and they're still damp.
Just got an allotment - sowing seeds and nothing happens... that's the worse of all of them. Other than seeing small green shoots and realising they're weeds... Angry

PricillaQueenOfTheDessert · 23/04/2014 00:28

Oh, and (having just caught sight of myself in the mirror), shampooing twice, leaving intensive treatment conditioner on for 5 minutes, straightening and straightening hair again to have lovely sleek locks, only for a frizz bomb to have hit 30 minutes later.

foslady · 23/04/2014 00:56

Another one re lack of friends
Plucking up the courage to tell it as it is ftom your side to the one you love and belirved loved you only to find him backing away...Sad

Doingakatereddy · 23/04/2014 01:28

Walnuts in coffee cake - why??

DH making tea and stirring it with his coffee spoon so it tastes manky

Definitely going to bed & realising you stripped sheets earlier

Undercooked chippy chips

Play dates where one mum says, oh I've invited so and so. IMO under 5's play dates with more than 2 families are hell

RunnerBeen · 23/04/2014 01:34

Chip shop wanker worker putting so much salt on my chippy i couldn't eat it, and i like alot of salt.

it was my last hurrah before i go back to weight watchers tomorrow and i didn't even get to enjoy it Sad

RonaldMcDonald · 23/04/2014 01:49

Saturday/Sunday paper without the magazine

pippop1 · 23/04/2014 02:08

Seeing yourself in a magnifying mirror
Suddenly remembering why you hadn't arranged to see a "friend" for such a long time. (Because they are so annoying).
Trying on a pair of beautiful shoes in a posh shop when they are at a sale price and finding that you know you won't be able to buy them because they hurt already.
When you hear the very worst thing that you shouldn't say coming out of your own mouth and you are powerless to stop yourself.

hashtagwhatever · 23/04/2014 02:33

Realising that you have put the washing machine on the wrong setting after having already pressed the start button. Quick wash is now a 2.5 hour wait.

JugglingFromHereToThere · 23/04/2014 09:33

When "soup of the day" is tomato (whizzed up from a tin?)

Running out of milk or tea-bags for your morning cuppa (actually that's pretty mega Grin)

New Years Eve is a good call, though better since people discovered fire-works for the millenium, and my friend throws a good duel Us/Teenagers party which is alright except I can't drink until I get home

New Years Day can also be a tricky one especially as DH is always out getting his New Year's birding list off to a good start Confused

Marcelinewhyareyousomean · 23/04/2014 09:37

kerf - yes to closed pistachios AND ones opened and found to be empty.

Going upstairs to get something and coming down without it.

An unflushed toilet.

Someone taking something from your plate you were saving until last.

A long car trip with a friend when you have incompatible taste in music.

Expecting an afternoon of cocktails with friends and someone rocks up with their 8 yo.Angry Sad

Cut flowers that last one day or (ungrateful) the wrong flowers. OH of 30 years should know.

Opening a present and you already have it.

Battery running out on phone/ laptop.

FB program spoilers. Especially which happen as the programme is still fecking on.

Live FB football score updates.

soupmaker · 23/04/2014 09:38

When you're given an early morning appointment because you've been messed about by a service in order that you don't have to wait in a long queue. You bust a gut to get there, having arranged childcare for baby and done the school run, you are on time and are now currently sitting still waiting for my appointment half an hour later.

JugglingFromHereToThere · 23/04/2014 09:46

We have to wait eons at our GP surgery even though they're meant to have an appointment system these days. Sympathies soupmakerThanks

And good call on those closed pistachio's Marceline. Maddening.

Marcelinewhyareyousomean · 23/04/2014 10:10

Juggling, closed pistachio credit goes Kerfuffles. Great call, most annoying and always makes me try to open them anyway Angry .

unlucky83 · 23/04/2014 10:12

pricilla know what you are saying about the allotment - I sewed lots of wild flower seeds in my front garden just before going on holiday last summer in the heatwave...came home and nothing had grown -but then very dry. Then lots of little green shoots appeared - fantastic - then realised they did look suspiciously like grass ...yep all weeds...Sad

And marceline taking something from your plate... I know (one of) DPs most annoying habits...but maybe more annoying - empty your plate except for gravy and think I'll just have an extra roast potato to soak that up as DP throws his empty plate on top to clear the table...Angry

maggiethecat · 23/04/2014 10:28

going out for a nice meal and getting rubbish

expecting something in the post and it not showing up

hugoagogo · 23/04/2014 10:32

sweetcorn in a vegie burger

forgetting to put my flask of tea in my backpack. Sad

lurkingfromhome · 23/04/2014 10:33

So many of these ring true ... to them I add:

Really looking forward to a train journey because it is the one hour in the last month you will have had any fecking time to yourself with no demands on you. So you spend days planning a blissful hour of relaxing, not having to talk to anyone and just reading and staring out of the window aimlessly. You get to the station early to buy a magazine and a nice sandwich, cake & coffee to have a little train picnic.

Then you get on the train, there are no seats and so you have to stand for the whole hour. Sad

mrsminiverscharlady · 23/04/2014 10:37

Realising that a Cadbury's Creme Egg Easter Egg is not a giant Creme Egg and just a hollow chocolate shell Sad

Marcelinewhyareyousomean · 23/04/2014 11:14

Unlucky there is a roast potato and gravy ratio, both need to be finished before the meal can be declared over, it is known. That's what the extras in the middle of the table are for.

A clean fresh kitchen last thing at night. A dirty plate, cup etc over an empty dishwasher in the morning.

Pubes/ body hair in the bath. Especially if you are in the bath and they aren't yours.

Marcelinewhyareyousomean · 23/04/2014 11:17

Booking a seat in the train quiet coach out of rush hour only for it to be ruined by a boisterous table or loud (hey I'm important) keyboard typing that take over the whole table.

Zucker · 23/04/2014 11:37

Buying something that people have been raving about and you think its just shit.

Beastofburden · 23/04/2014 12:03

Finding all the normal zipcars are booked and you have to drive an automatic bumper car and you cant be bothered to learn how to do it properly, so you stay in Drive the whole way, the acceleration is crap.

Putting on the radio to find they are having a special day of something really, really dull.

Treating yourself to lunch in the canteen, only to find it is pork chops.

Blithereens · 23/04/2014 12:10

The finale of How I Met Your Mother (worst)
The ending of Kes (worster)
The sequel to Shadow of the Wind (worstest)
Running out of thread on the bobbin with just a few cm to go
Bus Replacement Service (NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO)
Grim wine. Actually that one is the worst.

MacBee · 23/04/2014 12:18

Watching a film or TV show that's been adapted from a book you love only to find that the very most important thing you loved about it has been changed or left out.

Dithering between two orders in a restaurant; either being disappointed by the safe one being bland or the exciting one tasting bad.

Biting into what looks and smells like the most plump and juicy and yummiest piece of fruit...to find its mealy or lacking in flavour or just blah.

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