Life's little disappointments?

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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?

Seeing the 'end' light on the dishwasher, and then opening it to find that DP did not switch it on before he went to bed....

Finding DP has eaten all the babybels that were for DS lunchbox.

Fruit Tea. All flavours. Without exception. "Oooh Raspberry and Vanilla? Smells lovely, yes please!"

Aaaand it tastes like dishwater. Like ALL fruit tea.

I never learn and keep buying them for the pretty boxes and to look posh when people come round

Calling customer services, spending 35 minutes on hold, explaining the whole sorry story to someone, being transferred to the 'appropriate department', explaining the whole thing again, being on the brink of resolution, being 'popped on hold', and realising you've been cut off. A bit of me dies every time that happens and you know you are going to have to start from the beginning.

Oh yes Snot- fruit tea

All except Jasmine but that's a proper one they drink in China (where they know a thing or two about their tea after drinking it for thousands of years )

Oh yes fruit tea!! All tastes horribly soapy...unless you try green tea loose leaf flavoured with exciting things like real strawberry pieces. Mmmm.

Fruit Tea is one of the universe's biggest cons.

A jacket potato is not the same as a baked potato - how many times have I sat down to eat and the potato has that horrible rubbery microwave texture

A brewing spot that promises to be a sporners delight but actually is nothing [sigh]

Putting a dirty dish in the dishwasher only to find it full of clean dishes.

I'm no-sugaring so have tried those fruit teas. If you brew them for aaaaaaaaages, until they're almost opaque, they taste like far-too-weak Ribena. Drinkable but not delicious, and definitely disappointing. And there's no difference in flavour between raspberry and echinacea, blackcurrant and cranberry, etc etc.

Chamomile tea, OTOH, is as fragrant and delicious as jasmine tea, without the bitter tannin blech of green tea.

Speaking of which, I once ordered green tea at a high-end Chinese restaurant (in the UK). It was delivered in a tiny teapot ... and contained a green tea teabag. It was like drinking rust. I requested a pint of hot water to take it down but to no avail

Was just about to post about fruit/herbal teas, how weird. By the way I am currently drinking Twinings' mint and vanilla tea (called Butter Mint Sensation or something very similar!) which smells just like murray mints and tastes delicious - so that's one that's not rubbish! Twining's camomile and spiced apple is also very nice and tastes like apple pie in a mug.

Ruthless agree re camomile tea, love it. Heath & Heather (Holland & Barrett) do a bedtime/relaxing one that has camomile, spearmint and orange blossom which is lovely. The key to green tea is to have the water just off the boil and to not steep for too long, and to get the proper Chinese/Japanese stuff (preferably loose). Boiling water spoils green tea just like it spoils coffee.

Walnut-less walnut whips
Buying 3 cream eggs for £1 and finding the cashier has only put 2 of them in the bag

Most men.
Most package holidays.
Most clothes bought on ebay.
The cat licking the last piece of cake.
Getting home from work, thinking you'll have a nice relax and then realising you have to at least 25 job to do that will take up the entire evening.

Instant coffee - you should tell me it's instant when you offer it to me - instant coffee does not taste like coffee.

Microwaved jacket potatoes (definitely a good call) - a baked potato needs to be baked.

People (usually my Dad) tidying away the last few inches of wine in my glass - usually left on the dinner table whilst I deal with a small child and much required when I return to the table and it's gone.

Squirty (aerosol) cream ruining cakes & pastries - a scone should contain clotted cream, not shaving foam.

Our aerial giving out midway through a programme but not watching it til it's no longer available on any of the interweb players.

Going away for the weekend & forgetting a significant part of your carefully planned outfit. Or the weather being totally wrong for it - so you're either too hot or too cold - neither is attractive.

Being about to sit down for a meal that needs to be eaten quickly (almost anything with eggs in) and having to deal with a child-related crisis (or what they think is a crisis) and so it goes yucky.

Sitting down to go to the loo & a fight breaking out between the Smalls.

Oh - finding out you've wasted your time on what appeared to be a good book (with decent characters, etc) and then the plot goes nowhere. Reminds me why I tend to stick to detective fiction or non-fiction.

I'm loving this thread! Just a few of mine . . .

Waiting a significantly long time for a bus, another person arrives to which you have a moan about the shitty service then the bus comes right away
Cold coffee/Tea
Gallo Rose
Too sweet cake that you eat anyway
Feeling too bloated to have a teeny binge on weigh in day so you have to wait a whole week
I had another really good one that's flown out of my head! That!

Biting into a jam doughnut only to discover you've picked up custard ones by mistake... bleurgh!

Getting halfway through a session at gym and the wifi signal going so I can't listen my favorite playlist (must get round to downloading it instead of relying on cloud player).

Being just about to complete a level of Candy Crush when the battery on the tablet dies.

Ordering pancakes with "maple syrup and bacon" only to find when they arrive that it's actually maple flavour syrup. Ought to be done under the trades descriptions act that one.

Why is it that so many of these are about food?

supersop60 I have to hide the packed-lunch-bound Babybels (tricky as our fridge is tiny) to stop DH munching them.

Cakes on holiday - the amazing looking cream filled works of art, which taste of air and fluff

A much longed for tea being made by someone who adds half a pint of milk and only just shows the tea bag to the cup

Rushed book endings - when you can tell the author just wanted it done with!

Hard scones

Hard bread

Dippy eggs with no dippy bits

my boys pissing on the loo seat.
again and again.
despite explanations, warnings, begging, anything.

perhaps they can't be thaught

*taught

Biting into a jam rolly poly or Victoria sponge to nearly chip my tooth on the seeds in the jam.

Going up to bed and realising you haven't re made the bed after stripping it earlier.

Just this

Barbeques. One year I will remember that I don't like them AND choose to believe myself before I bother.

When you struggle all week to wake the dcs so they can go to nursery (and you to work) only for them to bounce out of bed at stupid o'clock at the weekend when you could all sleep in.

When you finally get the baby to sleep at 5:30am after being up half the night, only for the toddler to wake - scuppering your plan to go back to bed and get some more sleep.

When you think the baby is finally asleep, only for them to wake up and start crying just as you've got back into bed.

I think I have a theme here. Sleep deprived? Me?