Things that really get up my nose!

[Rhubarb]

When you have your ds/dd's friend over to play, you will paint with them, bake cakes, whatever to make sure they have a really good time. When they return the favour they stick a video on!

When dd goes to visit a friend or relative and they fill her up with sweets, so that when she comes home she is hyperactive and doesn't want a proper meal.

When you've got a couple of hours to yourself to do those really important jobs, or to pamper yourself, the baby wakes up unexpectedly and your day that you have been looking forward to is ruined.

When you make plans to meet a girlfriend for a drink, you cancel other arrangements and make a big effort, only to get a phone call an hour beforehand to say that she's had a stressful day and is too tired to come out!

When your baby is crying non-stop in public and some old dear comes up and says "Aww, he's hungry look!" (pointing accusedly at you)

When you explain to a stranger that your child is shy, and they then make a point of putting that child on the spot and making them feel even more self-conscious!

When you agree to look after a friend's child for a couple of hours, that turns into 3/4 hours with no word of apology or explanation from them!

When another child starts mistreating your child's toys, and their mother does nothing to stop them.

Am having a bad today and just needed to get all that off my chest! Feel free to rant along with me!

and that, of course, should be sort out my debts
I'll get the hang of this typing thing one of these days.

Shops who block up the aisles with displays or huge trolleys that should have been packed onto the shelves before the shop opened and then say "well, you have got a double buggy, if it was a single one, you would be able to get past...."
And, everything that everyone else has said - especially the parking on the pavement

Went with single buggy today and still didn't manage to get down aisles in local Co-op - aaaghh

Strangers who think it ok to touch my kids hair / heads... How dare they!!!

People who sit in the middle and especially the outside lane on a dual carriage way / motorway, coz they are too bloody lazy to get out the way. It is the most annoying thing - agghhhh!

Drivers who do not indicate properly on roundabouts! Esp. when turning right.

Dog owners who don't clean their sh*t up! Sick of telling my kids to watch out for it everywhere.

People who speed past schools at any time of day.

Moan Moan Moan......

My turn: ice cream vans parking right outside dds window when she's asleep and playing chimes loudly....when it's raining!!! they never get any customers! Having loads of mail come through your door when you're waiting for something important only to discover it's all junk (have started sending it back in the envelopes provided like they recommend on Brassed off Britain), neighbours nicking parking space outside our house as they have two cars, health visitors who haven't got any kids thinking they know best...oooh there's loads of things, could go on forever

Cat poo in the garden when we don't have a cat.

Dog poo anywhere!!

People who insist on indicating at the last second when turning right!

The fact that there aren't enough parking spaces in our road for everyone to have one.

People who don't use their garages despite previous complaint.

Getting up at crack of dawn to move car so we don't get a ticket.

Traffic wardens who stand at end of road 15 minutes before parking restriction begins, waiting to pounce.

Having to park miles away despite having 3 kids (one in carrier) and 20 bags of shopping and having to cross a main road to get home with no nearby crossing!!

Glad to get that said - I guess we have a lot of moans regarding parking.

Oh, one more while I'm here. Getting home with your shopping only to find something is out of date (on the occasion when you've forgotten to check), or in date and gone off anyway, and it's usually the main ingredient for dinner with friends coming!! (in half an hour)!

Magnum - love the one about sending junk mail back - will start doing it forthwith!

Ditto with the dog poo - especially owners who let them poo right outside your front gate . GRRR

Orange and coffee flavoured revels. Disgusting - does anyone honestly like those ones?

When you end up supervising other people's kids at playgrounds/playgroups?wherever, whilst the parents swan off or start busily chatting to other people. I had this whilst we where on holiday, and ended up having to supervise both my dd and someone else's dd at the pool whilst the parents went off for a drink at the bar. I wouldn't have minded (but then i again I prob would have), but they didn't even ASK me.

Ooooh Metrobaby!

I LUUURVE the orange/coffee Revels - they're my fave

Am gutted that you can't get Coffee Creams in the usual tin of Roses/Quality Street at Christmas

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Ooooooh, ditto the revels thing MB.

People who think that looking at houses for sale is a nice day out in the country, trail round my house, with their children creating havoc in my nice (artifically especially to sell) tidy rooms, enthuse like they've never seen anything so fab. And then disappear off the side of the planet, telling estate agent things like ....

"The bedrooms weren't big enough" - we have four bedrooms and the smallest is 18ft by 15ft.
"There was too much land" - the amount of land is on the particulars, how much did you think 10.5 acres was? A big garden?
And the killer - "There are cows on the fields next to the land". I mean it is in the country, what did you expect, drug dealers? transit vans? alien aircraft landing sites?

Calm, calm, clear blue water, clear blue water.

Neighbours who don't have kids.
Cat poo, which our dog then eats - that really gets up my nose, literally.
Middle aged men riding superbikes like teenagers.
People who don't stop when you try to cross a zebra crossing.
People who haven't had babies who think you're an awful mother cos' somedays you'd like to throw yours out the window
MIL's (I have 2).
The fact that you only seem to be able to buy turkish delight at christmas.
Ditto pretty much everything else thats been said!

Urban Youths who wear tracky pants with the waistband bellow their buttocks exposing their underpants and hindering their walking.
What the F is that all about?????

MIL's (welsie I also have 2!)

Clients who constantly change their minds

Friends who think you can't possibly have a good night out unless you get bladdered

People who walk reaaly slow in front of you when you're in a rush

Shop assistants who carry on a private conversation whilst serving you

northerner
I always tell those shop assistants I'll wait til they've finished as they grab for the payment. It leaves them most perplexed

That's a good one Suzy - I'll try that next time!

How about shop assistants who answer the phone just as it's your turn to be served? (Grrrrrhhhh)

People queuing behind me who stand within my personal space & keep moving up- I don't want your stomach resting on my back!

Neighbours demanding favours every time I set foot outside my door.

Neighbours leaving their rubbish on our front every week (long story).

DH constantly picking his nose and/or sneezing violently & never using a tissue. (then getting stroppy with me when I complain)

Parking as far away from everyone else as possible in an area of empty spaces then coming back to find some woman (& it always is ) has squeeezzzed in next to me leaving the other 40 spaces empty.... what IS that about?!

Being woken up by 2 teenage DSs ARGUING on the stairs... (the same ones I have to HAUL out of bed on a school morning...)

The entourage for the 16 yo girl next door hanging around on our front garden, smoking, after 11pm.

People smoking in cars & hanging their cigarettes out of the windows.

(I also love the orange/coffee revels..... )

Tallulah - after working in customer service myself I was always trained that answering the tel phone takes priority over cutomers waiting to be served. The telephone client is business you don't yet have......... you should of course always excuse yourself to answer first.

And I HATE coffee and orange revels

Another one for today

Neighbour obviously being picked up by friend to go to work at 6am this morning - however, friend too lazy to get out of car to ring doorbell, so sits in car outside my bedroom window, bibbing his bl**dy horn, on and off for at least 15 minutes!!!!

Almost on the verge of banging on neighbours door to tell him to get his a* out of bed and into that car before I shoved his horn up his friends backside - oooh sounds a bit rude

Made me laugh though

Getting cold-called by kitchen companies, even though I've registered with Telephone preference service.

Trying to find out the times of trains from Dundee to Loughborough from a person in Bangalore.

My mother phoning at dinner time - she has meal-time radar, I swear.

People parking their monstrous 4x4s next to my normal car, making it well nigh imposible for me to get back in.

The stupid git who sped past our school today at about 50mph, in a temper because someone else had the temerity to stop their car. Hope he drives himself into a brick wall, then the rest of us will be safer.

Going to use the hoover and finding it clogged up with the dd's hair. Yuk, yuk, yuk.

Our geriatric cat sh*tting on the floor then sauntering off outside.

Anyone who dares to go shopping when I want to shop.

people shopping without kids parking in adult & baby/toddler spaces.
people with perfectly able to walk older kids parking in these spaces
People who don't know that you're meant to park within the lines and therefore leaving you requiring a tin-opener to get back in your car!

with you there suedonim - why do commoners clog up the shops like that?
And todays rant - oldish men with ankle-thumping (my ankles) walking sticks, completely obstructing the pavement, whilst appearing more sprightly and able-bodied than I am, well was, prior to ankle thumping

oh, and DH and DS1 not being able to find something, which requires me to get up and show them where the bloody thing is - right in front of them - and them saying "Oh yeah, didn't see it"