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!

Quite so, Lisa! The queen doesn't have to shop with the hoi polloi, why should we?

Your rant about old men reminds of a friend's wedding. She and her new dh threw Cadbury's Roses out of the wedding car as they left the church. The kids were swept aside as all these elderly ladies cast away their walking sticks and were down on hands and knees, scrabbling over the sweeties!! Talk about taking up thy mattress and walking....

LOL Suedonim
I tell you what else drives me absolutely stark raving bonkers, old women with those sodding tartan shopping trolleys... These women always shop in packs and have to spread sideways, to fill the space available. If you do have the temerity to try and squeeze past, you get ankle thumped as they give the tartan menace a deft sideways flick. And its useless saying excuse me, they can't hear you unless you yell it (in which case they go on about manners in the youth of today- youth, ha, fat chance ) and then they require 10 minutes to mount an operation between themselves, to make sufficient space to let you past...
I am going to be one of these women when I am old(er)

Old women let out in their own. Why oh why do they have to be so rude, pushy and irritating. Will of course join that club when I get there - will have earned it then...

I can just see the Mumsnet threads in years to come:

"Which tartan shopping trolley should I buy?"

"Do you use tweezers or wax for your hairy chin?"

"The youth of today - rant alert!"

ds's friends that can play sim city on the PC forever, denying you MN afternoon while baby naps.
WASHING full stop... sick of the effing stuff, none of it is MINE!
sex drive which hits 110% 4 minutes fater DH departs on motorbike for stag weekend in wilds.... sex drive which has lain dormant for a few days..
Weekend TV, what else am I to do?

people who, when you accidentally collide in the street (no-one's fault, your fault, their fault, it doesn't actually matter) totally fail to acknowledge that you just said sorry to them. W**r

those are the same people who don't thank you, when you hold the door for them (and their tartan trollies )

People who, despite the tannoy announcements, stand outside their cars talking when its time to drive onto the ferry and then everyone has to wait while they get in their cars, do up their seatbelts, start their engine etc

People who, despite the tannot announcements, don't go down to the car holds when its time to drive off the ferry and then everyone has to wait until they appear, put their purchases in their boot, get in their cars, do up their seatbelts, start their engine etc

Many, many of what's already been written!

The fact that if I mention any pet hates to DH, he accuses me of being petty!

Like tallulah, anyone standing just that bit too close to me - made worse by their smelly breath and or 'huffing' in my ear, body odour, etc.

Men leering at me/following me/attempting inane small talk, urgh, yuck! I don't appreciate it, I find it intimidating.
.....though funnily enough, don't have quite so much of a problem with the odd wolf whistle from afar, particulary when shopping with DH - keeps him on his toes .

People who chuck their fag ends & packets in my front garden.And empty their car ashtrays in the gutter.

Cats pooing in my garden & ripping up my plants,not to mention s* & fighting outside my bedroom window all night.

People who feel dd's feet(after she has removed her socks for the umpteenth time) & tell me that she has cold feet in an accusing way.

The people whose garden backs onto ours,who go out in the early hours of the morning & have loud conversations that I can hear 120 feet away.

Next doors builders,whose arrival woke dd up early for the past 2 days & whose noise stopped her going back to sleep.

ooohhhh,feeling particularly grouchy tonight.

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LOL Twiglett!

Silent phone calls / weird phone calls.

Weetabix packets.

Oh I'm good and riled now.

Lads (and it always is lads)who drive around with their stereos booming & all windows /sunroof open.I have a theory that the louder the music =the c the car.

Those little moped bike things that make an annoying whine like an incoming mosquito.

People who think that it's fine for them to park on the zig zags outside the school,because its only for a minute.

ooooh Mirage : parking outside school is one of mine too. The street where our school is used to have no parking restrictions which meant (coz it's near a station) that commuters would park there all day (not on the lines but everywhere else) and there was no parking for parents dropping off but now there are restrictions which means no commuters and plenty of space for parents for which you need to pay 10p for 15 minutes and parents STILL park on the zig-zags. I just don't understand - are they thick or something? Do they not realise that there's a reason - intimately connected to their own child's safety - for those zig zags. oooooooh.

Bump! What really annoys me...

In the days before DVDs - rewinding/forwarding a recording on the VCR and checking where you're at.... why do you always get the ads?!!

Retired people going shopping at the weekend... they've had all week to go FFS....why clog up the town/supermarket when it's so busy?

Mums at toddler groups who let their kids wander round with snacks, dribbling and dropping crumbs over all the toys. Oooooo.. controversial!

Those ads in Sunday paper supplementary magazines... for old ladies' clothes. They always have YOUNG and striking women modelling them. As IF!

Inlaws deciding to kiss me on arrival/departure from the day of our engagement onwards. Eh? Not still the same person?

Good friends and rellies who can't be bothered to remember whether or not you take sugar / milk!

Supermarket staff being so pedantic at the "under 10 items" till... Once bought 14 Pot Noodles (?!) They didn't understand that, being all the same, this is ONE ITEM! Have they never seen an invoice??

A supermarket checkout girl who asked me if my baking potato was a sweet potato. Then she asked what THAT was. THAT was a leek! I suggested a Vegetable Recognition Course might be in order! How do they get these jobs?

What was Twiglett's message withdrawn?

Oh don't bother telling me, it's a really old thread, I know why it was withdrawn!

iceandaslice - does that mean SAHM's can't shop at weekends either?!!

PMSL at this thread as I can so identify with it, right here I go!

MIL who pats my bump - dont touch unless invited!

Old people who keep copper in one purse, silver in another and notes - depending on value rolled up in yet another - then getting stuck behind them at a till.

Children who run round with candles hanging from their noses even though they have parents nearby who have seen it.

Cheap food adverts trying to copy M&S adverts.

Making a big effort to provide a good meal for IL's whent they visit only for them to go 'dont like carrots and saying it in front of your DD.

Going on a planned visit IL's only to find them saying they dont have any suitable food/drink for your DD

Chastising your child for being naughty when out only to have other poeple sympathise with them. And stand right in front of you as you do it so you can't get away. Said person then assumes child wanted something and was acting spoiled for not getting it, when actually was being reprimanded for running out of field of vision - mind your own business!

Right I think that's enough for now.

oops reading back this dos seem a bit on an anti-my-in-laws post....again

Oh, what a funny thread
I can identify with a lot of those things mentioned!
My main ones are People without Kids parking in Parent/Baby parking spaces...and I find it even worse if it is people that actually have Kids, as they have carseats in the car, but don't have them with them...I mena...tis not the carseat that gives ya the permission to park in those spaces!
And also hate people that let you down...espcially if you go out of your way to meet them, etc...!

Another vote for the parent and child spaces, the WORST offenders are the ones with nice cars, 'I've got a nice car therefore I can park where I damn well feel like' Guess again. and omg, tailgaters, the police are so quick to get you for driving at 31mph, but not at all bothered that the angry MAN behind you is in your boot, when driving at 30mph. A**ehole! Also MIL never wipes our kids faces and they go around looking like street urchins and, and, and IL's swearing in front of children (4 and 3) then looking accusingly at me, when they utter the odd obsenity! AARRRGGHHH!!!!!!

My moronic neighbour's friends who drive up (or should that be screech up) the street, and beep, beep, beep until neighbour comes out. They never park the car, the just sit in the middle of the road to wait, never bother to knock the door like normal people and yesterday, sat there watching me carry a sleeping child out of my car, then beeped their horn and woke her up. I marched up to his window, scowling and hissed "did you have to?!" to which I got a grin. Pr*ck.

MIL: lives on a farm, so dd allowed to play out and get lots of fresh air etc. which is great but she is permanently in scruffs when over there because she gets so filthy.
What gets up my nose is when MIL knows full well she's taking dd out to visit relatives for the day but negates to tell me beforehand, so I send her over there in usually boys trousers (dark, hard wearing things) and scruffy tops/jackets/trainers so she can play as rough as she likes. Then find out she's been paraded round Aunties and Uncles looking like a street urchin when she's got perfectly good, clean clothes at home she could be out in.