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Things that really get up my nose!

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Rhubarb · 03/06/2004 20:53

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!

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bigknickersbigknockers · 21/11/2006 20:04

People who dont clean up their dogs messs

people who leave their dog out in the garden all day barking whilst they are at work.

Security lights...bloody hate them things lighting up my garden and the kids bedrooms at night, that really really pisses me off

People who let their dogs run round on the kids play area when there are signs telling them not to and gates to keep dogs out.
I sound a right dog hater but I'm not, its just the owners who do these things that make my blood boil

bigknickersbigknockers · 21/11/2006 20:06

Flumpytina... I agree with you on Jan Leeming and have to also add Scott from I'm a celeb, what a moaning tosser

aliceband · 21/11/2006 20:31

agree with the dog mess, particularly when i pick up my dog's, and sometimes tread in other dog's poo when picking mine up!
people complaining about me walking my dog, when i do pick up her poo, ..so what's the prob.

bigknickersbigknockers · 21/11/2006 20:51

I dont have a problem with people walking their dogs, just bad owners who leave their mess everywhere, and let their dogs bark all day for me to listen to whilst they go out to work. Sorry if I gave that opinion Aliceband it really wasnt intended that way. I love animals.

aliceband · 21/11/2006 21:50

ooh no not you, an old lady the other day who shouted at me for walking round her way, i showed her my poo bags, one of which was full, but it made no difference....made my blood boil.

themoon66 · 21/11/2006 22:13

Oooh yes, the dog out barking all day thing

The house behind us has a little jack russell that can, quite literally, bark continually from 5am one day, through to 1 or 2am the next day!!! It does go a bit hoarse and crocky though sometimes.

I hate the little bastard with a vengence, especially as we cannot have our windows open at all soley coz of this endless bloody racket!

I've only been in this house for 6 months and was hoping they would start taking their stupid dog in when it turned colder, but it's not happened yet.

VanillaMilkshake · 22/11/2006 09:15

When my FIL sneers at my efforts to live a greener lifestyle - and says to DH, you'll be living in a hut soon He may not be round much in the next 100 years but my DC's will and I want to do my bit to give them some hope!

Flumpytina · 22/11/2006 14:27

Oh this thread is so therapeutic...easier than moaning to DH when he gets in from work and much less calorific than stuffing my face with chocolate hob nobs which is the usual remedy for severe grumpiness.

Syphillitic British Drizzle, down it comes all the livelong day, not proper butch rain, or dry and cold, sodding drizzle...feet are cold, 300 pieces of childrens outerclothing are a bit damp (can't be arsed to put them in the dryer as not really wet), and it's just PISSING ME OFF.

Flumpytina · 22/11/2006 14:29

Oh yes Scott of IAC definately also needs a slap.

3andnomore · 22/11/2006 16:15

themoon66...but it isn't the dogs fault...I think though, that maybe you should report the owners, as I am sure it is cruelty against animals...well, I think it is cruel anyway!

VanillaMilkshake · 22/11/2006 16:17

Flumpytina - I'll swap your damp washing for my FIL?? I love washing - seriously. Could be a sympton of PG - but I have a thing for detergent and cleaners ATM

Good grief it's really come over dark here - like the middle of the night! Might have to draw the curtains to stop nosey passers by looking in.

Ripeberry · 22/11/2006 18:25

Love this. People who park their cars in a bay right next to you SO CLOSE you wonder how on earth they managed to get out!
When this happens i usually leave a note on their
window saying: Get some parking lessons you w*er!
If i'm in a really bad mood and god forbid its 4X4 then they will get lipstick all over their window as well in the shape of a d**k.
AB

Flumpytina · 22/11/2006 21:09

erm Ripeberry isn't that verging a little bit on the cusp of criminal damage...you sound like a woman on the edge, maybe you should have an emergency packet of hobnobs in your car to treat 4x4 parking rage.

VanillaMilkshake · 22/11/2006 21:10

Friends with children - with whom you have agreed to just by for the kids at Christmas and then they turn up with a pressie for you - even if it's just a box of Roses - you still feel a right Scrooge

VanillaMilkshake · 22/11/2006 21:12

Oh no Flumpytine - I think that's a brill thing to do to a gas guzzling 4x4. Most of the drivers of those think they own the bloody roads anyway .
Ripeberry - you go girl

Flumpytina · 22/11/2006 22:13

OK VMS I'll swap your sneering FIL in a 4x4 for my pile of damp clothes and a packet of murray mints.

zookeeper · 22/11/2006 22:36

oooh love this thread!

my mother saying "why don't you get your hair cut short?"

newspaperwriters assuming we all live in London

"vegatarians" who eat fish

Tax credits helpline/any automated answersystem

queues at banks

people who smile when they talk even though they're saying something serious (think Blair)

volunteers at animal charity shops

people who drive up my arse on motorways

that man in the homeloans ad that's on on daytime television - you know - the one that's on the phone whilst his - equally irritating-wife is following him around with a video camera

Sarah Jayne (I think) on Cbeebies - the one who can't keep her mouth close whilst she's drawing on the window

Oh that's much better - plenty more where they came from

MerryChipmonkAndAHappyNewey · 22/11/2006 23:49

The Ds's turning up their noses at the healthy ( and tasty, I swear!) meal I've just spent 1.5 hours making and the next day wolfing down the pizza and chips which are dh's speciality
MIL forcing her religion down my ds's throats when I'm not around.
People who beep at me when I pull out on to the road at the end of our estate. If I don't pull out this far I can't see ANYTHING coming from the left!
Ds3 messing with the washing machine so it takes 3 hours to do 1 wash
Ds3 messing with the toilet
Ds3 pulling a chair over to mess with the microwave
Ds3 calling strangers on the phone
OK, he's just at that age..........

Linnet · 23/11/2006 00:32

When I'm at work and I'm serving a customer it really annoys me when another customer comes in to be served at the desk but instead of standing behind the customer I'm serving they come and stand right beside them. They can hear everything that's being said and if there are forms to be filled in they can see them too.

It's so bl**dy rude, why don't they queue behind the person being served?

I feel that they are invading my personal space and I'm on the other side of the desk god only knows how the first customer must feel. Interestingly though not one customer has ever asked the other person to stand back a bit and give them space.

3andnomore · 23/11/2006 00:48

Linnet, maybe they are waiting for you, the proffesional, to make a stand????

aliceband · 23/11/2006 07:46

yup, people standing really close to me in a queue, feel like elbowing them

octobermum · 23/11/2006 08:51

I have to say me for the last few days - bad pmt because of long cycle this time.

octobermum · 23/11/2006 09:02

The man who designed the new m & s in Hemel who thought it was a good idea to put a barrier by the tills so you know where to que if you have buggy you block the isle so noone else can get to the till until you have finished. Why do all doors in car parks have to open away from you so you cant reach them to open if you a buggy, so you have to go through backwards so you cant see if anyone coming the other way.

Mala · 23/11/2006 09:51

People who cough without covering their mouths

Those that can't be arsed to reply to an rsvp-lazy sods

Mums at the school gates who are friendly one minute and blank you the next

People(eg.dh) who whinge about everything all the time

People who think they are superior to me because they have more children

I could go on for ages, but I better not

RanToTheHills · 23/11/2006 09:53

PEOPLE WHO PARK ON PAVEMENTS, THE SELFISH BASTARDS!
Sorry, caps lock, didn't really mean to be quite so forceful.