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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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suzywong · 23/11/2006 09:59

People who close their non-solicited judgemental comments with "...and that woudn't be fair to anyone"

What the F does that phrase mean, apart from being passive-aggressively challenging?

ANiceGlassofBaileys · 23/11/2006 10:16

People who eat with thier mouth open
People who walk around eating without even a napkin and drop food everywhere. Both make me feel physically sick!

PeachyClair · 23/11/2006 10:48

businesses who STILL don't have e-mail

RE the parking on pavements thing.... someone in our village ahd pdone that last evening on a double yellow, invadingt he space of ds1 who has AS- couldn't help but laugh as he banged on their door and growled at them through the window! LOL!

taxi drivers who think they have a licence to go the wrong way down the one way street we live in, crap any time but they KNOW (coz they work for them a lot) that there's a NAS unit opposite and the residents come out quickly

themoon66 · 23/11/2006 11:05

Zookeeper.... "volunteers at animal charity shops"

Explain why that is annoying?? [puzzled]

RanToTheHills · 23/11/2006 11:05

PC - wd love to borrow yr growly ds!

PeachyClair · 23/11/2006 11:13

LOL

zookeeper · 23/11/2006 14:02

themoon66, go to an animal charity shop and see what happens when your 3 year old wees on the floor

themoon66 · 23/11/2006 14:12

bet they'd be more charitable if you took a dog in and it accidentally wee-weed on the floor

zookeeper · 23/11/2006 14:15

got it in one

wanderingstar · 23/11/2006 14:28

When you're finally at the front of a shop queue, and someone just walks up with a query for the person on the till AND THEY ANSWER !

It's My time you're taking up; a query is still something you need to wait your turn for, even if you can't find an assistant on the shop floor.

BaileysMilkshake · 23/11/2006 16:03

People who make sarcastic remarks about you when you dont realise where the front of the queue is. This happened to me in IKEA - heavily PG and chasing DD I moved into what I thought was a queue and I heard some old bat behind me say "I know Ken you would'nt think I was in a queue" I stood there for a moment and let what she said sink in before saying "I'm very sorry Ken I did'nt realise you were in the queue - it's so hard trying too keep up with little ones you dont know where you are sometimes, you should have said someting" And then walked out of that lane and into another, taking DH and DD with me. Glad to see I got some grins from the woman I stood behind in the next lane.

mummydear · 23/11/2006 20:37

Drivers who dont indicate at roundabouts !!

We're all mindreaders aren't we !

Flumpytina · 23/11/2006 21:21

and drivers who indicate right on roundabouts and then keep going all the way round. Fools.

bctmum · 23/11/2006 21:24

LEAF BLOWERS - AHHHHhhhhhhhh

Why not just use a rake???

Flumpytina · 23/11/2006 21:28

no no, I'm a fool, I meant indicate left on roundabouts and keep going round, now I am the thing that is currently annoying me most.

3andnomore · 23/11/2006 21:28

Flumpytina...not sure what is wrong with that....aren't you meant to indicate right when you need to turn on yourself at a roundabout??????????? Not getting this one at all!

3andnomore · 23/11/2006 21:29

oh, lol...now that makes sense, lol! we x-posted!

mummydear · 23/11/2006 22:04

people who reverse from driveway into a main road.

they can never see pedistrians on the pavement walking along with small children !!!

Local Councillors - who allow planning permsiion for four houses that was once a single plot but refuse planning permission for a hard working family to extend their own home ! ( But we won on appeal ha ha ha ! )

crazycanuck · 24/11/2006 15:20

old women who are always queue-jumping. is there a magic age where they pull you aside and say it's perfectly acceptable now to barge in front of everyone in the queue??

I work in customer service and the queue-jumping queriers (is that a word?!) really get me going. I always say that I'll assist them once I'm finished with the customer I'm actually serving, but would you believe the majority of these people get really miffed when I say that! Oh the stories I could tell about rudeness from people in shops...

bigknickersbigknockers · 24/11/2006 18:28

Miserable shop assistants, the ones that just cant be arsed with you and look like their faces will crack if they attempt a smile.

BaileysMilkshake · 24/11/2006 19:51

plastic toys of DC's favorite characters that dont do what they should and leave your DC thoroughly frustrated and hysterical! Peppa bl**dy Pig!

PeachyClair · 24/11/2006 19:53

Adverts for Colver and Bisto

Sentimental codwallop shite
I mean that chap who cries as he raises he be-clovered fork....

section him.

PeachyClair · 24/11/2006 19:54

clover

drat

BaileysMilkshake · 24/11/2006 20:01

But Clover is nice!!

handlemecarefully · 24/11/2006 20:15

Ummm - queue jumping queriers? ...so if there is a queue of 8 people and your small child wants the loo, you're not allowed to ignore the queue, shoot an apologetic glance to the person at the front of it and say to the the shop assistant - "Sorry to interrupt but could you tell me where the loo's are please?"