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Am I too easily wound up?

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lou8 · 31/07/2006 13:03

This is a trivial one and not really a 'rant' as such, just wondering if people think I get annoyed too quickly!

Basically on sunday I took the children (aged 5 and 7) to LegoLand along with my mum and my yunger sister (12).

We all knew how notorious LegoLand was for getting busy early and queues etc so we got there for 9:50, managed to get in for 10am.

Before we got there me and my mum had said as soon as we get in we would head straight for the most popular rides to avoid huge queues.

So, we get in at 10 and already the place is packed, I head off towards the rides with the boys and my mum says "hang on, I need to buy a film for the camera". grrr... so we go into the shops and we stand faffing around looking at various films, she eventually picks one after 5 or 10 mins and then says "I dont know how to put them in the camera, do you?" grrrr so I said no (which I dont). So, we stand another 5 or 10 minutes faffing around deciding what to do, in the end I told her to get a disposable camera which would be easier so she does, not before worrying and asking the staff etc where you get them developed etc!! .

So we eventually get out of this shop to see crowds of people making their way down to the rides (grrr) I said "come on boys!" and started walking towards them and then my mum said "hang on, I need to put some sun cream on" I said she could've put it on on the bus to save time but anyway, we spend another 5 or 10 minutes faffing with that. By this time my kids are getting irritated and I am really wound up...after the sun cream applying I said "right, we should make our way down now or we wont get on anything", then my sister (very spoilt!) decides she wants a drink...so back to the shops .

Eventually, around 10:30 we get to the rides to find them all absolutely packed out.

So, is this really petty? am I silly to get annoyed over stuff like this or would you have been wound up by it too?

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MarsLady · 31/07/2006 13:05

I feel your pain. You're allowed to rant and to be annoyed.

I hope your day turned out better than the start.

southeastastra · 31/07/2006 13:07

i would have been mad like you too! i like to be really early and can't be doing with faffing about

charliecat · 31/07/2006 13:08

totally with you, rant away.

SherlockLGJ · 31/07/2006 13:10

I would have said, I will see you down there.

eenywifemum · 31/07/2006 13:10

you sound like me! I can be very 'efficient'! and have to take deep breaths sometimes to deal with people who are more... random!

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lou8 · 31/07/2006 13:29

lol thank god it's not just me!

What makes it worse is that we live in East Yorkshire so are not likely to see Legoland again anytime soon... we only went as we were in London for the weekend.

The rest of the day was ok but I wouldn't go again in the summer holidays, standing around in queues for ages in the burning hot sun isnt really good for my head lol.

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tenalady · 31/07/2006 13:45

No, if they knew the format about getting to the rides early then I would be quite annoyed too.

I would of said we are off to this ride followed by that ride and we will see you down there then left them to it.

Iklboo · 31/07/2006 13:48

Agree with Tenalady. I'd've said "see you at X ride then" and let them catch up later

fullmoonfiend · 31/07/2006 13:53

I too feel your pain -I would have been going garraty with her!

I have a pathalogical fear of being late for stuff. I even get wound up if I'm going to be late for a self-imposed deadline. And every time my mum comes over, and we are about to set off, it's : ''Just going to the loo,'' ''Lets just hang the washing out/water the plants/etc''

Cue me: jumping up and down with frustraton hissing: ''we. are. going.to.be.LATE!''

Stupid thing is, I'm really laid back about nearly everything, just can't bear hanging round or being late

JessaJam · 31/07/2006 13:53

I am a fairly 'random' person myself and not good at punctuality...but I would have been hopping from foot to foot in your situation and would have ended up dragging children off to the ride and saying we'd catch up with the faffy ones later! If I had needed to get a film, or put on suncream or get a drink I woudl have told you to go on ahead and that I would catch you up...see how nice and considerate i am!??!!

suejonez · 31/07/2006 13:55

Agree with Tenalady and Ikleboo, I would have kept going and queued anyway, told them to join you when they can find the time. It's a visit to LEGOLAND FGS, the children come first in that situation!

And yes it would have irritated the hell out of me.

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lou8 · 31/07/2006 14:09

See my sister, the 12 year old doesn't like rides anyway so it didn't matter to her whether we got to them or not, it was just my two that were getting irritable and I can't blame them, they just take so long over everything.

When we were in Mini-land for instance (the minature city scenes made from lego for those who havn't been) me and the boys were walking around, talking about the scenes, having a laugh, taking the odd photo etc...when we were half way around I turned back to see that my mum and sister were right near the begining of it still faffing with the bloody camera! And then they were stood waiting until there wasnt a person in sight for the perfect photo etc and getting irrited when people walked in front...I wanted to say "if you're going to stand there for half an hour with the camera anticipating a photo of course people are going to get fed up and walk in front of you!"

It was a good day though and I do feel guilty going on about my mum etc but I do wish they wouldn't faff whenever we go anywhere!

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warthog · 31/07/2006 14:13

yeah, i'd be spitting with irritation. i think i'd just left them to it and met them somewhere at a specific time. ugh

edam · 31/07/2006 14:13

Oh, can't stand people who faff around when you are out for the day. And doubly can't stand people who faff around taking flaming photographs (mainly dh in our household). Why not actually enjoy doing whatever you've come there to do, rather than wasting time taking photos of stuff you aren't doing? Grrr.

edam · 31/07/2006 14:15

Had a bloody awful day out with my sister, her boyfriend and toddler once. She made us all traipse round for HOURS looking for somewhere to have lunch, rejecting everywhere as unlikely to do something she could bear to feed her baby. When we finally snapped and chose somewhere it turned out she'd brought ruddy food for him anyway! Spent whole day getting there, looking for lunch and then heading back again!

compo · 31/07/2006 14:16

Can't understand why you didn't just leave your mum and sister in the first shop and carried on to the rides to be honest. But hindsight is a wonderful thing!

lulabelle · 31/07/2006 15:05

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