What things are the unexpected bane of your life?

[happymerryberries]

For me it would have to be comics that come with a 'free' plastic crappy gift that ends up in bits all over the floor (again!)

yup me too. And they are broken within seconds....

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unopenable packets of biscuits

ants in the kitchen

Mice

grrr to sweets at tills. And particularly to our newly refurbished local Woolies where you have to run the gauntlet of all the toys at the front of the shop before you can get to the useful stuff at the back, then back past the toys, then into a queueing system lined with sweets. As far as tantrums in their shop go, they deserve everything they get.

shops (particularly clothes shops), that are too narrow to fit my pram between the racks.
I end up pushing my way through and getting various items of clothing stuck on the metal bits that hold the hood up.

must be impossible for people who have side-by-side twin buggies!

Can openers. I can never seem to find one that works for more than a week.

Shops that have those blummin 50p rides right by the door.

Grass cuttings!!! Mowed the lawn at the weekend and the cuttings seem to be all over the house! they keep coming back even after I have hoovered them up!

washing cans for the recycling bin, and then cutting my fingers on them!

glass shower doors - well cleaning the buggers
ditto ovens...

Council tax.

The dip in the housing market! Wanted to sell last June but no DH says wait till we find a house then put ours up & what happened, everything went to hell in a handbag & we lost the house of our dreams.
Trying again now it's Spring but I'm madder than a mad bear with mad-fever.
Just realised it's not the housing market it's DH .

cleaning up weetabix and porridge after breakfast - it gets everywhere and is impossible to get off surfaces/clothes

A certain litle boy who seems to spend all his time either with his hands down his pants or saying "What said?" - both of which have been driving me particularly mad today.....

dh

Paper, it gets everywhere in my house and I cannot wait until it is made completely obsolete.

Congestion charge, council tax, no Sesame Street and supposedly living in a secular soceity but then being told I have to go to church in order for my child to go to his local nursery

the sudden inability to keep neutral coloured walls and floors clean!!!

shared drains

dito on the can opener.

Is it only me who can flush the toilet in this house!

The clearing up after children's meal times (1yr old and nearly 3 yr old). Takes forever. Incredible mess.

scoot - or load the dishwasher or the washing machine or the .................... endless list of things that have to be done!!!!!!!!!