Petty things that annoy you …

[Lurcherlad2]

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In memory of Happypaws, I’ve created a new thread where we can have a little moan or outright rant about those annoying little things that crop up in life


I’ll start:

MIL insists on relaying all the miserable or catastrophic events that have been in the News recently, despite me saying that I deliberately avoid the News because I’d rather not know …

 

[excuseme]

Don't we already have this topic or is it on another forum ?

 

[excuseme]

Ah ha, found it on another forum !!

 

[Dibbythedog]

D id anyone hear from her or are we assuming the worst

 

[Dibbythedog]

Im at that age where every thing annoys me. I think of things but by the time l get online , I've forgotten what they are.

 

[Lurcherlad2]

D id anyone hear from her or are we assuming the worst

No.

Sadly, we suspect that she passed away

 

[Kaily]

No.

Sadly, we suspect that she passed away

It is very sad but the blessing is that she wanted to go once her husband had passed

 

[JudyN]

Awww, that's sad about Happypaws, even though I never 'met' her.

As for petty annoying things... hubby letting the kettle boil till it turns off rather than switch it off the moment he can hear that it's boiling - there's a gap of several seconds between the two. Or he even leaves the room altogether so has no chance of turning it off before it automatically switches off. OK, this sounds a little irrational now

Also, hubby breathing audibly all night. not even snoring - at least I can kick him when he does that - but breathing. I can hardly tell him to stop breathing, however much I feel like it! There's a name for this, apparently: 'While not officially classified as a disorder, misophonia is a recognized condition where specific sounds trigger intense negative responses.' To be honest, I've pretty much permanantly moved into the spare room now. My son gets it too, and his wife snores. He ends up sleeping downstairs on the sofa.

My son messaging 'Can me and the beans [grandchildren] come over?' instead of '...the beans and I...'

People on illegally noisy motorbikes, particularly past 10.30pm.

Hubby spelling things wrongly on the shopping list, however many times I tell him it's not 'meusli'.

Bob Ross paintings. Not only are they not my style, I dislike them with a possibly irrational vengeance.

The manager in the bank who asked me my age, then saying that he knew it wasn't really the thing to ask a lady her age. Possibly I shouldn't have told him that that was a really sexist thing to say and that as I was opening an account, of course he needed to know my age.

I'm sure there's more..... many more.....

 

[Lurcherlad2]

Oh I’m with you on the “husband breathing”!

I put up with 20 years of horrendous snoring, then he was diagnosed with sleep apnoea and has worn a Cpap machine for the last 17, which often hisses like a demented snake … much like the one in Jungle Book!

I use silicon earplugs, which help alot.

I do occasionally retreat to the spare room and will insist on 2 bedrooms when we get round to moving in the not too distant future.

A Sleep Divorce has saved many a marriage, apparently

 

[Flobo]

It's really annoying to me that I don't seem to have the laugh emoji response on my phone and I can't ( or can't work out how to...)do the quote thing either!
I love watching Bob Ross, I wouldn't have his paintings up but I do find listening to him and watching him paint almost like a meditation!!

But the thing that really bugs me is when smart cars, or their equivalents, park the wrong bleeding way in a parking space, butt(or bumper I should say)against the kerb! It's just wrong, wrong, wrong!! So wrong...

 

[Rona]

It's really annoying to me that I don't seem to have the laugh emoji response on my phone

I can't even find emoji

 

[JudyN]

It's really annoying to me that I don't seem to have the laugh emoji response on my phone and I can't ( or can't work out how to...)do the quote thing either!

I've just had a play on my phone... when I get the emojis up I can't see the laugh emoji either. But there's a search bar up above the emojis, and if you type in 'laugh' it will bring it up for you. This is on Android via Firefox.

 

[JudyN]

I can't even find emoji

Above the posting box, can you see a row with a few symbols, starting 'B I...'? On the right-hand side of the left-hand group is a column of 3 dots. Click in that and another row appears underneath. On the left-hand side is a smiley - select that and you'll see the emojis.

 

[Rona]

A little more than petty
I can't go into my garden. A large animal has died in a neighbours garden and started to rot, it stinks something dreadful.
He's a very elderly man and his garden is a sea of bramble. All us immediate neighbours aren't spring chickens either and couldn't even attempt to tackle that jungle.
I fear it's going to get worse before it gets better. I've contacted the council but of course they don't work weekends, not even health and safety

 

[Flobo]

With the emoji thing I can get all my phone ones when adding to a post, it's the reaction options that seem limited on my phone, I can only do a thumbs up. To be fair, it's not the end of the world, of course!

 

[JoanneF]

Why is it that some people (yes, I'm looking at you Mr F) can normally find things in the cupboard they belong in, but never know where to put them away?

I say normally, because this morning the conversation was like this.

Mr F - do we not have any poo bags?
Me - you are literally holding a bag of them in your hand ...

 

[SbanR2]

Im at that age where every thing annoys me. I think of things but by the time l get online , I've forgotten what they are.

And isn't that annoying in itself!

 

[Lurcherlad2]

Why is it that some people (yes, I'm looking at you Mr F) can normally find things in the cupboard they belong in, but never know where to put them away?

I say normally, because this morning the conversation was like this.

Mr F - do we not have any poo bags?
Me - you are literally holding a bag of them in your hand ...

That’s an improvement on my OH … often can’t even find the thing that’s in front of his eyes … yet I find it immediately

My dad was the same

Why, when the large, empty laundry basked that usually resides in our bedroom is left at the bottom of the stairs, as I’ve been doing the laundry this morning, I can almost guarantee OH will go upstairs and ignore it?

 

[Flobo]

@JoanneF That reminds a bit of me... I'm always losing things, but my oh religiously puts things where they should be. I try my hardest when it comes to the car keys though, that live in a particular drawer in the kitchen. Once when I was just about to rush out the door to work, I opened the drawer to grab the keys and they weren't there! Now I knew oh had used the car last so he was frantic looking for them as he swore he'd put them back, while I was standing there tutting because for once it wasn't me(and yes I was feeling a bit smug inside). Then I put my hands in my pocket and the key was already in there, I must of already got it out of the drawer, got distracted and instantly forgotten... oops! I very quickly confessed and legged it out the door, quick sharp!

 

[Lurcherlad2]

How can a cafe run out of baked beans?

Just ordered a veggie breakfast … asking to replace the egg with baked beans.

They’ve run out of baked beans

Baked beans make a breakfast imo.

Plus, there’s a little village store maybe 100 feet away … go and buy some beans maybe?

Never mind .. I’ll have extra mushrooms