Samey sameness day in day out?

OldNotWIse

What are the small things that are an integral part of the daily routine before the day officially starts? The ones that really shouldn't drive you mad but do. The ones that will always probably be the same but you still cant make your peace with? The things that on their own wold be ok but together drive you demented? That sap your battery from 100% to 70% before you start the say proper? For me its:

- trying to figure out which towel is mine and which belongs to OH
- spending too long in the shower because its hot and you're tired
- putting too much milk in the coffee and ending up with coffee that wont dissolve into the b*starding water and just floating on the top like specks of sh1te
-too hot for coat - too wet for no coat
- realising wallet is at bottom of bag as the bus approaches
- the inevitable cyclist in front of the bus so that you cant hail it properly without giving him an arm in the face!
- the sea of blank faces in the aisle, refusing to move
- militant b1tch lollipop ladies who stop the traffic at points that dont have traffic lights... for adults!
- "nice day/grand day/traffic bad" etc
-the four note windows start up tone
-the freebie paper and increasingly lecherous mailbox

Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same

ManofStraw

OldNotWIse wrote: »

What are the small things that are an integral part of the daily routine before the day officially starts? The ones that really shouldn't drive you mad but do. The ones that will always probably be the same but you still cant make your peace with? The things that on their own wold be ok but together drive you demented? That sap your battery from 100% to 70% before you start the say proper? For me its:

- trying to figure out which towel is mine and which belongs to OH
- spending too long in the shower because its hot and you're tired
- putting too much milk in the coffee and ending up with coffee that wont dissolve into the b*starding water and just floating on the top like specks of sh1te
-too hot for coat - too wet for no coat
- realising wallet is at bottom of bag as the bus approaches
- the inevitable cyclist in front of the bus so that you cant hail it properly without giving him an arm in the face!
- the sea of blank faces in the aisle, refusing to move
- militant b1tch lollipop ladies who stop the traffic at points that dont have traffic lights... for adults!
- "nice day/grand day/traffic bad" etc
-the four note windows start up tone
-the freebie paper and increasingly lecherous mailbox

Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same

Please continue ...

SeantheMan

First world problem are awful sometimes :P

dee_mc

OldNotWIse wrote: »

What are the small things that are an integral part of the daily routine before the day officially starts? The ones that really shouldn't drive you mad but do. The ones that will always probably be the same but you still cant make your peace with? The things that on their own wold be ok but together drive you demented? That sap your battery from 100% to 70% before you start the say proper? For me its:

- trying to figure out which towel is mine and which belongs to OH
- spending too long in the shower because its hot and you're tired
- putting too much milk in the coffee and ending up with coffee that wont dissolve into the b*starding water and just floating on the top like specks of sh1te
-too hot for coat - too wet for no coat
- realising wallet is at bottom of bag as the bus approaches
- the inevitable cyclist in front of the bus so that you cant hail it properly without giving him an arm in the face!
- the sea of blank faces in the aisle, refusing to move
- militant b1tch lollipop ladies who stop the traffic at points that dont have traffic lights... for adults!
- "nice day/grand day/traffic bad" etc
-the four note windows start up tone
-the freebie paper and increasingly lecherous mailbox

Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same

You're doing it wrong.

kfallon

Shaving my head! Has to be done but ugh, effort!

OldNotWIse

ManofStraw wrote: »

Please continue ...

In the paper... the weirdy "I saw you looking at me and I was looking at you too...we were looking at each other" letters

OldNotWIse

dee_mc wrote: »

You're doing it wrong.

ah pooh. But when I dont put the milk in first, a little voice in my head says "stop! you're burning the coffee!"

Crumpets

Trying to poach or fry an egg but end up breaking the yolk. Every morning!!! I'll never learn

OldNotWIse

SeantheMan wrote: »

First world problem are awful sometimes :P

Well I only have to walk to the well every other day so I thought I'd leave it out.*

*ah here

Lapin

OldNotWIse wrote: »

What are the small things that are an integral part of the daily routine before the day officially starts? The ones that really shouldn't drive you mad but do. The ones that will always probably be the same but you still cant make your peace with? The things that on their own wold be ok but together drive you demented? That sap your battery from 100% to 70% before you start the say proper? For me its:

- trying to figure out which towel is mine and which belongs to OH
- spending too long in the shower because its hot and you're tired
- putting too much milk in the coffee and ending up with coffee that wont dissolve into the b*starding water and just floating on the top like specks of sh1te
-too hot for coat - too wet for no coat
- realising wallet is at bottom of bag as the bus approaches
- the inevitable cyclist in front of the bus so that you cant hail it properly without giving him an arm in the face!
- the sea of blank faces in the aisle, refusing to move
- militant b1tch lollipop ladies who stop the traffic at points that dont have traffic lights... for adults!
- "nice day/grand day/traffic bad" etc
-the four note windows start up tone
-the freebie paper and increasingly lecherous mailbox

Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same

I think you need to see a doctor if you're having difficulty in taking steps to stop this happening every day.

Adamantium

**** sake I am the only person who makes tea and coffee, by poring the black liquid into the cup and then adding milk adjusting for colour?!

I've also found it nonscensical, the other way, because in all likelihood, unless you all your mugs are standardized i.e the same, how can you know how much you're adding and the desired effect. Big mugs, small mugs, tall mugs, thin cups etc

Common sense, not common.

OldNotWIse

Lapin wrote: »

I think you need to see a doctor if you're having difficulty in taking steps to stop this happening every day.

Will they be able to put it on the top for me?

seamus

Lifehacks, my friend. Develop your own little hacks to solve those little things which irritate you.
For example, two of my duaghter's sippy cups are identical. It's the same cup, same colour. But for some bizarre reason the lids aren't interchangeable. It's obviously some manufacturing flaw or something. Any road, it was driving me mad trying to put these together than more than half the time I'd try to screw the wrong lid onto the wrong cup and have to start again.
Simple lifehack; put a small scratch on one of them. So when matching up lids to cups, you know which one goes where. Now it's not infuriating any more.

OldNotWIse wrote: »

- trying to figure out which towel is mine and which belongs to OH

Attach a safety pin to the edge of your one. Then you'll always know.

spending too long in the shower because its hot and you're tired

Can't really help you with that one...

putting too much milk in the coffee and ending up with coffee that wont dissolve into the b*starding water and just floating on the top like specks of sh1te

Pick a cup that's your morning coffee cup and put in the correct amount of milk. Etch this into the edge of the cup on the inside, so you'll always know how much milk to put in. Even better, over time it will become stained by the coffee and become more and more obvious.

-too hot for coat - too wet for no coat

It's only rain you pansy. Keep a light rainjacket in work and in your car, and anywhere else you spend a significant amount of time. Costs like a tenner in Aldi/Lidl. Then you're never stuck for a coat when you need one.

realising wallet is at bottom of bag as the bus approaches

Put your card/change in your pocket before you leave the house.

- the inevitable cyclist in front of the bus so that you cant hail it properly without giving him an arm in the face!

Stand back from the edge of the road so the bus driver can see you better.

the four note windows start up tone

Mute.
Tbh though it just sounds like you're bored.

Find something you enjoy doing and go do it. You'll regret spending your younger years sitting in a rut you hate when you didn't really have to.

131spanner

Try taking up a hobby to break the routine. Football, cycling, rowing or injecting heroin would do nicely!

dee_mc

131spanner wrote: »

Try taking up a hobby to break the routine. Football, cycling, rowing or injecting heroine would do nicely!

But get her consent first...

castletownman

Waking up in a B and B in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania to the song "I Got You Babe" on the alarm clock radio having to report on the annual Groundhog Day festival again.

Lapin

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Will they be able to put it on the top for me?

They'll certainly make it a lot lighter for you !

131spanner

dee_mc wrote: »

But get her consent first...

Cue sneaky post edit...

OldNotWIse

seamus wrote: »

Lifehacks, my friend. Develop your own little hacks to solve those little things which irritate you.
For example, two of my duaghter's sippy cups are identical. It's the same cup, same colour. But for some bizarre reason the lids aren't interchangeable. It's obviously some manufacturing flaw or something. Any road, it was driving me mad trying to put these together than more than half the time I'd try to screw the wrong lid onto the wrong cup and have to start again.
Simple lifehack; put a small scratch on one of them. So when matching up lids to cups, you know which one goes where. Now it's not infuriating any more.

Attach a safety pin to the edge of your one. Then you'll always know.
Can't really help you with that one...
Pick a cup that's your morning coffee cup and put in the correct amount of milk. Etch this into the edge of the cup on the inside, so you'll always know how much milk to put in. Even better, over time it will become stained by the coffee and become more and more obvious.
It's only rain you pansy. Keep a light rainjacket in work and in your car, and anywhere else you spend a significant amount of time. Costs like a tenner in Aldi/Lidl. Then you're never stuck for a coat when you need one.
Put your card/change in your pocket before you leave the house.
Stand back from the edge of the road so the bus driver can see you better.
Mute.
Tbh though it just sounds like you're bored.

Find something you enjoy doing and go do it. You'll regret spending your younger years sitting in a rut you hate when you didn't really have to.

I'm bored? I'm not hacking apart posts and positing solutions:)

o1s1n

There's a very large lady who gets the same bus as me every day. She insists on standing at the front in the aisle beside the driver.

This means that every morning (when I'm cranky enough as is) I've to squeeze passed her big belly to get off the bus.

Just sit down ffs! :mad:

Jonny Blaze

Choose a life.
Choose a job.
Choose a career.
Choose a family.
Choose a ****ing big television.
Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers...
Choose DIY and wondering who the **** you are on a Sunday morning.
Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit crushing game shows, stuffing junk food into your mouth.
Choose rotting away in the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, ****ed up brats you spawned to replace yourself.
Choose your future.
Choose life...

I don't really have a samey routine
I don't always get the same bus, I have different sessions in the gym, come to work at different times, have coffee or don't, have slightly different breakfasts...

OldNotWIse

OldNotWIse wrote: »

I'm bored? I'm not hacking apart posts and positing solutions:)

Ah would ya stop. He tried to help you out loads. Don't be so passive aggressive, if doesn't suit ya.

I do leave my leap card in my coat pocket if I'm using dublin bus in the morning, very handy

Alf. A. Male

I like the samey same parts of my day, I see it as taking care of business and it frees me up to devote my attention to adding to the more excting bits of the day. Without routine to support my life, it'd be all stressful chaos.

Maximus Alexander

OldNotWIse wrote: »

-the freebie paper

THIS! A thousand times this!

The same girl shoves one of these into my face at the same time every morning. I always say the same polite "No thank you", but it always happens again the next day.

You're wearing a fluorescent yellow jacket and standing in front of the steps to the LUAS, we know you're there. We can't miss you. If we did, we'd walk into you. If we want a paper, we know where to find you.

It's 8:05 AM, stop making me interact with you! The alternative - to completely ignore you as you wave the rag in my face - is even worse, because it would suck out a tiny piece of my soul every day to just dismiss someone out of hand.

bumper234

OldNotWIse wrote: »

What are the small things that are an integral part of the daily routine before the day officially starts? The ones that really shouldn't drive you mad but do. The ones that will always probably be the same but you still cant make your peace with? The things that on their own wold be ok but together drive you demented? That sap your battery from 100% to 70% before you start the say proper? For me its:

- trying to figure out which towel is mine and which belongs to OH
- spending too long in the shower because its hot and you're tired
- putting too much milk in the coffee and ending up with coffee that wont dissolve into the b*starding water and just floating on the top like specks of sh1te
-too hot for coat - too wet for no coat
- realising wallet is at bottom of bag as the bus approaches
- the inevitable cyclist in front of the bus so that you cant hail it properly without giving him an arm in the face!
- the sea of blank faces in the aisle, refusing to move
- militant b1tch lollipop ladies who stop the traffic at points that dont have traffic lights... for adults!
- "nice day/grand day/traffic bad" etc
-the four note windows start up tone
-the freebie paper and increasingly lecherous mailbox

Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same

For me it's getting the bus in the morning only to be stuck behind the person who has just realised their wallet is in the bottom of their bag. If you are getting the bus and you are at the stop then get the ticket or change READY for when the bus arrives, even better as suggested by another is to have this done the evening before.

OldNotWIse

Deleted User wrote: »

Ah would ya stop. He tried to help you out loads. Don't be so passive aggressive, if doesn't suit ya.

Passive aggression is indirect hostility. If I want to be hostile I have no problem being direct.

OldNotWIse

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Passive aggression is indirect hostility. If I want to be hostile I have no problem being direct.

If you say so

OldNotWIse

Jonny Blaze wrote: »

Choose a life.
Choose a job.
Choose a career.
Choose a family.
Choose a ****ing big television.
Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers...
Choose DIY and wondering who the **** you are on a Sunday morning.
Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit crushing game shows, stuffing junk food into your mouth.
Choose rotting away in the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, ****ed up brats you spawned to replace yourself.
Choose your future.
Choose life...

Hear that? The silence? The biological clock just stopped :P

_Kaiser_

- Alarm goes off.. hit snooze. Hit snooze again a few mins later
- Right feck it.. better get up, if only so I beat the SUV brigade dropping little Mary and Johnny to school or the bus stop 300m away!
- Stumble to bathroom usually with one eye still closed, shower on
- Stumble in, wash
- Out, dry off, brush teeth, fix hair, shave
- Get dressed, grab keys and laptop bag.. out to the car

Once I get to the office though it becomes refreshingly random and more interesting!

Seriously though, I only get bored with monotony when I'm not in great form, which is a rare enough occurrence. Yesterday morning I was cranky so getting up, making tea, having a shower, brushing my teeth, going to work, getting my breakfast (I got weetabix to be different!), was all boring. By afternoon sure life was only marvellous again.

OldNotWIse

Deleted User wrote: »

If you say so

If you say so....


"I'm not convinced, but I can't prove you wrong, so I'll let it pass"

pot kettle black?

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

Ah would ya stop. He tried to help you out loads. Don't be so passive aggressive, if doesn't suit ya.

Deleted User wrote: »

If you say so

OldNotWIse wrote: »

If you say so....


"I'm not convinced, but I can't prove you wrong, so I'll let it pass"

pot kettle black?

http://www.coolestfamilyever.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/now-kiss.png

OldNotWIse

OldNotWIse wrote: »

If you say so....


"I'm not convinced, but I can't prove you wrong, so I'll let it pass"

pot kettle black?

Whatever makes you happy

OldNotWIse

Deleted User wrote: »

Seriously though, I only get bored with monotony when I'm not in great form, which is a rare enough occurrence. Yesterday morning I was cranky so getting up, making tea, having a shower, brushing my teeth, going to work, getting my breakfast (I got weetabix to be different!), was all boring. By afternoon sure life was only marvellous again.

I get bored with it when I'm stressed which is now. Most of the time I dont notice but lately..just...raaaar

OldNotWIse

bluewolf wrote: »

http://www.coolestfamilyever.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/now-kiss.png

I'm gonna cry!!!!!!!!!! and it will be all your fault

god damnded f*cking femaleness of it all. its not even a danger day! :(

OldNotWIse

OldNotWIse wrote: »

I get bored with it when I'm stressed which is now. Most of the time I dont notice but lately..just...raaaar

Yup. Totally get that. Most people are the same. If you're happy overall you don't mind some monotony. That's what Seamus was getting at, he wasn't having a pop at you, he was saying occupy your mind with other things so you won't notice the sameness.

Don't sweat the small stuff!

OldNotWIse

Deleted User wrote: »

Whatever makes you happy

:mad::mad::mad::mad:

....

:(:(

...



sorry Im just reeeealy stressed (and not about the small stuff)

OldNotWIse

OldNotWIse wrote: »

sorry Im just reeeealy stressed (and not about the small stuff)

That's alright, we all get stressed, just don't let the little things add to it cos the big things are bad enough on their own.

jester77

OldNotWIse wrote: »

What are the small things that are an integral part of the daily routine before the day officially starts? The ones that really shouldn't drive you mad but do. The ones that will always probably be the same but you still cant make your peace with? The things that on their own wold be ok but together drive you demented? That sap your battery from 100% to 70% before you start the say proper? For me its:

- trying to figure out which towel is mine and which belongs to OH

Get different coloured towels.

OldNotWIse wrote: »

- spending too long in the shower because its hot and you're tired

Turn the temp down a few degrees, I like to turn it down until it is nice and cold before I get out. Very refreshing.

OldNotWIse wrote: »

- putting too much milk in the coffee and ending up with coffee that wont dissolve into the b*starding water and just floating on the top like specks of sh1te

Get a mocca pot and make a proper coffee, they are cheap.

OldNotWIse wrote: »

-too hot for coat - too wet for no coat

You live in Ireland? You really should invest in proper rain gear. I bought a really expensive set of gear 15 years ago, still use them.

OldNotWIse wrote: »

- realising wallet is at bottom of bag as the bus approaches

Put wallet in pants!

OldNotWIse wrote: »

- the inevitable cyclist in front of the bus so that you cant hail it properly without giving him an arm in the face!

Get on at a bus stop instead of trying to flag down the bus.

OldNotWIse wrote: »

- the sea of blank faces in the aisle, refusing to move

"Excuse me" will help you.

OldNotWIse wrote: »

- militant b1tch lollipop ladies who stop the traffic at points that dont have traffic lights... for adults!

Tell her where to stick her lollipop.

OldNotWIse wrote: »

- "nice day/grand day/traffic bad" etc

Read a book and forget about what is happening outside.

OldNotWIse wrote: »

-the four note windows start up tone

Put your PC to sleep the evening before, it will startup quicker and your apps will be opened where you last left them.

OldNotWIse wrote: »

-the freebie paper and increasingly lecherous mailbox

Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same

You could take all my advice above, but to be honest, a good shag in the morning and you'll float into work without even thinking about any of the above.

seamus

OldNotWIse wrote: »

I'm bored? I'm not hacking apart posts and positing solutions:)

Yeesh.

Maybe remember not to bring your cornflakes into the bathroom in the mornings and you won't get any urine in them.

jimgoose

I do exactly the same thing every morning, without having to think about it. I like it that way - I'm an OCD nerd, and also I'm old, and change frightens me. ONW, don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things. When the swirling maelstrom of samey oul' shyte starts, you are at the centre, in the calm, the void, the Mu. You must learn to Unask the question, Grasshopper. The empty head is the beginning of wisdom. :cool:

curiosity

OldNotWIse wrote: »

......increasingly lecherous mailbox....

Care to tell us more?

OldNotWIse

seamus wrote: »

Yeesh.

Maybe remember not to bring your cornflakes into the bathroom in the mornings and you won't get any urine in them.

Ah now, dont be judging other posters by your own standards :pac:

nc19

OldNotWIse wrote: »

What are the small things that are an integral part of the daily routine before the day officially starts? The ones that really shouldn't drive you mad but do. The ones that will always probably be the same but you still cant make your peace with? The things that on their own wold be ok but together drive you demented? That sap your battery from 100% to 70% before you start the say proper? For me its:

- trying to figure out which towel is mine and which belongs to OH
- spending too long in the shower because its hot and you're tired
- putting too much milk in the coffee and ending up with coffee that wont dissolve into the b*starding water and just floating on the top like specks of sh1te
-too hot for coat - too wet for no coat
- realising wallet is at bottom of bag as the bus approaches
- the inevitable cyclist in front of the bus so that you cant hail it properly without giving him an arm in the face!
- the sea of blank faces in the aisle, refusing to move
- militant b1tch lollipop ladies who stop the traffic at points that dont have traffic lights... for adults!
- "nice day/grand day/traffic bad" etc
-the four note windows start up tone
-the freebie paper and increasingly lecherous mailbox

Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same Same

Shower the night before, drink tea and get a motorbike

fixed your life in 3 easy steps

OldNotWIse

OldNotWIse wrote: »

I'm gonna cry!!!!!!!!!! and it will be all your fault

god damnded f*cking femaleness of it all. its not even a danger day! :(

What did I do

OldNotWIse

bluewolf wrote: »

What did I do

You made me cry with that little "kiss and make up" picture

OldNotWIse

nc19 wrote: »

Shower the night before, drink tea and get a motorbike

fixed your life in 3 easy steps

I dont feel clean showering the night before

suicide_circus

Receiving department, 3 A.M.
Staff cuts have socked up the overage
Directives are posted, no callbacks, complaints
Everywhere is calm

Hong Kong is present, Taipei awakes
All talk of circadian rhythm

I see today with a newsprint fray
My night is colored headache gray

Daysleeper

The bull and the bear are marking their territories
They're leading the blind with their international glories

I am the screen, the blinding light
I'm the screen, I work at night

I see today with a newsprint fray
My night is colored headache gray
Don't wake me with so much

Daysleeper

I cried the other night
I can't even say why
Fluorescent flat caffeine lights
It's furious balancing

I am the screen, the blinding light
I'm the screen, I work at night

I see today with a newsprint fray
My night is colored headache gray

Don't wake me with so much
The ocean machine is set to 9
I'll squeeze into heaven and Valentine
My bed is pulling me, gravity....

Daysleeper.

poundapunnet

nc19 wrote: »

Shower the night before, drink tea and get a motorbike

fixed your life in 3 easy steps

It's amazing how many problems one of those three things is the solution to, especially the second one!

I feel you OP, for me it's a hall door that the handle is wonky on, so every bloody morning in my sleepy state I half walk into it and go 'fcukthisfcukingdoor, must get the fcuking thing fixed' (every morning since September). Pisses me right off before I even get to the kitchen.

Get to the kitchen, there are five travel cups and six lids in the house, I can't manage to get them all in the same place at the same time to find the spare, so every morning I'm like a toddler playing with those block things, except a toddler who's pretty slow.

I realise I could sort those things out easily, but they're things that seem like they'd vastly improve my life in the morning, but at evenings and weekends if I even think of them it's just 'haha, bollox to that, I've dossing around on the internet to be doing!'