Daily struggles

WoollyRedHat

When you're having your dinner and food falls on to the floor and it is inedible. Spilling drinks including coffee because your motor skills are skittishly michievous.

The ordeal of what outfit to wear to work every day.

The humdrum of the daily commute, as you think of comparisons sto the hunter gatherer days, which in essence has just got more sophisticated in the modern age, the reasons for doing so and outcomes are generally the same.

Trying to find your keys, trying to find your water bottle, trying to find a pen, find anything.

Forgetting your password because you have so many of them because of websites irritating character exceptions.

Endless washing up.

The ordeal of washing and drying clothes and questioning if wearing them is really for you.

Emails, emails and more emails.

The scourge of the low battery and the quest to find a charger, least you cease to be.

Deciding and procrastinating on what to do with free time.

Wanting cereal only to realize there's no milk and thinking if only there was an udder option.

What are some of your daily life struggles?

Pac1Man

Is that Seamus Heaney?

bear1

Waking up to the same monotonous ****e ever single day.

WoollyRedHat

Pac1Man wrote: »

Is that Seamus Heaney?

Afraid not, he is part of the Dead Poet Society now.

When all you want to do is sit down by yourself in a quiet house and have a cup of tea and a quiet think, and the doorbell goes and relatives you can barely tolerate - never mind like - pile in and make themselves comfortable for hours, and hours, and hours, and hours.

Improperly filled dishwashers, and butter that has been gouged and defaced, and smeared with crumbs or jam or both. The work of the devil, right there.

neonsofa

Lying in the dark waiting to go asleep. Basically pretending you're asleep til you fall asleep.

Getting petrol.

Brushing teeth.

And everything on your list too.

Roger Hassenforder

Try to get the fcuking child to bend in the middle so you can sit them into their car seat

People who never put the caps back on bottles. I hate you.

Also, cat litter.

10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife

jackboy

Morning hello and mind numbing smalltalk with work mates. Can we not just ignore each other for the first couple of hours.

Roger_007

Being behind a truck on the motorway that's trying to overtake another truck and taking about three miles to do it!

Conservatory

Carrying my tools up five flights of stairs to start work because my apprentice wasn’t man enough to do an apprenticeship and I’m waiting on a new apprentice.

acer911

[Deleted User] wrote: »

10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife

Meeting the man of your dreams and then meeting his beautiful wife.

_Dara_

Keeping all the household essentials - loo roll, dishwasher tabs, milk, butter, sugar, bin-liners etc. - topped up. BORING!

The endless cycle of housework. BORING!

Mint Sauce

Laundry.

Mikenesson

Bills

corner of hells

Conservatory wrote: »

Carrying my tools up five flights of stairs to start work because my apprentice wasn’t man enough to do an apprenticeship and I’m waiting on a new apprentice.

Apprentices just ain't what they used to be.

There's plumbers and electricians in where I work the last three months and none has even asked one of the young ones out never mind ask for a ride.

corner of hells

Candie wrote: »

When all you want to do is sit down by yourself in a quiet house and have a cup of tea and a quiet think, and the doorbell goes and relatives you can barely tolerate - never mind like - pile in and make themselves comfortable for hours, and hours, and hours, and hours.

Improperly filled dishwashers, and butter that has been gouged and defaced, and smeared with crumbs or jam or both. The work of the devil, right there.

Gouged and defaced butter is a hanging offence , though in my house none of the weirdos (wife and two sons) I live with use butter.

Conservatory

corner of hells wrote: »

Apprentices just ain't what they used to be.

There's plumbers and electricians in where I work the last three months and none has even asked one of the young ones out never mind ask for a ride.

They all have girlfriends and Instagram accounts now. Listen to ed Sheeran. One of their mammies came in last year giving out because he got a warning because he missed so many days. Her poor little lad was being bullied apparently

Filmer Paradise

Roger Hassenforder wrote: »

Try to get the fcuking child to bend in the middle so you can sit them into their car seat

Oh man. I was that soldier once. Always happened when you were in a rush too! Had forgotten that one till now.

Off my list for some years now thankfully.

Graces7

Mine are different in that I live alone and see almost no people...

BUT! Just when I am settled abed, and that takes time and ingenuity given my aches etc, one of the cats decides he/or she, wants in... five minutes ago they said no..

They each literally beat a tattoo on the door until I open the door... A further refinement is that as soon as i get back abed they decide there is nothing they want inside and demand out.

As for their alarm clock routine at silly o'clock ... JUMP ON HER NOW, ALL TOGETHER NOW...

But hey they keep me mobile..

jojofizzio

Roger Hassenforder wrote: »

Try to get the fcuking child to bend in the middle so you can sit them into their car seat

:D:D:D....basically not enough of these in the world to respond to this.....

Graces7

Mikenesson wrote: »

Bills

Especially Electric Ireland grossly erroneous..

Samuel T. Cogley

'customers'

corner of hells

Conservatory wrote: »

They all have girlfriends and Instagram accounts now. Listen to ed Sheeran. One of their mammies came in last year giving out because he got a warning because he missed so many days. Her poor little lad was being bullied apparently

This is all started when Safe Pass became mandatory.
There was a time when working on a building site was a badge of honour.

And there was no bullying , just punch ups.

RhubarbCrumble

Roger Hassenforder wrote: »

Try to get the fcuking child to bend in the middle so you can sit them into their car seat

First time I tried to put my nephew (about 1 1/2 at the time) in a trolley seat I swear I nearly broke the poor child's legs.

corner of hells

corner of hells wrote: »

Gouged and defaced butter is a hanging offence , though in my house none of the weirdos (wife and two sons) I live with use butter.

I only have two words of advice. Divorce and Disinherit.

Some things can't be mended.

whiskeyman

When the tinfoil / clingfilm / sellotape isn't perfectly aligned from last time, and you search for the start of it with your nail in vain...

whiskeyman

Having done a large grocery shop and then remembering a key item you forgot to purchase just as you get home...

Graces7

This heat. This heat. This heat. :eek:

oneilla

Mint Sauce wrote: »

Laundry.

The machine does the hard work these days.

Graces7

oneilla wrote: »

The machine does the hard work these days.[/QUOTE

IF you have one and IF it is plumbed in..

Wibbs

About a third of drivers on the road. Today I was stuck behind this old trout, makeup by poster paint, driving slower than a glacier. Every light she stopped at took her an aeon to discover green means go and indicators were optional and random, completely bloody oblivious. She'd be a danger walking on a footpath, never mind driving on the road.

Then stopped for petrol. Garage was busy which was the day that was in it. Observed many examples of self centred don't give a fcuk about anyone else mindless mouth breathers. One human divot came back to the pump and his car, three cars waiting, stood there mouth open while he dusted himself off, fiddled with his coffee and rooted in the back seat for a jacket, which he tried on, then tried on another. All the while people were waiting and horns were blown. Then he finally got into his car and went rooting in the back seat again. At which point I had enough. Got out of my car walked up to his window and quietly suggested he move his dopey selfish unthinking arse and consider other people, you damned fool(with added profanity). Well the look back I got would not be out of place on a cow looking over a five bar gate. Actually that's being unkind to cows. Wheel spinning, hamster dead. Again completely bloody oblivious. If he had been some old guy you'd think maybe a bit addled, but if he was forty I'd be surprised. Then there was the woman in her early 30's asking presumptuously of passersby would they fill her car for her. Chatting to the chap behind the counter inside and he reckoned one shift on the weekend would turn a saint murderous. Where do these mental defectives come from?

And that's just driving...

Some reckon we're living in a simulation, well may I respectfully suggest to the aliens running this one if you're reading this, could you allocate more active ram to some of the game's background characters, or at least stop them spawning?

WoollyRedHat

whiskeyman wrote: »

When the tinfoil / clingfilm / sellotape isn't perfectly aligned from last time, and you search for the start of it with your nail in vain...

Yes yes yes, the struggle is real.. I hate sellotape, just when you think you've finally got it, it's gone again..metaphor for life.

EPAndlee

Trying to get through a full working day while using as little effort as possible

Roger Hassenforder

Filmer Paradise wrote: »

Oh man. I was that soldier once. Always happened when you were in a rush too! Had forgotten that one till now.

Off my list for some years now thankfully.

We used to think it was just our b011ox that went pure rigid, arms stiff to the sides, at the sight of a car seat.

Filmer Paradise

Roger Hassenforder wrote: »

We used to think it was just our b011ox that went pure rigid, arms stiff to the sides, at the sight of a car seat.

I feel your pain Roger. Your post brought all back to me.

This phenomenon usually came after the 'walk of shame'.

Kids are in a supermarket/mall/play area. take your pick.

They misbehave. You threaten them with the car etc. Kids misbehave again & your duty bound to follow through with your threat.

I never took any joy from it, but looking back I think I did the right thing.

Roll on the Teenage years & how I'm gonna cope with that!

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Biting my tongue
Putting on my socks

mg1982

Seems like everyday is groundhog day especially when your a family carer.

HalloweenJack

Social anxiety.

Malayalam

Wibbs wrote: »

About a third of drivers on the road. Today I was stuck behind this old trout, makeup by poster paint, driving slower than a glacier. Every light she stopped at took her an aeon to discover green means go and indicators were optional and random, completely bloody oblivious. She'd be a danger walking on a footpath, never mind driving on the road.

Then stopped for petrol. Garage was busy which was the day that was in it. Observed many examples of self centred don't give a fcuk about anyone else mindless mouth breathers. One human divot came back to the pump and his car, three cars waiting, stood there mouth open while he dusted himself off, fiddled with his coffee and rooted in the back seat for a jacket, which he tried on, then tried on another. All the while people were waiting and horns were blown. Then he finally got into his car and went rooting in the back seat again. At which point I had enough. Got out of my car walked up to his window and quietly suggested he move his dopey selfish unthinking arse and consider other people, you damned fool(with added profanity). Well the look back I got would not be out of place on a cow looking over a five bar gate. Actually that's being unkind to cows. Wheel spinning, hamster dead. Again completely bloody oblivious. If he had been some old guy you'd think maybe a bit addled, but if he was forty I'd be surprised. Then there was the woman in her early 30's asking presumptuously of passersby would they fill her car for her. Chatting to the chap behind the counter inside and he reckoned one shift on the weekend would turn a saint murderous. Where do these mental defectives come from?

And that's just driving...

Some reckon we're living in a simulation, well may I respectfully suggest to the aliens running this one if you're reading this, could you allocate more active ram to some of the game's background characters, or at least stop them spawning?

Hahaha, this made me laugh out loud, classic mid-life misanthropy. I love it

My daily struggle is cat sh1t in the polytunnels. Jesus Christ, I must have some amount of cat-related karma to work off.

rickis tache

co-workers that unless they are bitching/moaning about management or co workers cannot talk at all.

erica74

I get up at 6am every morning and my husband gets up at 7:20. That hour and 20 minutes are lovely, I spend time with my dogs, drink coffee, look at all the internet but, why does this time go so fucking quickly???

Graces7

Wibbs wrote: »

About a third of drivers on the road. Today I was stuck behind this old trout, makeup by poster paint, driving slower than a glacier. Every light she stopped at took her an aeon to discover green means go and indicators were optional and random, completely bloody oblivious. She'd be a danger walking on a footpath, never mind driving on the road.

Then stopped for petrol. Garage was busy which was the day that was in it. Observed many examples of self centred don't give a fcuk about anyone else mindless mouth breathers. One human divot came back to the pump and his car, three cars waiting, stood there mouth open while he dusted himself off, fiddled with his coffee and rooted in the back seat for a jacket, which he tried on, then tried on another. All the while people were waiting and horns were blown. Then he finally got into his car and went rooting in the back seat again. At which point I had enough. Got out of my car walked up to his window and quietly suggested he move his dopey selfish unthinking arse and consider other people, you damned fool(with added profanity). Well the look back I got would not be out of place on a cow looking over a five bar gate. Actually that's being unkind to cows. Wheel spinning, hamster dead. Again completely bloody oblivious. If he had been some old guy you'd think maybe a bit addled, but if he was forty I'd be surprised. Then there was the woman in her early 30's asking presumptuously of passersby would they fill her car for her. Chatting to the chap behind the counter inside and he reckoned one shift on the weekend would turn a saint murderous. Where do these mental defectives come from?

And that's just driving...

Some reckon we're living in a simulation, well may I respectfully suggest to the aliens running this one if you're reading this, could you allocate more active ram to some of the game's background characters, or at least stop them spawning?

and I thought you were such a nice person!:rolleyes:

Poor lady.. I have to get help with that .....

god's toy

Being an Aspie in this day and age and being able just to 'adsorb' so much information on a wide range of tech related subjects, people all too often stop seeing the person inside and think I'm that 'all knowing guy' all the time. HA! Yea, put simply, I'm not. Nope, what you see on the outside is the 'Sheldon' person and not the guy who goes out of his way to avoid people, who loves to be on his own as then he's not pretending to be 'NT' and who cant bring himself to even sit in the lunchroom of more than 10 people most of the time... Nope this is the guy who's turning down promotions left and right not cos hes not able but as he just has to sit an course with other people to get it...

Yep I can understand why everyone loves (and hates) those Sheldon types of aspies as we come across like that but what your not seeing is the giving of knowledge is just to keep you at arms length away.

bear1

Thought of another, finally sitting down after a long day and you can't find the remote.
The t.v. has no buttons so you're bolloxed.
You find the remote, sit down and then see the other remote for the speakers are further away and up you get again.

BelovedAunt

Graces7 wrote: »

and I thought you were such a nice person!:rolleyes:

Poor lady.. I have to get help with that .....

I’m convinced that instead of living on an island, it’s actually another planet you’re living on.

Ulysses Gaze

Work.

Galwayguy35

Stepping in dogsh1t that has been left on the foot path by irresponsible owners who don't clean up after their pet.

Cleaning the oven.

Every time I open a door or window in this weather a blue fly gets in.

Going to the bottle bank and finding every one of them full.

Slow internet.

Wibbs

Malayalam wrote: »

Hahaha, this made me laugh out loud, classic mid-life misanthropy. I love it

Nah M, I was always raging. Got into it early and kept my eye in.

Graces7 wrote: »

and I thought you were such a nice person!:rolleyes:

Poor lady.. I have to get help with that .....

"Poor lady"? I think you may have missed the "presumptuously" part. Never mind that she was 30, not 90. I'm sorry, but if you're 30, of sound mind and body driving a car on the road and you're unsure about the mind blowingly simple task of filling up said car with go juice it is my strong contention you shouldn't be on the road.

dartboardio

How fast breaks go at work.

Seeing someone you aren’t bothered to chat to

Forgetting your travel mug.

When all my nice jeans are in the wash

Waking up too late to be able to make myself look presentable