Trivial Things that annoy you - Mod Note in OP

Also snobs who think they are better than everyone else and love to let you know it.

Being nearly constantly hungry when the cold weather starts. An hour after having breakfast you are starving again.

Away for the weekend to soak up some Christmas athmosphere ( and alcohol) . Weather couldnt really have been much worse and now back at work looking out at a nice bright day 😡

If you were to sit waiting in a supermarket car park and watch the comings and going of some of the drivers, you wouldn't park a rusty bicycle in some. 😀

Stanley cups. Never seen anything so ridiculous. If ever there was clear evidence of how easily people (idiots) are manipulated then that's it.

My brother is home from abroad with his wife and two kids for a month. First time meeting the little one, only 8 months old, she is a dote and I'm totally smitten.

My TA you ask? Was told today that they, along with my other brother, his wife and my mother, are going to visit and stay with relations next weekend, and I wasn't even asked if I would like to come along.

Now as it happens I have to work so wouldn't be able to go anyway (although I have structured my Mon-Fri shifts to spend as much time as I can with the kids), but its the thought that counts and I would have liked to be asked at least. Its a recurring theme of being an afterthought though.

I've complained before about Bus Dopes who won't move past the centre doors. Well, there's an even worse breed now. The route I get to work is being phased out and all the buses currently serving it are ancient, so don't have any middle doors. So all the Dopes are just congregating around the front door, making it really difficult to get on or off, blocking the stairs and generally causing a giant bottleneck at the front of the bus when there's nearly always plenty of room down the back and upstairs.

My current hero is one particular driver who does be like "Will yis move DOWN the flippin bus for JAYSIS SAKE". He doesn't even do it over the tannoy, just lets out a roar 🤣

Xmas entertainment being all a bit the same and boring. Same movies, celebs being asked the same boring "what are you doing for Xmas" questions, the obsession with lists of things that happened during the year.

Not sure if it's a thing in all parts of Ireland, but in Derry with car parks half empty with hundreds of spaces, but people have to park on the double yellow lines right outside the front door.

Lazy gits. And they wonder why they are all getting massive, if they can't walk 20 yards from a parking space.

1000%.

There isn't one Christmas special of a tv show that stands up as well as an ordinary episode of same programme.

There is about a month of bland tv to contend with, not to mention the audio assault of Christmas songs on the radio 24/7.

And y'know the Elf on the Shelf shite? Every notice it's always the yummy mummy, Irish nuclear family types that do it? You'd never see the more common-sense, non-attention seeking Eastern Europeans at that nonsense (or with the spaceship-esque baby strollers that every notion-y Irish mom must have these days).

I've done it before - Time to kill, kill too much and end up in a bit of a rush 😁

I go to the Spar at breakfast time for a wrap and the f**king “Hi Viz Brigade” of builders and tradesmen have gotten here first, clogging up the deli queue looking for their breakfast rolls. By the time I would have finally gotten served it would have been almost time to go back to work so I had to content myself with a mediocre pre-made chilli chicken wrap from the shelf.

The awkward eye contact followed by silence from people you randomly bump into that you haven't seen in a long time (ex classmates, former work colleagues, distant relatives, former friends, etc) - and wondering if you are going to have to be the first one to say an awkward "how's it going?" while praying that they do so first…..

If you don't know their name and don't know all the names of their first cousins twice removed you can't be Irish ;-)

It just TA's me that my Irish neighbors know everyone for miles around including all their relatives no matter where they are in the world. I can hardly remember anyone's name but I'm British ;-)