Trivial things that annoy you Part 43

danrua01 · 15-10-2014 04:42PM

Those people behind shop counters who throw my change down on the counter while I have my hand out!

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 15-10-2014 04:45PM

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

The best Christmas we ever had was the one when we both only had 2 days off so couldn't travel to spend Christmas with our families. We both finished work on Christmas eve and as soon as we got home we changed into our pajamas and stayed in them til it was time to go back to work. I can highly recommend Christmas dinner eaten on a tray on the sofa while in your pajamas.:D

My dad died 7 days before Xmas day last year. He was buried 5 days before Christmas and when I woke up on Xmas eve morning, I was vomitting and had seriously weak bowels, went to the out of hours doctor who sent me to the a+e dept cause I needed a drip. The doctor only let me out because of the day that was in it and because I was in tears from it all anyway, with strict instructions that I was to go back in if it wasn't improving or if it got worse.

I spent the whole day Xmas day in my Jammies, puking up a storm, on my own, and crying myself into such a state I couldn't breathe. Lol first Xmas I ever lost weight. This year, I'm going to be organised and happy and not sick.

jimgoose · 15-10-2014 04:46PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

My dad died 7 days before Xmas day last year. He was buried 5 days before Christmas and when I woke up on Xmas eve morning, I was vomitting and had seriously weak bowels, went to the out of hours doctor who sent me to the a+e dept cause I needed a drip. The doctor only let me out because of the day that was in it and because I was in tears from it all anyway, with strict instructions that I was to go back in if it wasn't improving or if it got worse.

I spent the whole day Xmas day in my Jammies, puking up a storm, on my own, and crying myself into such a state I couldn't breathe. Lol first Xmas I ever lost weight. This year, I'm going to be organised and happy and not sick.

Aww, poor Lexie. It saddens me when people don't enjoy Christmas.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 15-10-2014 04:48PM

jimgoose wrote: »

Aww, poor Lexie. It saddens me when people don't enjoy Christmas.

Christmas will never be Christmas again, but that doesn't mean I won't be able to appreciate whatever the "new" Christmases will be like from now on. Hopefully this year I won't be puking at least and I have two Christmases worth of chocolate to eat. It'll be good

MsBubbles · 15-10-2014 04:52PM

Sorry to hear of your loss Lexie. You have a brilliant outlook about Christmas.
I'm looking forward to Christmas Eve when I can sit in my fat pants eating chinese and drinking wine

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 15-10-2014 04:55PM

Do you guys do like an intimate Xmas or do you have like a big massive family Xmas?

Pumpkinseeds · 15-10-2014 04:57PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

One of my best friends is a manager on one of the counters in boots, she gets a ridiculous discount, and there's a sale on right now so she's getting me a rake of stuff ha. #cheapskate

I miss the discount I used to get when I worked for Boots in the UK. They really do or did look after their staff at Christmas, although scheduling the staff meal in a pub and giving free drink during working hours probably wasn't the wisest decision ever made.:D

seagull · 15-10-2014 05:29PM

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

I've booked an appointment with the dentist in the morning. I'm dreading it, I've never needed to have a tooth extracted or many fillings but my teeth are aching for some reason and I could really do without having any teeth pulled. Was hoping to get my hair cut and coloured on Friday, now that depends on how much the dentist charges tomorrow.:(

Have you got sinus? I can remember the annoyance the first time I got sinus toothache. Along with the confusion about why I had toothache, before finally working it out.

Pumpkinseeds · 15-10-2014 05:31PM

seagull wrote: »

Have you got sinus? I can remember the annoyance the first time I got sinus toothache. Along with the confusion about why I had toothache, before finally working it out.

I get sinus problems from time to time, but I think this is a tooth overcrowding an other tooth. I'm hoping it's just a filling that needs doing, at worst. It's a really expensive time of the year for us.

lanos · 15-10-2014 05:39PM

I am driving on a main road
a motorist up ahead wants to enter my lane from a side road
i flash my lights once....he waits
1 flash my lights again ....he waits
he really wants me to come to a complete stop
i don't stop
i look in my rear view mirror when i'm gone way past him
he's still waiting
D**khead

Generic Dreadhead · 15-10-2014 05:46PM

Over use of a keyboards "enter" button

gramar · 15-10-2014 05:51PM

lanos wrote: »

I am driving on a main road
a motorist up ahead wants to enter my lane from a side road
i flash my lights once....he waits
1 flash my lights again ....he waits
he really wants me to come to a complete stop
i don't stop
i look in my rear view mirror when i'm gone way past him
he's still waiting
D**khead

Cormac... wrote: »

Over use of a keyboards "enter" button

Personally I enjoyed the abrupt staccato style that lent creedence to the rising frustration and trivial annoyance that the poster was trying to express.

Rubberlegs · 15-10-2014 07:12PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

Do you guys do like an intimate Xmas or do you have like a big massive family Xmas?

Since Dad died, my Mum and sister come to us for Christmas Eve dinner. We have Christmas Day at home ourselves, and kids, though we call up to his parents for a while after lunch. Stephen's Day, I go over to Mum's with kids, and he goes up to his parents. It keeps everyone happy, and I'm never cooking for a crowd. That would trivially annoy me. Sorry about your Dad , Lexie. It's tough anyway, but particularly tough to lose someone at that time of year.

Frigga_92 · 15-10-2014 07:14PM

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

Blueberries, or more specifically, my mother's obsession with blueberries. About a year ago she decided to start adding blueberries to her breakfast and since then every single time I see her she insists on telling me how much she loves them, how good they are for you and how great they taste. Jesus, give it a rest mother, I get it, you really like blueberries but I won't be rushing out to buy any for myself.

Don't read this if you're a bit squeamish.

I can't eat blueberries since one morning when I was eating my usual porridge with blueberries and strawberries and I went to put another spoon up to my mouth and saw something wriggling around in one of the blueberries. That was nearly a year ago. Never again.

LexieOnRale wrote: »

One of my best friends is a manager on one of the counters in boots, she gets a ridiculous discount, and there's a sale on right now so she's getting me a rake of stuff ha. #cheapskate

So jealous.

LexieOnRale wrote: »

Do you guys do like an intimate Xmas or do you have like a big massive family Xmas?

We do an intimate Christmas. People are more than welcome to come to our house but we don't like travelling at Christmas. We have 4 dogs so finding someone to mind them at Christmas is too difficult and I think everyone kind of likes to be in their own home at Christmas. We don't do massive family anythings though so it's easier for us to eliminate ourselves from participation in Christmas stuff.
What's your plan this year Lexie?

lanos · 15-10-2014 08:04PM

The song Dancing in the Moonlight by Toploader
this is something that doesn't just annoy me.
I loathe it

And of course Happy
But everybody dislikes Happy

Pumpkinseeds · 15-10-2014 08:10PM

Over the years we rarely got to have an intimate Christmas. We lived in the Uk for a long time and only managed to get back here once for Christmas. Most of our Christmases were spent at my father in laws house. All of his family get together for Christmas day so I used to cook for 11. We spent one Christmas at his mothers house and one at his sisters house. The Christmas at my sister in laws house was the only Christmas that I've been hungry. We left early that evening and I made a giant plate of sandwiches for us and my husbands step dad when we got home.:D

Since we've been back here we usually had dinner at my parents house which was nice but annoying since I'm a veggie and they cook absolutely everything with added meat fat/juice at Christmas, so I had to bring a quorn curry and didn't get to have roast potatoes. They downsized last year and they don't have the room to seat us, so we got to have dinner at home which was brilliant as we got to go for a walk after dinner and just went to them for a few drinks Christmas night.

Every now and again I encourage my husband to go over to the UK to spend Christmas with his family as I know he misses them at that time and they aren't getting any younger. I don't go over as I stopped speaking to my mother in law 5 years ago.

whitewave · 15-10-2014 08:28PM

lanos wrote: »

The song Dancing in the Moonlight by Toploader
this is something that doesn't just annoy me.
I loathe it

My most hated song, without a doubt. It's just so jangly.

lanos · 15-10-2014 09:09PM

whitewave wrote: »

My most hated song, without a doubt. It's just so jangly.

I would seriously doubt the taste and/or intelligence of anybody who likes it

gramar · 15-10-2014 09:22PM

lanos wrote: »

The song Dancing in the Moonlight by Toploader
this is something that doesn't just annoy me.
I loathe it

And of course Happy
But everybody dislikes Happy

That one doesn't bother me but I'll never understand how anyone likes the atrocious bile Maroon 5 have been getting away with for years.

sunshine and showers · 15-10-2014 09:26PM

My Christmases generally involve my whole extended family - around 30 people. It can get dull at times, especially when it's the same craic every year. Which can sometimes be no craic at all! Was particularly dull when I was too old for the kid stuff and too young for the adult stuff (read: drinking).

Trivially annoying thing today: patented prescription drugs. I do love being completely ripped off!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 15-10-2014 09:32PM

People, like Michael Noonan, who habitually say Two Fourteen or Two Fifteen instead of Twenty Fourteen or Two Thousand and Fifteen. Does my head in.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 16-10-2014 02:46AM

Those Facebook competitions and people with their sob stories trying outdo the previous sob story to try win it.

Example, I see a comp for a Belfast hotel. I never enter those as I'm sure they're not genuine. I open comments, and some people are writing "liked and shared" but this one lady had commented like 4 times. "I would love a break and to get away. Really need it now at this stage. I'm a single mum and would love for myself and the kids to have some us time".

**** off.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 16-10-2014 03:00AM

26sdrawkcab wrote: »

We do an intimate Christmas. People are more than welcome to come to our house but we don't like travelling at Christmas. We have 4 dogs so finding someone to mind them at Christmas is too difficult and I think everyone kind of likes to be in their own home at Christmas. We don't do massive family anythings though so it's easier for us to eliminate ourselves from participation in Christmas stuff.
What's your plan this year Lexie?

Well, my dads 1st anniversary is the 18th so we are going to have his anniversary mass, and I have booked about 30 of us into hotel afterwards for the Sunday lunch special (because I'm cheap!) so that'll be catching up with my family for Xmas, all my dads family are far away so it'll be nice to see them, and have family time.
Then the 20th me and the OH have something really special planned - this is the highlight of the year for me and I've been so excited for it. It's a surprise!

For Christmas Day I won't do anything. I've lied to the OH that I'm going to my cousins (and best friend too) for Christmas and he's going to his parents, and I've told my cousin I'm going with the OH. But I just want to be solo on that day, ill get selection boxes and wine and some DVDs with lots of shooting and laughs in it, and ill chill out for the day myself.

Just awkward because I've been asked (already) to go to my cousins, to the oh parents, to a close friend of my dads, and to one of my close friends. But it's like you said, would rather stay home at Christmas. After all it's just another day.

New Year's Day though, I'm going to have a dinner party in ours, that'll be fun.

What an exciting life I lead

Vel · 16-10-2014 10:24AM

Woman I work with who pronounces the word third as 'turd' It takes so much effort not to say something to her

eisenberg1 · 16-10-2014 10:25AM

lanos wrote: »

The song Dancing in the Moonlight by Toploader
this is something that doesn't just annoy me.

Console yourself with the fact that it is not the real "Dancing in the Moonlight"

There can be only one.

jimgoose · 16-10-2014 10:26AM

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Console yourself with the fact that is not the real "Dancing in the Moonlight"

There can be only one.

Hell yeah. Aaa'roigh' Phillo! :cool:

Vel · 16-10-2014 10:28AM

In the lift this morning, the door is closing and some moron, rather than wait for the next lift decides he will rush over and stick his body in to prevent the door from closing and bustle in all smiles and thanks for holding the door for me (he must have missed me agressively pressing on the button that shuts the doors!)

And then he goes up one floor and suanters out with a 'have a nice day'. The hatred!

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 16-10-2014 10:30AM

Haha Vel, are you and ONW sisters?!

Boom_Bap · 16-10-2014 10:32AM

Location: Bathroom
In Attendance: Boom_Bap, Mrs. _Bap
Setup: Boom_Bap is getting ready to brush his teeth. Mrs. _Bap is shaving her armpits.

MB: You were a f*cker last night, you took all the space in the bed.
BB: That's strange, it's normally you that does that
MB: I know, you must have slept well
BB: Yep, had a magic sleep, well refreshed today, wide awake now.
MB: Well, you're not really. You using the kids toothpaste.
BB: ah boll0x

danrua01 · 16-10-2014 10:33AM

Kids toothpaste> adult toothpaste!

Trivial things that annoy you Part 43

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