Trivial things that annoy you Part 43

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Or when you get into a lift on L3 going to L1, door closes, let one fly that you've been embracing for a while. Have a sniff to bask in the pungent glory. Pride rushes through your being.

The lift takes an un-anticipated stop at L2.

It doesn't matter who gets in, but the journey from L2 to L1 feels like a long long time.
There is also the awkward half head turn and little shuffle from the person that has got in once the doors have closed when they take their second whiff and start piecing together the puzzle of the rancid scent.

Or when you get into the lift which is empty apart from a pungent odour.
It then stops at the next floor and naturally everyone thinks you are the source
Even worse if you are returning to your own floor of the building and as you exit the lift, it's some of your own colleagues who are getting in. You can't really start saying 'it wasn't me...'

Nabber wrote: »

People past 30 with no kids who say 'I'm free, I can do what I want'

Your look into their eyes and you see emptiness. Their emptiness annoys me

Very interesting comment from a psychoanalysis perspective.

Are you sure its not your own emptiness you see in their eyes?

Because one cant see something in someone else that doesnt reflect on themselves internally.

As in, it wouldnt affect you if it didnt mean something to you.

Good evening.

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

This exactly. I'm 41 and I knew ever since I was a child that I didn't want children. It's just one of those things. I don't feel empty, I might feel empty if I'd had children that I didn't want. Some people want kids some don't, but the level of condescension from some parents to those of us who chose not to have kids is extremely annoying at times.

Did you get the whole "oh you'll change your mind" with a knowing look? Im fed up of that. I say oh yeah I don't want kids and its met with "you will" or "you will when the time is right". And I have friends who change everything back to the fact they've reproduced. For example. This is my Facebook status this evening.
http://tinypic.com/r/zw10ck/8

A few ads in the forefront of my mind this morning:

Busylel.ie - whether it's the fact that yer one says" busylel.ie" in between each of yer man's sentences or the fact that their website name is so cráp they have to spell it on air...

The ad for Shelbourne Stadium, not only because I hate greyhound racing and the general shítty way that the dogs are treated when their race is run, but also the ridiculous parping on about "chasing a bit of tail" and "calling your boss a loser" - just fúck off.

Backpackers.ie insurance - "dont forget ti call yeeeeer maaaaaamy!"

The bínt on the radio show this morning who said a celebrity was "seen spotted" somewhere

Really shouldn't have put in the earphones this morning, mind you I only did it to counter some of the commuting trivial annoyances :rolleyes:

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

This exactly. I'm 41 and I knew ever since I was a child that I didn't want children. It's just one of those things. I don't feel empty, I might feel empty if I'd had children that I didn't want. Some people want kids some don't, but the level of condescension from some parents to those of us who chose not to have kids is extremely annoying at times.

Yup. I can't wait to have kids, and am so nervous about not having any that I've even a contingency agreement with my best friend who wants children too but I certainly don't feel empty without them. Perfectly happy getting on with my life without them and enjoying my youth (what's left!). In fact, it's a little unfair to have kids just to fill a void. I imagine it's up there with having them to "save a marriage" - talk about placing a burden on the poor fecker before it's even born! I've found that sometimes this condescension even makes it's way over to grandparents. Whether that's because they have a more hands on role now I don't know, but I remember my friend's mother becoming a granny and saying to mine, "you love them more than your own you know" - Felt sorry for my friend, she'd been replaced by her own kid! Same woman also told my mother, "you wouldn't understand what it's like until you too are a granny" Neither of these women are friends of the family anymore since they became bland, one-dimensional beings living vicariously through the child in question.

smash wrote: »

Fecking hate it. Take the script writes and shoot them, then take all the radio stations that play they ad and burn them down!

Possibly a bit OTT but whatever.

There's no such thing as OTT around here, it's our safe haven where we can be unreasonable cranks!

I decided in my teens I didn't want to have kids. I found out years later that due to a medical problem it would be very difficult for me to have kids.

For years and years I got oh you'll change your mind or when the time is right and I found it annoying.

73Cat wrote: »

It's so bloody insensitive to question people on the fact they don't have kids, it really annoys me. Who knows what the reason might be. Some don't want children, this is a decision I greatly admire. Some, heartbreakingly, would love them, but can't have them. It defies logic to me, how someone could be so thick as to bring it up, when they don't have the facts.
You can bet these are the same gob****es who also say things like "Oh, you'll be trying for the boy/girl now?". Eh, no, F**k off. Or, "Oh my God, that's some age gaps you have between your kids". Thanks for pointing that out, I can count. There was good reason for it, and how is it your business anyway?? Morons!!

My parents had this for years from ignorant fools. I don't know exactly what the problem was but basically my mum's body would see the babies as foreign bodies and produce antibodies that would result in miscarriage. They lost three little boys and all my father heard was, "what's the matter with you, have you no lead in your pencil?" I think when they adopted my brother, the penny finally dropped with people that maybe they had problems becoming parents naturally

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

Meh, I'm 29 and I'd like kids at some point but I'm not ready to give up on my own hopes and dreams just yet. My older sister popped a couple out over the last couple of years and I absolutely adore them, but that does't mean I'm in a hurry to trade in my own life for a new one just yet - I'm not done with living for me and that doesn't make me feel 'empty'.

Having kids basically looks to me like climbing over a wall where I can't see what's on the other side, and nobody who goes over ever comes back. I like it just fine on this side for now.

:D

People who say things like 'we must meet for coffee/ lunch' etc when they haven't a notion of doing it. A former colleague does this. We keep in touch by text/ email, which suits me fine, and I'm happy to leave it at that.
If we manage to meet, grand, but if not, so be it. Aaaargh, I don't even know what I'm trying to say...which trivially annoys me.

The way some of you are going on you'd swear that having kids means the end of having a life.