Childhood Trivial Annoyances

Robsweezie · 06-08-2015 09:27PM #1

back to school ads in in mid july, painful reminder of the imminent dragging to the bookshop and uniform fittings.

looking at the calendar during the summer holidays and realising you hadn't long left, and by august you were basically back already.

being the first to be called in off the street on the night before the first day of school. not being able to sleep and struggling to get back into the routine

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 06-08-2015 09:31PM

I can't remember that far back.

donegaLroad · 06-08-2015 10:14PM

when the thick elastic band that held Action man together snapped, and all his limbs and head would fall off..

and when the power adapter for the ZX Spectrum 48k would burn out, meaning we would have to watch Swap Shop, Tizwaz, the Famous Five, and the like.

Hammer89 · 06-08-2015 10:18PM

When Naked in Westminster finished before you got one out.

Hammer89 · 06-08-2015 10:22PM

When you were seconds away from unlocking a cheat in Goldeneye on the N64. I remember running through 'Facility' like a mad c*nt in about 30 seconds back in the day - despite David Seaman's attempts to murder you.

06-08-2015 10:53PM

Having to watch football/wrestling on the scrambled channels because we were too poor to afford Sky. You could hear it but all you could see was a mesh of colours. Awful carry on.

dreamers75 · 06-08-2015 10:56PM

Having to take turns holding the aerial so we could watch tv (no pipe) and the inevitiable abuse when you moved it slightly and the tv fuzzied up.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 06-08-2015 11:44PM

Having sleepovers and then them eating like they needed a trough at breakfast time. All my childhood friends appeared to be noisey eaters. A sucky pig would be easier to sit next to. Breakfast was the worst part of the sleepover

The Princess Bride · 06-08-2015 11:45PM

Any time we went visiting relations, we'd be offered cups of tea.
The Mammy would say, " sure the children are grand, they don't want tea."
We'd be nearly dying of thirst,standing there watching everyone else with their tea.

This happened every time.

bodhrandude · 06-08-2015 11:49PM

Jeezo! What next a thread on Trivial Annoyances Beyond The Grave.

LizT · 06-08-2015 11:49PM

Going to someone's house and being offered coke and biscuits...
Only to find out the coke is out of a bottle opened 10 years previously and the biscuits are stale. Or worse...

Viscounts. Horrible, toothpastey yokes.

07-08-2015 12:36AM

LizT wrote: »

Viscounts. Horrible, toothpastey yokes.

God, I love Viscounts! They have their own wrappers, which makes them taste twice as good.

07-08-2015 12:47AM

Being forced to go to bed early, lying there wide awake and hearing the TV going downstairs with occasional outbursts of laughter from the elders

Charlie19 · 07-08-2015 12:50AM

You're having no more red sauce sandwiches.

Childhood Trivial Annoyances

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