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Really minor annoyances

DaveH said:
I've never liked shouting up the stairs, my mam used to really annoy me at different times of the day screaming my name up the stairs and expecting me to drop what I was doing, and come running down, only to find she wanted to tell me something absolutely trivial.

So I always go upstairs and tell my son I'm dishing up tea and it will be on the table in 3 minutes. He has normally been down twice while it was cooking and was told the same time it would be ready twice. Then we sit down to eat tea and he is nowhere to be seen. My wife refuses to start hers and thinks I'm mean by tucking into mine while it is still hot. Screw that, if he can not drag his arse away from his PC to eat his tea at the same time as everyone else, that is his business. We eat around the same time every day and he has been told 3 times, just minutes ago. His problem.
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That is indeed another minor annoyance - someone downstairs shouting for me when I`m upstairs. Come and get me if you want me 😤.

Of course being the screaming hypocrite that I am, it is perfectly OK for me to shout upstairs for someone else;). Any way I`m not running upstairs every time I make them a cup of tea.

There`s another one - I am the only one making cups of tea for people. No one makes me one. They know I have a low resistance level and can`t go without tea for long so they just sit it out and wait for me to make it :neutral:
 

Select coaches said:
Watching some new series on tv, she falls asleep after 10 minutes, as usual. She then asks what did I miss, I say why don’t you stay awake then you’ll know.

Absolutely no point watching anything with her.
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Or she's on her phone, misses the bit where it says "5 years earlier", looks up later and says "I thought he was dead" :rolleyes:
 
BiG said:
Our daughter, who lives in Spain, regularly ‘borrows’ our Netflix account.

So I often open Netflix, and can’t watch, because she’s on it watching something with her fella.

Except she’s not.

“Oh, I don’t understand” she says. “I downloaded something earlier, but I’m not on Netflix now. Maybe I haven’t logged off properly”

It happens so often, and she fails to logoff properly …every. single. time., that I just WhatsApp her “Netflix!”, anytime I want to watch an episode of anything.

It’s extra annoying that she could easily afford her own Netflix account but her mother thinks it’d be mean if I were to suggest it.
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"Accidentally" change your password.

Over-branding on sports shoes, saw a pair of ASICS this week, on offer, turned them over and there's a huge logo on the toe box, I'm not 11.
 
when computers don't have cd slots in them any more. ours gave up the ghost so went to get a new one yesterday and hardly any had cd slots. i'm pretty much hopeless with these things but have just mastered putting music on one of those dongle thingies to play in the car/wagon and now none had them (admittedly in the cheapo range mind)
also, when they try to sell you stuff when all you want to do go in, buy a computer and bugger off.
 
humbug said:
when computers don't have cd slots in them any more. ours gave up the ghost so went to get a new one yesterday and hardly any had cd slots. i'm pretty much hopeless with these things but have just mastered putting music on one of those dongle thingies to play in the car/wagon and now none had them (admittedly in the cheapo range mind)
also, when they try to sell you stuff when all you want to do go in, buy a computer and bugger off.
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Get yourself a USB Cd/dvd drive; they cost peanuts.
 
humbug said:
when computers don't have cd slots in them any more. ours gave up the ghost so went to get a new one yesterday and hardly any had cd slots. i'm pretty much hopeless with these things but have just mastered putting music on one of those dongle thingies to play in the car/wagon and now none had them (admittedly in the cheapo range mind)
also, when they try to sell you stuff when all you want to do go in, buy a computer and bugger off.
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Someone is starting the day as they mean to go on 😂

I can actually relate to this as I had to put a load of CD's onto a memory stick for my young lady to play in the car.
I mean which idiot would buy a car without a CD player 🥵😂

I think the answer is progress they expect everyone to stream their music now, only problem being I dont subscribe to a music streaming service. I really am a dinosaur, think I'm turning into my dad.
 
When someone, usually in a very nice suit, washes their hands after a piss and grabs a handful of paper towels. They probably only wet the outermost two and then launch the lot into the bin. Also, people who drop paper towels or loo roll on the floor and just leave it there.
 
Patch said:
When someone, usually in a very nice suit, washes their hands after a piss and grabs a handful of paper towels. They probably only wet the outermost two and then launch the lot into the bin. Also, people who drop paper towels or loo roll on the floor and just leave it there.
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We have a hot and cold tap in the office and for a group of fairly intelligent people you'd think it was the first time they'd used water judging by the state of the surrounding area by 2 o clock.
 
It’s a minor annoyance now, but I’m pretty sure it’s gonna turn into something more than annoying as I age.

I’m more often waking up in pain. If I sleep on my right side I get ache/pain/discomfort in my right hip. For some reason my when I sleep my body seems to shift itself to the very position that results in pain when I wake up.
 
Patch said:
Get yourself a USB Cd/dvd drive; they cost peanuts.
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buying one is easy, it's using it that would be above my head. sorted now though. just managed to get set up and have my emails on it.
OldNewtown said:
Someone is starting the day as they mean to go on 😂

I can actually relate to this as I had to put a load of CD's onto a memory stick for my young lady to play in the car.
I mean which idiot would buy a car without a CD player 🥵😂

I think the answer is progress they expect everyone to stream their music now, only problem being I dont subscribe to a music streaming service. I really am a dinosaur, think I'm turning into my dad.
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i can't get my head round how many albums can fit on those usb stick things. it's brilliant. my car has a cd player and also a usb for the dongle but my new wagon is usb only.
i don't subscribe to any streaming service for music or video either. saying that, i only use spotify now and then and you tube. getting shot of the odd advert isn't worth parting with my money imo.
Patch said:
When someone, usually in a very nice suit, washes their hands after a piss and grabs a handful of paper towels. They probably only wet the outermost two and then launch the lot into the bin. Also, people who drop paper towels or loo roll on the floor and just leave it there.
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scruffy t***s. i hate it when folk make a mess leaving it for someone else to clean up.
 
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monkeytassle said:
We have a hot and cold tap in the office and for a group of fairly intelligent people you'd think it was the first time they'd used water judging by the state of the surrounding area by 2 o clock.
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Used to go a bit radge at the state of communal kitchen at my last place culminating in asking folk if they'd do it at home. Skanky mugs left in sink, paper towels lying, scruffs...
 
BiG said:
It’s a minor annoyance now, but I’m pretty sure it’s gonna turn into something more than annoying as I age.

I’m more often waking up in pain. If I sleep on my right side I get ache/pain/discomfort in my right hip. For some reason my when I sleep my body seems to shift itself to the very position that results in pain when I wake up.
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It is worth going to a physio.

I was having problems, especially on a day where I had done a lot of exercise, particularly football. I’d wake up in the night with my hip aching and the muscles up one side of my spine felt like someone was twanging them like a guitar string. Impossible to get back to sleep like that.

Some time with a physio and he identified a muscle cluster that was not matched in strength to the other side, so my back, hip and upper leg muscles on the other side were over compensating.

I’ve got some exercises to do. It will be long and slow to get back to how it should be, but I’m seeing an improvement already.
 
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