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Really minor annoyances

My family pretty much standing, twitching and drooling over some of the Christmas snacks I have bought. Snacking on nuts, crisps and other things is all part of Christmas. I bought some stuff a few weeks ago and they scoffed the lot in 2 days. I went shopping the other day and I'm being nagged "can't we just open them now?". No, because you will be the first one to complain that we don't have our usual snacks for the Christmas eve film or to nibble on on Christmas day.

Not one of them so desperate for a Pringle is willing to go to the shops and buy any, or go out on Christmas Eve to try and grab the last few packets off the shelves in a packed Tesco. I've done that before and there is nowt left, so I buy in advance.

I think I need a lockable box next year, just f***ing wait. If they didn't know they were in the house they would not be desperate for a cheesy bread stick. I feel like I'm torturing them.
 

going into the garage for something then forgetting what it was you went in for then remembering the bins need to come back in. fetching them in, getting sat down then remembering what you wanted from the garage, bringing it in, getting settled again and remembering you originally wanted something totally different to what you've brought in.
 
humbug said:
going into the garage for something then forgetting what it was you went in for then remembering the bins need to come back in. fetching them in, getting sat down then remembering what you wanted from the garage, bringing it in, getting settled again and remembering you originally wanted something totally different to what you've brought in.
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30 years ago I would have given that a laughing emoji, laughing at someone struggling with something so simple.

Today I'm given a laughing emoji because I'm right there with you.
 
Also - and I’m sure I complain about this every year - there are hundreds and hundreds of Christmas songs and I either like or don’t mind most of them but there are three that are just so ridiculously overplayed on the radio I fuckin hate them. I’m always baffled as to how the programmers skew to these three so often and it’s the same here in Tampa as it was in Houston -

Rocking Round the Christmas Tree (Brenda Lee?)
Holly Jolly Christmas - (Dale Evans?)
Jingle Bell Rock (Burl Ives - what kind of name is ‘Burl’?) I just hear that rockabilly guitar intro and it sets my teeth on edge
 
Infinite Loop said:
Drivers who get utterly confused by which lane they should be in on a four lane motorway. Gives the middle-lane hoggers another option to get it wrong, the dozy feckers...
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It is simple.

Left lane is for nobody at all, in case it turns in to a slip road later, or the slowest of the lorries.
Lane 2 is for other lorries
Lane 3 is for people cruising at 60 regardless of what is in lane 1 and 2.
Lane 4 is for everyone else

The only difference between a 3 and 4 lane motorway is the number of lanes for lorries, surely?

How else would those stuck at 55-60 effectively reduce a motorway down to 1 lane?
 
DaveH said:
It is simple.

Left lane is for nobody at all, in case it turns in to a slip road later, or the slowest of the lorries.
Lane 2 is for other lorries
Lane 3 is for people cruising at 60 regardless of what is in lane 1 and 2.
Lane 4 is for everyone else

The only difference between a 3 and 4 lane motorway is the number of lanes for lorries, surely?

How else would those stuck at 55-60 effectively reduce a motorway down to 1 lane?
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That’s obviously what’s taught these days. Explains it all, really…
 
BlackHoleSun said:
This has become a regular problem with me. Seem to be forever wandering around looking for things

Am wondering at what point I consider it to be a sign of something
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I put my iPad and and my iPhone down all over and can’t remember where I’ve put them.

I have started saying “I’m putting me phone down there” but I even forget to do that.
 
Big Jeff said:
I’m constantly ringing my phone to find it.
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Not even every day. It's every few hours. Then I chunter on to myself. FFS not again etc. Remote went missing for a week til yesterday, take contact lenses out then go hunting for glasses in a blur etc

End result, why would a rational human being leave them there for god's sake. This time I'll leave them right here so I know exactly where they are......then repeat
 
Parking today. “Ticketless” it said at the multi-storey entrance. Except you collected a ticket at the entrance barrier.

The system didn’t recognise my registration number when I went to pay upon exit. I had to scroll through photos of ‘similar registration’ cars whilst a queue developed. Tried a different machine - same thing.

Gave up. Scanned the we code after retrieving my ticket - recalling it was ‘ticketless’ and then noticing in tiny print that ‘registration not recorded’ on the ticket.

Turned on the mobile date and inputted all my card details to make the payment on line. Took ages.

The fee was £2.

I was annoyed.
 
Sides having two senior goalkeepers on the bench. Just throw an academy lad on the bench for the experience, if you haven't got enough fit senior players to chose from.
 
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