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Really minor annoyances


The time it takes for a pot noodle or other variant versus the time it takes it to cool down enough to be enjoyable.
 
DaveH said:
One particular day sticks in my mind when my daughter was pre-school age. She took my car to start work early, I was on a late start and said I'd drop my daughter at the in-laws before going to work. Went to the little box where we drop all the keys, no car keys and no spare key.

I called her at work to ask. "Oh, it is in my handbag". Great. Apparently the spare was in THE drawer. Pointing out we have more than one, I eventually established it was probably her bedside table top drawer. No sign, emptied the whole lot across the bed, nothing. Called her back "Oh that is in my handbag too". Who the hell carries both sets of car keys in the same back so you can lose both together? Especially when it is not the car you are driving. I had to walk to her mums, scrounge a lift to work, got to work late and get the bus home.

The other similar time was when for god knows what reason, she decided she would take my house keys without asking along with her own, that were buried deep in the handbag. My house keys that also contained my bike lock keys, meaning I could not cycle to work and my car was in the garage for repair. Bus time again.
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The good thing is, you consider these things minor. I'd be foaming. The more people you live with, associate with and interact with, the more you have to compromise in your life.
 
Everything had to be video these days.

I have a minor operation coming up and I can't go on the waiting list until I have watched through and agreed to the pre-appointment information. A few years ago this would be a leaflet I could skim, sign and be done. This is about half an hour of video being presented in a slow careful way to be as accessible as possible to everyone.
 
Standing for 35 minutes waiting for a bus that is due to run ever 15 minutes. I naively thought that even if I was unlucky and had just missed one the maximum time I would wait would be 15 minutes.

The 24 service from South Shields and Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver to play me in the film.
 
People who use the red/green man at traffic lights as a vague suggestion and walk across roads willy-nilly and glare at me as if I'm in the wrong when the lights are on green and I want to drive off
 
At snooker yesterday, despite Everyone in there knowing the set up, when ever a frame ended on one table and the other table was still mid-frame, all the of the spectators on the side that the frame had just ended got up and started talking at full volume and moving around . The referee would then ask people to keep the noise down as the other game was still in play

Every. Single. Time

Me and my mate were just shaking our heads .

It's a tiny little venue. Everyone knows the crack. I absolutely hate the general public sometimes
 
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