What's annoyed you today?

Maria · Post by **Maria** » 14 Mar 2008, 10:30

You know how it is; some things are stress inducing, blood pressure soaringly annoying and others just plain irritating. Let off steam here.

I'll start with yesterday and the stress inducing one first. Due to the epidemic of road works (yes, it is approaching the end of the financial year) and wasteful tram works, it took me 55 mins to complete my journey home from work, a trip that normally takes me 20 mins max. Stress levels rose considerably from an already high level.

The plain irritating was later. While out shopping I found myself following a fine example of our yoof, who was wearing his jeans belted across the top of his thighs and under his skinny buttocks , giving me a distinctly unsavoury view of his rather sorry looking, washed out, navy blue knitted cotton boxer shorts. Yeuch!

Today has started with a vaguely sinking feeling as I note Bob J is going to dissect PPAG's letter 'point by point'

Bob Jefferson · Post by **Bob Jefferson** » 14 Mar 2008, 11:06

Marya wrote: Today has started with a vaguely sinking feeling as I note Bob J is going to dissect PPAG's letter 'point by point'

Not entirely by myself I hope. Feel free to join in.

It's a beautiful morning, I've got a day off and I'm feeling great. Have a cup of tea and get over yourself.

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 14 Mar 2008, 11:17

Bob Jefferson wrote: It's a beautiful morning, I've got a day off and I'm feeling great. Have a cup of tea and get over yourself.

Yeah, stop with the whingeing. You're sounding like a right old bag.

And stop "following" young men about. You'll get arrested.

Bob's right, it's a lovely day. Get out there and steal some daffs from the park or something.

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » 14 Mar 2008, 12:43

the phone ringing as soon as I put it down. Do people not have anything else to do?

Maria · Post by **Maria** » 14 Mar 2008, 13:31

OK, after the uplifting advice from Bob and ecm (who are obviously graduates of the 'Pull yourself together, for God's sake' school of therapy) and a wee walk in the Spring weather, I'm feeling a mite more cheerful and a little less of an old bag.

However, rather than treat myself to a bunch of daffs from Rosefield Park ecm, I took the far more rewarding step of treating myself to a freshly baked cheese and onion pastie from Greggs. The bonus was a bit of aggro kicking off when one poor woman had the misfortune to skip the queue. 'There's someone having a worse day than me,' I thought as I listened to the woman, who had had her turn in the queue taken and obviously felt very keenly that her human rights were being violated. This was confirmed as I walked up the road followed by Mrs Angry, who then spotted her husband across the road. "Where the £$%& are you £$%^ing going?' she enquired. 'The bookie's,' he replied. Yes, she was definitely having a worse day than me.

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 14 Mar 2008, 13:58

Marya wrote:OK, after the uplifting advice from Bob and ecm (who are obviously graduates of the 'Pull yourself together, for God's sake' school of therapy) and a wee walk in the Spring weather, I'm feeling a mite more cheerful and a little less of an old bag.

However, rather than treat myself to a bunch of daffs from Rosefield Park ecm, I took the far more rewarding step of treating myself to a freshly baked cheese and onion pastie from Greggs. The bonus was a bit of aggro kicking off when one poor woman had the misfortune to skip the queue. 'There's someone having a worse day than me,' I thought as I listened to the woman, who had had her turn in the queue taken and obviously felt very keenly that her human rights were being violated. This was confirmed as I walked up the road followed by Mrs Angry, who then spotted her husband across the road. "Where the £$%& are you £$%^ing going?' she enquired. 'The bookie's,' he replied. Yes, she was definitely having a worse day than me.

Maureen and Nick shop in Greggs?

Maria · Post by **Maria** » 14 Mar 2008, 14:20

Porty wrote:Maureen and Nick shop in Greggs?

You might well think that; I couldn't possibly comment.

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 14 Mar 2008, 17:20

Marya wrote: However, rather than treat myself to a bunch of daffs from Rosefield Park ecm, I took the far more rewarding step of treating myself to a freshly baked cheese and onion pastie from Greggs.

Hmmmm, cheese and onion pastie, yum!! Yes, I can well appreciate the uplifting properties of any item from Greggs.
Their prawn oval bites always perk me up.

Glad you're feeling brighter. Keep it up!

Maria · Post by **Maria** » 18 Mar 2008, 16:31

Not even a pastie can cheer me up right now. Got clobbered by a whacking great big lorry on the Sheriffhall roundabout.

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 18 Mar 2008, 16:37

Are you ok?

Maria · Post by **Maria** » 18 Mar 2008, 17:01

I'm fine thanks, but the car looks a bit battered. When I managed to catch it up and flag them down I discovered that the driver and his mate were Serbian and didn't speak any English, which complicated things a bit as my Serbo Croat isn't up to much either.

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 18 Mar 2008, 17:31

Its only metal.

Glad you are ok.

Maria · Post by **Maria** » 18 Mar 2008, 18:49

Ta! Nice to get a bit of sympathy. Homer was off work today ill and has used up all his sympathy on himself

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » 18 Mar 2008, 22:50

Glad you ok

nice to see you today at Scotmid

Maria · Post by **Maria** » 18 Mar 2008, 23:03

Good seeing you too Sandra ...and bc and Bess .....and PoP!

Jay · Post by **Jay** » 18 Mar 2008, 23:31

Hi Marya. Glad you are OK. It might be only metal, but it's always a hell of a shock. Hope there are no after-effects. But you'll probably have to learn to swear in Serbo-Croat.

My bit of aggro was last weekend. The Porty Lloyds TSB cashpoint was malfunctioning, so I crossed the road to Bank of Scotland. It told me my card wasn't acceptable and to conatct my provider. Luckily. Royal Bank had no problems with me (or buying my week's groceries might have been a problem! ). But when I checked with Lloyds Customer Service, I found that Bank of Scotland had taken the damned money off my account anyhow! (So that was 2 withdrawals when I had only got one lot of money! ) And how the hell do you prove you've NOT been given it!!! Hmph! I've put a request in to have it back, but I'm not holding my breath!

SoupDragon · Post by **SoupDragon** » 19 Mar 2008, 14:08

Good luck, Jay

Glad to hear you Ok Marya

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 19 Mar 2008, 19:31

Jay, that HBoS machine ate my RBS once card (after thinking about it for 5 minutes

). The RBS recorded it as stolen by HBOS, Heh Heh. I now won't use it unless absolutely necessary!

BeachBum · Post by **BeachBum** » 19 Mar 2008, 20:43

Jay wrote:The Porty Lloyds TSB cashpoint

For some reason that cashpoint never works for me. I put in my card and it lets me type in my PIN number and it gives me the menu, but if I ask for a balance or a withdrawl or a mini statment it simply spits my card back out saying something about my request cannot be forfilled or something along those lines, but yet every other cash point in Porty takes my current account card. And yet other Lloyds TSB cash points work okay with my card, just seems to be the Porty one.

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 20 Mar 2008, 00:17

That is weird cos' it definitely works for Knobs, PoP is living proof.

Bob Jefferson · Post by **Bob Jefferson** » 20 Mar 2008, 19:42

The ubiquitous red onion. Five years ago you couldn't give red onions away. Red onion farmers were a laughing stock. As with turnips, the bulk of their harvest was destined to be fed to sheep and pigs. Even they hated them.

Then the red onion suddenly became trendy, no doubt the fault of some TV chef who had invested heavily in them. Now you can't escape the horrible things. They are in every salad. They are in every stir fry. You will find them in your takeaway curry. They will feature heavily in your roasted vegetables.

Hold the red onion! What is it after all but a cheap filler?

And they give me indigestion.

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » 22 Mar 2008, 14:11

I much prefer red onion, so there

SoupDragon · Post by **SoupDragon** » 22 Mar 2008, 15:27

I like red onions too.
They brighten up a tattie salad and make coleslaw very colourfull.
They're not so great in tattie soup though.

Goes a very odd sludgy colour

Maria · Post by **Maria** » 26 Mar 2008, 10:31

Today, it has to be my cat. I love him to bits, but he's starting to really try my patience by peeing all over the house. He's been neutered and it isn't a case of spraying. He also uses his litter tray, but over the last couple of months he's peed on a suitcase, a vanity case, a schoolbag, a lunch box, a cycle pannier, a holdall, a sweatshirt , a cushion seat for a bench and today it was a plastic carrier bag full of dirty clothing from our Easter weekend break.

How long do you think I'd get for felinicide

SoupDragon · Post by **SoupDragon** » 26 Mar 2008, 12:38

Dust.
My bathroom
Sand all over the windows, the car, the garden
Messy kids on holiday
Washing being found in the darkest recesses of the boys room.

At least I've got a home to moan about.
My poor cousin packed up her house in Houstin, Texas to move to Moscow as her husband had a job with BP in Russia. Due to politics they are now being denied visas and she's in limbo.

arachnid · Post by **arachnid** » 26 Mar 2008, 19:36

The Scottish Executive for trying to making it difficult to renew my daughter's disabled bus travel pass!!!

Went down to West Lothian offices today to do so, and they said that they wanted proof that she is deaf! Fair enough I supppose but the fact that she's renewing her old one could be a hint that it has already been prooved!!!!

And also the use of sign language to communicate with her could be another wee hint!!! But still they wanted proof, preferably a letter signed by someone! We happened to have her hearing aid battery book with us so they've photocopied it and hopefully it'll do but we'll have to wait and see, could take a few weeks! The woman in the office was very helpful so we're not blaming her, she's just the person who's only following the rules!!!

Epykat · Post by **Epykat** » 27 Mar 2008, 21:47

The little (or perhaps big) s**t who stole my son's wallet containing over a hundred quid which he'd taken out to buy a suit for a family funeral

. I hope they die a painful and lingering death.

Maria · Post by **Maria** » 19 May 2008, 14:26

On my hit list today is my sat nav for firstly, directing me to Celtic Park this morning instead of Hampden (and before anyone asks, it is a Tom Tom and not a Tim Tim) and secondly for completely freezing as I tried to make my way through the Gorbals. I'm sticking to road signs in the future.

Maria · Post by **Maria** » 15 May 2009, 16:39

Well, as it has been near enough a year since I was last annoyed, I reckon I'm due another post.

My pet hate right now is the 'Sainsbury's' ad. The music accompanying it is from one of my all time favourite films, 'My Life As A Dog' and each time it comes on the tele I feel really cheated to see the ad instead.

SoupDragon · Post by **SoupDragon** » 15 May 2009, 17:09

I hate the Sainsbury ad too, mostly because of the wee boy's filthy fingers

Epykat · Post by **Epykat** » 15 May 2009, 19:07

It's the wee boy who wants to do a poo in Paul's toilet. And it's always at teatime.

rapunzell · Post by **rapunzell** » 15 May 2009, 22:01

Nominated this week: one of the GPs at the local surgery, who when called by the taxicard dept to check my eligibility, said er no there's no reason why she can't just run for a bus with everyone else

Fortunately they then called me to tell me about it.

Tempted to name the stupid cow.

And the prat who left the laundry out on the line last night. Oh wait, that would be my fault...

Black Mamba · Post by **Black Mamba** » 16 May 2009, 15:28

I decided to get out on my bike today (I'm a roadie). I was doing really well with an average of 12.9mph when whoosh down came therain with a good strong wind, the rain then turned into hail. Result I had to cut my ride short, got really,really wet and then my asthma started to join the party also my average speed slowed down to 12.6mph by the time I got home.

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