šŸ˜  The Little Annoyances Of Everyday Life

Have a word with your neighbours or is it the gangbangers of noggsy parking up in their rides?

Back when my son was young I used to drop him off at the child minder who lived in the middle of an estate. I always used to park in front of the child minderā€™s car in front of another house who had a car parked on their front garden, no drop kerb!!

One day they came out to have a go at me about blocking them in (for the whole 1 minute I was dropping my son off) I explained to them that they had no drop kerb and there was nothing they could do about my parking. Cue a rant and threats to ram my car. My calmly an politely explaining that if they paid for drop kerbs it wouldnā€™t happen!!

Outcome, they never parked on their front garden again!

Iā€™m building flat pack furniture today!

Two bedside cabinets arrived at dawn, the first one took 90 minutes.

I have eight spare dowels and quite a few screws left over, but only one bit was on the wrong way so I call that a result!

Just about to tackle the second one, I reckon I can do it in an hourā€¦

An hour I will never get back.

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To continue the theme of ā€œcraphouse at workā€, settling in for a nice dump and then realising the last person didnā€™t replace the toilet roll.

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You got lucky there. Outcome could have just easily have been car driven over your head.

Iā€™d like to think it was my calm and polite voice of reason, or could it have been they were 50 going on 60!!

I only choose battles that I can win :lou_lol:

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I thought you were married?

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Just nailed that second bit of furniture!

And when I say I nailed it, it was quicker than using those fiddly packs of screws.

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Originally posted by @Rallyboy

Just nailed that second bit of furniture!

And when I say I nailed it, it was quicker than using those fiddly packs of screws.

_ ā€œSafe as houses, nipper!ā€_

Sleeping in the wet patch.

When shitness conspires to make things more shit. I was picking up ms pap from the train station the other day. Iā€™d arrived with about 5 minutes before her train was due in, and saw that short stay parking was free for 20 minutes. Happy days.

On arriving at the platform, her train is listed as being 3 minutes late. Disappointing, but still workable. Thirty seconds before the parking expires, the train finally rolls into the station, 12 minutes late. There is no time to get back to the car; I end up bunging Ā£2.60 into the meter because whether through conspiracy or chaos, people make money from crapness.

Having kept to the spirit of the agreement, I still wouldnā€™t be surprised to receive a parking ticket because I bought my 40 minutes after the original 20 had elapsed.

Originally posted by @Chertsey-Saint

Sleeping in the wet patch.

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Timid old fuckers driving at 35mph on a rural road with a 60mph limit. Iā€™m still a confident and quick driver at 65+ yearsā€¦timid drivers of any age are more of a danger on the roads. :lou_facepalm_2:

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There is a certain irony between your post and your user name

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They probably arenā€™t just old.

I was in a pretty nasty car crash on a country road about 4 years ago. Friend was in hospital for several months because of his injuries, and is still having operations on his face/hip to repair stuff all this time on.

As a result, I am totally and utterly terrified of country roads and get no where near 60 on them.

Soz.

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Yeah me too I only go approx 20mph on rural roads but what i do is drive them in reverse gear so if lifeinslowlane is following me + he gets too close i can flip him bird + make wanker signs right to his dumb FACE

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When you go around to your old house (that you still pay for) and your estranged wife (who has just about got back on an even keel after you left) finds nudey photos of your new bird on the home computer because when you left you forgot to turn off the homeshare thing on your mobile phone and they uploaded when you went around to pick up the kids the week before.

And the snaps of the weekend abroad with the nudey bird after you told the estranged wife you couldnā€™t afford to give her extra for family presents.

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Lol.

French ppl. French ppl are tres rude imo. I remember one time i was working part time at a hotel on the front desk, and this French guest come up, moaning on about something or other. I couldnā€™t tell you what he was moaning about exactly cos i donā€™t speak word of French & he didnā€™t speak word of English. Well I say he didnā€™t speak English, he knew one word, because he kept calling me a ā€œdoucheā€.

He prob though he would get away with it cos itā€™s not v.common insult in England, but my mum is American, so I know full well what a douche is, and I donā€™t have to take that shit. I was like, listen mate, Iā€™m just trying to do a job here. Call me that one more time and you and I, weā€™re gonna have a problem. But he did, with virtually his next word: ā€œDoucheā€. So Iā€™ve vaulted the counter and landed one on him, right on his garlic mouth, dislodging his beret, and string of onions, and whatever else.

My manager tried to defend him, typically. She was like, his shower is broken. I was like, so what! Thatā€™s no excuse! Heā€™d smell like that if he took 4 baths a day, I guarantee it, stinky French cunt RIP.

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Oh, and gr8 story numptyboi srs, I would normal be rofling etc, but mostly, all I can think about is them nudey photos mmmm