The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Troubled Waters on August 14, 2009, 11:39:59 am
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You know how some days some things annoy you more than others?!?
Today: why do some hard boiled eggs peel really easily...yest some come off millimeter by millimeter? Like todays did when I was in a rsuh and trying to get lunch ready for work. >:(
And while I am on the subject; onions! Same principle? Some peel fine, other take an age.
Oh and my husband...the little darling insists on trying to infuriate me by not wiping the windscreeen if fogged up or raining, he insists he can see but I am too short to see over the fogged up bit.
Grrrrrrr.
Feel better now. Anyone else have little pet peeves that are ridiculus but at the time get you boiling?!? ;D
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are you ready??????
My neighbour who keeps spraying weed killer on MY ground which is outside his kitchen window, and the other neighbour who decided to plant potatoes in MY ground just outside the fence-line for the horses field. Then there is the other neighbour who asked me to train the horses to poo somewhere other than in view of her sittingroom window....and also complained because the cats were making footprints in the dew!! She polishes her hunters, and wears her creasefree barbour, a paisly floaty skirt and rubber gloves to do her gardening.....EEEEeeek
then there is My Husband who-
1. brings veg in to kitchen to wash mud off in belfast sink leaves mud and grit in sink- scratches the enamel (we have outside sinks and taps)
2. goes crazy if i leave wellies and boots in front porch..so they can dry...he piles/tosses them all in the boot box, you know, so the mud from one drops into the next, yet is very happy to have at least 4/5 pairs of his boots drying and lying around the sitting room...just kicked off any ol' how...even on the sofas.
3. leaves muds splatters all over the bathroom, toothpaste in the sink, towels on the floor, soap lying in the bath and the toilet seat up, YET, goes nuts if i dont change the looroll............even though he may be the one to finish the last.....ARGH
4. Insists on talking through all my fave TV programmes, or insists on making adjustments to the surround-sound/colour/screen setup, YET has a hairy fit if the dogs bark or the cat squeaks during his TV moments.
just for starters T!!
Emma
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Oh, I could post for hours - hubby, kids (at times!), dogs, work, neighbours, my MOTHER !! and so on............................................... :o
But the one that really gets me is rudeness >:(
I try so hard to be polite even if I'm having a bad day and teach my kids to do the same, unfortunately the same can't be said for everyone.
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pinkilily, that is sooo funny. As to hubby's interuptions. We can go for days with not much conversation in the evenings as we are so busy and/or tired. Then this week when I have had an important report and presentation to finish for a job interview all he does is rabbit on at me and wonder why I am late to bed, tired and grumpy!
And Happyhippy, I am right there with you on that. I will be polite to everyone but woe betide those ungratefulls that throw it back in your face. Hold the door and a dozen people come through and not one even acknowledges u exist. my response in a very loud voice 'of course you are all most welcome...' or people that see you are looking at something in a shop and stop right in front of you! they usually get a comment to. I don't know. people ask why I am so polite to people when no one cares, i say it's beacuse it's that attitude that got us here in the first place but they just don't get it.
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don't keep your peeves as pets. Let them go wild and free.
My wife tells me and son off for things we do which she is also guilty of, I applaud as though a goal has just gone in, she looks on bewildered, but it makes me smile.
Make a league table of peeves and see which one wins each month, then display it to the culprit.
August peeve of the month. Wife spraying hairspray and perfume all over the bedroom while I'm still in bed. foul smelling stuff designed to start me off wheezing.
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My late husband was a mounting Leader so was used to having very fit people on the hill with him. On the rare occasions when I went with him, he being 6 foot one with long legs would shoot off and I straggled along behind. He would very kindly stop every now and then and wait for me to catch up, always enquiring if I was all right, and telling me that the top was just over the next bump on the landscape.(it never was - the first time I went climbing with him he told me there was a phone on the top of Lochnagar and I could let the kids know what I had just achieved - I was VERY naive in those days and believed him :o)
Just as I reached him he would stride off again - with the result that he had a rest - sometimes quite a long one, and I never got a rest at all. Then we were no sooner on the summit when he would say ' right, lets get off down, it'll be dark soon, and we don't want to be up here in the dark!' I still would have him back if I could regardless of this little gripe! ;D ;D
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I am a fairly laid back person so not many peeves ::), although am not keen on clutter or things that do not have a place. I suppose along with everyone else, rudeness, people pushing in front etc but wat peeves me the most is prejudice in all shapes and forms .....nuff said I think!
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And leaving the coat room door open >:(bits and bobs left on above the fireplace >:( >:( >:(like Anne,trying to catch up with my Oh on a walk only for him to carry on when I get to him >:( >:( >:(Thinking of ideas for food and meals >:( >:( >:( >:(people smoking IN THE HOUSE >:( >:( Ibet I will think of some more>:( >:( >:(
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Politicians paying huge sums of my money for tin ornaments on roundabouts, when they would be better putting in shrubs - or even vegetables! ;)
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Ummmm a roundabout full of vegetables!!!!! how arty is that!!!
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You get some really unusual ones ;) ;) ;D ;D ;D
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Giant Swede
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Now girls - how did we get from pet peeves to giant swedes
Is this now Men we are talking about - there is some good looking Giant Swedes out there ;D ;D ;D
Julie
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May be the tin foil pair are Swedes!!!!!
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Sorry, must explain that there is a new sculpture By Andy Scott on the Mary Wood roundabout in Clackmannan, I like it, not sure what others think but doganjo's not keen and suggested it be better for the council to spend money on planting vegetables on the land rather than expensive art!!!! Me, I love art, and of course Swedes!!! ;)
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I should also add that Sandy and I are extremely good friends! And I'm more a practical sort of person rather than an art lover. I see beauty in animals and plants not big metal 'things'. Perhaps Sandy will be able to convert me - they are very shiny just now but could perhaps become pretty over the years as the birds decide to make perches or maybe even homes on them ;D ;D ;D
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lol, Am a little disappointed as the 'man' has a fig leaf lol.
Not so sure about having veg on the roundabout but i would like to see 'maintained' wild spaces on roundabouts. Like having plants that attract native insects like butterflies or bees.
Okay pet hates at the moment, inconsiderate people, people who grab everything from the world without putting anything back.
and also those people who laught/or bully people because they are different!!!
Personal pet hates when i have to ask hubby 16 million times to do something because i can't do it at the moment.
Also the fact that my step son has the ability to get icecream on every surfaces which isn't possible to clean without getting in strange positions!
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make your step son an ice screem parla improvise and make it special" so he loves to have his ice cream in it!! on second thoughts, I get food everywhere as well and I am a gran!!!!
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me wasting so much time ;D ;D ;D
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Well the eggs are peeling ok this week but...
Mike stomping up hills ( I do not do hills!) waiting for me and stomping off again so I don't get a rest.
Not replacing loo roll
People pulling out right in front of you and not accelerating away.
Cats digging up my veg and pooing in the raised beds
People that park over two spaces
Computers that think they know best
The dog that drops black fluff over the white carpet 2 mins after you hoover (who uses white carpet in a family house anyway?!?)
I could go on. I love ranting about pointless stupid things, makes you forget the big stuff.
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seams like a lot of men storm off and don't waite!! I hate hills eversince I tore a muscle, should live in somewhr flat!!!
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I hate it when people empty the teapot down the sink and leave the tea bag in so that the sink fills up with cold yukky dishwater and you have to put your arm in to fish out the tea bag which is now a wet cold greasy squishy tea bag.
No idea who could do such a thing. OH says that he's watched me do it????????? surely not
Also, hate it when I have to go to work and everyone else is still on holiday - never mind school's back tomorrow and I will be able to leave after the children. Just husband left at home with our livestock - he'd better not moan - i'd be PEEEEEEVED.
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seams like a lot of men storm off and don't waite!! I hate hills eversince I tore a muscle, should live in somewhr flat!!!
But they're lovely to look at from the bottom ;D ;D ;D
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Men or Hills? :D
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Both! ;D
More peeves...
Blokes (it's always blokes) that wander round jangling the change and keys in theor pockets. My dad does this too. I could scream!
The blokes (sorry u lovely TAS chaps) that insist on sneezing as loud as they possibly can in the office...and don't cover their mouths. uck!
People talking over others. Julia Bradbury did it loads on Countryfile on Sunday - sooo annoying.
My failing memory.
My ability to moan about everything :-[ I'm not a miserable cow really - honest! ::)
Job application forms! and companies that don't even email to say, thanks for applying but...
Oh the joys of random moans... ;D
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oh pandoras box has been open, hehe
here's one
SISTER'S (although mine is unusually quite at the moment)!
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Spitting!!!!! and people who pick thier nose and eat it :P
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Yuck - it sounds as if there are some pretty discusting people out there!!!
In Ireland I hate it when people push past you saying sorry (instead of excuse me)
There not bl**dy sorry at all - there pure ignorant!!
Julie
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I must admit I am quite tolerant of most things (and have the same complaints with my OH & wellies as the rest of ye) but I just cant stand mouth noises! :o People eating with their mouths open, speaking with their mouth full or slurping tea can really turn my stomach! If my OH wants to annoy me for fun he just starts making mouth noises that he knows would crack me up :) Id love not to be annoyed by them but cant help it - it literally makes me sick!
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with you on that one. Smacking of lips when eatting. My step son does it and i have to go out the room, It not worth the arguments it corses.
Linz
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Younger models getting the job coz they are only 17 and can be paid less, I'm not even 30 yet and still feel passed over. Grrrrr
Oh and I hate spitting and talking with the mouth full too.
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You go up to a table and ask if they are ready to order and they say yes. Then, you stand there like a prat for 5 minutes while they sit and decide - so rude!
Also, people are still eating at the table and someone gets up and pays for it, bad manners.
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Ok guys, I am feeling irritable so have resurrected this thread.
People that are too incompetant/lazy to look after themselves...
so the main printer sits on my desk (reason enough for a peeve in itself) so a
chap come ups to me: I need more paper. Oh good, how nice for u. what do u wantme to do about it?!? u have legs go get some yourself! as it is i try and keep a
spare box up this end but no other bugger can be bothered to top it up when it
runs out. grrrrr. >:(
My boss: can you put this in an envelope for me? Hellllooooo, they are right there dumb ass, do it yourself.
Thanks you, I feel a little better now. :-[
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I worked as an agency Social WOrker in many offices and I often was the one landed in the do doo's with some BIG problems or asked to do the job's knowone else would do!!!!!! AND work with the difficult families, ALL over now though thank God!!
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here's the answer for your boiled egg problem: when an egg is fresh there is little air in the shell, as it gets older the air sack gets larger, therefore; the older the egg the easier it is to peel. To boil really fresh eggs, put 1/4 cup of salt in the boiling water with the eggs.
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I get annoyed when OH comes in and sees me engrossed in work
and says " would you like a Coffee darling".
I say " Oh yes please"
He Says - Whilst you are making it do me a cup of Tea! :D :D :D :D