[Troubled Waters]

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?!? 

[pikilily]

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

[HappyHippy]

Oh, I could post for hours - hubby, kids (at times!), dogs, work, neighbours, my MOTHER !! and so on...............................................
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.

[Troubled Waters]

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.

[carl]

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.

[doganjo]

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 ) 
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!

[sandy]

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!

[sandy]

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>

[doganjo]

Politicians paying huge sums of my money for tin ornaments on roundabouts, when they would be better putting in shrubs - or even vegetables!

[sandy]

Ummmm a roundabout full of vegetables!!!!! how arty is that!!!

[doganjo]

You get some really unusual ones 

[sandy]

Giant Swede

[Tullywood Farm]

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 

Julie

[sandy]

May be the tin foil pair are Swedes!!!!!

[sandy]

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!!!