A collection of everyday things we do and say that ultimately are a complete waste of time….. Feel free to spleen vent :-)
#1. Putting any kind of ‘Fragile’, ‘Do Not Bend’ or ‘Handle With Care’ notices on a letter or packet before handing it over into the caring hands of the postal service. It’s just open season at the sorting office to see who can kick/throw your packet furthest across the room.
# 12. I would say that's trying to make older people understand they are not always right..
or maybe doing my hair also..mine gets all frizzed up in two seconds..
# 14 - Convincing my grandfather that the reason the dining room runs out of the dishes he wants is cuz he doesn't go down til a 1/2 hour before they close.
# 17 Asking my son to take out the trash knowing darn well I'll end up doing it.
# Trying to figure out what a woman wants when they all say they don't know what they want.
god forbid you even try telling em what they want too... :o)
#19 Buying a cat her very own basket with a nice soft liner to lay in... cause you know... the empty cardboard box in the corner is what it will use... I always get a good laugh when my cat does that, because she overflows the box when she does.. hehe
Listening to teenagers who think they know everything...honey, been there done that...once you accept that I am the friggin Queen, its all good!! My neighbor's kid tries that crap with me...and its like why are you wasting your breath and energy, go pop a zit or something...maybe in my 35 years I've just become a bit jaded.
#23. Counting the number of purchases that people are going through the express checkout lane with. No, '8 items or less' does not imply, nor infer multiples of a single specific product counting as one purchase, tyvm.
what??? gettin 20 bags of dorito's does not constitute one item...you big meeeanie!!! :-) so adding to that whole thing is #24...a person in front of you at checkout already having half their items rang up, walks away to get the one item they forgot...causing you to frantically search for a new line to jump into, only to find it manned by the new person who is learning all about using the credit card machine.
#25 In the 10 item express line for five minutes waiting for the person who had tweenty two items to write a check out when the darn sign said cash only. And then decides that they forgot to use their cupons and want's to re-ring the Items. Now thats a pisser.
OMG...that happened the other day, and I was (of course) running late in the first place...I almost had a meltdown and seriously considered just leaving all my groceries and walking away!!!
I have done that before... but I only had one item to buy. I just left it on the rubber conveyor belt thingy and left, making sure the checkout person knew I was in a huff...
sure if your at one of those one of those warehouse stores. You know were you buy a palet of food when you really only need one small box. And then you pray that about 20 friends come over to help you eat it.
#26 wondering why I want to get out of bed somedays.
#28 using a blinker to indicate that you need to merge into a different lane on the freeway!! In fact, doing so usually says "hey speed up folks and shut this person out" at least here in Fresno.
#29 feeding all the animals; you know you have to, but the whole can out of fridge, dry biscuit measuring, miaowing, barking, quacking-'oh im sorry did you want to drink your coffee hot this morning??' drama is not so great when you wake up on the couch at 5am with an empty bottle in one hand and a box of what was six pack Magnum icecreams in the other...
Ahem,....getting back to Kim & the toilet paper roll issue. I solved that little problem years ago....not to my satisfaction, but hey. You can't have everything.
One day I got tired of yelling & screaming at Gary & the kids about the T.P., no one except me EVER put the tissue on the roll. So I simply got them all together & told them that no one but me was ever allowed to change the toilet paper again.
And it worked. Of course, since they weren't doing it anyway nothing really changed. But this way I quit yelling & fighting a losing battle, & there was no more guilt involved either.
To this day, I fail to understand why guys & kids can't do this ....
Me ... I would have kept a private stash of paper products ... and removed the towels and face cloths, should the creativity urge hit them in their time of need.
Try that ... oh, and if laundry happens to be the next issue ... well, that one is easy ... everyone in the household eventually ends up going 'commando.' :P
My sincere apologies for the visuals. Tough love Lauren, tough love on this one, for sure.
# 30 Hanging the bathroom door on the wrong side; Putting up unnecessary support timber for the shower door; sheeting a wall that isn't level enough. As I found out this morning when the tiler tells me they're going to have to redo it all *grumble*
#1. Putting any kind of ‘Fragile’, ‘Do Not Bend’ or ‘Handle With Care’ notices on a letter or packet before handing it over into the caring hands of the postal service. It’s just open season at the sorting office to see who can kick/throw your packet furthest across the room.