What makes you grumpy?
 

I'm well into grumpy age. Most things make me grumpy.

These are a few of my (un)favourite things:

Lavatory paper that won't tear cleanly at the perforations.

Golf balls that are so badly made they don't fly where I intend them to.

Service stations that don't have space at the pumps the side that my car has its filler cap.

Australian electrical plugs. (In spades.)

Socks that slip down until they are under my feet.

Icons: I can read - it takes more time to work out what half the icons mean than just to read the title.

And yours?

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This...


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Finding a sock that I dropped on the way to the washing machine after said washing machine is in wash mode, umpteen pairs of shoes, none of which are mine, congregating in the hall instead of in the hall cupboard, lid off toothpaste, filling up with petrol and always going over by 1p (I swear it's rigged!). Oh the list is bloody endless......:(

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Idiots

and all their works.

:sneaky:

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Yep. The trees that jump out and grab my ball make me grumpy too.

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I know this is completely irrational but people who indicate to drive around bends in the road that aren't junctions and thus don't need indicating.

It infuriates me for some reason.


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People who put the loo roll the wrong way round - if you care about this then you know what I mean.
My kids when the loo roll runs out and they get a new one but can't be arsed to take the card inner off the holder so just hang the new one alongside.
Women who wee on the seat of public loos - why oh why?!
Women who leave craps floating in public loos.
Flies.
Buying a pot of tea and the stupid pot holds 1.5 or 2.5 cups of tea, not a whole number.
Tea pots that drip.
Supermarket checkout people who can't pack properly (just freakin' leave it to me!).
People taking crisps or sweets in wrappers to the cinema - why oh why?!
People who talk in the cinema/ theatre.
People who text in the cinema/ theatre.
When you are shopping at the supermarket and totally digging that 80s rock ballad and then it's spoiled by a barely comprehensible announcement about something on special THAT I DON'T WANT.
Tissues left in pockets in the wash.
We can send folk to the moon but we can't get sunblock off the car paintwork or interior.
Adverts.
When one sock wears out before its buddy.
People who don't pick up after their dog. Ditto those that do and then leave the bag of turd for someone else to collect.

I could go on but I fear this isn't doing my blood pressure any good :D

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And breathe :rofl:

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There's a new washing machine on the market that allows you to add items even if it has started.

Samsung AddWash opens the door to adding extra items during a wash cycle

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They've not yet made one that can correct your slice, or poor putt. A bad golfer always blames his balls. :p

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I could have written that, but I'd add a couple of items...

People who think that everyone around them on the train a) is impressed that they have a mobile phone, and b) want to hear their conversation.
When the dishwasher is clean but nobody empties it. FFS am I the only person who knows where the clean dishes go?!

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People that talk loudly.Just because you talk loudly doesnt make what you have to say more important.
People that make a lot of noise when they eat.It drives me crazy.Please don't scrape your teeth on the fork.

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The next door neighbours who insist on playing club music with the bass at maximum. Every. Freakin'. Night!!!

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Noisy eaters.
People on motorway sliproads crawling along at 60 instead of getting up to 100.
People who insist on dragging a lawn mower backwards instead of turning around and actually mowing the grass rather than flattening it.
People who insist on mowing over gravel.
Hanging out washing when the sky is clear blue with no clouds and 10 minutes later it's pissing down.
Someone finishing a bottle of beer and without ****ing fail saying 'damn there seems to be a leak in this bottle'. :rolleyes:
People's inability to load the dishwasher, let alone unload it.
Being told 'everyone loves chocolate' when no actually, there are many people who loathe it.
People in England texting me to tell me to ring them.
People in England forgetting I exist and not telling me family news.
Tony Robinson.
I'll stop there for now.

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Right now
Bad musicians playing awfully behind my window
A mess with work tasks
Expensive hostels in Amsterdam
Lack of money

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Not being to push to the absolute limit on the bike or the run. I miss that feeling of not knowing whether I'm about to hand my competition their ass on a plate or die trying.

More surgery :thumbdown:

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Most of the above...(except golf balls...I don't give a crap about them :lol:)

Also:

-Litter
-Boys pants half way down their arse
-People not indicating when they can obviously see you waiting
-People who chat in supermarkets leaving their trolleys spread over the isle so you can't pass
-Teenagers :eek:
-'Have you had an accident' phone calls
-SKY TV ringing 25 times a week asking if we'll go back to them...NO, we bloody won't!!!!
-Stupid drivers

That's just a few...for now!

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+ 1

Plus light bulb bayonet sockets where the cheap plastic bayonet retainer tabs have perished and broken off, leaving the only option to replace the whole thing. That alone must keep electricians employed across the land :sneaky:

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I was behind one of these the other day (indicated at a curve in the road) and I said to my son who was with me "what's the bet he now turns onto the motor way and doesn't indicate at the intersection". Sure enough, that's what happened, we were in stitches.

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Having to attend family court proceedings and being the only person beside the lawyers without visible tattoos, a mullet, thongs and mirrored aviator sunnies. Ladies and gentlemen, a long sleeved shirt, a pair of trousers and a hairbrush are your best friends on court day.

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Melbourne transport gripes:

• People who STILL touch off on trams
• People who RUB their Myki cards on the reader
• For a bonus prize, people who rub their myki cards on the reader while touching off on the tram! :lol:

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That's a lot of contactless angst there...


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People who use a lot of words I can't understand <g>

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Hearing Victoria Wood died made me sad. Hearing it was ****ing cancer a ****ing gain made me grumpy.

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The other thing that grinds my gears is people who pull off of the hard shoulder on the motorway at zero speed into the first lane of traffic moving at 100 km/h.

I know why they do it - the road rules say you mustn't drive in the shoulder, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't get your speed up before merging back into the flow of traffic. I see this all the time in NSW.


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Everything makes me grumpy.:o:sneaky:

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"The man" telling me how to live my life.

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I don't understand any of those gripes.We haven't got trams in Wa.Sorry ,dont be grumpy with me.:lol:

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I don't know what "touching off" means. Not-knowing makes me a wee bit grumpy, I have to say.

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With contactless systems you put the card on the pad to 'touch' on or off.

If you have multiple zones then you need to 'touch on' and 'touch off' so that it can work out the journey and no over charge you.

Melbourne trams are all in zone 1 though - so it ought to be impossible for them to overcharge you. Hence Mr Grumpy.

However, there can actually be problems, in that if you use a tram to get somewhere, get off without touching off, then go back on the same route, you can actually catch the same tram - meaning your second 'touch on' can be registered as a 'touch off' and so in theory you are riding without paying.

Let's just say there are bigger issues with Myki than touching off ...

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This used to infuriate me. After being nearly hit 3 times at the same bend that has a t junction coming on to it, I, too, now indicate that I'm going to continue on my way rather than leave the road.

10 yards from this bend/junction scenario is a roundabout. What makes me grumpy is that apparently some drivers have no understanding that if you are indicating right, IT MEANS YOU ARE GOING PAST THEIR FLIPPING ENTRY POINT AND THUS THEY CAN'T ENTER THE FLIPPING ROUNDABOUT UNTIL I'VE FLIPPING GONE PAST.

Oh, and taxi drivers and ute drivers who insist on doing a u-turn outside the railway station, rather than negotiate the bend/junction and roundabout above.

In fact, if we could just remove that 30 yard stretch of road, my life would be far less grumpy.

(all distances are completely made up, I have no idea how far 10 or 30 yards are, but they're all really close to each other)

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People who use "like" 3 times in every sentence.
Sticky labels (on newly bought electrical goods) which can't be peeled-off.
Australian/American/Israeli politics.
Sharp carousel microwaves that tend to die the minute the warranty expires.

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Commuting during school holidays makes me grumpy.
Parents who let their feral little brats treat public transit like a playground. Surely they don't encourage them to be loud and run rampant at home.
People who have no spatial awareness and congregate at the bottom or top of escalators making it impossible for others to get on or off.

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I know, right?

Plus people who say "I know, right?"

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And, closer to home:

Windows Ten

Passwords! Especially totally innocuous websites that ask for a password, then tell you again and again that it doesn't meet their format(but won't say what that is) or present a Captcha but won't accept your - correct - interpretation of it.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
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I'll extend this by adding in websites that insist on a username and password for rudimentary stuff like getting an insurance or forex quote...


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I like Windows 10 and I will not be going back, except I have one complaint, I still can't get Cortana to work. Its suppose to work in Oz but nothing. The Indian boys can't get it to work either. The Microsoft forums can't get it to work. I think I've been technically defeated.

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Lefty Loonies and Fluffy Bunnies.

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Thanks for taking the trouble to inform me, Garry. Now I know, right? [That's for renth] And now that I do know, I don't feel grumpy any more. Super!

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People who write "Super!"