General Chat

Gwynne, Glad to be of service. I agree totally with every point you make there... our house is constantly covered in dog hair, no matter how often we clean/vacuum, its always there, and there probably is a doggy smell, we're just used to it so don't notice. However, I'd never dream ot taking Lucy to someone house without asking first/knowing that they're dog lovers. P xx

1)the part of the Suprmarket aisle that must be fitted with really strong magnets and makes shopping trolleys immovable and block up the whole aisle two abreast not allowing anyone to pass - even the poor person who's just trying to scoot around quickly with a basket. If you're stopping with your trolley think of the aisle as a road and the trolley your car. Parking directly across from someone means you wing mirror will get knocked off - parking a little up the road from each other allows other cars to pass!! 2) Supermatkets that stay open 24 hours and therefore should be more convenient but who only have one checkout open (always being used by someone shopping for a family of 8 for the next month whilst you have one thing in your basket). AND the fact that they shut the cigarette counter at 10pm when the only reason I'm shopping at 2am is cos I'm desperate for ciggies. that's it for now - but I'm sure I'll think of other things that have annoyed me in the last 7 months Z

Gillian, Yes, not just drivers who don't say thanks either... I'm one of those old fashioned types that holds doors open for people etc and the amount of people who just breeze through without even a glance let alone a thank you... people are getting ruder and ruder these days and it's NOT just the young ones either. Paul

oh - I'm with Gillian on the drivers thank you thing where we live its impossible for two cars to drive down thr road at teh same time to it' kind of a given that you pull into the ends of roads and let people pass - BUT I get REALLY bad rage if I've sat and waited for someone to pass through and they don't acknowledge. More often than not its the workers accessing the business estate using our roads as a short cut and the guy who's going out with the girl who lives at the top of our road (which is a cul-de-sac) who chooses to park his car in my space every weekend before I get home. (He's over EVERY weekend now for a shagfest I assume) Technically it's NOT my designated space but it's outside my house and llike evryone on the road I park in the same spot everyday, and he's stood before and watched me struggle in from over the road with three small children and all their overnight stuff. Why can't he park up the bit of the road where she lives? Why can't he annoy her next door neighbours? I may be here all day by th eway - I've become VERY angry recently

Zoe, I didn't know you had three small children. Not that its relevant. Parking is awful where I live too... its a small cul-de-sac of 9 houses and between us we have about 20 cars (we only have 1). I have a small drive and a garage, so parking isn't a problem, but actually getting in and out of the cul-de-sac is sometimes... Another irritation is that I often transpose letters in fairly ordinary words and don't notice, so THE becomes TEH... but looking at Zoe's post, I'm not the only one, so thats a comfort ;o)

Paul I don't have any children - but the point at where he steals my parking space is normally when I've detoured on the way home from work to pick up my nieces and nephew who come and stop every weekend with me. My solution to this situation is to have a drive built at the front of the house - we have by far the largest garden and can fit a good four spaces in there and cause the on street parking to lose at least two. Which will make me very happy in a gloating kind of way The transposing thing has got to be THE most annoying thing - and even though I know I do it and watch out for it it still happens. You may find comfort like I did when I was told it happens because our brains operate at a greater speed than our typing fingers can cope with and therefore we're MEGA clever

That sounds about right ! Neices and nephews are great aren't they, as you get to give them back at the end of the day/weekend... not that I have any nephews... (I just typed eth instead of the then but managed to spot and correct it).