The Dogmother Posted November 22, 2011 Share Posted November 22, 2011 Top 5 for room 101: Bad dog owners People who suffer too much from "Christmas Fever" and seem to fall into a corporate marketing induced hysteria. Anyone without a basic concept of manners Silvio Berlusconi for trying to ruin such a beautiful country Piers Morgan I feel your pain Beaky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
migsy Posted November 22, 2011 Share Posted November 22, 2011 Joggers who do not stop before crossing a road and seem to think it is OK to make me stop for them. What makes them so special? Also, people on mobile phones who do not look before crossing a road. Idiots! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chortle Chook Posted November 22, 2011 Share Posted November 22, 2011 I have to add to that, cyclists who think it is ok to cycle two abreast in narrow places because they have a 'right to the road' - grr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted November 22, 2011 Author Share Posted November 22, 2011 I have to add to that, cyclists who think it is ok to cycle two abreast in narrow places because they have a 'right to the road' - grr Or 3 abreast,or 4 even - & we have narrow country lanes here Same goes for joggers & horse riders. It is dangerous & selfish behaviour....and it is against the law. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chucky Mama Posted November 22, 2011 Share Posted November 22, 2011 They might already be in there but I am adding them again - mobility scooter drivers who think that they own the pavement and the shops so that you have to leap into a hedge or a rail of clothes to avoid them. I will chuck in people in M & S who walk at snail's pace. What is it with people in M & S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lavenders_Blue Posted November 22, 2011 Share Posted November 22, 2011 Too right CM, mobility scooter drivers are lethal! I'll add in old people who hover in doorways or aisles (mainly doorways though). It drives me potty when you shuffle into the supermarket behind an elderly person then they STOP DEAD IN THE DOORWAY! And then they do it again on the way out! Look, I know I'll be an old person one day, but I promise to try really, really hard not to come to a stop in every single shop doorway! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted November 22, 2011 Share Posted November 22, 2011 it's the aisle ends with the meal deals in our M&S - they are an oldie magnet and you just can't get near Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluekarin Posted November 22, 2011 Share Posted November 22, 2011 Car drivers who, in their rush to get through the green traffic lights, stop across the dropped kerb which I need to cross the road with my ED in her wheelchair. Makes me mad I agree with mobility scooters. Surely they should just be able to do walking speed? As for going slow in M&S, it happens here too. Just as I think it's safe to over take them, they walk off and I end up being in the wrong as I crash into them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whoopsie Posted November 22, 2011 Share Posted November 22, 2011 People who watch me waddle towards a shop door, manage to push it open then speed up so I feel obliged to hold it for them! Or the ones who stand in front of me and expect me to squeeze past them - I CAN'T HOLD MY BELLY IN, THERE'S A BABY IN IT!!!!!!!! Grrrrrrrrr. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowberry Posted November 22, 2011 Share Posted November 22, 2011 When you're at the checkout & the assistant is talking to the person in front & going really slowly...as if they have all day! Then when it's youre turn they go like a bat out of hell & you can't get things in the bags fast enough Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whoopsie Posted November 22, 2011 Share Posted November 22, 2011 OOh speaking of people at checkouts - what about the ones who carry on texting/talking on their phone while they are being served. So rude! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 Those irritating plastic covers on cucumbers. I've just wasted 5 minutes of what is left of the rest of my life wrestling with one that refused to budge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowberry Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 Talking of packaging; one christmas I spent over an hour untying Barbies ponies from their packaging. T'was mentally & physically exhausting I kid ye not! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluekarin Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 Talking of packaging; one christmas I spent over an hour untying Barbies ponies from their packaging. T'was mentally & physically exhausting I kid ye not! Oh, I hear you! I did read an article in a paper last week I think about Tesco are doing a range of toys which have no wires or screws holding the toys in place. About time. Maybe other toy companies may pay attention. Won't hold my breath! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 I feel your pain too, my children are now older and fortunately we don't have to spend most of Christmas day unpacking things and setting them up, remmebering to move any paskaging that is small enough to do small children harm in the process I remember a particularly nasty Barbie horse and carriage, and Hot Wheels they were horrible too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
migsy Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 In respect of toy packaging, it was Thomas and Bob the Builder toys that did it for me. I could never understand why they had to be secured so tightly to the box. Surely the box itself is enough to keep them from moving around? Ridiculous!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chortle Chook Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 OOh speaking of people at checkouts - what about the ones who carry on texting/talking on their phone while they are being served. So rude! So agree with this one. It is stunningly rude. If I was the checkout person I'd stop dead till the mobile phone talker ended their conversation - though guess that would not be allowed . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 I hated a similar situation; we went out last year on our work Christmas dinner - posh do at a lovely hotel. One younger member of staff was constantly on his mobile, texting throughout dinner and while we were talking afterwards. I told him how rude I found it and told him that if he didn't put it away then I'd confiscate it for the rest of the evening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Webmuppet Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 I would like to put the following into room 101: people who stand in the middle of supermarket aisles gossiping...........I have better things to do than dawdle round supermarkets ( talking to chickens, knitting , sewing....................) whoever thinks it's a good idea to put displays of stuff in the middle of the main aisle in the supermarket thus making it nigh on impossible to get down that aisle without a slalom automated telephone calls & junk phone calls my dental abcess...........it's been grumbling on since mid September and won't shift, I'm on the 7th lot of antibiotics and I'm thoroughly sick of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 I'll try to be restrained....... BBC trailers which really spoil their own programmes - I'd rather just watch the story unfold as the scriptwriter planned it - I do not have the attention span of a gnat!, I can remember to watch the next episode ....and just about all of tonights news I'll go and explode now......I'll do it quietly.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 People saying 'could of' instead of 'could have', same applies with 'should' and 'would'. I was especially annoyed today with the American use of 'alternate' when they really mean to use 'alternative'. I'm sure that they really mean 'different' as opposed to 'every other' Sorry, I'll go an be intolerant elsewhere Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowberry Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 When I was working at the upmarket ( ) foodhall, parents would frighten their kids by saying that if they didn't behave, then I would tell said kiddo off; so I retaliated by saying 'of course I wouldn't' to said kid. How dare the parents make me the baddie when they can't/won't take control of their children? *and breath* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 i eat naughty children Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Looney Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 I'd like to dip my sister in law into room 101 for a while please! She has just got off the phone to OH and I feel the need to pop her in Room 101... She always asks what our children want for presents for birthdays or Christmas and then ignores our suggestions completely and buys what she thinks they ought to have instead. It is clear she disapproves of our suggestions. This makes me sound ungrateful, I am not, but either don't ask and do as you please or ask and try and find something that has been asked for It isn't as though we ask for anything outrageous or expensive. And we ALWAYS try and get her children what they have asked for OH just told SIL that we have bought and sent presents to her and told her what we bought (exactly what was asked for). She then said she had a lovely idea for a present for our son rather than what he wanted. OH asked what it was, she refused to answer saying it would be a surprise. OH insisted so that we could check son doesn't already have one and lo and behold she wanted to buy a dressing gown. He already has one, so that would have been a total waste of money. He wanted a small playmobil set. Aargh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowberry Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 Oh dear, it sounds like she's a control freak. I bet she does her childrens' homework & signs it off as theirs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
