What do you hate the most ?

N9eav

Str4berr3 wrote:

Ok, here is another;

I HATE THAT 'ESURE' ADVERT!!!!!!!!!!

The one about car insurance with that lame old fart playing it, weather its with the one about the mouse, or him dancing in a fairy costume or the one that say 'allo mum!' to the screen!!!!!!!!!!!!

I Hate it. And it absolutley makes me cringe!!!

AGREED. totally stupid as well as the privalidge one. I shant buy off them because it's so stupid. I don't care much for "Quote me happy " either, but they are the cheapest for me.

Loadsabob

Just a few...I will have to ration myself:

Supermarket check-out people who loudly laugh, chat and gossip with the next check-out person when they should be being attentitive to YOU!

I'm sorry, but I'm one of the people who does get really angry with screaming children and toddlers in shops. I understand that it happens, but I don't want to be subjected to that noise when I'm wandering around the shops. If I was a parent, I would take the child outside and just accept that my own shopping had been interrupted by my child's tantrum. I can still ignore the tantrum, but out of earshot of the rest of the shop. Instead, often the rest of the shop has to endure a ten minute screaming session which pierces their ears, because the parents have been told to "ignore" tantrums. They may be able to, I can't!! This is not a personal complaint, it's a very general one. If a couple are going to have a screaming match at one another, they would tend not to do it in a shop...and I kind of feel it's the same noise! I'm sorry, you parents will hate me, but I have to be honest, and it's one of my big gripes.

I really struggle to be grateful when a car (a SINGLE car) is approaching a junction, and you're waiting for it to get out of the way so you can cross the road, because there's nothing behind it, and it's a quiet, residential street. But instead of just getting out your way, it stops and motions for you to cross. So you have to cross...in front of the car...and you feel a bit like you're on a catwalk, and feel you have to walk that little bit faster not to hold them up. I don't WANT to be let across the road, if they just keep driving, I can be crossing soon enough! Thank you.

Tesco on a Sunday...or any other Supermarket that claims to be open on a Sunday but doesn't feel the need to actually have stock (particularly mushrooms, the vegetables needed for a roast, or exactly what you needed to cook your chosen meal that evening)

That stupid Kandoo advert - do they think that child singing the jingle - "I can do it too, with Kandoo" sounds CUTE????? It's demented, only his mother must love him, and I will Never buy their product.

I will stop there for now, but no doubt I will be back.

BWZN93

Loadsabob wrote:

I'm sorry, but I'm one of the people who does get really angry with screaming children and toddlers in shops. I understand that it happens, but I don't want to be subjected to that noise when I'm wandering around the shops. If I was a parent, I would take the child outside and just accept that my own shopping had been interrupted by my child's tantrum. I can still ignore the tantrum, but out of earshot of the rest of the shop. Instead, often the rest of the shop has to endure a ten minute screaming session which pierces their ears, because the parents have been told to "ignore" tantrums. They may be able to, I can't!! This is not a personal complaint, it's a very general one. If a couple are going to have a screaming match at one another, they would tend not to do it in a shop...and I kind of feel it's the same noise! I'm sorry, you parents will hate me, but I have to be honest, and it's one of my big gripes.

Me too - My brother (I wont go into detail) had some serious problems when he was a baby caused by hospital accident, and used to scream and scream and scream until he was blue in the face (literally) until he was 'fixed' and gradually stopped doing it. I was 8 when he was born, and this carried on till I was about 14.

Even now, if I hear the sound of kids screaming and crying (usually because of the 'I want' syndrome) in a public area - it goes through me like nails on a blackboard and I am guilty of being one of the people that gives a parent the 'dirty look'. It is that ear -splitting to me, I have to literally run away from the offending er... child, and do my shopping backwards - I simply cannot deal with it. I have always said that If I was unfortunate enough to ever become a mother (BTW - motherhood is not planned for my world!) , I would never ever take my brood shopping or to any other public place that wasnt 'children welcome' - until they were old enough to control themselves.

It is only because I know how much children creating a fuss annoys other people, and dont feel its fair. If I had one, Id either get a babysitter/OH so I could shop in peace during the day, or do a midnight shop and have someone in the house. Im sure there is a way of not taking them to a supermarket.

I could go further into the kids and supermarket headaches, but I'll refrain, simply because it annoys me too much to think about!

Jo xx

alec_eiffel

Loadsabob - yes! Kandoo. There was a demonstration outside Asda a few weeks ago (which was annoying enough) but there's a new kandoo product where a plastic frog vomits liquid soap into your child's sticky mitt. Come on now, seriously.

Loadsabob

jw1096 wrote:

It is that ear -splitting to me, I have to literally run away from the offending er... child, and do my shopping backwards - I simply cannot deal with it...motherhood is not planned for my world!)

I could go further into the kids and supermarket headaches, but I'll refrain, simply because it annoys me too much to think about!

Jo, I don't plan to have children either, I'm always made to feel a bit of a social pariah for making that decision! Yes, I've left shops before now and gone back later when it's quieter! I do know it's not easy for parents, and I've been with an offending toddler before now, but I took him outside til it burnt itself out.

Of course, worse than this is the parents who shout back or swear at the child - don't get me started on that!

Loadsabob

alec_eiffel wrote:

Loadsabob - yes! Kandoo. There was a demonstration outside Asda a few weeks ago (which was annoying enough) but there's a new kandoo product where a plastic frog vomits liquid soap into your child's sticky mitt. Come on now, seriously.

Blimey, what will they think of next?!!

Loadsabob

Yes, as I expected, I am back, and I start with TV presenters...

Anne Robinson, for still thinking her snide approach to TV is either innovative, intelligent or appreciated.

Natasha Kaplinsky for sitting side-on to the camera and turning face-on, because (as we're all told in passport photo advice) it's more flattering - Vanity in the extreme!!! But it just ends up looking as though she's not interested in the viewers. I don't really watch BBC Breakfast, unless I want to wind myself up a little before work!

But, back to reality - people who don't start to look for their purse until they're actually ON THE BUS!!! WHY? Did they not think, when waiting at the stop, that the bus may turn up and they may have to purchase their ticket?

Leaf blowers on the streets - why aren't they leaf suckers? What's the point of just blowing the leaves around?!!!

Some of the juice cartons from Tesco, they're supposed to use teeth, when you turn the top, to cut through the carton. Instead you almost twist the carton as though you were wringing out a flannel. Who comes up with these designs?!!!

I'll leave it there, I'm grouchy enough without winding myself up!

Pooky

Give me a screaming child in a supermarket anyday....but please please take away all those smelly people that have never heard of personal hygiene. There is no excuse to walk around dirty and smelly.

I do agree that some children can cause problems when out shopping and mine have had their moments. I used to take mine outside where possible and wait until they'd calmed down before going back inside....it's all part of the learning process of children. I did however see a woman with about 5 kids in morrisons the other evening at about 8.30 - her youngest child was only just toddling and he was so tired he could hardly walk or keep his eyes open...just kept sobbing.....can we go - im so tired......bless him -- she ignored him and just kept shopping and shouting....

My biggest pet hate of all time tho is people who are not aware of what's going on around them....those who walk out of shop doorways without looking, that stop suddenly in the middle of the street to pick their nose, causing you trip over your own feet......those who insist on standing to chat in the middle of a shop - blocking the entrance or the till etc......grrrrrrrrrrrrr...i've perfected the perfect barge/do you mind/some people/sigh/grunt.....they get the message.

And why oh why do they have to make the bag a lettuce comes wrapped in so damn hard to get into.........they must use nearly a whole roll of tape.

Kantankrus_Mare

People that jump queues get my goat and until recently id have just fumed but yesterday i saw red.

We were at American Adventure and my kids were queueing to go on some JCB digger things when up strolls two teenage girls (about aged 15) and they stand in front of my kids so that they were at the front of the queue.

I shouted..."Excuse me! there is a queue" They both shot me filthy looks and ignored me ....so I shouted again to which they replied. "We arent going on the diggers" so i replied..."Well move away from the gate then!"

They did so and did exactly the same at the next section and were on the ride before my kids were!!

OH told me to calm down
"Calm down? Calm down????? I said well at least ill stick up for my kids while you just sit there!!

Really gets my goat and people dont tend to say anything to the pusher inners cos theyll get a load of lip!! Well if more of us spoke up perhaps it wouldnt happen! :eek:

jen_jen_2

Loadsabob wrote:

Jo, I don't plan to have children either, I'm always made to feel a bit of a social pariah for making that decision! Yes, I've left shops before now and gone back later when it's quieter! I do know it's not easy for parents, and I've been with an offending toddler before now, but I took him outside til it burnt itself out.

Of course, worse than this is the parents who shout back or swear at the child - don't get me started on that!

always hearing: "you might change your mind yet" "never say never" - why cant people accept that you dont want any - that really annoys me.