What do you want to rant about today? #25

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rainbowhouse said:
Yes to leaf blowers! The council walk around in groups of three or four to one leaf blower, blowing them all off the road or off the paths in the park. Like do they not see that leaves can move?!
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The nosey old fanny man across the road from me is absolutely obsessed with his leaf blower. I literally want to shove it up his arse and switch it on.
 
uberoblique said:
Not so much a rant as just not being sure if I’m right to be raising my eyebrows!

We had two house guests stay with us for 3 nights. They got through 10 bottles of wine in that time. One bottle before dinner then two with dinner. It sounded like that was quite normal for them. Their young primary aged child also stayed with us too. I had one glass on the first night then none as I had some super full on days at work.

1.5 bottles per person a night is a lot right? I drink and love a glass of wine but I’m definitely at the age where more than two standard glasses makes me feel pretty tit the next morning without some strategic pain & electrolytes before bed.
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That does sound a lot and I like a drink!
Let’s hope it was the norm for them when they are away from home and are feeling relaxed not the norm as in a bottle and a half every night
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My husband - I probably should look for or start a husband rant thread!
anyway, I was out on Thursday night. Came home to find my husband had ironed our sons school uniforms, it was 8 items of clothing for a 5 year old.
Him - did you notice id ironed the uniform
Me - yes I did
Him - you’re welcome
Me - explodes in a rage.

did you notice I’d washed and dried it so that it was clean and could be ironed. You’re welcome
Did you notice I’ve done all the Christmas shopping, you’re welcome.
Did you notice I’ve done all the Christmas decorating, you’re welcome
Plus a million other things.
 
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Interestingbitsnbats said:
Are you on meds for your anxiety already? That's why I rarely drink two makes me just as bad as an all nighter. I get excused of being drunk so don't bother. I only drink with my trusted friends and when I definitely not working next day. Anxiety and depression tabs I take don't mix well with drink and I can't seem to have caffeine either
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I'm not on any meds for that, no, but alcohol always affects me like this not sure why. I get horrible physical hangovers which is why I limit the intake but the anxiety is always there regardless of how much I drink.
 
neverbeeninfluenced said:
That does sound a lot and I like a drink!
Let’s hope it was the norm for them when they are away from home and are feeling relaxed not the norm as in a bottle and a half every night
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My husband - I probably should look for or start a husband rant thread!
anyway, I was out on Thursday night. Came home to find my husband had ironed our sons school uniforms, it was 8 items of clothing for a 5 year old.
Him - did you notice id ironed the uniform
Me - yes I did
Him - you’re welcome
Me - explodes in a rage.

did you notice I’d washed and dried it so that it was clean and could be ironed. You’re welcome
Did you notice I’ve done all the Christmas shopping, you’re welcome.
Did you notice I’ve done all the Christmas decorating, you’re welcome
Plus a million other things.
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My husband used to say things like ‘I’ve done the washing up for you’, like none of it was stuff he’d used 🤷🏻‍♀️
 
Kim Mild said:
Men go into shops and shut the door behind them. A few times I've held onto the door to open it so I can get in and they are pushing it harder to shut it . Even with the resistance on the door , they still don't look behind them .
Women don't do that I've noticed.

I need a witty comment to make
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That's actually super interesting you say that because I find the 100% opposite. I work in a shop and it's one of my greatest room 101's in life that 99% of men don't shut the door behind them (even when they OPENED IT to get in) and it does my bleeping head in. Every single time their wife has to tell them to stop being a head and shut it. Whereas women shut it I'd say 80% of the time. Men were definitely born in fields.
 
kendallroysdownfall said:
The nosey old fanny man across the road from me is absolutely obsessed with his leaf blower. I literally want to shove it up his arse and switch it on.
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The couple at the front of my estate like leaf blowing too. I notice she gets the harder task of sweeping, whereas he and the son do the leaf blowing. This year they pushed all the leaves out onto the edge of the road - it was a considerable pile. I don't know what it achieves tbh.
 
I’m giving up dealing with the holiday lets very soon and an incident today has reminded me why. Guest arrives yesterday. Today, I get a call saying the guest is angry because they can’t work out how to use the cooker and there are no instructions anywhere in the house. They’ve looked everywhere and their children are crying and hungry. Why have I not left instructions?

Try looking in the guest guide which I left out for you, and which contains all the instructions for the appliances.

At least this one, unlike a previous guest, didn’t contact me to complain that there was no food in her self catering house.
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Actually, thinking about the above, it’s the belligerent tone of it which has annoyed me. Why can’t people just ask a question any more? Why does it have to be couched in accusatory language with guilt-tripping. It’s perfectly reasonable to contact me and say ‘hey, sorry but I can’t find the instructions for the cooker, can you point me in the right direction?’ instead of this implication that I have deliberately left their kids hungry and tearful through my thoughtlessness.

I have two part time jobs, both public facing, and this kind of attitude is more and more common. People‘s initial contact with us is very often confrontational, even when they just have a basic query or issue. I just don’t get it. What do people get out of this aggressive approach? Do they think they’ll get a resolution faster because they absolutely won’t. If people are rude to me, I will do the absolute minimum for them.
 
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jackolantern said:
That's actually super interesting you say that because I find the 100% opposite. I work in a shop and it's one of my greatest room 101's in life that 99% of men don't shut the door behind them (even when they OPENED IT to get in) and it does my bleeping head in. Every single time their wife has to tell them to stop being a head and shut it. Whereas women shut it I'd say 80% of the time. Men were definitely born in fields.
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It's also surprising they don't leave it to slam
 
rainbowhouse said:
Bet y’all didn’t think I’d be back at 2pm on 14th December with my firework rant, did you?!
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Yes I did! As it's going on where I live. Also get pissed off with helicopters hovering over my house when I'm trying to sleep. Usually check on flight radar and it's blank. Other night it was the army. Maybe they've called them in to chase down the little fuckers. 🤬😠😡😬🙄
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Why and how do skirting boards get so dusty so quickly. You just about finish cleaning them all then dust has already gathered on the ones you began with 😂
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Just want to add I only clean them when I'm hoovering etc and notice they are dusty and then go on a hunt the bloody skirting board dust. I'm not sure crazy skirting board cleaning person. I wish I was but I could never be that person.
 
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GalaxyGirl70 said:
We live under a flight path used on exercises by RAF Brize Norton and when it's certain planes the vibration sends my overly sensitive hearing absolutely batshit. I appreciate that they need to train, but overnight when it's over densely populated areas, they need to duck right off.
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I've had some weird looking planes going over my house in the middle of the night. Obviously woke me up, and I looked on flight radar to find what was making the droning, booming, rumbling noise.
 
GalaxyGirl70 said:
We live under a flight path used on exercises by RAF Brize Norton and when it's certain planes the vibration sends my overly sensitive hearing absolutely batshit. I appreciate that they need to train, but overnight when it's over densely populated areas, they need to duck right off.
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We live on a training flight path and fairly regularly get chinooks going past. The noise is unbelievable and the whole house vibrates. I quite enjoy it, to be honest, they are beasts, very impressive.
 
People who think the world should revolve around them, in this instance a parent of a child with disabilities and additional needs who is kicking off on social media because a) other people were covering their ears in a shopping centre when their child was screaming at top volume and b) because said child can only be calmed by milk, but they didn't bring any out with them, and when they went to a fast food outlet (which sells milkshakes, but not milk) the 'ignorant' staff wouldn't give them milk 🙄🙄🙄

No concept that firstly many people find loud noises extremely uncomfortable, so they're not just overreacting and being dicks, secondly if you know you need milk, either bring it with you or go to a convenience store, or at a push a coffee shop. Personally I'm not sure a crowded shopping centre on a Sat just before Christmas is somewhere I'd take any child, whether NT or not, but there we are.

Just waiting for them to end up sad facing this in the Daily Mail 🙄🤦‍♀️
 
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