A place to rant about things that wind you up ( keep it clean lol)

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Lorcan said:
I've lost the tweezers. So I use tweezers when I'm threading the sewing machine because they're useful for grabbing the thread when it's just gone through the needle, to pull it through the correct way. I threaded the machine. I put the tweezers down. The machine and I aren't friends today because it keeps unthreading itself, but whatever, I'll thread it again.

Where are the tweezers? They're not on the table, the machine, the bookcase, the floor, the chair...how the hell do tweezers disappear into thin air? And I have another pair that are nowhere near as useful because the alternate pair is much more...springy. Getting them to close and stay closed is awkward. Please come back, tweezers.
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I love this, so relatable!
 
Hope4gem said:
I love this, so relatable!
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I still haven't found the tweezers :td:

I lost a needle at one point too. I realised I had to have knocked it off the table so I scoured the floor, couldn't find it anywhere. But I had a sneaking suspicion it'd be found in a painful way and I was right. Found it when I stood on it.

I am a walking disaster and I love it, lol
 
Lorcan said:
I still haven't found the tweezers :td:

I lost a needle at one point too. I realised I had to have knocked it off the table so I scoured the floor, couldn't find it anywhere. But I had a sneaking suspicion it'd be found in a painful way and I was right. Found it when I stood on it.

I am a walking disaster and I love it, lol
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Ouch, hope you're ok! I crochet and have some family members who sew a lot so I can relate! :nod:
 
When a friend takes a picture of your family during a trip out with the kids and posts it on their Facebook without asking. I don’t Facebook and I find I rude to just post other peoples pictures on your page without asking, especially pics of my kids.
 
Pawz said:
When a friend takes a picture of your family during a trip out with the kids and posts it on their Facebook without asking. I don’t Facebook and I find I rude to just post other peoples pictures on your page without asking, especially pics of my kids.
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That's really bad. Even most Facebook obsessives wouldn't do that. Every holiday club or event my son attended they'd gain permissions about online posting.
 
Lorcan said:
I still haven't found the tweezers :td:

I lost a needle at one point too. I realised I had to have knocked it off the table so I scoured the floor, couldn't find it anywhere. But I had a sneaking suspicion it'd be found in a painful way and I was right. Found it when I stood on it.

I am a walking disaster and I love it, lol
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You’ll find them when you’re not actively looking for them.
 
Pawz said:
When a friend takes a picture of your family during a trip out with the kids and posts it on their Facebook without asking. I don’t Facebook and I find I rude to just post other peoples pictures on your page without asking, especially pics of my kids.
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There are photos from when we were in Dorset and met up with family, and all but one include my cousins daughter. Literally the only one I've shown to anyone else is the one without her, because she's not my daughter and it's just rude to do otherwise.
 
Siikibam said:
You’ll find them when you’re not actively looking for them.
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I was just about to reply that I suspected I'd knocked them into the rubbish bag by accident in which case they were long gone, when I happened to look at the bookcase for no real reason. And there, under the black embroidery scissors I was using and out there this very afternoon, were the tweezers. How did I ever manage to live to my thirties?!
 
I am so angry right now. I have just had to put a dead bee out on my windowsill and that bee should not be dead. It wouldn't be dead if it weren't for my damned neighbour. It was on the ground and struggling a little bit, so I got hold of it and asked my neighbour to grab me some sugar water. And they did. Far too much sugar in the water and rather than letting me do it, insisted on tipping the water right into my hand. That's fine if it's not much water, but the poor bee basically drowned in sticky water and when I tried pointing out I could do it myself because I know wtf I'm doing. "So do I, I take care of all the wild animals." Argh. That poor drone (and yes, it was a drone).

ETA: I forgot the worst part. She kept blowing on it while it was in my hand. "You need to blow on them to dry them off, make sure they don't get sticky." YOU KEPT BLOWING IT OVER TO THE DAMN POOL OF SUGAR WATER IN MY HAND OF COURSE IT'S GOING TO GET STICKY. Just as a general reference - don't. DO NOT blow on them. It will not help.
 
Not a rant as such. We had to come back early from our camping break. It was really windy and a couple of the poles on our tent ended up bent. We had fashioned a shelter from tarp but that didn’t last in the wind. On the up side, the weather was beautiful on the other days. I will be better prepared for next time 🙂
 
I am sorry to hear you had to cut your holiday short @Siikbam . I did think of you yesterday when we had some very heavy rain and strong winds overnight. I hoped the weather was better where you were!
 
piggieminder said:
I am sorry to hear you had to cut your holiday short @Siikbam . I did think of you yesterday when we had some very heavy rain and strong winds overnight. I hoped the weather was better where you were!
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Thank you. It was great up until Thursday night so for that I’m thankful. Prediction last week was rain all week!
 
PigglePuggle said:
Rice crispy incident! I'm an idiot, I have 3 university degrees but I'm trying to make rice crispy cakes for a kids birthday party tomorrow and...
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Oops! Is 11am too early for wine...?
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It’s never too early for wine 😉At least you can just sweep up the mess, imagine if it was on carpet 😳
 
Claire W said:
It’s never too early for wine 😉At least you can just sweep up the mess, imagine if it was on carpet 😳
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Piggy daddy swept up the mess, he wanted to keep me in a happy calm place until the stilton leek mushroom dinner materialised this evening once the kids buffet foods were sorted :)
 
I have a rant! People that put stuff on Gumtree and aren't in when you arrange to collect. I'd agreed to pick up some stuff this morning at a certain time. Went over there (20 -30 minutes) only to find that the person wasn't in. I rang the doorbell twice. Nobody answered. I knocked the door twice, nobody answered. I gave up and came home. Then when I messaged the person they said that they were in all the time and they didn't hear me knocking or the doorbell! They said that the item I had about an hour's round trip for was sitting waiting for me to collect. Er if they want me to have it they can either deliver it (which they did suggest but because I'm not local they don't want to do) or have it hanging around for a bit longer as I'm NOT going all the way over there again!
 
Betsy said:
I have a rant! People that put stuff on Gumtree and aren't in when you arrange to collect. I'd agreed to pick up some stuff this morning at a certain time. Went over there (20 -30 minutes) only to find that the person wasn't in. I rang the doorbell twice. Nobody answered. I knocked the door twice, nobody answered. I gave up and came home. Then when I messaged the person they said that they were in all the time and they didn't hear me knocking or the doorbell! They said that the item I had about an hour's round trip for was sitting waiting for me to collect. Er if they want me to have it they can either deliver it (which they did suggest but because I'm not local they don't want to do) or have it hanging around for a bit longer as I'm NOT going all the way over there again!
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Sorry. I wouldn’t go back for a while, unless you really need it. They didn’t hear the doorbell…
 
Siikibam said:
Sorry. I wouldn’t go back for a while, unless you really need it. They didn’t hear the doorbell…
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No I'm not going back. If this person decides to bring the item over I'll have it but I very much doubt that will happen. I don't reckon they were in and they are using the silent doorbell as an excuse! I'll just have to find a similar item elsewhere .....
 
This is really very minor but good grief Spotify can be a dolt. The wireless earphones I use with my phone are better than anything I have connected to my PC so I usually have Spotify playing through those (via the phone) while I'm doing sod all, but I use the PC to hit next, repeat, random, whatever. Mouse is easier to find when I'm not looking than a play button on a phone touchscreen.

Spotify likes to keep telling me "Spotify cannot play this song right now" which is its usual message when it's playing a song not actually in its library (but it might be available on my own personal library). Spotify likes to tell me this while it's playing the song in question. I'm guessing it's a bug with the PC client but it's irritating to see that bubble pop up (and disappear) when it feels like it, I keep mistaking it for an actual error message lol.
 
Betsy said:
I have a rant! People that put stuff on Gumtree and aren't in when you arrange to collect. I'd agreed to pick up some stuff this morning at a certain time. Went over there (20 -30 minutes) only to find that the person wasn't in. I rang the doorbell twice. Nobody answered. I knocked the door twice, nobody answered. I gave up and came home. Then when I messaged the person they said that they were in all the time and they didn't hear me knocking or the doorbell! They said that the item I had about an hour's round trip for was sitting waiting for me to collect. Er if they want me to have it they can either deliver it (which they did suggest but because I'm not local they don't want to do) or have it hanging around for a bit longer as I'm NOT going all the way over there again!
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My husband and I went to pick up an antique cabinet from someone selling it on Ebay. The person who put the ad up for it was the grandson of the man who owned it and lived next door to him. My husband and I followed the guy to the grandpa's house and the grandpa wouldn't open the door. He rang and knocked on multiple doors, but nobody came. The guy was pretty embarrassed and told us to come back as his grandpa obviously wasn't answering. He said that he was worried he may have passed away. Luckily he was not dead when we returned to pick it up. He is a very heavy sleeper apparently.

We accidently broke one of his picture frames while trying to get the massive antique cabinet down his tiny spiraling stairwell so I don't know who came out of that encounter more embarrassed. (It was definitely me though because when I saw the frame get knocked off the wall and shatter to pieces I ran outside and hid behind our moving truck 😅 We did pay him extra for the damages though)
 
Had a terribly embarrassing and frustrating experience today at a cafe.
I had to fast last night to have blood tests done today. But I got distracted in this morning meaning I didn’t get my blood test done until about 1pm (apparently that was too long to fast and may hinder my results but I told them to just do it anyway, as I often don’t eat for that long anyway.
Also I’ve had ear problems for 2 weeks, on and off blocked ear. But for the past 2 days my right ear has been completely blocked causing hearing problems as I feel like I’m under water. It’s an awful feeling!
Anyway! After that I went straight to a cafe for coffee and lunch as I was understandably hungry! Lovely quirky waitress sat me down, I ordered a vegan schnitzel burger. My coffee came out and was lovely, Then my burger.. I immediately noticed cheese on it.. The menu doesn’t mention vegan cheese. I looked closely and could tell it was dairy cheese, I broke a corner off and could definitely tell it was dairy but the few of it. I got up and told the lady at the counter. She insisted it will be vegan cheese, but I was adamant that it wasn’t. She poked her head around the the kitchen to find out that it was in fact dairy. And told me to bring the burger up and they’ll change it. The other quirky older waitress followed me and said she was really sorry, not good enough and to sit down and she’ll get it sorted for me. 5 mins later, ‘new’ burger gets put back in-front of me.
Hmm. I lift up the bun.. the cheese IS STILL DAIRY! It’s the same bloody meal! It even had the corner of the cheese missing that I tore off! I went back up and said ‘it’s still dairy cheese’ but coffee lady insisted it wasn’t! No, no it’s not it’s vegan cheese she kept saying! I went back and even put a tiny teeny bit in my mouth to see. 100% dairy! I haven’t eaten cheese for about 10 years! I think I know what I’m talking about!
Grabbed my bag stormed up to counter and politely asked for my money back as it’s dairy. She asked the kitchen again. They showed me a pack of bio vegan cheese that they had used. NOPE. That’s not what’s on my burger. I showed the nicer quirky waitress the cheese on my burger. She could see it was dairy too. By this point I was shaking, my blood sugar was low from the fasting and now my adrenaline was up from causing a fuss. Which bought on me to get terribly stressed, I started crying a little.. ugh!
To make it worse,with my ears being blocked up it was making me much more stressed as I just can’t hear myself talking properly. I can’t tell if I’m talking too loud or too quiet. So I felt self conscious and silly. I apologised that I couldn’t hear them and that I wasn’t feeling myself. The quirky lady then said she could feel my upset energy and starting giving me a shoulder rub! LOL! And she was bitching about the chef, that he was an A-hole etc!What was going on!
Turns out the other waitress who bought my second burger back out had accidentally bought my first one back thinking it was my new one.. but they were still making my new one!
I said I just wanted to leave as I was too stressed. They insisted I got my new one as a takeaway and a free coffee.
Finally left.. got in the car. Looked at the burger which now had vegan cheese but I Gluten free bun which would likely not be vegan as they all have egg in. Had totally lost my appetite anyway.. so I just threw it all away.
By this time my head was pounding and I just wanted to go home.

I work in hospitality, I know how hard it is, at the moment especially. But mistakes like this can kill people. If I had a dairy allergy!
I was incredibly nice to the waitresses, I was just very uncomfortable and distressed due to not being able to hear and feeling shaky etc. I’m not one to cause a fuss usually. Mistakes happen. But the chefs were totally awful in how they felt with things.
 
Hannah_xx said:
Had a terribly embarrassing and frustrating experience today at a cafe.
I had to fast last night to have blood tests done today. But I got distracted in this morning meaning I didn’t get my blood test done until about 1pm (apparently that was too long to fast and may hinder my results but I told them to just do it anyway, as I often don’t eat for that long anyway.
Also I’ve had ear problems for 2 weeks, on and off blocked ear. But for the past 2 days my right ear has been completely blocked causing hearing problems as I feel like I’m under water. It’s an awful feeling!
Anyway! After that I went straight to a cafe for coffee and lunch as I was understandably hungry! Lovely quirky waitress sat me down, I ordered a vegan schnitzel burger. My coffee came out and was lovely, Then my burger.. I immediately noticed cheese on it.. The menu doesn’t mention vegan cheese. I looked closely and could tell it was dairy cheese, I broke a corner off and could definitely tell it was dairy but the few of it. I got up and told the lady at the counter. She insisted it will be vegan cheese, but I was adamant that it wasn’t. She poked her head around the the kitchen to find out that it was in fact dairy. And told me to bring the burger up and they’ll change it. The other quirky older waitress followed me and said she was really sorry, not good enough and to sit down and she’ll get it sorted for me. 5 mins later, ‘new’ burger gets put back in-front of me.
Hmm. I lift up the bun.. the cheese IS STILL DAIRY! It’s the same bloody meal! It even had the corner of the cheese missing that I tore off! I went back up and said ‘it’s still dairy cheese’ but coffee lady insisted it wasn’t! No, no it’s not it’s vegan cheese she kept saying! I went back and even put a tiny teeny bit in my mouth to see. 100% dairy! I haven’t eaten cheese for about 10 years! I think I know what I’m talking about!
Grabbed my bag stormed up to counter and politely asked for my money back as it’s dairy. She asked the kitchen again. They showed me a pack of bio vegan cheese that they had used. NOPE. That’s not what’s on my burger. I showed the nicer quirky waitress the cheese on my burger. She could see it was dairy too. By this point I was shaking, my blood sugar was low from the fasting and now my adrenaline was up from causing a fuss. Which bought on me to get terribly stressed, I started crying a little.. ugh!
To make it worse,with my ears being blocked up it was making me much more stressed as I just can’t hear myself talking properly. I can’t tell if I’m talking too loud or too quiet. So I felt self conscious and silly. I apologised that I couldn’t hear them and that I wasn’t feeling myself. The quirky lady then said she could feel my upset energy and starting giving me a shoulder rub! LOL! And she was bitching about the chef, that he was an A-hole etc!What was going on!
Turns out the other waitress who bought my second burger back out had accidentally bought my first one back thinking it was my new one.. but they were still making my new one!
I said I just wanted to leave as I was too stressed. They insisted I got my new one as a takeaway and a free coffee.
Finally left.. got in the car. Looked at the burger which now had vegan cheese but I Gluten free bun which would likely not be vegan as they all have egg in. Had totally lost my appetite anyway.. so I just threw it all away.
By this time my head was pounding and I just wanted to go home.

I work in hospitality, I know how hard it is, at the moment especially. But mistakes like this can kill people. If I had a dairy allergy!
I was incredibly nice to the waitresses, I was just very uncomfortable and distressed due to not being able to hear and feeling shaky etc. I’m not one to cause a fuss usually. Mistakes happen. But the chefs were totally awful in how they felt with things.
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Wow, I'm so sorry this happened to you, as a fellow vegan I know how frustrating it can be. Many people don't take it seriously at all and even my husband, who can't have dairy, eggs, or meat because it makes him sick, gets scoffed at and will still be served non vegan food. One time we were invited to a restaurant that claimed they served vegan food. They first offered us fish, then scrambled eggs, then got mad when we wouldn't eat either. 🙄
 
I am so sorry Hannah, what dreadful service, chefs should know better.
We have had so many problems with my partners gluten/dairy intolerances and him being made ill in cafes/restuarants we haven't eaten out for years.
 
I’m sorry you didn’t get what you asked for Hannah. Having fasted that long certainly wouldn’t have helped things. I hope you managed to get something nice down you eventually.

As for your ear, have you tried olive oil drops and getting it checked out for wax build up? Have you managed to make an appointment to get it checked out yet? It’s a horrible feeling so I sympathise. I get wax build up and have had to have them syringed in the past. I’ve got small ear canals apparently 🤷🏾‍♀️ Must be significant if it’s been commented on twice 😁

Hope your ear feels better soon and your hunger is staved ❤️
 
People who leave small children in outdoor residential play areas without adult supervision at all hours of the evening and sometimes well up to 11pm! So many times I have witnessed it when said 3 or 4 year old has fallen and is just there screeching on the playground with not an adult in sight. Often left in the care of an older sibling who has gotten bored and gone elsewhere.
it must be a cultural thing for some and completely normal but it’s not something that sits well with me.

People who own cats that go outdoors and don’t bother to spay/neuter them. Yes thank you the chorus all night long some weekends is “delightful“ you irresponsible bleepy bleep bleeps.
 
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