Moaners

[MissWalshy]

We got rhuburb once... one stick each. True.

[Jon]

And there's rat poison and razorblades in Halloween oranges now, didn'tja hear?

Thanks for the recipe, I'll knock up a batch tonight while I'm wiring up the front gate

Nah, kids these days wouldn't take fruit if you paid them. Put it in something so sugarcoated they have no other choice but to eat it even after they find out what's inside.

I reckon I'll spend the rest of the day painting my painkillers different colors, so that they look like smarties.

[firehazard]

... I'm ONLY 46 ...

Tsk! Bloody kids...
Continues muttering ad infinitum

[Smokey]

And there's rat poison and razorblades in Halloween oranges now, didn'tja hear?

Thanks for the recipe, I'll knock up a batch tonight while I'm wiring up the front gate

Nah, kids these days wouldn't take fruit if you paid them. Put it in something so sugarcoated they have no other choice but to eat it even after they find out what's inside.

I reckon I'll spend the rest of the day painting my painkillers different colors, so that they look like smarties.

I thought you didn't want them to come to your house? Put out candy bucket with a little "take one" sign. Leave it empty and if anyone asks where the candy is, act all surprised; "Ah man, those other kids must've taken it! Oh well, I'm out of candy anyways, so get lost."

[Irishbookish]

I'm back here to moan...I feel ill. I ate a few sweets in between kiddy-callers tonight. Ewww....

[Jon]

Put out candy bucket with a little "take one" sign. Leave it empty and if anyone asks where the candy is, act all surprised; "Ah man, those other kids must've taken it! Oh well, I'm out of candy anyways, so get lost."

I saw a brilliant sweet bowl in the supermarket with a hand that swept down and nudged whoever had their hand in the bowl - I thought it's make a great food bowl for our cats, Mrs Me didn't

[NewJerseyRich]

Most days i'm good, I can hande all the BS but lately...........I F**K'IN HATE MY JOB!! (then i remember, be glad you still have one)

[Heather]

I am so annoyed. The traffic was horrendous on the way home from work due to the torrential rain we have been having in Liverpool for the last four days, which has caused flooding in some areas (very unusual for Liverpool I must say), so I'm not happy about that, took me over half an hour to get home.

Anyway, we decided to go brave the mud and go to the local firework display, which is in the park next to our house. We stood at the back of the crowd, across the road that runs through the park to watch and just a couple of minutes into the show, some fecking eejit throws a firework missing us by inches, which goes rocketing into the crowd. I don't think anyone was hurt, but a little girl standing yards away from me was very upset, her mum had to take her home. Spoilt it for me, I wasn't really watching the fireworks, I was watching what was going on behind me mostly.

What the feck is wrong with these people, are they completely brainless or what, how would they feel if a member of their family had been in that crowd and got hurt, or would they even care?

[RICHB]

I am so annoyed. The traffic was horrendous on the way home from work due to the torrential rain we have been having in Liverpool for the last four days, which has caused flooding in some areas (very unusual for Liverpool I must say), so I'm not happy about that, took me over half an hour to get home.

Anyway, we decided to go brave the mud and go to the local firework display, which is in the park next to our house. We stood at the back of the crowd, across the road that runs through the park to watch and just a couple of minutes into the show, some fecking eejit throws a firework missing us by inches, which goes rocketing into the crowd. I don't think anyone was hurt, but a little girl standing yards away from me was very upset, her mum had to take her home. Spoilt it for me, I wasn't really watching the fireworks, I was watching what was going on behind me mostly.

What the feck is wrong with these people, are they completely brainless or what, how would they feel if a member of their family had been in that crowd and got hurt, or would they even care?

And as im from the same city as Heather i'll add my two peneth. I work for the local authority and one of the (many many) things I answer the blower about is tourism. Yesterday afternoon it goes ape shit with calls coming through saying "is the firework display still taking place" now obvioulsy fair enough some people had seen the weather and thought it was best to check. Eventually we put a message onto say look its definately taking place so no point in hanging about in the queue so on your bike (I dont think the recorded message said that but you follow my drift). However the calls continued with people saying "I HEARD THE MESSAGE SAYING THAT ITS DEFINATELY TAKING PLACE HOWEVER IS IT DEFINATELY DEFINATELY TAKING PLACE" I ended up answering calls wtih one word answer "Yessssssssss". Then it turns out one of the local radio stations reported that it was off and people started phoning back saying that it wasnt on and youve just told me half an hour ago it is on??? "Thats because it fukcing is on thats why" Arrrrrrrryhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Luckily im off today ha ha

[Jane]

People who steal food off of me (that I'm not offering) really annoys me. Now don't get me wrong...I'm very generous when it comes to food and I enjoy feeding people, sharing and cooking. But when I have my own plate of food or snack in front of me...it is very much mine. I don't like it when people grab off my plate, try to see what I'm eating, or want some of what I'm eating etc. No f**k off and get your own food you filthy scavenger. In particular, it annoys me at work when I'm trying to have a quiet sandwich, breakfast, crisps/chips, whatever it is...and people come sniffing around my desk like a hungry vulture looking to claw at me until I have nothing left. It nearly happened this morning....and with bacon! Now when I only have three rashers, and I'm hung over and tired, and I walked ALL the way over the cafeteria to pick up this fatty morsel from heaven... that is no time to come pecking around for a piece. I think the culprit could feel the fierceness coming from my every pore and slinked away back from whence they came... good job too!

My husband is a great one for that too. I'll say, I'm cooking french fries do you want any? Then he'll say "no thanks". So I say are you sure, because if you want some, I'll put some in for you, but don't come round my plate trying to take mine alright?!!! Then he looks at me like I'm a demon. Then when the fries are done...he claws up a handful. GGGRRRRRRRRRRRR.....

[Mike from Boston]

I am so annoyed. The traffic was horrendous on the way home from work due to the torrential rain we have been having in Liverpool for the last four days, which has caused flooding in some areas (very unusual for Liverpool I must say), so I'm not happy about that, took me over half an hour to get home.

Heather, in Boston taking over half an hour to get home would be cause for major celebration. A few years ago, there was a sudden afternoon snowstorm,
it me five and a half hours to get home, over two hours just to go the three miles from my office to the highway. Actually I was lucky, if I had been on the other side of campus beyond the main street-say about 1/4 mile, it would have been at least an hour longer.

[Irishbookish]

I have two PET hates at the moment.
1) People sending me forwards which are almost always hoax emails and which people choose not to check on hoax-slayer or whatever - just blindly forward to every single contact in their address book and ignorantly clogging up cyberspace with their inane crap. I'd rather get an email from them saying, 'Hey how are ya??'
If I don't have time to check them on hoax-slayer I delete them but usually I do and will reply to sender saying this is a hoax please don't send me any junk and you probably shouldn't be sending them to anybody else. BUT they still send them?!?!
2) A foreign representative British Gas ringing for the past owner of my house every week for the past two years despite me eventually threatening them with certain unemployment. The calls go like this:
This is British Gas calling, is Mrs. Gottajob there?
Nope, she sold up two years ago.
Oh, well can I be speaking to her then please?
No...because she doesn't live here anymore.
Mrs. Gottajob...can I be speaking to her please, Madam?
NO, she's DEAD. (she isn't really...)
Oh...are you the owner of the house?
YES but I'm NOT Mrs. Gottajob so take me off your blasted list and don't ever, ever, EVER call me again!!! GOT IT?
Yes surely, Madam, I am taking you off the list as we speak. Thanking you. Having a nice day.
Yeah, SURE...till next time.

[Smokey]

There's a certain Outback Steakhouse that will no longer be seeing my family.

Tonight we (me, my siblings, parents, grandma and grandpa, and uncle) went out to celebrate my mom's birthday which was on Friday. We decided that a meal at Outback was the way to go. We're used to waiting, but forty-five minutes is just a little fucking long. What killed me was that a much larger party was seated before us even though they came after us. A hostess informed my dad that we could do a "call-ahead" next time, which doesn't even guarantee a seat. Part of our long-awaited table requires 3 coasters to steady it. When it finally comes time to order, we're informed that they're out of prime rib. I wanted to cry. My ribeye wasn't bad, and my dad thought the rack of lamb was OK. Mom's birthday ribeye turned out well and my uncle tolerated his sirloin. A manager comes to talk to us and we explain how after an exhausting wait we were very disappointed to find out they didn't have what we wanted. She explains to us that they must estimate how much meat to order for each night, and that they ran out just as we were seated. She also said that things have really been picking up after football season. I thought to myself, Really? Football season started how long ago and you still can't correctly guess your meat quantity? We may have gotten some free desserts and possibly a little off the bill, but they can't buy us back to that particular restaurant.

[firehazard]

People sending me forwards which are almost always hoax emails and which people choose not to check on hoax-slayer or whatever...

Lawdy yes. And, almost worse, I've just had a virus warning email forwarded from the head office of one of the companies I work for. It took about 30 seconds for me to establish incontrovertibly that it was a hoax. I responded to the director's PA who'd sent it out, pointing out to him that this was a pile of crap, and he told me that it had been forwarded to him and that he didn't possibly have time to check whether such emails were hoaxes or not, so he, poor soul, had to make the astonishingly complex decision as to whether to send it on or risk not doing so in which case loads of people's PCs might doubtless be destroyed in some fiendish way. I told him how long it had taken for me to check it out, and that the firm were paying for my wasted time anyway, and that if he thought about it for a moment he might realise that the use of random multicoloured fonts and LOADS OF CAPITALS in the email might have given him a clue that it might just possibly be a hoax. Grumpy old me has no patience whatsoever today. Not the best start to the working week. I shall now go off and growl quietly to myself for a while.

[MissWalshy]

Have a cuppa firehazard, you'll feel better