get it off your chest here

[tedebear]

thanks CTS and MB - luckily they found Dad's cancer relatively early - he's got an op on Tuesday to remove it, nightmare surgical procedure though...fingers crossed...just feel awful that I'm half way round the other side of the world - feel helpless!! The stats are pretty good for my Dad though Meades - glad to hear your Mum beat it - thats great news!!

 

[Italiaseagull]

Good luck tedebear, I lost my dad to cancer, so hope all goes well! Next time someone drops a briefcase on your foot, throw it out the train window!

 

[Reading Posh]

Six pint milk containers, the number of times I've opened one up to milk my tea in the morning and ended up with three pints over the kitchen surface

 

[Meade's Ball]

Ah its good they caught it early. Operations are always pretty horrid, but then its just a case of recuperating and he'll back to his old self in a while. Maybe even feeling better.
I know my mum does now after battling for the last 5 years.
She took a holistic approach and decided that her immune system had to be boosted so she spends a bit on the right diet and seeing nutritionists etc. I know it always made her feel a bit more in control because it was something she could join inwith in the fight.

If it comes to it, always best to deal with the specialists, like at the Royal Marsden in Kensington.

 

[daveyboybhafc]

Sorry to hear about your dad, hope he gets better soon.

 

[Brady's Old Lady]

Another Train one: People sitting opposite you on trains in the face to face seats who seem to think that all of the space between the seats is for their legs, and glare at you when you try and position yours somewhere vaguely comfortable.

 

[CHAPPERS]

I was asleep on a train once with my legs tucked under me coming back from Nottingham on the thameslink train. I was awoken by someone shaking me so that he could sit down. I moved my legs. Hethen asked me to wipe the seat off. My feet weren't even on the fucker. I refused and he sit down in a huff taking up halk of my seat only to get off at the next station.

f***ing Londonerd, no f***ing manners whatsoever.

 

[Curious Orange]

Having a job you really enjoyed, and then being made redundant.

 

[Hiney]

Shop Assistants chewing gum and having a conversation with another shop assistant whilst you're standing in front of them.

Ignorant shits

 

[Highfields Seagull]

The Women in the swimming pool yesterday that complained her hair was getting wet.

DONT GO IN THE 'KING POOL THEN YOU SILLY COW!

On the same theme, (usually fat) women swimming 4 abreast up the pool as slow as they can, chatting away as if they're at a WI meeting. They are almost impossible to get around, then moan if you splash them while trying.

 

[JEM]

heres a simple one of which we are all guilty:
Customers
I was in customer service type jobs for many years and some of the stupid and most annoying things customers come out with, also when the product they bought is faulty yet they put all the blame on you as if you made it...and we've all done that to a shop person before hav'nt we

The chances of actually complaining to someone of any importance or relevance is zero, so it's natural for people to vent their spleen at customer service bods. It may not feel nice because it's not their/your fault, but it's what they're there for. Having worked in these positions, you must have realized that!

 

[Harold]

leaving work tired, stressed, knackered only to see masses of scruffy soap-dodging, work-shy locals ambling back from the beach still clutching a can of cheap cider. Maybe a few grubby kids. Maybe a dog. Roll-up on the go. Not a care in the world.

Nothing quite like working in an office through the few hot days we get each year to support these lazy feckers.

 

[fatbadger]

Shop Assistants chewing gum and having a conversation with another shop assistant whilst you're standing in front of them.

Ignorant shits

Customers chewing gum and having a conversation with another customer whilst you're serving them.

Ignorant shits.

 

[CHAPPERS]

When i was a barman i always found it extremely irritating when you are serving someone and they either..

a) piss off somewhere and don't come back for ages
b) Decide that they are going to take the drinks one by one to their table
c) Start chatting to someone else at the bar when you are trying to give them their change or ask them something

Could go on. After that i always try and be courteous because it gets really annoying.

 

[JEM]

Any number of people walking down the street linking arms or holding hands who think the street is theirs and expect you to walk in the road to get past.

Also people who come out of shops in a busy street and stop right in your path to check their bag for something or other.
Do it in the shop! Or f*** off out of my way!

It's infuriating trying to get somewhere in a hurry on a busy street. People dawdle around at various speeds, with a trajectory not dissimilar to an ant you might observe travelling up your garden path.
There should be lanes on pavements like on roads. A fast lane for people who actually want to go somewhere, a slow lane for pensioners and ditherers, a lane right by the shops for the window shoppers anongst you, and a pushchair lane.
It would work.