Grumbles!
My dear friend Chris over at Thinly Spreadtagged me a while ago for a meme about what makes me grumpy. I have to admit that some of them make me cross not just grumpy! Here is my list which I’m happy to say was difficult to reach 7!
1. My biggest grumble is about the rudeness of mankind towards their fellows. (There are a few posts around this topic at the moment – a good one at Typecast )Why can’t people say thank you when doors are held open for them? Why, when asking for something, the phrase is now ‘Can I get…’? What happened to ‘Please may I have..’? There is no distinction between ages either. The elderly folk who we often meet on our Wednesday picnics visiting National Trust properties can be really aggressive, especially when armed with a walking stick!
2. As those of you who read my blog will know, we have a bit of a problem with cars & our road. so the next one on my list is not being able to park outside my house. I pay the council tax so ………………………..
3.The next grumble is also about houses. It concerns curtains. I don’t know what it is about undressed windows but I find it really annoying that people do not hang their curtains correctly. Do they not realise that the rest of us have to look at them!
4. Still in ‘residential’ mode, another gripe is the way the dustmen refuse operatives throw the recycle boxes around. We are very diligent about trying to follow the rules & put the right thing in the right box. However, the dustmen just throw them across the road when they have emptied them resulting in boxes being smashed & in the wrong place. So much for recycling!
5. As a blogger, I’m reliant on the PC & then the internet. One of my bug-bears is the slowness of my broadband on occasions. It really makes me grind my teeth at times but I suppose that may be more to do with my impatience than anything else!
6. I know many of my readers are mums with little ones but another of my grumbles is the thoughtlessness of the Buggy Driver. You take your life in your hands at times walking down the road. The ‘vehicles’ can be as large & as uncontrollable as wheel barrows it seems to me. They are taking up more & more room with all the attachments they now have. You sometimes are surprised that the kitchen sink isn’t unpacked when they stop to feed the little button! I realise that this grumble is of course linked to my first one. It is the driver rather than the contraption I suppose but manufacturers should take a little time to consider the spaces that parents have to manoeuvre in. Perhaps we need ‘L’ plates to indicate driving experience!
7. My final thought is only a tiny grumble really & it is aimed at fellow bloggers! I wish you would all have a facility for people to subscribe via email. I find it so much easier to keep track of your great blogs that way. I forget to look at a reader or feeds! Pretty please!
I am not going to tag anyone with this meme as I know it has done the rounds but if you feel like a rant – you have my permission!
Oh I see! Sorry, wasn’t thinking!
like 4-wheel drive vehicle like buggy i find.
sorry to the 4-wheel drivers out there.
Actually i’m not very
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I think you may have lost some of this comment!
i didn’t i’m afriad. the last line was meant to infer “Actually i’m not very (sorry t the 4-wheel drivers out there)
i was being a bit rude, totally uncharacteristic
:>)
Yup, agree with every one of them! The curtain thing is a bit of a bug bear along with unkempt property…have a look back at this post to remind you of the view from my bedroom window
http://christinemosler.wordpress.com/2010/03/31/outside-my-front-door/
He’s now got a catering fridge dumped there by the Indian take away next door because he cares so little…..oh no, off I go again!
And manners…oooh, don’t get me started!
Thanks for doing this, great post! xxx
I think there should be a clause in rents/mortagages that says you have to keep the place in a reasonable condition! You should have stood for parliament!
Oooh, agree with so many of these. The internet speed one made me catch my breath, I am so reliant it is a bit scary. I will also go check that my feeds are up and running, never thought about it before:) Jen.
Thank you for popping by & looking to check subs. I’t probably me being lazy!
hello lovely – thank you for linking in my post about manners 🙂
After reading your #7 I have just spent the last half hour adjusting my subscription availablility and added an email subscription option. See, moaning does work sometimes 😉
Hope you are pleased with the subs via email now!
Great grumbles! Our ‘refuse operatives’ are total nazis – if there’s one thing in the recycling that’s wrong, they leave the whole lot (I didn’t know we couldn’t recycle yoghurt pots and couldn’t work out why they took everyone’s recycling except mine!).
I know what you mean about email subscriptions too, I’d like that (although I need to rush back and check that I even offer it myself!!)
xx
Yep! They have a real sense of power I think! That you for stopping by!