General Annoyances
Here are a few of the little things that, on their own aren't that big a deal but, when taken together, and on a daily basis, are like a dripping tap that can send you mad:
1. Preparing things in advance
She always has a cup ready at the side of the kettle with a teabag and sugar in it ready for when she wants a cuppa. Presumably she thinks this is supposed to save time when she wants to brew up. However, given that she will come into the kitchen to boil the kettle, and whilst it is boiling, she will get the next cup ready to leave at the side of the kettle for her next cuppa, how is it saving time? Equally, there will come a day when she will shuffle off this mortal coil and she is not going to be around to benefit from the cup she prepared in advance. She's actually created more effort for herself in the long run!
She always eats at about 5pm each day. However, she prepares her food at about 2.30pm each day - even down to buttering some bread to have with her food.
Before she lived with us, she used to cook the Sunday roast on Thursday so that she knew that it was one less thing she had to do on Sunday.
If she knows that a taxi is coming for her at say 7.00pm, she will put her bags in the hallway at about 6.00pm, then she will open the front door at about 6.15pm and will have her coat on at about 6.30pm. By about 6.45pm she will be looking out of the window and complaining that her taxi hasn't arrived!
2. Stalking
She is obsessed with wanting to know where we are going and when we will be back. If we're out somewhere and she doesn't know where, she will phone around trying to find us. In any other situation this would be considered as stalking and could form the basis for a restraining order!
3. Impatience
She can't bear waiting for something. For example, she might ask me to lift a heavy suitcase down from the top of her wardrobe and I tell her that I'm busy but that I'll do it when I'm finished. It takes no longer than a few minutes for impatience to take hold and she will then struggle to do it herself. When I go into her room to get the thing down, she makes a point of sitting there panting breathlessy with her hand over the region of her heart to make me realise that my tardiness has probably led to her early demise.
4. Aversion to silence
She can't abide it if nobody is saying something. She will start some inane rambling story just to fill in. If I give her a lift into town and have the car radio on listening to music, she feels the need to talk over it and tell me about Bessie's brother's milkman's niece who went to Blackpool for the day and fell over grazing her knee slightly and then came home on the charabanc, which took five minutes longer than usual to get there and then………..
You get the picture? - completely pointless story about someone that neither she nor I know personally, and five minutes of my life I'll never get back.
More to follow when the red mist has subsided...
1. Preparing things in advance
She always has a cup ready at the side of the kettle with a teabag and sugar in it ready for when she wants a cuppa. Presumably she thinks this is supposed to save time when she wants to brew up. However, given that she will come into the kitchen to boil the kettle, and whilst it is boiling, she will get the next cup ready to leave at the side of the kettle for her next cuppa, how is it saving time? Equally, there will come a day when she will shuffle off this mortal coil and she is not going to be around to benefit from the cup she prepared in advance. She's actually created more effort for herself in the long run!
She always eats at about 5pm each day. However, she prepares her food at about 2.30pm each day - even down to buttering some bread to have with her food.
Before she lived with us, she used to cook the Sunday roast on Thursday so that she knew that it was one less thing she had to do on Sunday.
If she knows that a taxi is coming for her at say 7.00pm, she will put her bags in the hallway at about 6.00pm, then she will open the front door at about 6.15pm and will have her coat on at about 6.30pm. By about 6.45pm she will be looking out of the window and complaining that her taxi hasn't arrived!
2. Stalking
She is obsessed with wanting to know where we are going and when we will be back. If we're out somewhere and she doesn't know where, she will phone around trying to find us. In any other situation this would be considered as stalking and could form the basis for a restraining order!
3. Impatience
She can't bear waiting for something. For example, she might ask me to lift a heavy suitcase down from the top of her wardrobe and I tell her that I'm busy but that I'll do it when I'm finished. It takes no longer than a few minutes for impatience to take hold and she will then struggle to do it herself. When I go into her room to get the thing down, she makes a point of sitting there panting breathlessy with her hand over the region of her heart to make me realise that my tardiness has probably led to her early demise.
4. Aversion to silence
She can't abide it if nobody is saying something. She will start some inane rambling story just to fill in. If I give her a lift into town and have the car radio on listening to music, she feels the need to talk over it and tell me about Bessie's brother's milkman's niece who went to Blackpool for the day and fell over grazing her knee slightly and then came home on the charabanc, which took five minutes longer than usual to get there and then………..
You get the picture? - completely pointless story about someone that neither she nor I know personally, and five minutes of my life I'll never get back.
More to follow when the red mist has subsided...
posted by Unknown @ 1:03 pm
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