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Trivial Things That Annoy You — Rules in Post #1
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I'm in a bit of an argumentative mood today :mad:
Someone gave me jelly beans earlier and I demolished them. Just checked the expiry date. Let's just say they are expired and then some.
I'd bet that it's a Best Before date, not an 'expiry date'. They were more than likely perfectly fine to eat (the fact that you ate them all and didn't notice they tasted odd is a good sign).
People thinking food magically turns bad when the BB date is up is one of my annoyances.
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When my Mum was at end stage cancer, she came home. The community rallied round and people brought up food. There were two particular people who would come in regularly with sandwiches, home made scones, cooked chickens, stews etc. To this day I am grateful for what they did.LexieOnRale wrote: »A lady I know passed away last night.
Huge rush on her Facebook this morning. "Rip Hun you were a true ladie #feelingheartbroken" or the huge long dedications speaking directly to the deceased from people I know were acquaintances, "I'm devastated at the loss of my good friend, you were a great mother and a lovely person and I'll miss you more than I can say" tagging all the woman's kids in it. Wtf!!!
Go to the funeral ffs, don't make it into a Facebook thankswhoring festival
One woman who would be more of an acquaintance than a close friend brought up a stew. Lovely gesture. Until she bumped into my sister. My sister thanked her for the stew and she said something along the lines of "I hear ye threw it in the bin". My sister was thrown off guard and didn't know how to respond. She had no clue what happened to the stew so said something diplomatic like "it was heated up so much that the bottom got burnt and we had to throw that out". The "thoughtful friend" replied with "I hadn't actually heard anything but now I know you threw my food in the bin" :eek: What the actual fcuk. My sister didn't know what to say to that and just walked away.
What is it about some people that they will hijack someone else's sh!tty situation and make it all about them
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I posted this before but when daddy lexie got sick, we kept that on the QT, as he didn't want to be the topic of the "did ya hear himselfs on the way out" gossip. It was completely private until towards the end but my Facebook friends, save for his nieces/nephews and my best friends, wouldn't have known he had cancer much less he was dying. So I'm Facebook friends with an aul one that lived in the U.K. She'd know my dad but wouldn't have seen him in years and wouldn't be close to him. So my dad was given the last rites, was moved to hospice and taken off all meds and started on the morphine pump. It was curtains for him, basically. I changed my profile pic to my fav one of me and him. His niece in oz commented saying it was a lovely pic, to stay strong and how proud he was of me and to remember that. Few other comments of it being a nice pic and thoughts were with us.When my Mum was at end stage cancer, she came home. The community rallied round and people brought up food. There were two particular people who would come in regularly with sandwiches, home made scones, cooked chickens, stews etc. To this day I am grateful for what they did.
One woman who would be more of an acquaintance than a close friend brought up a stew. Lovely gesture. Until she bumped into my sister. My sister thanked her for the stew and she said something along the lines of "I hear ye threw it in the bin". My sister was thrown off guard and didn't know how to respond. She had no clue what happened to the stew so said something diplomatic like "it was heated up so much that the bottom got burnt and we had to throw that out". The "thoughtful friend" replied with "I hadn't actually heard anything but now I know you threw my food in the bin" :eek: What the actual fcuk. My sister didn't know what to say to that and just walked away.
What is it about some people that they will hijack someone else's sh!tty situation and make it all about them
First of all I couldn't believe the people who actually messaged me to ask what's wrong - have a little bit of consideration. But, got a message from this aul one asking what was going on. Explained dad had cancer, was in final stages and was given hours/days. No sooner did I have her told until she had a status up about how devastated she was to hear about her close friend daddy lexie who was being called home to the angels tonight, and how she wasn't ready to say goodbye. She named him and she'd be friends with loads of people from our town. I was devastated but so angry because we had kept my dads private business private and she took it upon herself to announce his impending death for likes and comments.
What I found burying both parents is there's people who seem to get off on the thrill of a sad story. People who wouldn't speak to you on a day to day basis but as soon as there's a tragedy, they're chief mourner. In fact, one man at my dads removal took the time out to sympathise with my brother (he was first I was second) and curiosity got the better of him he couldn't even wait to sympathise with me and move out of the que and gossip with others, he asked my brother straight out what was wrong with my dad, what killed him.
I'm probably over sensitive to it and maybe it's not as crass as I think it is but it really really really grinds my gears. Be that nice to the person when they're alive. Don't wait til they're dead to go to their house to eat sandwiches. Do it when they can enjoy the company.
TA: clearly people who love a good funeral and also my hand is numb0 -
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