Things dat Trivyully Annoy You (part whatever) *MOD WARNING IN OP* NEW

My TA for today ( I'm a poet ) is I feel sick. Not too bad , but slightly nauseous. I'm sitting with a basin beside me in case I have to hurl . I'm also freezing and I can't seem to warm up.

More than a TA.

Received a call this morning from an organisation that received a referral for providing additional homecare supports for me and my late father in Dec last year. "Just touching base to see how ye're coping and what supports your Dad might need" He is dead since late January. I went through her for a shortcut and she started with the usual excuses and buckpassing that I have come to expect at this stage, so I hung up the phone. I was crying out (literally) for help during his last few months and it's taken til APRIL to get back to me. When I hadn't heard anything I assumed the PHN had passed on the relevant info to them (ie., he's now RIP) but no. And that's just more of the slackness isn't it?

It's extremely distressing to receive this kind of communication by phone or mail when you're grieving - can these people not do some due diligence and make some background enquiries before they blunder in ( he was very elderly and unwell when she received that referral so it was a very likely scenario that he would have died by now)and cause unnecessary distress?

Everything is hollowed out to maximised profits. Turns society into a money grabbing selfish dumb machine.

I want to try Earl Grey tea but I dont want to buy a whole pack and equally dont want to pay for a single cup in a cafe either.

Additional TA, the P key on my work laptop has started to be sticky. I've to press and hold it to make it work.

This…its prevalent at every garage you visit. Two days ago, the maxol in santry, you can’t drive around the car at the pump in front of you, too tight…. Fella goes in and was seven minutes gone… comes out, multiple newspapers, magazines, loaf of bread, drinks, walking at about 8 steps a minute as he’s humongous and trying to hold the phone to his ear…and carry himself and all that….struggles as he obviously didn’t want to pay for a bag. A two pump garage…that’s very good value for petrol but insanely expensive for incidentals….

there was a free parking at his 12 o clock about a six meter drive away. One needed to presume he kept everyone waiting to save himself the 25 or so extra steps….

That for very basic maths I now need to double check it on my phone .

Oh i get that , where I know what i mean but not how to say it. I was counting my tablets. They’re in a blister pack in either lines of 2 or 3 . I take 6 a day so easy enough to count 2 x 3 times a day + 1 wen needed . But my simple mental arithmetic is completely shot

People who put their recycling in refuse sacks. The My Waste slogan is literally "Clean, dry, loose".

Cleaning/wet wipes with plant-based fibres - the effin' STATE of the place now with the sheer amount of poxy fibre dust they leave everywhere 🤬

Think I'll just soak a roll of Bounty in Milton and use that instead.

Coffee shops using non-regular milk without any warning 🤮

That reminds me of how, many years ago when I was in college, a friend had given me a loan of a book that he bought in a secondhand bookshop in Dublin. He said not to bring it into any of the university's libraries because it would set off the alarm (it was originally 'taken' from the University of Nottingham, I seem to remember). Of course the two days I brought it in, I went to multiple libraries before remembering about the book, leading to multiple beeps and (attempted) searches. 🙄

(End of 30+ year old TA)

The intermittent low hum from my floor . It’s like someone using a small hammer drill to drill holes . It’s not loud but I don’t know what it is and it’s very annoying in a trivial way .

I get that if i buy beer. I used to go back in but now I just walk on feeling slightly embarrassed for no reason.