Grumpy old women thread - have a moan

[Louise Pembroke]

I'm fed up with scaffolding and builders outside my flat, fed up with other people's ineptitude, jealousy or power struggles and fed up with myself.
Fed up with '24' only being shown on Sky cos I don't have it and fed up with Sainsburys not selling Morning Star veggie bacon and orange sorbet

[cherishu2]

My turn then.
Erm fed up cleaning out the shoe cupboard fro the kids to just throw their shoes in within miniutes.

fed up of no wheat free sarnies in the shops.

fed up of all the nice stuff being fattening.

And soooo fed up of not getting a lie in ever

[Vic]

*advance warning - long moan to follow*

Fed up with dissertation-writing, which despite having taken over 4 months of my life is still a long way from being finished and is going to be far from great even if it does ever get finished.

Fed up with Windows 98 and computers that crash 6 times a day for no apparant reason.

Fed up with medical schools that can't see what is wrong with timetabling lectures at 9pm, and who can't tell us what specialist blocks we're doing and where until 3 days before we start, yet expect us to be thoroughly prepared.

Fed up of the student finance people.

Fed up of housemates who have finished for the summer yet who refuse to do any cleaning.

Oh and fed up with Somerfield who didn't have any Ben & Jerry's cookie dough icecream left on Saturday.

Moaning is very therapeutic

[Sweet]

Hehe Vic i love your little dog, hoping though that he isn't chasing Thumper!!! Hehhee!

Yes medical students do get it really bad, along with new SHO's. The ones we have work over a week of twelve hour nights and STILL have to attend three hours of teaching twice a week! That is totally unfair when they have to be back in work the same night. No wonder there is concern over their skills sometimes, but i think they are just dam tired

Sweet X x X

[Vic]

Night shifts followed by daytime teaching sessions... yep, that sounds about right! When we moan we often get reminded that it's ok, you can't work more 168 hours in a week...
hehe, my doggie (who has yet to acquire a name) says he'll try not to chase Thumper

[Peter Stephenson]

Dont get me wrong old people are ok!!

But why do they have to target you with a trolley or umbrella's?Everytime it rains I will be walking down the street and will either be closelined by an umbrella or hit by a trolley? Why do they do this? I believe it may be a secret attack on young people!!

[Andrew MacLean]

I'm fed up with the absence from television of a programme called "perfectly agreeable older men".

I'm fed up with the prejudice of my son who imagines that I have to be grumpy because I am old (or does he say "old because you are grumpy"?)

But I am delighted that Lou has launched a string that will allow people to get issues off their chests.

By the way I am the overweight old guy in the supermarket who picks up a bag of potatoes and exclaims £1 7s 4d for a bag of potatoes, then puts them back, only to be sent out again because his wife still thinks they need potatoes!

[GarethB]

In the sweet and pleasant land of Scotland, I thought you would be growing your own.

£1 7s 4d is extortionate, can't you use the left overs from the chippie?

[Andrew MacLean]

Gareth

I did grow my own potatoes at one time, but the problem was that they were only pickable at the very moment when potatoes were at their cheapest (and nicest) in the shops. I gave up on all the furrowing, hoeing, earthing up and weeding.

I quite enjoy a curmudgeonly little rant in the supermarket, so I guess there may be some merit in the description 'grumpy'.

Still I liked Lou's little rant (above), but I don' have scaffolding around my house

Andrew

[Louise Pembroke]

Andrew, given you are on the Grumpy old WOMEN thread do I take it you are sitting there Terry Jones Python style in dress, curlers with that high pitched man- speaking-as-woman Python style?!!
If you are, please could say my fav line; 'He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy!!'