LADIES PET HATE THREAD

so the title says "Ladies", humm, see lots of men. Whatever.

Splitting the bill at a restaurant----Well, its all about assertiveness and honesty in my book. if I am out and we come to that junction, I will say, to the group, well I did not have any drinks, so just paying for what I ordered and toss the money on the pile. But, If I did have several expensive drinks, I will also, say, I need to add XX$$ amount due to my martinis' so all you can adjust your lot accordingly as I do not expect you all to pay for my drinks. If you not an assertive person, and you sit and stew about, and add the divided amount announced, well so be it. Buck up honey and chirp up, or you will again the next time go away miffed.

 

speaking of families over for dinner. I am the one that does all the shopping, cooking, gathering of the drink items, setting the table etc. So I try to plan food that can be done so I can sit and relax. With that said. I dislike---that my husband cannot see that his aging mother needs her drink refreshed and attend to it. Do i ask for too much???

I dislike someone even questioning my cooking skills. Example, served baked potatoes to my brother-in-law, he actually asked me if I cleaned the skin of the potato. Right like I am going to put dirty potatoes in the oven and bake them, and then on your plate, what planet do you come from.

So the next time we had baked potatoes and he was there, I point to the one on his plate and said, you see your potato is branded with your initials because i did not wash it.

And dislike family who comes over for dinner, and I have spend weeks planning, and tons of food is every where ready for the eating when they arrive (because that is how I roll) . And they say, Oh we just stopped by Mc donalds and ate, we are not hungry yet. Well,---folks it was 6 years before they got another invite.

 

Remember the day we had friends invited for a BBQ and we prepared loads of food. They were late, so we started without them. Had a few drinks, prepared and started to cook the food, turned on the music, and waited for the five invited guests. More than half an hour later they turned up, they apologised .. they had been hungry and eaten at a restaurant just before they arrived. That was five years ago and they have never been invited to eat with us again, and never will be

 

Simply do not understand @whis4ey the thought process of eating before going to someones house for dinner. Hell, I starve first, looking forward to it. Rude, just Rude. No there is another term for that.

 

Not just ladies pet hate, but continuing the current articles
I usually do Xmas dinner for all, Mum, MIL, mil brood (50year old sons) and off course my/our family, Following year My Mum does it (well me really) The next year it Was MIL turn
"Oh I think it would be nice to go to a Hotel for Christmas dinner", all booked, all took stupid extra presents to give, Rushed through the meal, and out for the second sitting to arrive
Bill arrives, and she passes it to ME (I thought she had arranged it all as her turn) her sons did the going to the toilet bit, I paid the stub, Never again (well it will not anyway as both Mum and Mil have passed)
I enjoy providing Christmas dinner and the effort put into it, but most I enjoy the family relaxing AFTER dinner long into the evening Not chucked out into a Taxi and a bill for 14 people after thirty minutes
Can not drink and drive so guess who got the account from the taxi firm for six taxis going in different 15 mile directions

I am broke and a pensioner, yet one of the Mil breed tells me, he only has half a million saved for his retirement, mostly tax free interest as well invested ISA's
Guess where he is having dinner this Christmas, and staying all in for two weeks
Jacks

Jack McH (Got that of me chest) :-)

 

My pet hate re probable gender discrimination is when I used to drive a lorry and even when I drove a Discovery. Being female many males presumed I couldn't possibly know the dimensions of the vehicles I was driving and often "helped" if I was say parking in a relatively tight spot. I once lost my temper with a ancient old codger who insisted on waving his arms about directing me out of a parking spot in a supermarket car park. After I'd miraculously managed (sarcasm)to get out of the parking space I spied him getting into his car so I stopped leapt out of my car and went to "help" him with much shouting of "back a bit, back a bit, oh be careful you're very close to hitting the next door car" (wasn't really) . He wasn't amused...funny that.

 

Yes, I cannot remember how many years I have driven a car, but my OH continues
to tell me how to PARALLEL PARK !!

I am very confident, and the only time I make a slight
mistake, is when I parallel up to the car and he say's '' you are too near'' .

He does not drive now, and so relies on me to drive him anywhere. He is very panicky,
and say's I am too near to everything !! It's his flipping bad eyesight.

In fact any manoeuvre I do, he has a go. I have told him to get a taxi, if he wants
to go anywhere.

Still it's Christmas, so I will close my rant off, by saying I will try not to have any
hates for next year.

 

Rules are always made to be broken

 

My pet hate is, e.g. "the hot water in not working" "what you mean, the hot water is not working" I clearly mean " there`s no BLOODY hot water", I have a combi boiler so for the pedantics it`s not just the tank empty. Boiler broken.
To clarify it`s the "what you mean" gets me, when I have made in my opinion a very clear statement.

 

When you first get to the restaurant, ask for separate bills... We do this a lot when we're in a large group. I then give a generous tip on my bill to help compensate for the extra work the server has to do

 

Parallel park? You've got to be kidding... Takes me about 5 manoeuvers to get my car into one of those spaces and that's with my little Mustang - won't even attempt with the carrier. Why do they have parking like that? It should all be angle parking on one side of the road so it doesn't need any more road way than the current two sides parallel...

 

A guy who used to work in my group retired last year. He invited us all out to a slap up meal in a posh restaurant and said that he would be footing the bill.

When the bill arrived on the day - he changed his mind/forgot - the bill was split equally and we all paid our share. Now that's naughty - he didn't half get some 'looks'.