Gripe of the day - What is yours?

[Red ones]

Football tournaments.
There's a beginning, an end and an out of season for a reason.

Tournaments? Just suck up the few remaining weekends that adults could possibly live the life of adults and not undervalued taxi drivers.
When the hell are adults supposed to enjoy the garden, the deck and BBQ? Chilled white wine or Pimms?
Instead, it's a packet of crisps in a school playing field for 5 hours and the toilet block locked all day.

[Red ones]

And if you want a photo of your kid it's £18

[maviczap]

Waking up with a stinking cold and sore throat. Why now, when the weathers going to be nice!

[Sir Trev]

Barbeques. I'm not against them per se but I do get irritated by snobbish idiots who insist charcoal is the only fuel to use but buy the cheapest rubbish they can that stinks out the whole neighbourhood with paraffin fumes. And then they burn everything... I know it can be done well with 'coal but those who are incapable should be restricted to gas. Except they'd probably blow themselves and the surrounding area up! Morons.

[timwilky]

Kids and their parents.
My grandson is on the autistic spectrum and has behavior problems. He is not easy. But we try to fully include him.
He has just come in in tears. A neighbour's kid in his class has had a birthday party and a group return to his home. On seeing his classmates he went to join them, and was told to go away he is not invited.
Poor kid is in tears. Does not want to go to school tomorrow. If the neighbour's had said about there being a party. One of us would have been there to reign in the little chap if he got OTT. But to exclude him is just cruel.

[Swin]

I think that goes way beyond the gripe spectrum and into the Bloody Furious Spectrum

As a parent of a daughter statemented with Aspergers Syndrome I can fully sympathise with you and your nipper - I feel angry just reading what happened to the poor little kid!

[Red ones]

I have a meeting in town this afternoon which means catching the tube at midday in this weather.

[Bibio]

why are Sundays always forecast for pizzing down. its not fekin fair and starting to pizz me right off. its getting that bad i'm thinking of throwing my bike in the nearest loch.

[pookie]

neighbours that think burning wooden logs will work in their diy incinerator bbq .. I guess after a year they have evolved from using kerosene. I'm hoping they discover Weber exists sometime 2017

[Sir Trev]

Originally Posted by pookie

neighbours that think burning wooden logs will work in their diy incinerator bbq .. I guess after a year they have evolved from using kerosene. I'm hoping they discover Weber exists sometime 2017

Your neighbours and mine must be related.