Pet hates that niggle mums
Mothers in Lincolnshire are fed up of life's little niggles, with a raft of gripes being revealed in response to results of a new survey.
Top of the pile in the national poll, carried out by TheBabyWebsite.com, is when family members dump dirty clothes next to the washing basket.
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Toothpaste in the sink is so annoying
While other annoyances include narrow shopping aisles, nursery fees and leaving dirty mugs around the house.
But locally it seems the biggest bugbear is selfish childless drivers who take up supermarket parent and toddler parking spaces.
Sarah Rackham, from Bunker's Hill in Lincoln, said the inconsiderate nature of others had become a real problem for her when she took her 21-month-old daughter Maisy Gray to the shops.
"It's something so petty," she said.
"But when you pull up at Tesco's and you see someone in one of the spaces getting out without children, it's very annoying.
"I've asked them to move before but people just walk off.
"Another bug bear is that I don't have enough time to myself."
Top 50 Bug Bears
1. Dirty clothes dumped next to the washing basket
2. Toothpaste in the sink
3. Over-flowing bins
4. Wee on the toilet seat
5. Skid marks in the toilet
6. Tissue left in pockets in the wash
7. Leaving empty toilet roll holders
8. Toilet seat left up
9. Empty cartons and boxes in the back of the cupboard or fridge
10. Leaving wet towels on the bathroom floor
11. Automated phone calls
12. Crumbs in the butter
13. Lack of time to get everything done
14. Shoes lying in the hallway
15. Teabags left on the kitchen side
16. Leaving the washing up
17. Pubes in the bath
18. Muddy shoes dumped inside the door
19. Leaving lights on when leaving a room
20. Unopened curtains
21. Leaving dirty glasses and mugs in the bedrooms
22. Overflowing washing baskets
23. Crumbs on a newly vacuumed carpet
24. Lack of 'me time'
25. Shaving hair over the sink
26. Cut bread on the kitchen side
27. Unmade beds
28. Bunched up socks in the wash
29. Thinking about what to cook for dinner
30. Forgetting to clean down the kitchen sides
31. Narrow shopping aisles
32. Partners who never wake up when the children cry in the night
33. Chewing gum on the carpet
34. Wearing shoes in the house
35. Low waist trousers
36. Shops without lifts or escalators
37. Teabags in the sink
38. Strangers commenting on why your child is crying
39. Other mums interfering about how you raise your child
40. Heavy doors
41. Shops with steps at the font door
42. Squeezing the toothpaste tube from the middle not the end
43. Narrow doorways which don't fit pushchairs through
44. Nursery fees
45. Toys scattered over the floor
46. Putting a glass down without a coaster
47. Strangers touching and cooing over your child
48. Skinny jeans
49. Wonky rug
50. School paperwork
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by a child, lincoln
Wednesday, February 03 2010, 11:53AM
“lol selfish breeders, what was your mother thinking?”
by Get lost, you idiot breeders
Tuesday, February 02 2010, 6:44PM
“I'm sick to death of selfish mothers thinking they have the right to park on the double yellows at the top of Scorer Street and cause chaos just because they're dropping their idiot offspring off. Any traffic wardens out there, come along from 8.30 onwards, you'll get your days quota of parking tickets in an hour.”
by Dubai Toni, Dubai
Tuesday, February 02 2010, 5:41PM
“Good point Ray.
Women make the safest drivers" claim those pseudo-Australian birds in the Sheila's Wheels advert.
Well having witnessed them drive backwards with their arms in the air looking the wrong way before allowing a stuffed kangaroo to take the wheel, I would beg to differ”
by Fiona, Lincolnshire, UK
Tuesday, February 02 2010, 5:36PM
“Good lord is this what having kids does to women, drives them to live such boring and non-existent lives they have to witter on about what annoys them? If you wanted more 'me time' you shoudlnt have had children should you? Get a life!”
by Ray Gunn, Lincoln
Tuesday, February 02 2010, 4:04PM
“I have no problem with supermarkets providing wider spaces for mothers with children - women need bigger parking spaces anyway.”
by lynn, lincoln
Tuesday, February 02 2010, 3:19PM
“Most of these niggles/gripes can be overcome quite easily, just teach your children the way you wish it to be done from the very start, that way it will become an automatic reaction, to say, put the top back on the toothpaste etc.
Personally I find it's the 'big kids', like my husband who I have a gripe with. He comes in with muddy shoes when I've just washed the kitchen floor, or drops biscuit crumbs on the furniture when I've just brushed it out, and my worst gripe is, he has more changes of clothes than a baby because he's forever spilling food and drink on them. The list goes on. I obviously failed in my training regime here!”
by Proper Cynic, Here
Tuesday, February 02 2010, 12:30PM
“As a childfree person it's articles like this that make me thankful I never had kids.
Anyway, these women should have considered the consequences before getting themselves knocked up. What did they expect - endless Kodak moments?
If you want to add to the world's overpopulation, stop and read this article. Hopefully it'll make you think twice if it's that awful - and other species which are being pushed out by sheer human numbers might thank you for not breeding.”
by Mrs M, Next Door
Tuesday, February 02 2010, 12:15PM
“Wow some people need to get out more!! As for the comment on people using 'children and parent' parking spaces when they do not have children, I get very annoyed when I see women park there and two fat teenagers get out.
Thankfully my husband and I decided not to have children and we have a fantastic lifestyle!”
by Phil McCrakin, Carholme Road, Lincoln
Tuesday, February 02 2010, 11:35AM
“Well Carra, whilst on Safari I contracted Hook worm and suffer from an advanced severe infection causing anemia, protein deficiency including emaciation, sometimes cardiac failure and abdominal distension with ascites. But, I can tell with high authority that there is nothing worse in this world than an overflowing washing basket.”
by Carra S. Midown, Lincoln
Tuesday, February 02 2010, 11:19AM
“It says here that the Number 1 gripe a woman has is ¿Dirty clothes dumped next to the washing basket¿. However, as a sufferer of a terminal disease I have to disagree somewhat with the result of this survey.”