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What Is Your Self Afflicted Annoyance

duke said:
One of mine is walking to get cart for shopping only to remember I forgot a coin for the cart. So back to the vehicle I go.
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We used to have that in the UK but most supermarkets now have done away with that AFAIK.

My self-afflicted annoyance is forgetting what it was I'd just walked into the room to collect.
 
Mine is checking whether I have locked the door, while knowing I did. I can't count the times I walked back to check after having locked a door just seconds before. I must be daft. Or getting Alzheimer's...
 
I'm quite surprised that no one has put forward their 'other half' 😎... tongue in cheek obviously ‐ but there must be times it has to be considered (by both parties) 😜 🤣
 
Mine is rootling through the freezer to find something to eat when I can't be aced to cook, only to find a ziplock bag of some mush that cannot be identified until I defrost it (and possibly not even then). If only I could learn to label things.
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Steve Maskery said:
Mine is rootling through the freezer to find something to eat when I can't be aced to cook, only to find a ziplock bag of some mush that cannot be identified until I defrost it (and possibly not even then). If only I could learn to label things.
S
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Get some blue painters tape and an indelible felt tip. Every restaurant, including ours, uses this. Takes seconds. It survives chillers and freezers. Sticks to anything and peels off easily. Food Standards Agency expects this so all good restaurants do it. Worth a bit of effort to get stuff used up asap.

Ziplocks don't really prevent freezer burn btw. DIY Vacuum machines are now dirt cheap and so are the bags. Worth it if you freeze a lot of stuff. Lakeland freezer boxes are also v, cheap (UK - I know you are France) stack well and are great for stocks, sorbets etc. They don't crack or go brittle when frozen. We freeze to minus 48 and if they will survive that they will survive domestic freezers no probs.
 
That's a good tip, Adrian, thank you. I do have a vac machine, if only I knew where it is while I'm fitting this everlasting kitchen...
S

PS I do know where the blue tape and the bag rolls are, so that's a start...
 
duke said:
Two of the biggies for me are what is that smell and or noise. Which in my mind are warning signs for possible problems. Drives Jenny nuts.
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That's mine as well. drives the missus nuts when I mute the telly and ask 'what was that?' and then listen for the next 10 minutes only to never hear it again!
 
Stuart said:
That's mine as well. drives the missus nuts when I mute the telly and ask 'what was that?' and then listen for the next 10 minutes only to never hear it again!
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What?? You’re allowed to use the remote? Someone needs to have a talk to your missus, you’re getting away with murder Lol.
 
What I did today which happens more and more nowadays.

Honda ride on sudenly wouldn't run while cutting the grass on Friday but I managed, only just, by holding it on full choke. OK clearly a fuel issue so today a full dismantle of the twin choke carb, no big deal I've done it before. Several hours later after stripping down everything and finding it mucky and a blown solenoid to boot ( I had a spare), I come to put it back on the mower. fiddly and I thought "surely there should be a gasket in there?" but nothing anywhere and everything had been laid out carefully so decided there never was one as the exploded diagram didn't show it. All done, started the machine and it's surging badly.

A lot of swear words and my wife saying for the second time today "just go and buy a new one". Eh, What, ooer missus they cost £5k after discount. :rolleyes: WOMEN.

Enough for today. clear everything away and tidy up only to find the missing gasket sitting in the middle of the bench. It's one of those thin black round ones that press into a groove but I still shouldn't have missed it. More swear words and stomp off for a shower and cool down as it's a good hour's work to fit it.
I'm having to cut the grass every 5 days at the minute so I need to do it PDQ.
 
Lons said:
What I did today which happens more and more nowadays.
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A lot of swear words and my wife saying for the second time today "just go and buy a new one". Eh, What, ooer missus they cost £5k after discount. :rolleyes: WOMEN.
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😎🤔... I rest my case 😎😂😂😂... there are times we are all guilty of this 'self' affliction 😎
 
Taking shortcuts leading to damage or injury even though experience is pleading me not to.
Misplaced laziness?
So far its just Freudian but at some point it will be Darwinian
 
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