Grumpy people make me feel grumpy.

Blimey, they're out in force today it must be the weather!

Reported

Message deleted by Gransnet for breaking our forum guidelines. Replies may also be deleted.

People who call me by my first name automatically, without knowing me or being invited to do so. My French friends wouldn't have dreamed of "tu"ing me on first acquaintance.

Our postal service certainly halted (not so much ground - more abrupt) when we had a bit of snow. In fact the postman wasn't seen for two whole weeks during the winter of 2012-2013.

However this OAP managed the steep hill up into town every day. So I'd put our postie on my Grumpy List.

Whoops! I have already mentioned the cup. About a month ago.

I wonder if you can buy that cup. DH has a birthday coming up.

You shouldn't "toss" magazines without taking them out of their plastic wrappers. You will mess up the council's recycling system.

The way that people say the whole country grinds to a halt after two centimetres of snow when, actually, it doesn't <<< just as an example of irritating exaggerations that people go in for.

Rage is one thing but grumpy is something quite different and totally insignificant. There are many things in this world that rightly make people angry and they are sometimes then spurred to try to make a difference and find a solution to injustice, famine, greed, cruelty or whatever. Grumpy is just a kind of cosy and self-reassuring fed-upness that is really a private thing in one's own life, whether annoyance with the person on the check-out till or a doctor that calls you "dear". Easily got over and not worth worrying about – or writing about.

Too much packaging on all goods [I thought they were going to try and reduce them?]Any food that is 'fun sized' [disappointingly tiny sized.]
Staff who ask you how your food is every 5 minutes when out for a meal [once is enough.] Supermarket packs of biscuits [always broken.]
People on trains and buses who put bags/luggage on the next seat to themselves [as if this will keep me off!]Anything that is done for 'the convenience of the customer' [it never is.]Trying to find anywhere to park the car [in London.] Bank staff who ask you sweetly 'if there is anything else they can help you with today?'when your transaction is done[no, otherwise I would be asking.]Phone calls that start with 'we hear you have had an accident?' [No I haven't , but you bloody will in a minute!] Buses that turn up routinely 15 minutes late [when they are supposed to be running a half hourly service.]The way that the whole country grinds to a halt when we have 2cms of snow. I could go on.....
but I won't.

After taking ten minutes to write my previous short post, I want to add predictive text to my list of grump inducing things.

'Ah Henbane, how I agree about those blasted blister packets for pills. Not only are they awkward, they are dangerous. I've lost count of the number of times I've got one of those small but deeply painful little cuts from the sharp foil edges.

only 15? How about endless leaflets about making a will? or Saga Holidays which dropped through my door on my 60th birthday. How annoying are shop staff who call you dear, especially when Im sure they're older than me.
OK, now I'm getting cross. I'm going to shuffle back to the TV and watch old film with the subtitles on. Am I hell! I'm doing something completely different, and it involves black lace.

I don't know where you got that idea from, Jaxie.
The February 2015 edition of the Oldie has articles by Nicholas Farrell and Liza Campbell featured in the front cover.
There are also articles by Rachel Kelly, Raymond Briggs, Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Alan Rusbridger and Lucinda Lambton, and lots of others.

I have heard of some of them, but I doubt if any of them would like to be referred to as 'celebrities'.

Like Phoenix, the Oldie rejected me - well, my idea for small articles to be submitted by readers, who would be paid for their short anecdotes. I have several which have been pronounced hilarious at dinner parties. The idea of the oldie Editor, that readers only want to read stuff penned by celebrities is totally wrong. I understand they don't want the Oldie to turn into Readers Digest, but there's literary snobbery afoot here.

You get a better class of bruise in waitrose.
Seriously though loopylou, hope you are soon better.
Some shoppers are really inconsiderate and no mistake.

No. 3 definitely but also in supermarkets...I'm sporting a 6 inch long blue bruise on my hip from a 'gentleman' in Waitrose yesterday who not only barged into me with his shopping basket but having knocked me flying turned round and said 'Get out of my way'! My friend and I were speechless......

10 I am absolutely sure the print used to be bigger . I've tried squinting, taking glasses off etc now have to resort to printing out the maps I need, A to Z heading for charity shop

11 definitely.
Tesco used to stock The Oldie so I picked up a copy now and again and enjoyed it.
Not seen the mag for a while though.

I could add another dozen to these easily, but it's the gremlin in the house I have issues with. We have had one for donkey's years and it is no use being grumpy with it, it doesn't respond. It behaves much better if asked politely to return the missing article(s). My DGS stayed recently and one of his socks managed to find its way under the large throw covering the settee and right to the middle, not just under the edge.

My best anticipated Christmas present is the yearly subscription to the Oldie from my daughter. It was always enjoyably witty and irreverent under Richard Ingrams and I was worried when he was forced out. The new editorial staff have taken a bit of time to get up and running into form but it is getting there.

John Sutherland - you should READ The Oldie, not chuck it away. It is a very good publication - informative, educational (yes - even for grumpy old men) and funny.

I got the Oldie for a couple of years. It is definitely not like Saga - The contributors are old but most of them were controversial and iconoclastic when they were younger, and have not repented. Some of it is distinctly acerbic. No stairlifts or fascinating new hobbies. No articles on what colour eyeshadow goes best with white hair and wrinkles.

It got a bit repetitive after reading it for a few years, and when I found issued from two months past still in their plastic wrappers, I cancelled my subscription.

I think I still have some old copies stowed away somewhere. If anyone would like a taster, I can post you one.

Alleluyah! So i'm not the only one who spends her life dodging all the pedestrians who seem to consider they have right of way! As for mumbling actors on TV, add on totally unnecessary background music and the fact that half the channels don't seem to do subtitles. And has anyone found a way of getting subtitles on programmes they've recorded, which DO have them when watched at the time of transmission?
Then cartons and the such like.... even worse are the 'safety' caps which have to be gripped at the sides and pressed down on top at the same time. If only I could invent a device to do this for me I'd be a millionaire and happily pay any tax you like!!
As for the Oldie - never seen it, but my ex husband's 'revenge' was to make me a life member of Saga, so I got their magazine for years until I said I'd receive it digitally and it's never appeared - Hooray! I don't want to hear about loads of OAPs who have developed this fascinating hobby or become a wonderful - if smug- volunteer, or as mentioned, read loads of adverts for things I dont want, or cruises I can't afford.
I make no apology for being a grumpy old sod - I did try not to be. Never normally make NY resolutions but this year I decided that I was becoming too much of the stereotypical grumpy old git so resolved to try and be more positive.
Woke up on New Year's Day to find the boiler wasn't working. That was the end of that!!