ROOM 101

Particularly if they have no children, only a cat or dog!

Married couples who call each other mummy and daddy, non relatives called auntie or uncle - it's just not right!

Ana Yes!

Ella - you must bring out the nit-picker in us!
(not really )

For feetlebaum...use-by/best before whatever.......... just eat it!

Cold callers who ignore my sign saying

WE DO NOT NEED
Double glazing, home extensions, life assurance, home security
Cavity wall insulation, religious groups,
A new kitchen, central heating, financial advice, solar panels, market research..
DON'T KNOCK, DON'T CALL, DON'T RiNG

Letter boxes that almost take your hand off. I'm sure that posties across the land will agree with that. I have just cut myself on my neighbour's letter box, delivering a letter that had come to me by mistake. I used to come across a lot of these in my political activist days and had many a broken nail as a result. Have just checked mine which, I'm glad to say, is not quite so impenetrable.

"Sorry, guys"....to a long queue of mainly elderly ladies (older than me!), when there was a problem at the till in Iceland.

Haha yoga great minds. I'm glad it's not only me! You'd think the programmers would know. I shake my head.

Grannyknot . You got there before me

Trailers and "voice overs" that butt in to the end of the programme that you have been watching and totally destroy the amosphere

The woman on SKy who starts shouting about what's coming next, just when you're enjoying the final song in the soundtrack.

Credit titles at the end of television programmers that roll so quickly or zoom to a small size that you cannot possibly read them

(I know there's an earlier thread on it, but) is it only me or is the new series of Silent Witness dire? All that soft focus on trembling lips, accompanied by awful music - and once again what actually are the main characters supposed to be doing? Because they seem to want to do the police work, possibly because they don't appear to have enough to do. Room 101.

I have a friend who not only puts on a little girl voice but also refers to her, deceased, parents as mummy and daddy - she is in her early 60s. It does annoy me - especially when she does her silly voice in restaurants, but she is the kindest, sweetest person so I forgive her little affectations.

Ant and Dec; Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond - I'll keep James May.

no it wasn't. it was Fondasharing

that was in respond to Fontana's post btw.

I think my son calls me "mummy" most of the time. He's 31 (or perhaps 32). I remember going through a period when I would jump on it every time - when he was about twenty. "You cannot call me "mummy" any more!" Didn't do any good.

I quite like it now.

DD2 calls me by my christian name. Especially in busy shops, when she barks it out!

DD1 is the only normal one.

The recent trend of saying yeh/no whenever someone is asked a question. It is spreading like wildfire.

Od dear grumppa off to room 101 I go ! I am guilty of responding that " I am good thanks" when asked how I am ! Sorry.

Can I add the term " no bother" which is said so often and completely out of context .

Oh, yes, anyone who asks you to do something "for me" (I had it at the optician's yesterday - blink for me). Yes again to Bruce Forsyth. People who start looking for their bus pass after they get on the bus. The expressions "laters" and "soz". Many more but I won't get started!

Barmen/women who say "Are you all right there?" when it is perfectly obvious that I am standing at the bar and would like to order a drink. I am not ill, just thirsty!

And people who say "I'm good" when I ask how they are; I'm enquiring after their health, not their moral wellbeing.

Drivers who are drive so close you think they are trying to park on your back seat, people in supermarkets who always seem to stop in front of the exact spot I want to get to, radio and TV announcers who talk too fast and mumble (could be I am going deaf!), all "reality" programmes, automated answering by companies where they tell you to press 1 for this 2 for that and 5 minutes later you still haven't managed to speak to a real person.

Yes, its official, I am a grumpy old woman

Miceelf next time that happens, write "there".