Arrrrrgh!

Don't you just love it when you've only been in bed two minutes and someone's bloody car alarm starts going off! That's what happened last night just before midnight. Weeow Weeow Weeow Weeow Weeow! What gets me is that the whole of Richmond Avenue can hear it, yet the owner of the car couldn't. It went on for ages. John even got up and went outside to investigate but the car was right down the other end of the street. I ended up putting cotton wool in my ears - I couldn't bear to close the windows coz it was so hot. Finally it stopped about 20 minutes later. Hoorah! Now I can get some sleep......... .Just as I felt myself drifting off, one of my cats (who must have snuck out when John went investigating), starting meowing from the ledge outside the window. ARGH! I opened the window wider so she could jump up and get in but did she wanna know?! I gave up and went back to bed. Just as I was drifting off for the second time, the cat annoyingly started meowing again. I couldn't be bothered to go downstairs, turn of the alarm, open the door, let the cat in and then turn the alarm back on. So I tried the window again and this time she jumped in. I promptly scooped her up and chucked her out of the bedroom. Surprisingly she didn't start meowing at the door. That, she would leave until the morning before I was due to get up!

I'm now adding car alarms to my 'Grumpy middle age woman list' which is basically stuff which irritates me and make me go ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!

The existing list is as follows:

1. Pregnant women who smoke - I mean, just how selfish can you be?
2. Smoking in general - yuck
3. People with clipboards in the high street (promotions, surveys, catalogues etc) BOG OFF!
4. Drivers who don't indicate
5. Parents who don't strap in their kids in the back on the car - just how ignorant are you?!
6. Parents who ignore their kids when they're speaking to them
7. Grand prix motor racing (mainly the sound of it)
8. Any form of cruelty to animals (needless to say, the same applies to children)
9. People who don't venture anywhere other than Spain or Greece for their holiday - there IS a world out there you know!
10. Neighbours with big gobs
11. Pigeon shit on my car, especially when it's blackcurrant colour
12. When justice isn't done, ie appropriate punishment for criminals
13. When you fancy a particular thing to eat, then go to cupboard and you don't have it
14. Councils who dig up green fields and replace them with hideous housing estates or roads
15. Crap customer service - does anyone care these days?
16. Printers, fax machines and photocopiers that don't do what you've asked them to
17. Parents who feed their kids crap because they're too lazy to cook
18. Mariah Carey
19. Spitting
20. Rudeness and foul language
21. People who take up the whole of the pavement and don't move even though they can see
you coming
22. My local Asda - it's such a shithole. They don't look like that on the telly.
23. Bad grammar, spelling errors and incorrect use of punctuation (or lack of it)
24. Getting up in the morning and that nasty sound which is the alarm clock
25. People with no common sense, especially work related
26. People who use mobile phones whilst driving
27. Mess and disorganisation
28. People who barge into your back when waiting in a queue (usually in the Post Office)
29. Door to door salespeople - BOG OFF! If I want something I'll pursue it myself!
30. Jehovah's witnesses - I'd like to choose my own religion thanks
31. Junk mail, especially flyers from poxy pizza places - I must get one every other day!
32. People who basically don't give a shit about anyone else
33. When a certain person I live with gets something out and doesn't put it away again
34. Body odour. Believe it or not, deodorant HAS been invented.
35. Unreliability
36. Footballers who dive
37. Rap and hiphop - one day I may actually slit my wrists
38. Stupid and lazy people who park across our drive
39. People who say to vegetarians 'why is it that veggies eat stuff that looks like meat?' Like we have a choice? We buy what there is available! And why slag us off anyway? Are we not allowed to have principles?
40. Chelsea FC, Manchester Utd and Arsenal
41. When the internet is slooooooooooooow, and when blogger is playing up (which is next to always)
42. Parents who don't adequately dress their kids in winter, mostly the lack of gloves. It's particularly annoying when the adult IS actually wearing gloves!
43. People who slag off Big Brother but have never watched it
44. Girls who walk around fiddling with their mobile phones as if it's an extension of their arm - you can let go you know!
45. Constant sniffing. GET A TISSUE & BLOW IT!!!
46. People who deliberately drop litter
47. People who eat whilst speaking to you on the telephone
48. Bingo
49. Drink driving
50. Last but not least, those poxy car alarms

There's probably even more, but I'm gonna have to add them as and when I think of them or when something new makes me go ARRRRRGH!

I feel better now - it's good to get things off your chest now and again, don't you agree?!!!