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- That I really like poppy seeds and spinach , but after eating them I always spend 10 minutes picking unpalatable seeds and bits of green from between my teeth
- That I always forget my habit of putting off filling up the tank until the very last moment when I want to start the car and am in a hurry, which means that I also have to stop at the gas station during a rush.
- That I still can’t type with 2 fingers on my phone and I talk nonsense on WhatsApp when I try.
- Being very proud that you checked the weather forecast and are walking through the city in your raincoat, only to discover that the weather forecast has been adjusted to sunny as a whistle.
- Furniture stores that give a delivery time slot of “somewhere between 7am and 5pm”, which generally means you are out of bed at 6:30am, tense all day and then receive your furniture 5 minutes after 5pm.
- The question “So, do you make a living from that?” when I tell them I’m a freelance copywriter. Why do I get that question, but not a doctor, IT specialist, marketer or teacher?
- Receiving cotton bags with a logo as a gift with an order while you are not really looking forward to adding 10 more of these types of bags to your collection.
- At the end of the day, you realize that your mascara has probably been sitting more under your lashes than on them for about four hours.
9. The YouTube commercial I get shown at every opportunity about how to hang garden lights. While I don’t even have garden lights (or plan to buy them) to do that tutorial with.
- Audiobooks that are 15 hours long , so I don’t even start them.
- That there is such a thing as the silly season and that TV programs apparently assume that you don’t want to watch fun stuff in the summer, while I certainly don’t hang around in an inflatable pool all day long.
- When my mobile phone and navigation tool in one falls under the seat while driving and slides into the back seat at the first bend, forcing me to rely on my own poor navigation skills (which more often than not works out wrong).
- That I can’t pronounce the word “trois” (the French word for 3) properly unless I pinch my nose.
- The “improved recipe” sticker on products that were already very tasty, which means that an improvement usually doesn’t mean much.
- When I accidentally left the sound on on Instagram and then realize it in the waiting room at the doctor’s when I want to watch some cynical Instagram video.
- Clumps of cat hair that find their way back into your home as soon as you put away your vacuum cleaner.
- That my cat has the special talent of destroying any pantyhose within 5 minutes by simply sitting on your lap.
- Those charming gladiator shoes with my lymphedema (= a lot of fluid in my feet) look as if I wanted to turn my feet into a roulade.
19. Wrap dresses that are cut so low that with a modest cup size it looks like you’re giving people a peek at my belly button.
- Arriving at a birthday party with 30 guests of which you only know 2, and then discovering that the intention is to go around shaking hands with everyone and introducing yourself.
- Salty popcorn. Yuk!
- When my phone is still in selfie mode while I want to take a quick photo of the piece of cake in front of me in company.
- Bean cans where the tab breaks off when you try to open them, which means can opener hassle.
- Shops where you can’t turn around without fearing that half the inventory will fall out of the display case.
- People who call immediately after an email to ask if you have read their email yet.
- At the checkout I discover that I have forgotten to return those empty bottles again .
- Not being able to sleep when you know for sure that you are very tired.
- Ankle socks while running. And then only when you’ve turned the corner of the street do you realize why those socks are called “sagging socks”.
- That I always write ‘colleague’ when I mean ‘collage’ (yup, again when I typed this point) .
Do you recognize anything from this list? And what do you think is STUPID?
