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Does this piss anyone else off?
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Someone walks into a room, changes something, and then leaves?
I think it's a parent thing and it pisses me right off. My mum came into the house for about 1 minute, decided she didn't like the fact that Sky Sports News was on her TV, which I was listening to, turned some shit on, then left. I mean I can understand it if there's something you want to watch, but wtf? The other favourite is "you don't need that light on." Why not let the people who are actually in the room be the judge of that?
I think it's a parent thing and it pisses me right off. My mum came into the house for about 1 minute, decided she didn't like the fact that Sky Sports News was on her TV, which I was listening to, turned some shit on, then left. I mean I can understand it if there's something you want to watch, but wtf? The other favourite is "you don't need that light on." Why not let the people who are actually in the room be the judge of that?
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My dad always turns off the light everywhere. Usually when im just sitting in my room reading, he'll just stick his hand in and turn off the light.
Even worse when you're actually doing something, like looking for an item, using the mirror, then they come in and turn it off and say that. Meaning you have to go over to the switch, put it back on anyway, and they end up looking like an idiot.
No "please Vicky, can you shut the door?"
I now do it my bloody self!
My dad does that he comes in to my room and turn my dimmer switch down when im on the computer because i "dont need it on that bright" then go again and leave me not bein able see the keyboard
Imalways sit on the same sofa, comfortably watching TV on my own, then my mum would come in and re arrange the cushions WHILE im on the sofa, then leave the room. She must know that im going to wriggle so there not much chance in the cusions being plumped and balanced on their corners how she puts them for long
He's permanently secretly switching all the lightbulbs to 40 watts too, which fucks us right off - anything above a 40 watt bulb and he's livid. The house is like a crypt, it's so gloomy. :yuck:
Whether his fears are justified is something for you to decide.
"It's like Blackpool lights in here"
Gotta love parent phrases.
haha! my dad does that
My mum is another of those who turns lights on all the time. Also in the last year or two she's paranoid about people looking through our windows at night (but not at day!) so she shuts the blinds as soon as the sun begins to set, not caring if the noise bothers me.
I sometimes do this. I do this alot when I'm ealkign upstairs into my bedroom (which I share with my younger sister) and sometimes it's either the light is on and the curtains are shut:rolleyes: or the light is on when it clearly doesn't need to be.
Usually only because I don't want anyone to see how much of a mess my room is, though
Changing the channel doesn't conserve electricity though. I think it's more to just be irritating in a sort of "this is my house" way.
I understand the door thing. I hate when someone leaves the door open to the living room when I'm watching TV. There's so much noise from next door because of a certain computer game.
Perhaps I was watching that? No. I change it, she shouts "don't change that!"
Sod off, you ain't watching it. Tell me when you are actually THERE.
Which is pretty damn annoying 'cause they're spotlights and uselessly positioned, so I can hardly see in the first place.
He'll also hide anything I accidentally leave on (i.e. curlers) in the garage.
And he went through a phase of putting every razor I've used like, once, in the bin.
And if I don't take my coat and shoes upto my room, he'll put them in the dog bed, even though everyone elses things are strewn around the kitchen.
Apparently it's cause I don't do enough.
I frequently go into my brothers rooms and open the curtains while they're still tucked up in bed, and my parents used to do it to me, the whole idea was to irritate and wake me up because I should have been up by that point, either because I had to be somewhere, or other people were up and doing chores and it was unfair for me to stay in bed.
The most irritating thing my mum does is start talking to you, then continue talking and walk out of the room to do something else so you have to follow her around the house to hear what she's saying. Stand Still damn you.
Likewise, it all depends when you went to bed.
When my dad was alive, he'd have to be up for around 8 in the morning for work on a saturday and so used to come into my room and wake me up!!! He used to say that if he didn't do it there and then id sleep all day! Was so unfair.
Now me mam will wake me up. Its usually if she's bored and wants to chat! She'll come in, open the curtains, tickle my feet and tell me to get up! Once, when i was adamant i was not getting up, she stood on my bed with one foot either side of my head and started hammering a shelf into place on my wall!!
Damn that woman!!!:grump:
My grandma walks into my bedroom without knocking. She used to come into my room on Sunday mornings (she stays over on a Saturday night) and actually tidy up my quilt when I'm in bed (if I haven't tidied them up myself then I must be comfortable) and open the blinds at 9am when I'm still trying to sleep.
My dad doesn't seem to like doors open and once when the living room door was open he said "doors are there to be closed" and I was like "no dad they're there to walk into the next room through. I didn't realise there was a law that said you must keep doors closed.