Dodgy underwear, tutting and nearly getting killed today. (Room 101)

Member Name: moonbailey

Product:	Room 101
Date:	21/03/02 (336 review reads)
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Advantages: peace

Disadvantages: none

Oooh, I feel a RANT coming on...

I'll start with the bras - because later on I'm going to go off on one about something else and will probably lose my cool completely. This one is only a minor irritant so should warm me up nicely:

MY ROOM 101

1. WHITE BRAS. Why oh why do women think that white bras 'go' under everything? The truth is they 'show' under everything - even white.
Few white clothes are so thick that you can't see through them.

My pet hate is seeing a thin white shirt with two bright white boobies clearly defined through the fabric. This applies to any pale garment or sheer fabric.
It is also the easiest colour to look dirty. After a couple of washes your sparkling white undies will always look less than new. I wear creamy beige as this is an exact match for my skintone - I then look like I'm not wearing a bra but just happen to be perfectly formed. (Cunning eh?)

2. TUTTING. How on earth can such a tiny weeny noise provoke such intense feelings of rage? I can't explain it but it really does, doesn't it? I regularly get tutted on my way to work - (I'll come to that later) and all it serves to do is make me want to mash the tutter. In theory the 'tut' is designed to simply alert the 'tuttee' that they may have inadvertently done something untoward - and yet, in reality a meagre tut, more often than not, evokes the response: "Come 'ere you, I'll give you f***** TUT you f***** Tw**!"
No matter how keen you were to apologise before - an apology will never follow a tut.

3. PEOPLE WHO LET THEIR DOGS POO ON THE PATHS. These owners who don't scoop after their pooch deserve poo throgh their letter boxes. I have had poo trampled through my house so many times because either I have missed seeing the offending poop - or worse - it has been covered with leaves so can't be seen but can be walked through!
So often
I watch dog owners wait for their dogs to deficate bang in the middle of a footpath, congratulated the dog for it splendiferous poo, then trotted merrily on - probably making a mental to come a different way next time so they don't walk in the poo themselves.

4. CYCLIST RACISTS. I ride my bicycle to work every day because if I take public transport - I make a loss after my wages are paid (sad but true). This morning I cycled, as always along the backroads of London. I came to a junction and held my hand out to turn right. Whereupon a van came steaming round the corner on my side of the road causing me to swerve to save my life. The man leaned out - I thought to apologise - and shouted "Ged oud of it you stup*d cow!" (spelling intended).
Whilst still in shock, I turned the corner only to find a second van heading straight for me and not looking at the road. Again, I had to make a quick decision to jump off my bike and hurl it onto the pavement with me to avoid being hurt. There was no apology because, of course, the driver expected this curtesy from me.
Terrified I rode slowly along the pavement. The pavement in question was a good 4 metres wide and had few people using it - so I kept to the side and kept to a 'walking speed' of cycling. Apparently this was not good enough - I got several 'tuts' (my favourite); one "Does that go on the road as well?" by an aggressive looking middle-aged thug (in a sarcastic voice), two 'Get off the path you silly girl"; one "get on the Road" (a variation on the same theme) and a new one "Excuse me Miss, did you know you're wheels are going round?" (builders). AND the sad thing is that I get this every day - twice (there and back) and I can do no right. I have to choose between near death experiences, death itself and abuse. So you can stick your narrow minded selfish comments in Room 101 and I choose LIFE!

4. PEOPLE WHO WALK SLOWLY,
OR NOT AT ALL. I have to say it drives me mad to see people stand in the middle of an escalator and wait to be delivered to the top. Has it not occured to them that escalators are moving stairs and you can climb them to get from A to B? So many people have a desk job where they get no exercise and yet they can even climb an escalator! And you can bet your ar*e they're on a diet. Slow walkers are nearly as bad as they, again will never walk on one side of a path but would rather puff and blow as they gently put one foot and then, maybe, the other in front of it... obviously I'm not talking about those with a disability I'm talking about compulsive meanderers!

5. GOATS CHEESE. Never before have I smelt a cheese that smells more like meat than meat. I always hated the stench of lamb when I was a meat-eater. Now I'm a veggie - I've discovered that Goats cheese can bring on exactly the same feelings of nausea that always left me retching.

6. TRISHA, JERRY AND KILROY. What is it about the British Public that like nothing more than a good old bout of domestic disharmony to start the day? Call me stupid but I don't want to know about that guy whose got 16 venereal deseases from his 900 one-night-stands. Or the mother who doesn't understand why her 'insert here' of a thieving 'insert here' son' has turned to crime - as she screams as her cheating 'insert here' bank robbing husband to be more 'insert here' firm with him and set a bleepingy bleep bleep example. It's depressing. I reckon that if all the show hosts could be locked in room 101 for a day they'd 'reason' each other to death and we'd be free of their vile shows

and lastly...

7. PEOPLE WHO ASSUME THAT YOU ARE AS RICH AS THEM. Working in a shop, I regularly chat to customers about what nice things they are buying - which is fine - I'm happy for them. BUT I can't stand it when they tell me how
lucky I am to work in these places and that I must have surely bought EVERYTHING by now!

When I say that actually I haven't bought a thing for ages, they look at me like I'm some kind of freak fool and tell me that I should 'go mad and buy the lot'! because girls were made to shop! Either they have no idea that shop assistants get paid the lowest wage in the world and can't afford to eat, let alone cloth themselves - or they must assume that all shops give a 99% discount to staff?
Equally, I'm often asked by people I meet 'why on earth I haven't been to all the top restaurants/bought the new range of designer gear/ been to the Bahamas - and that I simply must try it!'

So, I'm sorry but can you all go to Room 101 and don't come out until you've either lost all your money - or got some for me!

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