Move over Victor Meldrew, here comes fluffyduffy! (Your Top 10)

Member Name: fluffy duffy

Product:	Your Top 10
Date:	11/07/07 (77 review reads)
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Advantages: Felt so good to get this lot off my chest

Disadvantages: I sound like a moaning old fish wife!!!

My top ten hates in no specific order are:

1. Smoking. Thank goodness that from 1st July 2007 it is banned in all public places in England. So nice to be able to go into a pub and not come out stinking of smoke and damaging my lungs. Feel free to enjoy smoking if it is your personal choice but don't expect me to get up close and personal.

2. Bad Manners. My dear Dad used to say "Manners maketh Man" and do you know, I think he was right. Please and thank you cost not one copper coin and they make all the difference in the world. Barging in front of people, pushing and shoving, if it comes under the umbrella of bad manners, I hate it!

3. Cold Calling. When I am at home, I do not want to be pestered by double glazing salesmen, charity workers selling dusters or anyone else without invitation. Stay away please! My family time is very precious, if I want new windows I will contact you myself thanks.

4. Weeds. I love gardening and would say it is one of my favourite hobbies, but oh those weeds! Why do they exist? I make everything look beautiful and then up come the weeds.....aaaaargh

5. Country and Western music. Sorry guys, maybe hate is too strong a word but Country and Western just grates on me.

6. Pushbutton choice menus on phones when you get through to any amenity service or bank etc. You know the score, press one for x, press two for y, press three for z. All I want to speak to is a real live human, preferably one who knows the answer to my question. And can someone tell me when I have to speak to an electronic person, why do I say thank you to them? Probably my dear old Dad instilling his manners into me!

7. Beetroot. Loathe the stuff! Cannot bear the smell, fresh or in vinegar. Why would you want to eat something that smells and tastes of the soil it is grown in? I have no problem in eating my five fruit and veg portions a day, but beetroot? Not even if you paid me a million pounds.

8. Kidney Stones. THE most painful thing I have ever experienced medically, and I have had a baby who was nearly 12 pounds. Kidney stones are so painful that I had to spend two days and nights on the floor on all fours and be taken into hospital 4 times. When mine eventually passed, they were the size and colour of tiny poppy seeds. I could not believe that I had had to have morphine injections to cope with the pain.

9. Alzheimer's Disease. Robbed my children of their Grandmother at the age of 61. She first became ill aged 54 and by the time she died, she was doubly incontinent, had spaticity in her limbs, had been mute for the last 2 years and could not fully close her mouth. All she had ever wanted was to go and see the Sistine Chapel in Rome, but she had spent her years bringing up 4 children and looking after her mother until she died. By the time her and her husband went to Rome, she was already ill and after 5 minutes seeing the chapel, as was her lifetime's ambtion, she said she was bored and would like to go home. A cruel, wicked disease. If you see a flag day, please give all you can spare.

10. Ok, point taken about dooyoo members giving poor ratings, but I think VERY carefully about doing it myself and it does irritate me. However, I will now have UMBRELLAS as my 10th hate. Why? Because of the number of times I have been very nearly speared in the eye with other people's! People have moaned at me for being too tall, would you believe, stating that is why they have nearly sliced me through the eyeball. (I'm 5 foot 6 and don't consider that to be exceptionally tall.) Personally, I would rather wear a hood or get wet than use one myself. Umbrellas either blow inside out, you bump into other people even if unintentionally, they drip all over the place indoors and they are a general nuisance. It's virtually impossible to balance pushing a pram and using an umbrella, for example, so they are impractical. Don't buy me one for Christmas, please!

Summary: Did me good to get this lot off my chest, what bugs you?