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Grumpy Old Men and Grumpy Old Women

Not necessarily on landscaping theme but I was just watching a trailer for Grumpy Old Men and Grumpy Old Women TV Shows and started listing mentally my pet hates!I thought as light relief and general therapy would be a laugh to find out other Landscape Juicers pet hates... Just to get the ball rolling:-Hate children in my vicinity who do that high pitched screaming/screeching thing which seems so popular amongst kids nowadays and kids that interrupt adult conversations (and their parents who allow them to scream/interrupt).Hate queuing for a drink in a pub and being overlooked while you are waiting patiently.  Then the staff serve other customers before you in the so called "queue" and also those pub staff who throw empty bottles of beer the length of the pub making a massive crashing noise! And these are the better establishments!!Love travelling but Hate the Airports and Flying experience generally eg paying way over the top for "cheap flights", paying ridiculous extra amounts for one piece of luggage which we then have to share between 2 and stupid amounts in airport tax (not even mentioning our many other taxes) and getting ripped off for horrible food in their airport "restaurants" and then having to cut food with tiny blunt knives just in case we hid a knife and smuggle on plane...  Oh almost forgot computers that won't do what you want .... Let me know yours.... (Karen)

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  • Thanks for reply JP yes we can all be grumpy old lot at times! Thought would be good for stress reliever...
  • Amen to screaming children- went out on a trip to a couple of National Trust gardens a few days ago and everywhere the peace and quiet was punctuated with those high pitched screams and kids demanding ice cream/sweets/drinks.

     

    Also paying over the odds for the basics of human life- I don't live a life of luxury, and really cannot afford to pay lots of money every few months to do nothing more than make sure that utility companies make bigger profits than last year.

     

    And people who don't use their indicators at junctions... I thought it was compulsory but the number of times I've waited at junctions or roundabouts for people who don't indicate leads me to believe that indicators are merely put on cars for decoration.

     

    (I feel so much better for that- thanks for starting this thread Karen!)

  • in no particular order:

    people driving too close behind for miles of straight road then overtaking on a hill/bend/junction,

    people talking on mobiles whilst driving (i just know that if i did it the first car i'd see would be the old bill),

    shop assistants that do not acknowledge your existance and yap away to their collegue whilst "serving" you,

    Insurance companies,

    teenagers walking around with their arse hanging out of their trousers,

    teenagers (or any one else really) spitting in the street,

    teenagers asking me to buy them drink or cigs outside the shop,

    people knocking on my door selling stuff/wanting a direct debit for charity etc,

    being told that because i'm a big chap my "b.m.i" is too high and i should stop eating and smoking and drinking beer-my response... SOD OFF!,

    carbon footprints... what a load of crap!,

    cables or rope getting snagged on the slightest thing! if i was falling off a cliff and grabbed hold of an electric cable would it snag on something and save my life? No i'd plummet to my death!

    Christ i could go on and on and on, my missus thinks i am the ultimate grumpy sod, i like to think i am just passionate about my opinions! :-)

     

     

  • Hi guys thanks for your responses you really made me laugh!! Yes indicators hardly anyone uses nowadays especially at roundabouts and really popular now to pull out in front of other cars with no thought for car doing emergency stop. Mobiles whilst driving when they really can't drive properly anyway!!! Yer I've already been told too grumpy so good to see others with similar thoughts!!!! Insurance companies don't even get me started...
  • lol john! brilliant :-D

    John www.acegardenservices.co.uk said:

    Automatic insurance renewals !!!!!!!

  • Thanks Sally yes visiting cat's poo is a common problem! On Garden ER they suggested old tea bags sprayed with Ralgex heat spray placed throughout garden - don't know if works. I have been told cats only ever poo in neighbours gardens not sure if true as our Jack Russell terriers see off any visiting cats! Do have visiting foxes and dogs roll in their poo at times!!!!!!!.. Just reminded me of another pet hate - people who don't like dogs...
  • Things i hate:

     

    When women drivers ask you to move your van so they can fit through even though a few minutes earlier a bus easily fit through the same gap!

     

    People not using their indicators at roundabouts.

     

    Lazy fat people who use mobility scooters when they should really be getting exercise.

     

    Postmen/women who drop their red elastic bands on your driveway.

     

    People who lock their small wooden gates thinking it will keep burglars out when all it is really doing is forcing me to lift my heavy mower over making me risk a back injury.

     

    People who forget to leave the money out for the weekly grass cut then get shocked when they realise how much they owe you after a few months.

     

    Kids that think their cool because they have 477 friends on facebook, even though they only know 6 of them in real life.

     

    I'll think of some more.

  • I'll have a bottle of whatever Brigitt is having....................

    Brigitt Stevenson said:

    Why think of 'NEGATIVES', when there are so many "POSITIVES" ???

    Like, I Love waking up in the morning and starting a Fresh, New Day !!! :))

     

    Brigitt.

  • Ages I spend trying to work out what will and what won't go in the recycle bin

    Any thing called Briggs or Stratton ???

    Garden volunteers who chuck the tools back in the shed without cleaning them

    Online lists :-)

  • At sixty I am old and definately grumpy.

    One of my many pet hates is people using horns when they should use their brakes instead, my remedy would be to wire the horn to the braking system, so when they use the horn the brakes are applied, if the horn is used when stationary the brakes would be applied and not released for thirty seconds, giving the driver the time they need to calm down.

    Other pet hates include cold calls, usually when I am talking to a customer, I usually ask them if they are aware of the telephone preferance service which shuts the majority of them up quickly. Voice recognition software, interactive telephone systems, foreign call centres, inane music while on hold and top pet grumpy hate background music everywhere, I hate it, have been known to walk out of shops with it in and change supermarkets because of it.

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