Time Wasters

Do people really have no concept of other peoples time? A lady arranged an appointment with my husband to meet him in Sharjah at 6pm, driving from Dubai my husband confirmed the meeting. He is now is Sharjah and she has just cancelled wanting to rearrange for tomorrow. WTF, how inconsiderate are you with your silly excuses. What is it with people?

Ageing Tattoos

Absolutely detest tattoos on ageing people, particularly women.  Now I know they did it when they were young, hopefully, but did they not once think about age??  I barbed wire around ones arm or leg may have looked good once when toned and youthful but less so on a saggy cellulite thigh.  Looks more like a wilting weed!  Saw a woman today of maturing years with some kind of 'anklet' slouching at her ankle.  Classy not.  Think before you ink.

Filthy Filthy

Since you keep inviting people over, every time you bought something new, could you at least tidy a bit. You love showing your new TV stand, new curtains or how you re-arrange your new place but you care less about your filthy mugs lying about, dirty plates,spoons, overflowing bins...and so on. You get upset if we don't take your offer for a tea or coffee,but can you not understand that we value our health too. Seeing your overflowing manky sink with crawlies marching up and down is not helping. I do not know how to tell you this, worse I do not turn your invites down because I do not want to upset you.. I do hope you see this and realise how disgusting your place is and start scrubbing your place germ free.

Don't answer your phone

If I'm talking to you and your phone rings, answer it if its urgent or THE call you've been waiting for, but not if its another mate just having a chat.  What do you want me to do whilst you banter on?  Listen to a one-sided conversation I know nothing about? Rude, seriously rude.

Snot Check

What's with people inspecting their snot after they blow their nose into a tissue?  What are they hoping to find?? Yuck.

Yeah fine, ignore me

I have a very large, very loud, very opinionated family.
All of which are headstrong.
There is no changing their mind or getting them to see a different point of view.
So today we are all talking about some recent business problems and I offered my insight, which was completely ignored.
My sister in law then gave a similar talk and was listened to intently,
This is a frequent occurrence I feel almost as if I'm talking a brick wall/myself.
Or perhaps I'm invisible who knows?

This should be a law

The proper skirt length is at least 10cm below your cellulite!

I AM NOT GOING TO STEAL FROM YOU!

You go into just about any shop in Dubai and are greeted with a "Hello" from the staff. That's OK. I don't mind that. It's polite, and seemingly well-intentioned.

What I hate though, is if I'm the only customer in the shop, the pleasant shop assistant will wait little more than 2 nanoseconds before starting to follow you around, or otherwise asking if they can help.

"If I want help, I'll ask for it, but otherwise you are just giving the impression that you don't trust me" is what I want to say. But usually, as soon as this happens, I use it as my cue to leave the store. They just lost my (potential) business.

No please, push in

No mate, thats fine, all of us here waiting at the traffic lights in this thing called are queue are quite happy for you to drive down the imaginary inside lane that is purely there for you to use to push into the front of the queue.  Silly of us not to have actually saved you a spot really.  Tw@*.

'ello 'ello

Your phone rings. You don't recognise the number. You answer it with a simple "Hello". 

The caller says "Hello".

"Yes, Hello?" you say.

"Hello" they reply again. You immediately know it's a wrong number. But why is it that, even if it's someone who doesn't speak English, they never get past "Hello". You rang me, you idiot. At least give some indication of what it is you want, or who you were hoping to speak to (in any language)!!!