Anonymous
06/04/2023 15:22
Subject: Petty Vents
The parents in travel sports are the worst
Anonymous
06/04/2023 15:04
Subject: Petty Vents
One of my daughter’s friend’s moms and her friends all call themselves “The F Bomb Moms” because they love to drink and curse and think it’s hilarious. They openly refer to themselves this way, and curse regularly even in normal situations. This is in a nice, UMC neighborhood.
Anonymous
06/04/2023 13:59
Subject: Petty Vents
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The word “littles”.
When moms refer to themselves and other moms as “mommas”.
I find these petty, and I roll my eyes at myself for thinking they’re petty, but here we are.
I think it’s cute and I love it. Me and my girls talk like this and don’t have any issues with it.
Since no doubt your "girls" are just your little clique of preschool mommies and not your daughters, this is unsurprising.
Wow. You must be lonely and bitter and not have a group of girls to call as your friends.
NP but I have a group of grown women that are my friends. No girls.
You sound like fun. Are you and your group all lonely bitter and childless? You all sound jealous of me and my girls, and the fact that we all have the most adorbs littles who are going to be best friends for life
Anonymous
06/04/2023 11:09
Subject: Re:Petty Vents
Anonymous wrote:- The constant poor grammar/spelling on social media - "loose" instead of "lose," misuse of apostrophes, people using "n" or "an" instead of "and" and "u/ur" instead of "you/your" - does it really take that long to type in a few more characters?
- The increased prevalence of people saying "graduated college" vs. "graduated FROM college"
- COMPLETELY agree with the PP who dislikes women referring to themselves as "mommas" or "mamas." Say "mothers" or "moms."
- QR code menus. Especially when there are separate QR codes for the beverage menu and the food menu
- How restaurants will distribute only one cocktail/alcohol menu at a table and you have multiple people who need to look at it, and then they want to take your drinks order 2 minutes after you sit down when not even 1 person has had the chance to read it yet.
- "Gender reveals" - I know "gender" sounds nicer but it is SEX reveals, people!
These are all great though I have come around on QR code ordering as some restaurants have gotten better at it. Actually my presence is what they do at our favorite Mexican restaurant-- physical menus for ordering from a server, but when the check comes it has a QR code on it and you can pay with your phone instead of waiting for the whole card exchange process. So easy!
But a lot of restaurants will do QR menus that don't work, are poorly laid out or talk forever to load, and then you order from a server anyway. What is the freaking point?
Anonymous
06/04/2023 11:05
Subject: Petty Vents
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The word “littles”.
When moms refer to themselves and other moms as “mommas”.
I find these petty, and I roll my eyes at myself for thinking they’re petty, but here we are.
I think it’s cute and I love it. Me and my girls talk like this and don’t have any issues with it.
Since no doubt your "girls" are just your little clique of preschool mommies and not your daughters, this is unsurprising.
Wow. You must be lonely and bitter and not have a group of girls to call as your friends.
Most of us just call our friends “friends” instead of infantilizing grown women in order to make ourselves sound cute and non-threatening.
+1. Plus, after your twenties, it just sounds like you are trying to grasp at youth. It’s OK to be mature.
I'm one of the PPs complaining about this and this is exactly my issue -- I don't like when women use what is essentially baby talk. I think they do it subconsciously to make themselves appear younger, cuter, and dumber. It's internalized misogyny.
And what is annoying about it is that sometimes it works. I've worked with women who speak like this and will literally act dumb to get out of doing work or get people to help them with things they should do on their own, and if they are good at it and reasonably attractive, both men and women will fall over themselves helping them. I understand why it's tempting but that doesn't make it any less regressive. Grown women should not be trying to appear to be children as a means of getting attention, being like, or getting needs met (grown men shouldn't do it either!).
Anonymous
06/04/2023 10:58
Subject: Re:Petty Vents
Anonymous wrote:- The constant poor grammar/spelling on social media - "loose" instead of "lose," misuse of apostrophes, people using "n" or "an" instead of "and" and "u/ur" instead of "you/your" - does it really take that long to type in a few more characters?
- The increased prevalence of people saying "graduated college" vs. "graduated FROM college"
- COMPLETELY agree with the PP who dislikes women referring to themselves as "mommas" or "mamas." Say "mothers" or "moms."
- QR code menus. Especially when there are separate QR codes for the beverage menu and the food menu
- How restaurants will distribute only one cocktail/alcohol menu at a table and you have multiple people who need to look at it, and then they want to take your drinks order 2 minutes after you sit down when not even 1 person has had the chance to read it yet.
- "Gender reveals" - I know "gender" sounds nicer but it is SEX reveals, people!
All of these. You are the god(dess) of petty vents.
Anonymous
06/04/2023 10:56
Subject: Petty Vents
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The word “littles”.
When moms refer to themselves and other moms as “mommas”.
I find these petty, and I roll my eyes at myself for thinking they’re petty, but here we are.
I think it’s cute and I love it. Me and my girls talk like this and don’t have any issues with it.
Since no doubt your "girls" are just your little clique of preschool mommies and not your daughters, this is unsurprising.
Wow. You must be lonely and bitter and not have a group of girls to call as your friends.
NP but I have a group of grown women that are my friends. No girls.
Anonymous
06/04/2023 10:47
Subject: Re:Petty Vents
- The constant poor grammar/spelling on social media - "loose" instead of "lose," misuse of apostrophes, people using "n" or "an" instead of "and" and "u/ur" instead of "you/your" - does it really take that long to type in a few more characters?
- The increased prevalence of people saying "graduated college" vs. "graduated FROM college"
- COMPLETELY agree with the PP who dislikes women referring to themselves as "mommas" or "mamas." Say "mothers" or "moms."
- QR code menus. Especially when there are separate QR codes for the beverage menu and the food menu
- How restaurants will distribute only one cocktail/alcohol menu at a table and you have multiple people who need to look at it, and then they want to take your drinks order 2 minutes after you sit down when not even 1 person has had the chance to read it yet.
- "Gender reveals" - I know "gender" sounds nicer but it is SEX reveals, people!
- The increased prevalence of people saying "graduated college" vs. "graduated FROM college"
- COMPLETELY agree with the PP who dislikes women referring to themselves as "mommas" or "mamas." Say "mothers" or "moms."
- QR code menus. Especially when there are separate QR codes for the beverage menu and the food menu
- How restaurants will distribute only one cocktail/alcohol menu at a table and you have multiple people who need to look at it, and then they want to take your drinks order 2 minutes after you sit down when not even 1 person has had the chance to read it yet.
- "Gender reveals" - I know "gender" sounds nicer but it is SEX reveals, people!
Anonymous
06/04/2023 10:28
Subject: Petty Vents
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The word “littles”.
When moms refer to themselves and other moms as “mommas”.
I find these petty, and I roll my eyes at myself for thinking they’re petty, but here we are.
I think it’s cute and I love it. Me and my girls talk like this and don’t have any issues with it.
Since no doubt your "girls" are just your little clique of preschool mommies and not your daughters, this is unsurprising.
Wow. You must be lonely and bitter and not have a group of girls to call as your friends.
Most of us just call our friends “friends” instead of infantilizing grown women in order to make ourselves sound cute and non-threatening.
+1. Plus, after your twenties, it just sounds like you are trying to grasp at youth. It’s OK to be mature.
Anonymous
06/04/2023 10:26
Subject: Petty Vents
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The word “littles”.
When moms refer to themselves and other moms as “mommas”.
I find these petty, and I roll my eyes at myself for thinking they’re petty, but here we are.
I think it’s cute and I love it. Me and my girls talk like this and don’t have any issues with it.
Since no doubt your "girls" are just your little clique of preschool mommies and not your daughters, this is unsurprising.
Wow. You must be lonely and bitter and not have a group of girls to call as your friends.
+1
Anonymous
06/04/2023 10:11
Subject: Re:Petty Vents
Kid has a game, I’ll be out of town, charity event,…there are ways to convey why you can’t go without humble bragging.
Anonymous
06/04/2023 10:08
Subject: Re:Petty Vents
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I know that this is terribly silly and petty but I hate when making plans via text, verbally, etc. explain why their child isn't free will say "Billy has travel soccer that day". Does it really matter that they must clarify that it is travel soccer? Can they not just say "Billy has soccer"? And it isn't that I am jealous or impressed or being competitive or anything. I have an older child who plays D1 college level yet I never felt the need to say things like that when he was younger.
Yes! This! Stop with the hyper-specific responses!
I recall evites for an adults only neighborhood party and it was full of similar: running a 10k/overseas travel for business/vacationing in Vail/Logan’s championship baseball game
When people don't give a specific reason, it sounds like they just don't want to go.
Anonymous
06/04/2023 09:50
Subject: Petty Vents
Anonymous wrote:Abbreviation AITA gaining prominence on this forum. Yes YATA for using it, it doesn’t belong here!
Ha. I love AITA threads though. Is it a reddit thing or something? What should it be called here?
Have I mentioned my hatred for heavily tinted driver windows?
Anonymous
06/04/2023 08:43
Subject: Petty Vents
When friend changes baby’s diaper on my couch or bed with out laying anything down. I wanna barf with poop juice potentially leaking on my fabric.
Anonymous
06/04/2023 08:39
Subject: Petty Vents
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The word “littles”.
When moms refer to themselves and other moms as “mommas”.
I find these petty, and I roll my eyes at myself for thinking they’re petty, but here we are.
I think it’s cute and I love it. Me and my girls talk like this and don’t have any issues with it.
Since no doubt your "girls" are just your little clique of preschool mommies and not your daughters, this is unsurprising.
Wow. You must be lonely and bitter and not have a group of girls to call as your friends.
Most of us just call our friends “friends” instead of infantilizing grown women in order to make ourselves sound cute and non-threatening.