Having a topsy-turvy Day? Well, it is normal (for some anyway!)

telling each other to stop complaininEveryone complains. I mean hell, some of us (including me and my husband can't get out of this one!) can spend an entire day doing just that. The funny thing is when we are complaining ourselves we barely notice. We are ignorant to our own voice, and we go on about our day oblivious to how our complaint affects others, who, if I may say, also have this uncanny way of noticing us complain about the most minor of events. There is one problem with this though, people will complain you're complaining, but will deny it when you tell them you heard them complaining!

I will give a good example of this. I was in a supermarket a while back, picking up some groceries with my husband. A lady was stood behind me, and at the top of her voice, she complained that her child was always shouting. Her husband told her to stop complaining and she replied,

"I'm not complaining!"

However, her husband also complained there were too many boxes of cereal in the trolley, and the wife then told him to stop complaining.

In my house, everyone has something to complain about, be it the laundry, being forgetful, or the weather. The funniest complaints I've heard were when my husband forgot to turn the kettle on and ended up making cold coffee (Yuk!-Vomit bucket pretty please!), oh and hell yeah, what about the time I put the sugar in the fridge? The funny thing was we were all complaining while at the same time, telling each other to stop complaining! We don't argue about the complaints, what would the point in that be? There is no reason to stress about it, especially as there are probably millions around the world complaining at the same time as us! (Earplugs anyone?)

If your partner snores (and mine does!), you'll probably be familiar with complaining about how loud he/she is, and threatening to kick them out of bed because he/she always creates a very loud earthquake when you are trying to sleep. When you're assertive with them, the response you get is, "I don't snore, but you do!" The funny thing is, neither of you can disprove it unless you a supersonic hearing in your sleep, over half of us complain that our partners snore, but at the same time; we don't even know if we snore ourselves, so this is a complaint that will either last you a lifetime or spend the rest of your lives sleeping in the doghouse to break free from it, so please give each other a bone now thankyou!

Then there are the kids. I can hear you all saying 'please don't!' before I even get started. But, buckle up kiddo! You can't run or hide from them, your a 'parent' remember??? Yes, those kids, the little toe-rags that get under your feet and make you want to scream all day, oh, and I hate to point this out to you, they can complain all day, so get used to it. I am going to confess something here, that might land me being judged by 'Judge Rinder' in the courtroom (then you can all save me, vocal!) One of my kids complained so much during the day that he was driving me up the wall and bouncing to heaven just to escape it! Anyway, I decided it would be fun to tally it, so I kept a tally chart just to log the number of complaints he made in a day. When I finally got him to go to bed (which was hardly ever!) I totalled all the tallies up, and wow! It turned out he had made over 3,000 complaints in one day! No wonder I was having to check my brain all day! tHe complained about playing out, staying in, food, television, bedtime, the siblings...literally everything and anything, I could go on and on, but then I'd be filling this entire article with his complaints. (Sorry chuck! Not everything is about you!!).

One thing that comes to mind, writing this article is if we are all going to complain, then shouldn't we just get on with complaining and stop complaining about complaining?

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