These ‘British Problems’ will make you cringe and laugh at the same time
The Twitter account @SoVeryBritish has been going great guns, posting the most awkward British problems that all (YES ALL) British people experience.
So for your reading pleasure we’ve compiled the 35 absolute best:
- Staring at your phone in silent horror until the unknown number stops ringing
- Hearing a recording of your own voice and deciding it’s perhaps best never to speak again
- The relief when someone doesn’t answer their phone within three rings and you can hang up
- Filming an entire fireworks display on your phone, knowing full well you’ll never, ever watch it again
- Mishearing somebody’s name on the second time of asking, meaning you must now avoid them forever
- Leaving it too late to correct someone, meaning you must live with your new name forever
- Running out of ways to say thanks when a succession of doors are held for you, having already deployed ‘cheers’, ‘ta’ and ‘nice one’
- Changing from ‘kind regards’ to just ‘regards’, to indicate that you’re rapidly reaching the end of your tether
- Realising you’ve got about fifty grand’s worth of plastic bags under your kitchen sink
- “You’ll have to excuse the mess” – Translation: I’ve spent seven hours tidying in preparation for your visit
- Indicating that you want the last roast potato by trying to force everyone else to take it
- “I’m off to bed” – Translation: “I’m off to stare at my phone in another part of the house”
- The overwhelming sorrow of finding a cup of tea you forgot about
- Turning down a cup of tea for no reason and instantly knowing you’ve made a terrible, terrible mistake
- Suddenly remembering your tea and necking it like a massive, lukewarm shot
- Waiting for permission to leave after paying for something with the exact change
- Saying hello to a friend in the supermarket, then creeping around like a burglar to avoid seeing them again
- Watching with quiet sorrow as you receive a different haircut to the one you requested
- Being unable to pay for something with the exact change without saying “I think that’s right”
