Room 101: Alex Rieder – Rotherham flanker

1. Hangovers
It’s that time of the year when end-of-season dinners and awards dos and nights out with the lads come thick and fast. Just imagine how good life would be if you could party knowing you wouldn’t have to pay for having too much fun by suffering the morning after! I’m still in my early 20s but getting over a hangover is not as easy as it used to be, although I find Lucozade helps.
TRP verdict: We’ll drink to that, you’re in.
2. Female time-keeping
Not very ‘PC’, I know, but what the hell! This specifically applies to my missus who takes forever to get ready whenever we’re going out. It makes no odds whatsoever if I say we need to be leaving in five minutes otherwise we’ll be late; she’ll still take two hours. I think my nagging is just annoying background white noise to her – either that or she can’t hear me because the hairdryer is constantly on. I’m not exactly brilliant at being bang on time myself but she takes being fashionably late to another level altogether.
TRP verdict: It sounds like platting fog would take less time. You have our sympathies and a place in Room 101.
3. Incompetence
People who get things wrong that shouldn’t be that difficult to do properly wind me up. I get annoyed, for example, when you order a meal and they bring out the wrong food. Recently I asked a waitress for an Irish coffee and the look on her face was as if I’d asked her to tell me the whole of the Da Vinci Code! My housemate, Max Argyle, is another culprit when it comes to being incompetent at washing up. Somehow he’ll only manage to clean half a plate. Maybe he’s just trying to get out of doing it again, I don’t know.
TRP verdict: It’s the small things that count – and by our reckoning that’s 3 out of 3.