What do you get irrationally annoyed about?

Ooh yes drivers that don't indicate, especially if it's a busy roundabout and I've been trying to cross the road for ages!

And another thing. (Oh dear I'm on a roll now.) Twice a year there's a continental market comes to town and it sells really unusual foods from around the world. I get irrationally annoyed when I see people going into Sayers for a pastie. It's two days in the year ffs would it really hurt to try something different? Twice? In the year?

And packaging in the supermarket. Why can't they just throw all the tomatoes into a big crate instead of wrapping them up separately? (Have to admit this is made even worse by dh's obsession with organic / "Extra Special" food, which is nearly always overpackaged).

And I get annoyed at dh's obsession with "Extra Special" food. Okay I can understand the organic thing to an extent, but is an extra ten pence on a pack of mince making it "Extra Special" or "Finest" really going to make a difference if it's shoved into a stew anyway?

Aaaand relax. I sound like such a mardy cow now. I do know it's irrational.

people who don't indicate when driving - though I don't consider that irrational when I am trying to cross the road with dying - so probl'y doesn't count!!!

Seeing people walking down the busy high street, shoving massive burgers into their mouths and then chewing with mouths open. Urgh.

Also, people eating with their fingers.

There's a Blue Cow story that makes me want to throw things at the tv. Blue Cow is on the dark side of the moon, and there's no sunlight. AAAAAAGGGGHHHHH That's not the meaning of dark in this case.

(Notice that I'm not at all bothered by a cow being blue or visiting the moon on a double decker bus. )

toothpaste escaping from my mouth when I am brushing my teeth & dribbling down my chin. Makes me shudder just thinking about it.

coat hangers

Hello mossy !!

OOh I also get really annoyed when people don't say 'thankyou'. A friend recently told me she had stopped to pick up a £1 coin a young woman had dropped on the bus. As she was giving it to her it became apparant that this woman was not going to say 'thankyou' so my friend dropped the coin back on the floor and walked off. Good on her

Oh, hello there Kitty!

Doesn't bother me, but dh gets irrationally annoyed about waiting for longer than five minutes in a queue. He has been known to walk out of restaurants / shops / cafés if he has to stand and wait.

Ghosty, hats off to you for supressing the" keys down the side of crappy parked car" urge. I have recently taken to giving in to that urge I'm ashamed to say .

The one thing guaranteed to send me into an apoplectic fit of rage is if anyone pulls on or streches any of my knitwear, strange but true.

People talking on mobiles on a train and saying "i am on the train and i can't speak"

people leaving empty food and drink cans rolling around tube carriages

people throwing litter etc out of their car windows

i get soooo cross when I am being served in a shop and i have to hear all about the person who is serving me weekend whilst they are screwing up the clothes i have just paid money for and shoving them in a bag without ever once looking at what they are doing - it makes me want to leap behind the counter and poke them in the eyes with a hanger after i have taught them how to fold a sodding jumper (which isn't difficult you know) - aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh

Oh yes all of these...and...

People leaving their Christmas lights up all year. Aaaargh!! I want to go round with a ladder.

Mind you dh only took ours down the other day...

I was virtually breathing in brown paper bags every time I looked at them and nagged for England about it. He derived a lot of pleasure winding me up about it

Having to do all the washing and ironing in my house, even though I agreed to it cos I work from home, it still makes me very

Well done Robbosmum

Have to say lol at this becos it remonds me so much of my "annoyances", especially car parking. I am new at this as i have a 5mth old lo but have been out walking with pram and a builders van has parked across most of the pavement, trhus making me use the rd, so v. ploitely asked said builder to climb down from roof and move van..... smiled lots of thanks and appreciation after he moved it,i went on this same walk for 5 days and each day had to request the same thing. By day 6 builders saw me coming and moved the van themswelves.. ho-ho

I think you're right Bozza, my gripes are probably fair enough, but it's the red mist, fist-clenching ARGGGHHHHH reaction that overwhelms me that is irrational

some of these sound perfectly rational to me.

When they say "Oh but he's only small" I want to scream "YES BUT YOU'RE FUCKING NOT, ARE YOU, YOU APATHETIC BITCH!"

See, that's the irrational part.

parents who excuse lazy parenting, and therefore bad behavior, bt saying "Oh he/she's only small"

Like the 2 year old whose mother was sat watching him try to rip my nearly 4 year old's face off. I had to physically remove him. I wasn't angry with him, 2 year old's are renouned nutters, but I was incandescant with rage at her. She'd have been the first to moan had I not got there in time and her 2 year old had got a slap in the gob.....

When dh puts empty packets/cartons back in the cupboard or fridge ....

When I can't find something that I need, and I know exactly where it was, but it's not there now, and I ask dh, and he says "Oh, I probably tidied it away", but he has no idea where...grrrrrr.

(poor dh, he's a lovely lovely man, but those 2 things are particularly irritating)

Ah and mothers of normal children who spend most of their time criticisin mums and correcting other children behaviour totally unaware that they children are equally misbehaved and their parenting as bad (or good) as the people they criticise so much.

An invisible person who walks his/her invisible dog near my house, and picks up dog's poo in thin fragile transparent nappy bags that are left just beside the kerb.

Why does this person expect us to carry her/his dirty poo into our homes to avoid it sticking flat into the pavement inside of its nappy bag? YUK YUK YUK

And it exasperates me more because this has gone on for YEARS.

Stickiness - can't stand it!!!!!!!!!!!!
People that smoke in cars with their kids.
Arguements
Getting no help from dp (he is usually very good)