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What irritates you about other people?

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CruCru · 15/02/2024 17:35

I get really irritated when someone won’t accept “I don’t know” as my answer. Something along the lines of:

”Sarah is having a baby! Do you know when it’s due?”
”No, I didn’t know she was pregnant”
”Her oldest is four and she didn’t want a big age gap so it’s probably soon” <Looks at me expectantly>
”I didn’t know she was pregnant so no idea I’m afraid”
”But when do you think it would be?” <Looks at me expectantly>
”Still no idea. Between now and six months?!?”

Or

”I need to hire a nanny. How do you recruit a nanny?”
”I don’t have a nanny so couldn’t say. Have you talked to Sarah, she will probably know?”
”I should probably talk to a nanny agency, which one should I call?”
”I’ve never hired a nanny through an agency so no idea I’m afraid”
”But you must have some idea!”

It has to be okay to sometimes just say “I dunno”.

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GellerYeller · 26/02/2024 22:53

@LoulouMo1187 👏👏👏

CruCru · 26/02/2024 22:50

lieselotte · 26/02/2024 21:12

Not on the bus, but the train. I sit in the aisle seat because I want the aisle seat.

I don't like being hemmed in and I don't like being next to the heater.

In that case, do you make a point of sitting in the aisle seat next to someone already in the window seat? Or do you block off the window seat, making someone who wants it ask to sit there?

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LoulouMo1187 · 26/02/2024 21:41

Omg I could go on all day....
Having working in retail for many years in my 20s, the customer is NEVER right.

People who are rude to waiters.

People who refer to their pets as 'fur babies' or 'fur children'.

People who are mystified by the fact that women in their 30s can be happily childless.

Middle aged men who get annoyed when they are called out for being sexist/homophobic/racist/generally wildly inappropriate.

People playing music or films out loud on their phones in public. I cannot get my head round that complete lack of self awareness.

Entitlement.

Any kind of corporate phase; but particularly 'close of play' and 'going forward'.

Putting apostrophes on the end of any word that ends in an 's'.

If I meet one more dog called Luna I'm going to fucking scream.

People who have no control of their children.

When you're expected to forgive another person's bad behaviour because 'that's just what they're like'. No, I'm not in the wrong for being upset just because your default personality is raging cunt face.

Dropping litter.

People standing on the left on the escalator on the tube.

Manipulative people.

People who can never admit they are wrong or that something was their fault.

thecrispfiend · 26/02/2024 21:15

tiredmama23 · 26/02/2024 19:19

People who bang on about their dogs and call the "fur babies", and worse, show you "pupdates" (🤮) on their phone at work when you're trying to work. No. It's a dog, they all look the same to me. Please go away.

Ah that's better 😂

"Pupdates" omg thankfully not come across this (yet!)
My manager is potty about pets and encourages people to share photos and news of their pets in staff meetings which I just find bizarre!

lieselotte · 26/02/2024 21:12

CruCru · 26/02/2024 16:50

People who sit on the aisle seat on the bus and look surprised (annoyed) when I want to sit on the window seat. I know they do it because they don’t want anyone to sit next to them but the bus is full.

People who stand right in front of the doors on the bus so I can’t get off. It is the least sensible place to stand.

Not on the bus, but the train. I sit in the aisle seat because I want the aisle seat.

I don't like being hemmed in and I don't like being next to the heater.

MCOut · 26/02/2024 21:00

DP is terrible with “I don’t know”. I’m expected to magic and answer from thin air.

People who are rude to service professionals.

People who expect you to make decisions for them.

People who are unaccountable.

People who don’t know how to listen.

People who make me repeat myself.

People who do not respect introvert time.

The loud, obnoxious and attention seeking.

TigerRag · 26/02/2024 19:31

People who don't talk to you and then moan because you had the nerve to unfriend them

Parkerpenny · 26/02/2024 19:20

thecrispfiend · 26/02/2024 19:18

Omg my dad does this and it's SO LOUD

I actually just did it myself! Made myself laugh at my own hypocrisy!! (I'm on my own atm though!)

tiredmama23 · 26/02/2024 19:19

People who bang on about their dogs and call the "fur babies", and worse, show you "pupdates" (🤮) on their phone at work when you're trying to work. No. It's a dog, they all look the same to me. Please go away.

Ah that's better 😂

thecrispfiend · 26/02/2024 19:18

Parkerpenny · 26/02/2024 19:15

When someone stifles a nose sneeze but then mouth-exhales it in one long 'Peeyoooo!'

Omg my dad does this and it's SO LOUD

Parkerpenny · 26/02/2024 19:17

People who always know better: How to run schools, hospitals, policing, parenting, brainnsurgery, nuclear physics... They know it all and can do a better job of anything you could possibly name and will tell everyone around them.

Parkerpenny · 26/02/2024 19:15

When someone stifles a nose sneeze but then mouth-exhales it in one long 'Peeyoooo!'

Parkerpenny · 26/02/2024 19:12

When you say:

I've got a bit of a headache today

And they say:

I once knew someone who had a bit of a headache and dropped dead with a brain aneurysm before tea time.

Naptrappedmummy · 26/02/2024 19:07

People who start emails just with your name. It’s fucking rude and patronising. You’re not too busy and important to put ‘hi/dear/good morning’ in front of it.

Meowandthen · 26/02/2024 19:06

People who walk three or four abreast on a street or in a mall. So inconsiderate.

The wet lettuces of the world. Nothing admirable about being pathetically useless and incapable.

CruCru · 26/02/2024 18:51

People who only ever seem to want to meet you when they want to ask a favour. I have two people like this and it really puts me off seeing them.

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thecrispfiend · 26/02/2024 18:24

People who have more kids than they can cope with and then try to guilt trip you into giving them lifts to hobbies, collecting them from school wouldn't mind if it was reciprocal but never is! The worst offender has now signed one of their kids up to two of the same clubs as my child and seems most annoyed i am unavailable to pick up /drop off! I am usually a very obliging person but when it's calculated like that I really dig my heels in!

43ontherocksporfavor · 26/02/2024 18:13

People who walk on cycle paths then look shocked when you ring your bell.

CruCru · 26/02/2024 17:37

People who only hear what they want to hear. When I was much younger, my friend’s mum asked what my Dad did for a living (he was an economist). Then talked at me about how he needed to talk with a friend of hers, who was a financial advisor and it was basically the same job. I was quite quiet and said a few times that it wasn’t the same sort of job and they didn’t know each other but it never sank in.

It’s been 30 years (and my Dad is dead now) but the memory still irritates me.

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SinnerBoy · 26/02/2024 17:22

IKEA customers. The family groups who fill the aisle and dawdle, or stop and then look all hurt when you want to get past.

Can you tell I went to bloody IKEA yesterday?

Naptrappedmummy · 26/02/2024 16:59

CruCru · 26/02/2024 16:50

People who sit on the aisle seat on the bus and look surprised (annoyed) when I want to sit on the window seat. I know they do it because they don’t want anyone to sit next to them but the bus is full.

People who stand right in front of the doors on the bus so I can’t get off. It is the least sensible place to stand.

I take great pleasure in doing this, and seeing their pissed off face when they realise I have had the audacity to ask them to budge the fuck up.

CruCru · 26/02/2024 16:50

People who sit on the aisle seat on the bus and look surprised (annoyed) when I want to sit on the window seat. I know they do it because they don’t want anyone to sit next to them but the bus is full.

People who stand right in front of the doors on the bus so I can’t get off. It is the least sensible place to stand.

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StockpotSoup · 18/02/2024 22:00

People who think you should move for them when they could just as easily move themselves. I had this the other day with someone getting off the Tube. I and others had moved to the left and right sides of the door, leaving the centre free for people to get off - as pretty much everyone does for every train ever. Some twat tried walking at me, saying “Well? Aren’t you going to move out of my way?” I pointed
out that several other people had got off before him and had all somehow managed to get through the (sizeable) gap in the middle.

ToWhitToWhoo · 18/02/2024 20:37

Generational bigots: people who are hostile and prejudiced toward entire generations, whether 'Boomers', 'Millennials', 'Generation Z' or whoever the target may be. It's not that different from racism and xenophobia. It's not really any better to be prejudiced against someone because of when they were born than because of where they were born.

People who think that illnesses and disabilities- whether physical or mental- are either a pretence or the result of being spoilt and not having had things tough enough, and can be cured by harshness.

Often associated with the above: people, often in my age group, who think that everything was better in the Good Old Days.

Often associated with the above: people who go around being smug about how We Won the War, when they weren't even born during the war!

Treehugger22 · 18/02/2024 20:35

Uneducated and unprofessional people that work with vulnerable people