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Little things people do that are irritating....

410 replies

TooTiredAndFedUp · 27/04/2024 22:48

Just for fun.

I'll begin...

Taking the toilet roll of the toilet roll holder and not putting it back on...why take it off to begin with.

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CarInsurance · 28/04/2024 10:21

AngelinaFibres · 28/04/2024 09:21

Cyclists in groups. I live in the countryside. I have no wish to kill anyone. I often follow the members of cycling groups for miles because the road are too narrow and winding for me to safely overtake. I end up in the lowest gear, crawling along behind. The groups are usually quite spread out ,many yards apart. The first people get to the junction but they don't wait for the others to gather, wave me past and then exit the junction and carry on whilst I have been able to drive off and get on with my day. Oh no. They exit the junction in dribs and drabs so I have to follow them for the next 3 miles at 5 miles an hour. FFS regroup at the junction, let me get past you and then carry on.

Yes, all over Kent and Surrey there are hundreds of men with a death wish lurking on every windy country road imaginable. They also sometimes wave you ahead even on blind bends! It's been said before but so clearly a male privilege. Yet they are the ones who get wound up about 20mph zones and ULEZ when in their cars!

Catsmere · 28/04/2024 10:21

Twits who just sit at the lights when they've turned green, and take forever to get moving, so the cars banked up behind take even longer to be able to move. Even worse when it's a turn arrow with a very short sequence, you can end up waiting for a couple of changes of lights around here.

EnglishBluebell · 28/04/2024 10:18

DrJoanAllenby · 28/04/2024 00:02

Large breasted women looking twice their actual size because they are not wearing a decent bra and their boobs are hanging down to their waist and swinging under their arm pits when they walk.

Just get properly fitted for a bra that hoists them up and together and you'll drop three stone or more instantly.

I have large breasts and none of the bras I have found are good enough to lift them right up!!! My size is extremely rare and only M&S do it. Literally only M&S and they only lift them up properly for about a month and then they start to give.
I cannot afford to have a really decent bra made

CarInsurance · 28/04/2024 10:15

Slowing down to 45mph when a speed camera on a motorway comes into view, causing all lanes to slow to 50 or below for huge chunks of motorway. Had this 3 times yesterday... Do that many people still not have cruise control?

Catsmere · 28/04/2024 10:09

Bogeyes · 28/04/2024 07:12

And they tell you about something they "BROUGHT" from a shop instead of BOUGHT

Plus the ones who write of when they mean have, or loose when they mean lose - and then get extremely defensive about it.

spagbolrules · 28/04/2024 10:06

People who buy extravagant decoration for a child's birthday and then get irritated that someone doesn't take it off their hands. On our local Facebook page I always see "Balloon Arch and age 2 balloon going free. Needs gone by this evening or they get popped and binned!" They go to all that trouble and expense but then act like they are going to commit environmental sin and it's everyone else's fault. Don't buy the bloody thing then!

Tessisme · 28/04/2024 09:49

I saw this on Facebook and remembered your post! 😂

I'd be out in the dead of night with a bucket of white paint for that sign🤣

NellePorter · 28/04/2024 09:41

I've got a couple of lovely, intelligent friends who have a habit of persistently getting the names of things/places wrong. It shouldn't matter at all but it drives me mad! Good job I love them 😁

ABwithAnItch · 28/04/2024 09:40

Standing in doorways or just outside or inside of them. Drives me crazy.
Also being slow at checkouts. How many times in your life have you paid for things? Did you not realize you would need your wallet???

Alalalalalongalalalalalonglonglilong · 28/04/2024 09:39

Not understanding the very basic one way system in car parks.

needsomewarmsunshine · 28/04/2024 09:33

Would you like tea or coffee?
What are you having?
I'm having tea.
Yeah, okay, I'll have coffee next time then.
I'm building a patio......

OctoberRainStorm · 28/04/2024 09:30

Isittimeformynapyet · 28/04/2024 00:25

Oh god, my Mum!

Every single time I ask her if she'd like a coffee she says "d'you know, that sounds like a really lovely idea!" as though I'd come up with something unusual.

my MiL when offered a tea does a whole thing “only if you’re putting the kettle on anyway, don’t go to any trouble, ooh I don’t know are you having one?”

needsomewarmsunshine · 28/04/2024 09:26

Anyone who says 'super' in front of everything and 'reaching out' can fuck right off.
Red mist is descending.....

SeanBeansMealDeal · 28/04/2024 09:25

I now have a sticker on the back, explaining to idiots that if they can't see my mirrors, I can't see them.
It won't stop the ones who just decide that they are entitled to get in the way of a moving vehicle. Yet if I hit one of them, it'll be me who will be in the wrong.

Yep, that's the eternal problem with signs: the only people who ever bother to notice/read them are the ones who were smart enough not to need them in the first place - and then they wonder why on earth you needed to put a sign like that up!

Giggorata · 28/04/2024 09:21

People who walk behind me when I am reversing.
So many parents with children just carry on, even though I am moving, with hazard lights going.
I drive a van. Don't they realise I haven't got X Ray vision?
This happens most often in car parks.

I stopped and pointed out to one woman with a child in tow that she had decided to walk behind a moving vehicle with said child.
She said that she could see me “start rolling backwards”
“NOT rolling backwards, I was actually reversing, you foolish woman,” I explained politely.
Not exclusively women with children either, I actually had a man cross the street diagonally, going out of his way to walk behind me when I was reversing out of a drive. Wtf?

I now have a sticker on the back, explaining to idiots that if they can't see my mirrors, I can't see them.
It won't stop the ones who just decide that they are entitled to get in the way of a moving vehicle. Yet if I hit one of them, it'll be me who will be in the wrong.

DrJoanAllenby · 28/04/2024 09:21

Alalalalalongalalalalalonglonglilong · 27/04/2024 22:56

Putting apostrophes all over the place. If you don't get the rules, that's fine, leave them out.

I saw this on Facebook and remembered your post! 😂

Little things people do that are irritating....
Nelliemellie · 28/04/2024 09:21

Having loud conversations on their mobile phone on a bus. All trivial nonsense.

AngelinaFibres · 28/04/2024 09:21

Cyclists in groups. I live in the countryside. I have no wish to kill anyone. I often follow the members of cycling groups for miles because the road are too narrow and winding for me to safely overtake. I end up in the lowest gear, crawling along behind. The groups are usually quite spread out ,many yards apart. The first people get to the junction but they don't wait for the others to gather, wave me past and then exit the junction and carry on whilst I have been able to drive off and get on with my day. Oh no. They exit the junction in dribs and drabs so I have to follow them for the next 3 miles at 5 miles an hour. FFS regroup at the junction, let me get past you and then carry on.

Iloveyoubut · 28/04/2024 09:19

People who get to the top of an escalator and stop walking until they figure out where they’re going. Pretend you’re a car! Keep walking until you can pull over to the left somewhere and figure it out!

People who shake out their bags for life at the self service checkouts so it fills with air and makes such a loud noise it jumps me out of my skin. Just put it on the scale there’s no need to throw it around to inflate it!

when two people slightly get in each others way (usually in a supermarket) and one says a very British ‘oops sorry’ expecting the other to mumble ‘ha, yup, sorry’ and then the second one says “it’s ok!” 😡😡 no it’s not ok! You’re supposed to mumble ‘sorry’ too and now I want to retract my apology!

people who don’t understand that you should walk on the left!

GreenWheat · 28/04/2024 09:15

My SIL, who always, in deepest winter, gets up to leave, then decides to start a new topic of conversation while I am standing with the front door open letting all the heat out.

AngelinaFibres · 28/04/2024 09:12

My SIL. My husband ( her brother ) will text her and their other sibling about a date for meeting up. Meet up, with spouses as well ,every 2 months or so. Great fun once we get there. " Hi everyone ,how about a get together. We can do 5th, 9th and 14th. Any of those any good ? SIL will reply ' Sorry, we can't do those" without saying " But we could do XYZ dates". Or she'll say "Sorry can't do the 5th". Right but what about the other 2 dates. If you text back and query the others she'll say " I can do those but John can't . She's not ever going to come along without John so she can't do those dates either. John is far too superior to look at his phone and actually reply. I stay out of it now and just wait to be told which date we are finally going. They are lovely people but ND so she answers the direct question " Can you do? With a direct answer. No I can't. The added bit of " But we could do...." just isn't something her brain can do. She's 76 so she isn't going to change. It's become a little dance we all do

needsomewarmsunshine · 28/04/2024 09:03

So many of the listed things irritate me about people. I don't like people for the best part and so many are a pita anyway.

greengreyblue · 28/04/2024 09:01

People who eat while walking in the street/ on a train/ bus.
People who can’t go on a walk or walk the dog without a coffee in hand.

ImCamembertTheBigCheese · 28/04/2024 08:57

People who are shocked when they are asked for payment after their food shopping has been scanned. They've been standing there looking about idly. Instead of being ready with payment and bags, they then have to faff around while everyone else waits.

People who drive through red lights when they should have stopped.

People who are trying to turn at a crossroads where no turn into that lane is allowed. They just sit there while 4 cars honk their horns and traffic is backing up until they get a chance to turn. They never think, wow everyone is honking their horn at me, maybe I am in the wrong.

sunflowerfan · 28/04/2024 08:51

Not being ready to eat when you have made hot food and given them a heads up that it's almost ready.
It's sitting there getting cold while dh goes to the loo, puts some music on, gets a drink....🙄