Little things people do that are irritating....

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People in their 80s and 90s shopping on Saturday mornings.

Had the audacity to say it’s busy when they have all week to shop.

Lost my cool with a couple. “Please leave Saturday morning shopping for those who work”.

A couple said to me that they don’t understand what do the very elderly actually accomplish when shopping on Saturday mornings.

Yes. Even more so when it's used as a full stop.

Same with "ha" or "ha ha"

Guilt as sin

I have encountered similar situations before. I rolled down my window and said to them either look at the road and not your phone or can’t you get your eyes unglued from your phone for 10 seconds?

a woman with a pram did that the other day. I was indicating to turn left, got part way round and she just walked out, on the phone, onto the road . Luckily for her (well her child) I’m hyper aware of knobheads walking while on their mobile and hadn’t started to accelerate.

Oooh the roundabout thing pisses me off!! It happens a lot on a particular roundabout here. Happened last night, dickhead in the left lane all the way round the roundabout. I indicated to come off and he started beeping at me! Fucking idiot, I hadn’t even started moving over because I knew what he was doing. I was indicating to let the prick know of my intention so he could either speed up or slow down and get out of my bastard way.

Referring to the person they’re dating as “my partner” when it’s a relatively new relationship and they don’t live together.

I'm glad to see that one - I thought I was the only person who still thought partner=living together.

It irritates me that when you’ve been stuck behind someone going slower than the speed limit and then as soon as you can legally overtake and go into the overtaking lane to pass them THEY SPEED UP TO PREVENT YOU (unless you exceed the speed limit) AND THEN SLOW BACK DOWN THE MOMENT THE OVERTAKING LANE ENDS! 😡 If you want to drive slow fine. But why the fuck do you want to prevent someone else from passing you!

Abitofalark · Yesterday 23:16

+ + Where I live, lots of drivers don't understand how roundabouts work. You give way to the left. People will just stop mid roundabout to let you go. + +

Where is that? You give way to traffic from the right.

She said that she's in Canada.

Using the expression lol.

I confess to judging people who put this at the end of texts, emails and MN posts.

Where is that? You give way to traffic from the right.

Customers who put shopping on the belt. Then decide could they have the bag of potatoes or something heavy they put at the end.

Supermarket checkout operators have an infuriating habit of scanning anything but the one item in their current customer's shopping that is keeping the belt stopped, while I stand there wondering if they are doing it deliberately how long I have to hold a bag of apples and a loaf of bread like a muppet 😠

Sticking out their tongues on photos. It's so childish and disgusting.

Seriously. “She’s ADHD” - no, I’m a human being, thanks.

The other one that bugs me is when people go to the other extreme and insist, “No, you have to say ‘person with autism,’ not ‘autistic person.’” Accurate adjectives aren’t offensive, and the insistence that we have to use contorted language to talk about a group of people is just othering toward that group, IMO. Like, no one says, “Don’t say ‘French person,’ say ‘person of Frenchness’! Person-first language is important because we need to emphasize that people from France are people!”

”The spectrum” for “the autism spectrum” annoys me too, unless the conversation was already about autism. “He’s on the spectrum” - which spectrum? The electromagnetic one? (I have the same complaint with “the pill.”) Plus, “on the spectrum” is usually a work-around for people who don’t want to say “autistic,” like “autistic” is a bad word.

Because the US makes most of the films and that’s how we write dates in the US.

Saying “s/he’s ADHD” or “s/he’s ASD” instead of “s/he has ADHD” or “s/he has ASD” or “s/he’s autistic.”

I hate this. To me it isn't even a 'little' thing. It's pretty much condensing the entire essence of an individual into their neurodivergence. I bite my tongue though.

It's an American thing, I assume.

Adverts for films released in cinemas. Why do they say May 9 (May Nine).Not 9th of May or May the 9th

Saying “s/he’s ADHD” or “s/he’s ASD” instead of “s/he has ADHD” or “s/he has ASD” or “s/he’s autistic.”

Referring to the person they’re dating as “my partner” when it’s a relatively new relationship and they don’t live together.

The following situation: pedestrian needs to cross the street, car has stopped at stop sign. Car driver gestures to indicate that pedestrian can go first. Pedestrian would actually prefer not to go first, and gestures that car should go. Driver indicates again that pedestrian should go first, so pedestrian feels obligated to go even if s/he is unable to walk fast and would prefer to cross when there are no cars, so s/he doesn’t feel like she needs to walk fast so as not to keep people waiting.

In social settings, people beginning a new conversation with you when you’ve just said that you’re going to leave.

Insisting on calling a child a name-based nickname no one else uses. Like, everyone calls the child Andrew, but always referring to Andrew as Drew.

Singing at karaoke when you’re a gifted singer. You have a world full of opportunities to sing, so can you just let the bad singers have one place, please?!

I organised a surprise party for my husband's 50th birthday last year, and the amount of traffic on the WhatsApp group was unbelievable.

I had to mute it for 8 hours at a time, cos it was a constant stream of messages.

Then people were complaining to my brother in law that i wasn't responding to texts.
I said (in the group chat): if you kept the talking shit to a minimum, we wouldn't have this.

I was so glad when the party was over.

I sorta get that, actually. I can sympathise.

When there’s breaking news, the presenter asks the correspondent questions which the correspondent doesn’t know the answer as the event just happened. Then rephrases the question. Still don’t know.

Its so unprofessional imo