Little things people do that are irritating....

This one’s definitely a ‘me’ thing, but I really hate watching adult relatives drifting off to sleep in front of me, especially if it’s DH and it’s a Sunday afternoon. It triggers some very deep frustration/annoyance for reasons I’m not clear about. Maybe it goes back to endless deadly dull grandparent visits as a child when I had nothing to do except disappear elsewhere and read.

Telling you how you will be feeling. "You'll be glad that X has happened." A relative used to do that and I'd suddenly feel the opposite of what they were telling me I must feel, even if it was illogical.

Acting like it's really weird/sad/scary to take a bus.

@hourstokill are you married to my husband too? Infuriating isn't it?!

@Livingtothefull When I am in eg a shop where background music is being played, and a song comes on that I forgot how much I loved/haven't heard for ages. And some tone deaf, whiny-voiced fellow shopper starts singing along;

I had a colleauge that used to do this in the office with every song and sometimes she would humm along which was even worse as it was completly tuneless. Drove me insane

I love Christmas music (at Christmas) and I was actually really sad to not hear any last Christmas when I was doing my shopping in town. I think it was about 12th December? Absolutely none in any of the shops and I hated it. I really wanted to hear a Christmas tune to get me in the mood.

People who dont queue "properly", and because they are stood adjacent to the queue, other people follow them and the queue ends up snaking through the middle of the shop/walkway rather than neatly along a wall or shelving.

People who don't know how to reply privately to messages in WhatsApp groups, thereby subjecting the rest of the group to their banal arrangements as to what time they can pick up the toys someone is giving away on our street WhatsApp group. We don't all want to know!

A few - when I am out & about:

When I am walking down the street & somebody else catches up and then walks directly behind me rather than drop back or overtake - like they are stalking me, it's so unnerving;

When I am in eg a shop where background music is being played, and a song comes on that I forgot how much I loved/haven't heard for ages. And some tone deaf, whiny-voiced fellow shopper starts singing along;

(this one is v irrational and entirely my issue): When I am climbing the Tube escalator and the person in front of/above me has a new coat and hasn't unstitched the vent of the back maybe because they don't know it is meant to be unstitched. Something about that giant cross stitch at my eye level really annoys me, I don't know why

Auburngal · Yesterday 12:49

Also coning off lanes when no work has started. Only cone off lanes/parts of roads when work has started.

There's actually a reason for that. There will be several sets of surveyors measuring and assessing various aspects of the road, before the plans are finalised for the road engineers. Their reports and plans take time as well and it's not really worthwhile to put cones in, remove them put them back, remove them, put them back etc.

I agree that it's frustrating, but I found it helpful, when I learned about it.

Walk around whilst brushing their teeth.
GO TO THE SINK.

*RenoDakota · Yesterday 10:02

But I don't get the ones about not having your purse / card ready at the checkout. Usually the first chance to get it out is when you have packed. Too busy up to that point.

You can get your cards out whilst waiting for the person in front to finish!

I know someone has already mentioned the dreadful expression “needs gone”, but in general, it annoys me when you get any variation of this along the lines of “needs to be gone by Friday!” It’s a table - it doesn’t need to go anywhere or do anything. It’s an inanimate object! YOU need it to be gone by Friday - the table (or chest of drawers or wardrobe or child’s bike) doesn’t give a shit; it doesn’t have feelings!

Saying 'people that do xwz' - it's 'people WHO do xyz'.
'That' for objects, 'who' for people.

Yip ,we used to pull the shutter down a bit just before closing,I remember a pompous twat rattling his forehead off it...😂

Fortunately I have changed my hours to do earlys!

On Sundays, we close at 4pm. At 3:40pm - overhear customers saying that they need to visit (another supermarket) which is 10-12 min drive. Seriously?

I reckon those who come in last minute are NWIR - never worked in retail!

Had this happen in the 1990s at a major museum where I worked. There was a temporary exhibition on that had its own gift shop area inside. Close down had already started, lights were being progressively turned off and visitors guided out. One arsehole bloke refused to go. He wasn't buying, he was browsing.

One of my colleagues got him moving by flashing the lights in that room on and off.

Customers who come in the shop 2 minutes before closing and expect to be able to leisurely browse everything. I try to be helpful and politely let them know the shop is about to close, but if they know what they need I can get it for them. Most people take the hint and come back the next day, but every week there's a couple of regulars who seem aghast that I won't stay open just for them to stay for as long as they feel like.

Deciding after I've done the pots to batch cook a load of meals and not washing the pots! (Or even soaking them)

I have one that I do! I throw all the cutlery randomly in the drawer. Mainly to annoy my pot leaving dh!

People who stand for ages in front of the thing I want to buy/browse in the supermarket. How dare they?
People who, when taking a photo with your camera, take 15 'just in case', so that you have to go through and delete loads. Just take one!
People writing 'women' instead of 'woman' (I met a women who...)

Customers who want to talk about their political views to us. We aren’t bloody interested!

People who believe in every word in newspapers. “Oh it’s going to snow 10 inches this week”.
“Are you sure?”
”Yes it will as it’s in the paper”
(95% of weather headlines never happen)

And because of those paper believers- they voted for Brexit and the country’s in a mess because of it!

The bus that goes past the main hospital. Bus is half hourly but for one bus! It’s at 10:30am! When I have two appointments later this month at 11:20am.

My DF is taking me to the hospital and probably has to drive around a few times as parking is bad plus made it smaller by building a new building!

People who stand at the top pf escalators/ stairs chatting or looking at their phones. It's a health & safety hazard & I always use my bags to knock accidentally into them on purpose.

People who get on the bus or tube barriers and then faff around for their payment card.

People who push into the front of queues and then take ages on deciding what to order.

Ditto with people who generally take ages deciding & changing their minds 500 times. This usually happens when I'm in a hurry.

@HotChocolateNotCocoa No, really? You mean my television isn’t a window into the lives of people in a working class Manchester suburb who are mysteriously never around on a Tuesday or Thursday night?!

I love this response. I am now looking forward to someone saying “It’s not real you know,” to me so that I can say this to them.

I know; and they think they are being so bloody clever. I know someone like this. I want to smack his face 🤣. He clearly does not understand what drama or catharsis is.

Someone at work constantly asks me questions when I am clearly in a teams meeting.