People who you don't know, but you find them irritating!

I live overlooking the start! I’ve done it many times but I’m coming back from injury right now. The dog still annoys me though!

Cyclists who ding their bell at you are warning you they are approaching in case you decide to wander across the path/track and they run you over. It's just good manners.

Meanwhile, the people in front have well gone, no fucker can get past her, step over her and case and lined up bottles, the queue behind is huge

I would have stepped over her case and bottles! People are really far too polite!

They are really loud though. Some have a much less obnoxious beep and others have a recorded voice.

In my experience drivers often seem to think that because it's beeping they can reverse whether there's someone behind them or not. I was once behind (in my car) a lorry that started reversing and he got very abusive when I leaned on my horn and then got out the car and shouted at him to stop. Not sure how I was just meant to disappear. I was at work so I got my work to complain to his work, but nothing happened of course.

My local parkrun is near a housing development, but I don't think we get that many dogs at ours, as it is a narrow course. I bet living near a parkrun is a right pain if you want a lie-in on a Saturday morning. The only solution is to join us I think!

It doesn't really matter what time it is, people don't have to be deliberately loud.

I'd be annoyed if it was 3pm and I was trying to work or enjoy reading a book or have an afternoon nap.

If people are having work done, there will be loud equipment, but if someone is right next to you, you can talk in a normal voice, not so loud that the whole street has to hear.

My main gripes and irritating people are:

anyone who parks on a pavement
anyone who hogs a pavement and walks very very slowly
people who let their dogs off-lead on narrow paths
cyclists who ding their bell at me when there's plenty of room to get past
car drivers who beep for no reason and who pull out in front of me and then go slowly
the person who parks in front of my drive every day to take his kids to school - I can just about get my car out if I needed to, but he doesn't need to park there and yesterday he dropped a fag end too.

Agree. What is it with people who make gluten-free people have to explain themselves and then get eye rolly about it.

It should be fine to say “no thanks” without being pressed, and then the issue wouldn’t come up.

Sorry - not someone I had any ill feeling towards but...

There used to be a man in the small town we live in whom my family called 'The Man You See Everywhere". He was possibly in his 60s, had a very red face and always wore a waxed Barbour jacket. It was just uncanny how often you'd see him (he didn't live near us) all over town and at all times of day.

One day I was walking near the main shopping street and explaining to a friend about The Man You See Everywhere when he came round a corner and nearly crashed into me. If I'd been young and gorgeous I might have imagined he was stalking me - it was just bizarre.

I haven't seen him now for a few years, so I fear for the health of TMYSE.

Eileen?

The shouting is not deliberate if you are deaf- you shout without knowing as you literally can’t hear your voice. The same way someone shouts when talking with headphones in. Come on

Performative sneezers make me seethe!

Well I was half joking. I try not to make a big thing of it, however often when I'm offered something that I can't eat I'll just say "no I'm OK thanks" and then get asked if I'm dieting or "being good" and so I will say I can't eat it, cos gluten. And if I'm not sure whether I can eat it or not then obviously I need to check, so possibly to some people it might seem like I'm making it my personality, but I'm actually just trying to enjoy some food without it making me sick.

Your post made me laugh, thanks 😂

Bloke a few doors down who we have lived near for over twenty years and he still cannot bring himself to say hello when he walks past us. He even refused to answer the bloody door when we took a parcel for him and went to drop it off (must be a mumsnetter) and he's got a shit haircut.

My neighbour, she talks 'at' you. Can't get a word in edgeways, and she's constantly telling me about her roses she got from London, her dd who is studying to be a lawyer in London, her horse that no one can ride apart from her dd because it's so difficult to ride (poor thing never goes out and is on its own in a field day in, day out). Heard her telling someone on the phone this weekend that she 'had to go, to tend to the horses' she only has the one! I also found out that for all her bragging and posh accent she grew up in a really rough area in the city closest to us.

I know the ins and outs of her life but I bet she doesn't even know my name as she's never bothered to ask a single question or even give me chance to say anything about us.

When you're deaf or hard of hearing it isn't always easy to judge your own speaking volume, because you can't hear yourself. I often have no idea whether I'm speaking too loudly or quietly so I just have to wing it.

Also raising your voice at deaf people doesn't generally help much if clarity is the problem rather than volume. I do think talking loudly outdoors at 7am is twattish behaviour though.

@Auburngal many older people get confused / flustered when they come to pay and have to count coins out. I know my Nan did and my Mom used to have to “cash up” her purse every Saturday to replace all the coins with the equivalent notes so she could start all over again paying with notes.

it’s one reason why my mom pays with a card now.

so try and be a bit patient. I’m sure you are outwardly anyway but I hope that helps to make you seethe less inwardly 😉

Really? Why do you do that?

How will him shouting help if he is hard of hearing? He’s not listening to himself it’s the other person that would need to raise their voice.

There is a woman at my fitness class whose ponytail annoys me. It's so shiny and flicky I wish they would both fuck off.

Those customers who always give notes. If the total is, for example, £7.02. Customer gives me £20 note. From angle of they hold purse, can see loads of coins. “Do you have 2p?” Customer says no (when you can see coppers in purse). Then when give £12.98 with many coins. They give you that how dare you give me all those coins look. Well if actually gave me 2p you I would have given you just two coins in your change. Because you CBA, you have 7-8 coins extra.

I remember serving one of these “always gives notes” old dears and she dropped her purse at the packing area of the checkout. She could have paid her £14 shopping twice over and had £5 left with the coins. How did she not notice how heavy her purse is with £33 of coins in there?

Good point, l used live in Ireland and yes l remember even years ago €50 notes being 'normal' tender.
Thing that riles me most about it is how insulting it is when it is obvious why she does it - to make sure some lowly shopgirl is either too stupid to count or doesn't get overcome with temptation at the sight of that huge sum and short change her😬.

There's a woman at my gardening club who always asks a question just as we're about to wrap up and I want to get off for my chippy tea. I want to punch her.

If I knew where you worked I would love to be behind her and butt in and ask do you take 50 pound notes. How would she cope in Ireland where 50 euro notes are used all the time and that's all you get out of some of the atm's . I used to working a bank where a certain customer used to take any £50 or £100 notes we had that day. Someone with a £100 note would make her apoplectic. Plus £20 doesn't really buy much now even compared with only 2 to 3 years ago.