Things you hate.

Apps. Aargh Apps.
An App for this and an App for that.
The endless complication of modern life.
Nothing is simple.
Want to renew this or change provider on that? Here's a hundred hoops to jump through.
And if you want to speak to a real person - good luck in:
A) finding a contact number (no I don't want a virtual assistant)
B) navigating the menu and sub menus to achieve speaking to a real person
C) holding nerve long enough to get to speaking to a real person
D) and then the bloody real person can't help you at the end of at all
Aargh

Labour government
Spiders
Harry Potter
Prosecco
Christmas
Grey decor
Bad manners

Winter. It can get in the bin as far as I'm concerned.

The relentlessness of the daily drudge. Rinse and repeat, day in, day out. Years and years of it. Did it when I was married, still doing it as a carer for EP. Another candidate for the bin.

We've got one of those and it's brilliant. Got ours reconditioned from Appliances Direct

Slow people who take up loads of space - if you want to be slow then fine but get out of the bloody way!!

'Christmas is for children.' 'Birthdays are for children'. Omg if you don't like them then fine but literally no they're not.

People who check their phones in the theatre or cinema, especially if it's a man checking the footie scores - it's embarrassing that so many grown adults can't go without their phones for just a few short hours.

When people vape indoors, you can't go to a club or a concert anymore without someone blowing fruity smoke everywhere - at least smokers know they have to go outside! Vapers are so pathetic it winds me up!

Getting on a rammed train and people keeping their bags on seats, looking around like 'well ask me to move it then' JUST MOVE IT so people can sit.

No particular order

The Microsoft teams ring tone

My SIL and her even more awful partner

Any form of animal cruelty (including keeping a rabbit in anything smaller than your front room!)

Helplessness

Dads doing the absolute bare minimum of parenting and expecting praise, even worse, being praised

The pressure of Christmas (not just financially but having to see people)

How insurance firms do anything and everything to avoid paying out

People who talk shit to children

Loads more tbh

Need to add things that beep. My Dad has a new expensive Duux smart heater now because the thing honks 1 or 2 times with every instructions, honk honk. Also the leds light up my bedroom like it's Blackpool. He likes it and his hearing is poor so it suits him.
Took apart my Kitchenaid kettle, loudest honker I have known, so loud there's websites dedicated sharing how to stop it honking. Also de-honked a dishwasher. Down with uneccessary honking.

Pandora. Uggs. Stanley cups.

I fucking hate jingle bells over everything in December. Fuck off with your jangly ear busters.

Fog lights when it’s not foggy
tinned ravioli
the colour pink
trout pouts
that horrible plastic look from too much Botox
carrots
dogs that jump up
my mum’s dementia
people who play music on their phones without earphones

Men
In particular the men at the backpackers I am staying at currently (summer here). The women are all lovely, chatty about their cool jobs and what they are up to. The men (not with the women) are surly and fucking weird. And piss on the toilet floor- grim.

Expectant mothers/fathers smoking in the hospital doorway. Or anywhere.

Ditto people wearing face masks buying cigarettes. Last saw one yesterday. I mean, really?!

My list is long and gets longer the older I get.

People who stand in shop doorways blowing smoke/vapes everywhere.
Lazy work colleagues.
Putting the bins out.
washing up.

I hate when you are watching a performance and they tell you to stand, tell you to sit, tell you clap. Recently I had one tell me to get up and stretch so everyone did like performing monkeys. I want to just sit and relax but if I feel like if I don't do what we're told I'll look like a grumpy bitch just sitting there refusing.

Making sandwiches.
Making dinner.
Dusting.
Reality TV.

Sodding speakerphone conversations in public!
Same with playing music / videos on loudspeaker. Sigh...

• My manager, his attitude, and his hatred of women in general. I’m yet to hear anyone say a good word about him. How he has managed to keep hold of his job is beyond those of us who have to endure him.
• People at work who tell tales, or lie, and carry these things to the manager.
• People who think nothing of generously sharing their germs with others. Be selfish and keep them to yourself!
• People who drive slowly/dawdle in supermarkets/assume that I am DESPERATE to be in a relationship/assume that I am available to answer the phone whenever they call (always when I’m in work)
• Flies. I don’t care for you outdoors, and if you venture indoors, you will die.
• Plagues of cyclists
• Being the centre of (unwanted) attention. I know that I’m fabulous, but it feels really awkward.
• Housework. I don’t have the time or inclination to do it after work…
• Ticking clocks. Shush! I’m trying to concentrate!
• The radio and on-screen advertisements. Please stop interrupting the best part of the song with your inane chatter!
• Anything that requires me to remember it, e.g. passwords. My memory is shocking at the best of times, so please just send me a passcode/verification email instead.
• Excessive temperatures. I work outdoors, and like to be able to feel my fingers in the winter, and not overheat in summer!

This can be narrowed down to mainly ‘people’ in general. Unfortunately, unless I move to an uninhabited Scottish island at some point soon, I am going to have to persevere with putting up with them!

• Doing the ironing - repetitive, dull and makes my shoulder ache!
• People who walk slowly and/or take up the entire pavement - so bloody inconsiderate….MOVE!
• The winter - cold, wet, dark….roll on the summer and longer days!
• Mushrooms - it’s a fungus….who willingly eats a grey, slimy fungus?!!
• Bad drivers - middle lane hoggers, lazy sods who don’t use their indicators and those that don’t thank you after you've let them through when the obstruction is on their side - discourteous, lazy and entitled.
• Liverpool FC and the vast majority of their fans (and I include my darling husband here!) - as a club just classless, jammy buggers who behaved appallingly when looking to expand their ground by buying houses and leaving them empty to force the area into decline to drive the remaining residents out of their homes, supported increasingly by tourist fans with their iPads out and printed off lyrics for that dirge they insist on singing for that “famous Anfield atmosphere 🙄” and no footballing nous amongst them!
• Wind chimes and my Mum’s wall clock that chimes at the hour and at half past - unnecessarily loud, intrusive and annoying!

How odd- what. Is it about them that you don’t like?

I don’t like Christmas nowadays. I just think of the people who aren’t there any more. I find it really bittersweet these days. I try to get it over and back to the everyday world as fast as I can!

Drying and straightening my hair but if i don’t do it it’s a fuzzball

Big Teams meetings where people get themselves wound up and screech loudly at the beginning before the presenter mutes it all. The rest of us really don't need to hear you Mavis.

Q&A at the end of big Teams meetings where people don't bother to read the questions already there or ask about things that have got sod all to do with the meeting. Every sodding time.

Laser surgery is life changing! Go for it!
Now old so long sighted which can’t be righted.
Not being able to find my glasses.
Not being able to find things
Not being able to remember lyrics, poems, apt quotes

Brushing my teeth (still do it though)

When people say 'bless you' after a sneeze and the expectation that I should say it when other people sneeze. I really, really hate it.

The little puff of air that comes out the bin bag when you close it.