Lighthearted- What petty thing(s) bother you?

Autocorrect persistently correcting even when my version was the right word. Like changing someone's name to 'sanitary'

"Obsessed" or even worse "literally obsessed"
No you are fucking NOT! you sound like an idiot.

i usually say bless you, not quite sure why i do it

What word is better though? Shit is awful and crude. I heard someone recently mention faeces and thought that sounded ridiculous, in the context of there being dog faeces on the path. Bowels moving is even worse in my opinion. Number two sounds too childish. Take a dump is gross.

Saloon drivers who reverse into a space and keep reversing til their tyres touch the kerb, so basically the arse of their car is now overhanging and blocking the footpath. Every morning on the way to work I have pass an area like this with a narrow path and I have to walk onto the road at least once, often 3 or 4 times, to walk around a saloon.

It's a pub, probably busy, so it's up to you to make yourself visible and heard. That's always been the way. Queueing in a pub's absurd.

Speaking up after someone else gets served ahead of you doesnt really solve the problem

Guilty as charged 👌

Anyone over about 7 referring to her ‘bestie’.
Anyone who spells Keir (Starmer) as Kier.
Ditto Lurpak as Lurpack.

Also the dickhead 4 doors down who owns a BMW but keeps his stupid god damn number plate under his windowscreen...... you are a twat.

Answering purely on thread title... but I will be gobsmacked if this hasn't been mentioned.......TOOTHPASTE LEFT IN THE SINK (yes DD who is 10, I'm talking to you kiddo.....and you bloody know it!)

Those "life hacks" videos that show something we have been doing for years. Pause then wag a finger. Then do the new life hack then do the thumbs up.

Plus the term life hack

People who says

thoughts and prayers

ought to be shot!

People whistling loudly in public.
Do they do it for attention?
Don't they realise how annoying that awful pitchy whistling is?

Grown adults who say 'poo'. Grow up and speak like mature adults, ffs.

@RoseLavenderBlue The train seat one bugs me. Last week on a long distance train I saw people repeatedly going to their seat, finding someone in it and not asking them to move! Just huffing and puffing instead of using their voice.
But also saw two women who were absolutely convinced they’d both booked the same seat. Showing me their tickets as if I’m some sort of adjudicator. They had indeed both booked the same seat on the same train. The one who booked the earliest sat there as the other one conceded before WW3 erupted. It was quite entertaining.

People who say ‘100%’ to emphasise agreeing with something.

People who say ‘a’ instead of ‘an’ when the word following starts with a vowel. It’s the first thing they teach you in school! Well it was in the 70s.

Drivers who overtake coming up to a junction where they’ve not gained anything, oh well it’s their fuel they are wasting.

Ripped jeans - why look like you’re wearing rags?

People sitting in your reserved train seat.

When parking in a quiet/empty area of the supermarket car park, coming back to your car and someone has parked right up against you.

On The Chase, when the contestants say they don’t know ‘what form the chaser is in today’. ??

People who say "intimacy" when they mean sexual intercourse. I can't stand it and it marks them out as twee, po-faced, lacking confidence and with a very poor grasp of vocabulary. Probably the same people who talk about boobs rather than breasts and pee-pees rather than penises. The "I'm so embarrassed by the correct word" types.

Intimate and intimacy means very close, personal and private. You can have an intimate conversation with a good friend. You can also have sex as a mechanical act without any actual intimacy at all.

It makes me cringe. Just say sex for god's sake.

People having loud conversations in the cafe when I am trying to have a nice quiet breakfast. (Not talking about speakerphone calls! That is not a petty issue).

People calling me hun or DM calling me dear. I know they are trying to be nice but I find it patronizing.

DC2 phoning me up to tell me they are bored.

DC2 phoning me up while I am having breakfast at the cafe, even though they know I am theee and I once know they are ok, always tell them I only take important or urgent calls at the cafe.

My neighbour coughing at 5am.

People who say ‘ I attended two times’ when they mean ‘ I attended twice’

Facebook reels with absurdly loud and crisp "sound effects" for sawing, using scissors etc. When did that become a thing? It's just annoying

Tapping a product with fingernails. I truly HATE this and always swipe away instantly if they start that shit
Likewise, waggling their fingers under their chin and grinning inanely to demonstrate how pretty they look. You looked lovely until you did that. Now you look like an imbecile.

Anyone who holds up a product or sign or book etc. or is wearing a shirt or hat with writing on but hasn't reversed the video so everything is backwards. Ffs! Why? It takes seconds to reverse the mirroring before you post. Even better, record it the right way round to begin with.

I should go and read a book instead 😂

People at work who:

• don't fill up the tea bag tin when the big massive bag is obviously in the cupboard
• don't top up the coffee beans in the machine when the big massive bag is in the cupboard
• don't fill up the milk in the coffee machine when there's an equivalent of 4 cows worth of milk in the fridge
• don't wipe up all their tea drips in the 10cm between the hot tap and the bin
• don't change the loo roll when it's empty despite at least 10 spares being obviously available
• complain to our department about all of the above

Undoubtedly, but if I am, I just make sure I catch the barstaff's eye again. I've got a tongue in my head as well...

So you've never been ignored at the bar?

They do pick up sound but, if mine's anything to go by, you can't make out what anyone is saying unless they're right next to it or shouting. Very mumbly. Besides, I'm not interested.