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Irrational things that piss you off

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rogl · 04/09/2018 13:39

I worked a night shift last night and I was heading back to bed this morning when the neighbours across the street decided to starting drilling. Now I know I have no right to tell them to stop drilling in the middle of the day but I was imagining some pretty creative places to shove that drill!

Also the way dh loads the dishwasher, he doesn't put all the forks or knifes etc together and I just want to scream when I open it, there's no real problem with the way he does it but it gives me rage!!!

So what stupid things piss you off?

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SneakyGremlins · 04/09/2018 13:43

People who have one lace thing on their trousers longer than the other Blush

Malibucyprus · 04/09/2018 13:48

The way that my DP walks around the house whistling and humming cheerily after an argument, as if he's wonderfully happy, and everything is glorious, and I'm clearly the miserable one, as he is soooo happy Hmm

Aprilshowersnowastorm · 04/09/2018 13:50

When my dd's wait til I am in the bathroom and then start bickering outside the door!! Usually nagging me for something or one of them having a bf about something!!
Usually in their for some peace and mning!

Nogodsnomasters · 04/09/2018 13:55

The way my dh loads the food onto the conveyor belt in the supermarket does my head in! Definitely know its irrational

IWishIHadEvenMorePlasticTat · 04/09/2018 13:57

My DP puts the shower gel bottle in the wire soap holder instead of on the tiled ledge with all the other bottles. I can't explain why but this really winds me up.

Sitranced · 04/09/2018 13:59

When people refer to themselves as mummy or daddy to their pets. Yes you can love them like they are one of the family but its a completely different species. You are it's owner.

LongSummerDays · 04/09/2018 14:00

The shampoo bottle being propped upside down - but not quite closed so it just dribbles out and goes to waste. Hmm

NoWayNoHow · 04/09/2018 14:04

I'm not sure whether these are rational or irrational, but I'm in the mood for a rant!

  • Dh and his excessive tidiness to the point that if I put down a knife I'm using for cooking while I put something in the fridge, it's gone into the dishwasher by the time I turn my back again.
  • People who are are clearly 112 years old so MUST be retired, but are still in the supermarket on a Saturday when food shopping is hateful enough and busy enough already. You've had all week to move slowly round these aisles!!
  • People who don't say thank you (just with a finger/hand wave) when I've pulled over on a narrow road to let them through.
ICantBelieveIDidThis · 04/09/2018 14:04

I worked a night shift as a switchboard operator.

Alone in the office, I spent close to 90 minutes doing nothing, but listen for phone calls which never happened.

I had to go to another desk to perform a task where I have to keep my wits about me.

Yup. Phone calls for the rest of the night.

Every time I take a mouth full of food, take a swig of drink, walk away from the desk to perform this particular task, it doesn't matter how slow the night has gone beforehand, the phone always rings just when I didn't need it to.....

cheapskatemum · 04/09/2018 14:08

Well I've just been pissed off by the NHS Heart Age questionnaire. So, like most of the people who've taken it, my heart age is higher than my age - albeit only by 1 year 3 months. The reason? Because I don't know my cholesterol level & I don't know what my blood pressure is. How does anyone know what their BP is unless they've just taken it? In my experience it varies. I don't know my cholesterol because my GP won't test me for it because he says I'm not high risk. So I click on "Why it's important to know your cholesterol". It lists risk factors which lead to high cholesterol and guess what? I'm low risk. I think that time-wasting exercise has probably just raised my (normally lower than average) blood pressure!

Timeisslippingaway · 04/09/2018 15:15

People who beep their fucking car horn for nothing. Guy came to pick do off at 6.30 yesterday morning being the horn in the street, thought it was funny that I was pissed so when dropping him off at night he beeped all the way up the street again! Just as ebarassing as it is annoying. Who beeps a horn at 6.30 in the fucking morning 😡

rogl · 04/09/2018 15:34

@Sitranced my dsis will answer my comments about sleepless nights with the baby with 'oh I know I feel your pain my ddog woke me up at 6 to go for a pee'

It's not the fucking same!!!!

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mrsm43s · 04/09/2018 15:43

My husband never empties the water from the washing up bowl after he's done the washing up. It takes me less than one second to up-end the bowl and pour it down the sink, but it makes me seethe every time I have to do it, despite the fact that my husband has cooked dinner, loaded the dishwasher and washed up and put away any non dishwasher pots and pans. I would be petty and unreasonable to mention it, I know that, but my God it makes me mad.

Grumpbum123 · 04/09/2018 15:45

Whistling

cjt110 · 04/09/2018 15:50

Toilet rolls on the holder with the tissue facing the wall. It goes the other bloody way!

BastardGoDarkly · 04/09/2018 15:51

My husband comes in from work, we eat, the meal I've cooked us all, I go to work.

I get home around 12.50 am, he's filled the dishwasher, has he switched it on? Has he fuck.

I've asked him why the fucking fuck he doesn't do it.... there's still room for a cup or two. ... Angry

0lgaDaPolga · 04/09/2018 15:52

People who beep their car horns for no fucking reason, ie beeping because the car in front hasn’t moved the millisecond the lights changed. I have a light sleeping baby and often have to take him out in the pram to get him to drop off so if anyone beeps when I’ve just got him to sleep and I’m pretty much ready to murder someone

Witchofzog · 04/09/2018 15:56

Malibu Yes!!! Dp does this too. I will be really upset and he will be fucking singing in the next room. Twat Angry

Also long hair in the washing up bowl.

People who walk sooo slowly then stop suddenly for no reason.

That stupid clicky finger thing they do in the Always continence pad ads just after they pour the purple water into it. Just why?

People who say simples Angry

Bluntness100 · 04/09/2018 15:59

God today everything.

My husband scanned an urgent important document for me today then emailed it to me as my computer struggles to recognise the scanner due to my companies security features, he then fucked off to play golf and hadnt noticed he hadn't actually connected to thr network so it. Hadn't sent, fucking half a job bloke. I had to then wait till he got back.

He also doesn't put things back where he found them, so then we have to hunt to find them next time as he can't recall where he put it.

He also seems incapable of making the bed and feels wet towels belong on it. Not back in the bathroom.

And don't get me started on man crumbs, he makes a sandwich or a bowl of cereal and is also apparantly incapable of wiping up after.

I maybe be annoyed today 🤣

Bunintheoven88 · 04/09/2018 16:10

It makes my blood boil when my DP leaves the toilet seat up. I'm pregnant and constantly going for night wee's at the minute, the amount of times I have sat on a cold seatless toilet!
I woke him up at 4 o'clock the other morning solely to put the seat down Grin

Bunnyhop1502 · 04/09/2018 16:28

People who say “posh” to describe things like crisps. Or food packets that describe the food as “honest”.

GallicosCats · 04/09/2018 16:42

This is really irrational and I can't make any sense of it, but I really, really hate watching any normal healthy person over the age of puberty drop off to sleep in front of me. You can see why it's annoying if it's DH and you're merrily nattering away, grateful to get a word in, then you find he's at the 'ZzzzzI'm not asleep I'm just resting my eyeszzzzzyezzzzI'm listeningzzzzzzz' stage and won't respond to a word you say.

But I found it very hard to deal with teenage DS on a long journey recently when he was so tired he was falling asleep standing up. I had to work hard to restrain my irritation and annoyance. I wonder if it's a legacy of too many dull Sunday afternoons left to my own devices while my parents snoozed?

GallicosCats · 04/09/2018 16:49

ICantBelieve yup, I can relate. I'm a receptionist and no matter how quiet it is before, the phone always rings when about 6 people have just come in and are queueing up and I have to press the entry and exit buttons simultaneously. Someone always wants to buy some books and get a new ticket made as well.

I had a day like that today. Angry

MissMalteser · 04/09/2018 16:59

Dh neeeeeever finishing a bottle of shampoo/conditioner/shower gel! So we end up with 19274292848 of the things with at least a quarter each in them hanging around the shower until I can finish them 😤 also dh using my loccitane almond shower oil because it’s the first thing he puts his hands on and not even appreciating it’s beautifulness 😮

rogl · 04/09/2018 17:17

Man crumbs Grin I'm pinching that

My dh also uses my conditioner, wtf your hair is an inch long and it get cut every three weeks it does need fucking conditioner! Obviously I've never told him this

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