Petty things that annoy you about other people

[GeorgieTheGorgeousGoat]

I have a few I want to get off my chest, feel free to add yours!

1. my SIL always messages just ‘hi’ when she wants to start a text conversation. She won’t just get on and ask or say what she needs to, she waits for you to reply ‘hi’ or whatever back and then we have 3/4 messages of inane how are you?’ before she spits out the favour she wants orbquestion she has.

2. people asking for the kids Christmas lists last week. It was fucking September!

3. drivers who leave massive fuck off gaps when parking along the road outside school in particular.

4. arseholes who never let me out of my driveway even when they’re say in traffic literally going nowhere, they’d rather block me in

5. my next door neighbour. Every single thing she does pisses me off.

Care to add?

I hate people who dare to walk their dogs in the out of the way places I find to walk mine. My dogs don't like dogs. I don't like people. I just wish everyone would fuck the fuck off.

I am sure that feeling is reciprocated

Driving one that I don't think has been covered: When leaving work I need to turn right out of the gate to join the line of vehicles going my way -its rush hour so always busy. Several times a week, some kind soul sits there and leaves a gap for me - without checking the oncoming traffic and expects me to drive out into the solid line of traffic moving at 30mph+ coming from my right!! Then they get the hump and move forwards just as said line of traffic either disappears or comes to a halt!

Then there are those who are in the faster moving line who have to stop for the pedestrian lights, see me waiting to pull out across the road then stop right in front of me thus blocking me in!!!

Does no-one read the road ahead any more? Is everyone just so cocooned in their own little bubble that they don't think?!
Blimey I hadn't realised quite how much this winds me up!!

People who park to pick up/drop off blocking my driveway opposite a dance school. Yes, I know you're only there a minute or two, but it means I have to drive past, turn around and wait until you've gone before I can get into my drive, otherwise I'd be blocking the road waiting for you to move your lazy arse. Park a few doors further down where there are spaces and make your lazy arsed daughter walk a bit further!

I know this is unreasonable, but when Im driving down lanes in a crowded car park, see an empty space ahead, get ready to turn in then find theres's a teeny tiny car in the space, driven right to the back of the space so you can't see it until you're on top of it!

People who decide to 'pop in'. No I don't want a visit from you. Fuck off!

This I find really annoying. I've never gone to see anyone without a prior agreement, whether friend, solicitor, family, etc. I really get annoyed when people do it to me. It's one of the worst bits of the "me me me" culture where other people can't even contemplate you may not be just sat around doing nothing waiting for their entrance. An unexpected visitor, either to home or my office, has the potential to ruin my day. I'm a very organised person and plan everything I do - people turning up out of the blue creates chaos in my little world. Just phone up or text beforehand to arrange a date/time - it's not difficult - we all have these personal communication devices these days called phones - use the bloody things!

People who talk during films (especially at the cinema) and don’t pay attention to the plot properly

People who send countless texts in quick succession, the last one reading: "Read my text." Well, it would be nice if you gave me a fucking chance.

London tourists hovering around and blocking other pedestrians from going through the anti-terrorist barriers on bridges. There is a whole bridge to hover on and enjoy, don’t choose the two areas that are already a bottleneck!

Hovering around hawkers doing stupid cup tricks and such, blocking the path for others.

People who don't say please after saying 'excuse me' or a thank you. So rude. Really annoys me.

People who block the pavement whilst having an in depth conversation and you're trying to get past. Move to the side!

Drivers who block the pedestrians crossing.

Cyclists who think traffic lights dont apply to them.

People who stand too close to me in a queue. You're not going to get served any quicker, back out of my personal space.

ps. Chicago. As it sounds

Brilliant!

I meant as it's written

I remember as children my sister had read in smash hits or something that the singer Sade was pronounced Sharday so she was calling her that

Everyone laughed at her.

Oh yes the standing too close I’m a queue! I hate that. And then you move forward and they move forward and I think “can you not see that the queue in front has not moved? To what end are you moving closer to me when I have just tried to regain some personal space??”

Or when people stand so close in a queue that they are actually me / my bag or their bag is touching me. Drives me mad.

Where do I begin? Think the posters who said breathing had it spot on

People in the petrol station who don’t know their pump number then fumble around looking for their Nectar card.

Cashiers who ask for your loyalty card/receipt when you have [whatever thing] in your hand and are visibly moving it towards theirs. Why? Don't their eyes work?

There was also a cashier in a shop I used to go to who would take my card from me, and then not hand it back to me but instead deliberately swoop under my waiting hand and put it flat on the counter so I had to scrabble around for it. I eventually asked her what she was playing at and she made up some excuse about not seeing my hand??

Cashiers who ask for your loyalty card/receipt when you have [whatever thing] in your hand and are visibly moving it towards theirs. Why? Don't their eyes work?

I think people who do boring repetitive jobs just get into behavioural habits and are actually quite divorced from reality in front of them. It just becomes the behaviour/habit to ask, akin to a nervous twitch!

I spent my teenage year and most of my twenties, helping to run my parent's convenience store. Hour after hour of serving customers at the counter, week after week, year after year. It was mind numbingly boring and, yes, I was on auto-pilot most of the time. Even now, I'm in my 50's and I just can't stop myself saying "thanks" when I hand money over to the cashier in shops - I know it's ridiculous, but it's just engraved behaviour/habit from when I automatically said thanks as customers handed me their money in the shop.

ShotsFired I think cashiers who do this have a thing about germs.

I remember as children my sister had read in smash hits or something that the singer Sade was pronounced Sharday so she was calling her that

Er - your sister was correct - that is how it is pronounced

Ok where do I start?

People who can see you're trying to reverse out of a space and decide to walk behind your car.

Groups of people who stand and chat in the doorway of shops (bonus points for leaving trolley at right angles) so you can't get in or out

People who meander along really slowly without leaving room to get past (excluding those who can't physically walk any faster of course)

Performance parents

People at work who spend disproportionate amounts of time telling everyone else how busy they are. Stop talking and do some work!

Mansplainers.

People who save tables in a coffee shop while someone else queues.

People who let their kids run around and scream in coffee shops.

Inconsiderate drivers.

Owners of large dogs who allow their dog to intimidate my dog and get arsey when I don't agree "he's just being friendly"

People who live in a city but insist on drinking 4x4s which they can't park.

That was cathartic!

"ShotsFired I think cashiers who do this have a thing about germs."

What do they do about handling change then, don rubber gloves?

People who go to unbelievable physical contortions in shops and similar just to avoid saying "excuse me please" to someone else.

I do this, because I think it is extremely rude when people go, "Excuse me" in a supermarket when I have stopped to examine something or reach onto a shelf. So when I see people doing the same - actually doing some shopping because it is a supermarket I just wait, or squeeze round them. I don't demand they make way with an "Excuse me"

People who park on the double yellow lines at the crossroads in our village to 'pop' to the shop and have a 1/2 hour chat to any local thye happen to meet in the process when 2 metres in front of where they have parked is a perfectly legal parking space - and they are definitely not blue badge holders!

People who travel on that well known and much disliked budget airline who refuse to pay extra to sit with their travelling companion but then spend the whole of the flight walking up and down the plane to go and chat to said companion and blocking the aisle for the air stewards trying to do their jobs and anyone who actually needs to get up the aisle to go to the toilet. If you can't manage to not speak with your friend/husband/wife/partner for 3 hours then pay a few quid extra to sit next to them - OR STAY IN YOUR SEAT!

You think it is more polite to start reaching round people or squeeze past than simply saying a pleasant "excuse me please" like any normal human interaction?

Boy do we have different opinions on what is polite. Apologies if I use my manners to get by you when you are not aware I'm there in the future