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Petty things that annoy you about other people

349 replies

GeorgieTheGorgeousGoat · 01/10/2018 21:38

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?

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TimesNewRoman · 04/10/2018 12:43

Misuse of the word "perfect".

Annoying person: "Hey can you send me the number for xyz?"

Me: It's 1234

Annoying person: "perfect, thanks"

Hmm
LimitIsUp · 04/10/2018 12:46

I'm with you on that one ShotsFired

GeneandFred · 04/10/2018 13:17

Middle lane hoggers on a motorway.

People who don't get up to speed on a slip road.

Drivers who don't giveway to a slip road joining a motorway.

Drivers who drive up my arse.

Drivers who can't read the road.

PhilomenaButterfly · 04/10/2018 13:21

LimitIsUp in my experience, put it on the counter, so they don't have to touch people's hands. I don't understand the logic, as the coins probably have way more germs than my hands. I just can't fathom why else they'd place my change and receipt on the counter when my hand's outstretched in front of them. The staff in the Sainsbury's café do this, I've been a customer since it opened in 2014, we're on first name terms, but apparently I've got something contagious and life-threatening. Confused

PhilomenaButterfly · 04/10/2018 13:27

Or the people who reach in front of you in supermarkets, or barge past my DC on the way to school, because we, apparently, have all the time in the world, but their time is so much more important. Particularly on the way to school. You might have to get to work on time, but my DC also have to get to school on time, so you barging past them now means we have to rush.

AmIthatbloodycold · 04/10/2018 13:52

TheGoddess. She was pronouncing it as written. With the R in it. We're not English, if we see an R we say it, hence everyone laughing at her Confused

Bluelonerose · 04/10/2018 14:00

Those annoying calls from cold callers even though your registered with the tps.
The worst is you say hello hear silence coz they've rang 10 numbers at once and are deciding who to talk to.
I like to hang up just as they say hello.

People who take 1 step inside the school gate then stop blocking up the path for everyone.

Parents who insist on bringing their dog to pick dc up from school despite dogs not being allowed on school site.

Being practically stalked to have a smart meter.

Shop assistants letting massive queues build up instead of calling for someone else to jump on the till.

Supermarket car parks Angry

Wow I feel better now Grin

0urKid · 04/10/2018 14:19

Blue believe me we have no control over whether staff are called to the tills (unless you mean Aldi Lidl etc?) Nothing is more disheartening than looking at a queue of people staring at you because they imagine you to be responsible for the fact they came to shop at the exact same time as 100s of other people.

0urKid · 04/10/2018 14:21

Sorry blue just realised you actually put shop assistant and not checkout assistant. Blush

Bluelonerose · 04/10/2018 15:10

When I worked in retail (small corner shop) we were told more than 3 people in the que get someone else on the till pronto so that could be me projecting.

MrsBosh · 04/10/2018 17:26

My friend overuses ellipses in her texts. For example: 'Hi MrsBosh... good to see you and BabyBosh this morning... Steve has hurt his back'.

Doesn't make sense Hmm

mrsmuddlepies · 04/10/2018 17:33

Adults who cycle on the pavement. The woman who has a bike with a trailer with a couple of kids and a dog on a lead. She has obviously been given the green light by someone to cycle at speed along the pavement and turf everyone else onto the road. She crosses the road (on a pedestrian crossing) on a red light and sails obliviously down the pavement smirking at all.

ALongHardWinter · 04/10/2018 17:43

People who ask me if I'm leaving when I've only just arrived in a coffee shop. I've just put my full cup of coffee down on the table and I'm standing there taking my coat off and they approach me saying 'Are you going?'. Yes of course. I always buy a cup of coffee,then just leave it untouched. And I always take my coat off before going outside.

PhilomenaButterfly · 04/10/2018 17:47

Aaargh MrsBosh, my DM does that!

brimfull · 04/10/2018 17:50

Knob heads who post on fb e.g.. 'lovely meal out with my darling husband , thanks darling I love you' or some such drivel.....you live with them ..stop posting this shit

Kemer2018 · 04/10/2018 18:20

The hour long goodbye from the in laws.
We've spent many hours together and ran out of conversation ages ago.
When they finally decide to leave (or the waiter kicks us off the table) they go " oh i forgot to mention" or "do you remember so and so from when you were 3?" or some such drivel then hover looking at the ground for ages.
I break it up now and say "lovely seeing you, got to go now" or if at home i start locking up, turning off lights and putting my pj's on.
Just go already!

lovesugarfreejelly63 · 04/10/2018 18:48

People who insist on parking next to me in an otherwise empty car park.
Why?

People who cross through words in a library book in black ink because what they are reading offends them Why?

People who insist on using the word "basically" "at the end of the day" "hun" "little man" "hubby" "babe" "thinking outside the box" "singing from the same hymn sheet" etc., Why|?

Darkestnight · 04/10/2018 22:13

People sitting next to me when the bus is empty.

BabySharkDooDooDooDoo · 04/10/2018 22:14

People flashing you on a motorway that your going too slow when doing 70mph!!! Yes im meaning you the cunt in the insignia!!

ComtessedeLancret · 04/10/2018 22:15

Colleagues at work who see I’m “busy” on Skype usually because I’m in a meeting and then relentlessly message me “Hey, are you busy or “busy”?” Like fuck the hell off.

itbemay · 04/10/2018 22:30

Pacific instead of specific

Arks instead of asks

AngryAngryAngry

MsAdorabelleDearheartVonLipwig · 04/10/2018 23:06

IrmaFayLear I walked past a lady in the supermarket just the other day who turned round to me and smirked and said ‘you can say excuse me, I don’t bite’ or some such tosh. I was nowhere near her and told her so, the weirdo. Possibly one of those people that don’t like others getting too close. Grin

LimitIsUp · 05/10/2018 15:03

She rather sounds like she does bite!

IrmaFayLear · 05/10/2018 16:30

I still contend it's rude to say Excuse me in a supermarket unless the person has stopped for a chat and is blocking the aisle. The other day I was reaching for some Lurpak and a woman says, "Excuse me!" and reaches past for Lurpak too. If she had waited one quarter of a quarter of a second I would have moved my hand clutching the Lurpak back from the shelf, put the Lurpak in the trolley and moved off. No, she couldn't wait that long.

I think that saying "Excuse me!" in a supermarket is shorthand for "Gerroutta my way" as they are clearly far more important shoppers whose time is infinitely more important than the schmuck in front of them buying exactly the same thing.

EleanorTopaz · 05/10/2018 17:16

People who wear see through leggings, ugh.

People who walk down the street with their faces in their phones, just about everyone under the age of 25 I think.

People clutching their little phone in their hands as though they cant be parted with them for 2 seconds

When theres a queue of people waitimg for a bus, there always seems to be one person, today it was a young couple, who hover around the front of the bus queue, but wont actually join the queue, when the bus arrives they push themselves on before everyone else. I can always spot them now.

HD eyebrows and sock buns, surely they must be out of fashion by now?