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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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EleanorTopaz · 05/10/2018 17:22

Also drivers in supermarket car parks who drive slowly after you as you push your trolley on foot, then when you reach your car wait while you unpack your shopping because they want your parking space. I have walked deliberately past my car before now to give them the slip.

Satsumaeater · 05/10/2018 18:17

Cyclists who ride along dinging their bell at pedestrians.

But someone will probably come on here and say their pet hate is cyclists who come up behind them and don't ring their bell!

So many I agree with on this thread - and totally agree about the double doors one! I had forgotten how annoyed that makes me feel, it doesn't seem to happen as often now, maybe I just don't go through as many double doors these days.

OliviaStabler · 05/10/2018 18:32

People who shout 'move down!' on crowded trains when there is nowhere to move to. If I was any closer to the bloke next to me we'd be in a relationship!

Madbengalmum · 05/10/2018 18:41

People walking around public places talking loudly with the speaker on their phones, ignorant twats.

Middle lane hoggers

People who allow their kids to listen to loud stuff on their ipads in public places, etc, get some earphones on!!

People who hit your car door with their car, have some respect for other people's stuff!

Nettletheelf · 05/10/2018 19:02

I’lol see your train shouters, Olivia, and raise you people who cluster around the doors of busy commuter trains, refusing to move down the carriage, whilst repelling anybody who wants to get on the sodding train and stand in the spaces they can clearly see through the windows!

Don’t get me started on train twattery(TM). I was in a booked table seat on a long journey this week. The woman opposite me had put a load of bags under the table where my feet were supposed to go. I very nicely asked her to move them, which she did with an ill grace then stared at me with hatred for the rest of the journey (2.5 hours). Couldn’t even move because the train was packed. Curse the train twats.

wtffgs2 · 05/10/2018 19:12

My colleague - she is sourer than an unripe lemon and only late 20s Angry

Badmoonsarising · 05/10/2018 19:18

When folk run, throw, play sports awkwardly and give up without even trying - often in a overly dramatic heap on the ground.

ProudThrilledHappy · 05/10/2018 19:23

Can I offer up people who use mini roundabouts to do a U-turn, forcing traffic to stop in all directions?

I’m talking to you, man in the blue mondeo who did a painstaking three-point turn in the middle of the narrow, busy high street in rush hour traffic this morning Angry

lexi727 · 05/10/2018 19:33
  1. my SIL's clothes are never ironed. Even stuff that so clearly needs an iron. Which is weird, because her DH's shirts always look as if he never stops ironing.
  2. my DM refers to my DF as 'daddy' when she's talking to me. As in 'I'll tell your daddy to come take a look at that light'. They are from NI so this is very very normal, but my friend always takes the piss out of it!! 'You're a bit old for that aren't you'
  3. I always say hello to my neighbour, but if I don't say hello first she completely blanks me
  4. my DH never rinses anything before he puts it in recycling
TakemedowntoPotatoCity · 05/10/2018 19:56

My DM, who calls me on.my home phone, then if I don't get there in time gives me absolutely no time to call back before calling me on my mobile, so that when I do call back (immediately) the line is engaged. Then when I finally do get through, asks me why I didn't pick up the phone quickly enough. i.e. wants to know my every movement around the house.

MaisyPops · 05/10/2018 20:02

Excessive girly fuss. There is no need to act ditzy. It's highly irritating.

People who will complain about literally anything and change what their opinion is if the wind blows another direction purely so they can complain. (E.g. I hate the current printing and admin system blah blah blah.. It's so shit... It's awful to use blah blah blah. Admin system changes because people have said it doesn't work. New system. Well it wasn't like this before. How do they expect us to have the time to get used to yet another admin system. I'm going to do it the old way unless someone speaks to me about it. I'm far too busy to do whatever pointless change they've done). Mood hovers I tell you.

MissConductUS · 05/10/2018 20:52

Admin system changes because people have said it doesn't work. New system. Well it wasn't like this before. How do they expect us to have the time to get used to yet another admin system.

It has always been so. DH, who works in IT, thinks that this is the best video on youtube.

VictoriaBun · 05/10/2018 20:57

My dh sometimes when he eats ( if hungry) shovels his food in and is noisy I want to stab him
Rude people that don't acknowledge you if you allow them out in care of don't say thank it you hold open a shop door.

VictoriaBun · 05/10/2018 20:57

out in cars.

MaisyPops · 05/10/2018 21:01

MissConductUS
Brilliant. Ever thus as you say (and I ask some spectacularly dim questions to our IT support team) Grin

I'm meaning more than normal niggles though. As in people at work who will compulsively complain about anything. You can hear their problem, fix it with their solution and they'll still need to complain that the solution isn't right.

Or, someone's talking about something positive and there's always a way to make it doom and gloom. Or someone is poorly but 4 years ago they had it worse.

Chronic mood Hoovers.

MissConductUS · 05/10/2018 21:18

MaisyPops I understand, some people just revel in being miserable about something. And when there's positive change you'll still hear "Well, back in the good old days (when we had a coal fired hob or whatever).

I think it's mostly attention seeking and an excuse for not stepping up to the new task.

Firstbornunicorn · 05/10/2018 22:09

I got to page 5 and no further because I'm really confused about the pp who keeps insisting that there is an "ar" sound in Chicago. It's Chi-ca-go, not Chi-car-go. Like you've just gone out of your way to work the word "cargo" in there. Weird.

mrsmuddlepies · 05/10/2018 23:05

So agree with you Maisy Pops about the excessive girly/ditsy stuff adopted by a lot of women. I find the number of posters on here who boast about crying deeply irritating. Someone gives them a funny look and they 'sob' about it, generally over their keyboard.

SpeckledDot · 05/10/2018 23:13

People who comment on how fat they are and how they couldn't possibly fit into certain clothes.

What am i suppoosed to say to that?

ginghamstarfish · 05/10/2018 23:30

Ooh yes, agree with all the above and there must be many others ... but need to calm down now and let the blood pressure go down before we!

LonelyBones · 05/10/2018 23:48

People who dont queue correctly. Instead of standing directly behind the person at the barrier, they stand at a right angle and then suddenly there is a queue which snakes outward into the shop and not neatly/efficiently along the erected barrier because the next person stands behind them at the wrong angle.

People at the supermarket who snake their hand/arm around your back, brush against your boob, hand in front of your face to get the item that I'm standing directly in front of. Just to avoid saying, excuse me. Just fucking say excuse me, ill smile and move to let you get your stuff you are in dire panic need for!?!

People who park in parent and child spaces that dont have children in tow. Disabled people that park on p&c spaces when there are loads of disabled spaces free. Im under the impression disabled spaces are enforced but p&c arent, so taking a p&c space when disabled spaces are free means other cants use the space. Its not interchangeable unfortunately!

People who hip check/shoulder check my toddler because they dont see him. Wtf.

Random strangers stroking my kids in the park. They are cute, but that doesnt give you the right to touch them, just fuck off and keep your hands to yourself.

Sad and rude people that dont say Good morning/good afternoon/hello in return. Im saying these greetings to you to be polite, be polite back you twats. Its becoming more common, in shops and other public places. I find myself questionning if i am old fashionned, saying good morning and wanting that person to be polite and return the greeting. It makes me so angry.

Open mouthed lip smacking eating.

Parents at soft play who dont supervise their children properly.

Parents at my nursery who dont use the car park and just "park" their cars on the DYL outside with their hazards on, blocking the dropper kerb for walking parents and pushchairs. Entitled twats.

People stopping anywhere they like on the road with their hazards on. Hazards on dont make it ok.

There are more..... I realise im an angry person.

Shadow1234 · 06/10/2018 00:33

2 of my neighbours telling couriers to leave parcels at my house if they are not in (without asking me if its ok first). Just because I am at home all day, doesnt mean I have nothing else to do!

My teenagers letting the dog run in from the garden with muddy feet (when its raining), and not think to wipe him clean before he runs through the house and ending up sprawled out on my bed!

People who park on a kerb, leaving the mother with pushchair to have to go in road to get by

People who are in front of you at the post office queue with 20 parcels to be weighed, and all you want is a first class stamp

When your chinese is delivered and they forgot the barbeque sauce!
(and you just cant eat it without that sauce)

People who say they dont like a specific food, but have never even tried it!

People who start to tell you a really good joke and then forget the exact ending and fuck it up

people who spit chewing gum on the pavement, only for me to tread in it!

(God, looks like I get pissed off about quite a lot) 😬

LittleMissFrumpy · 06/10/2018 00:43

Bregggggggsit

OliviaStabler · 06/10/2018 07:25

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.

People find it rude even then. Doing a big shop in Tesco I get to the end of the aisle which is being blocked by a family of 4 and their trolley. I say politely 'Excuse me please' absolutely no reaction from them. I wait a bit but still nothing. I say again a tad louder 'Excuse me please'. The woman looks up and gives me a Hmm look and just stands there. I say politely but my eyes give her the Paddington bear hard stare look 'Excuse me, you are completely blocking the aisle, I need to get past please'. Only then do they move grumbling to themselves.

Where do these completely unaware people come from? You are in a large, busy supermarket. If you have to stop for any reason, you do so making sure you are not blocking others.

MisstoMrs · 06/10/2018 10:44

Oh god yes - people who don’t supervise their children at softplay! Or parks. Or anywhere I gather up to 5 random children who need help with building sandcastles / putting their shoes back on / walking up and down steps etc.

I have my own child to look after - I am not your baby sitter. Get off your bloody phone and look after your child.

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