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?

People who sit too close to me on the bus.

I had a situation recently with a woman who sat down practically on my lap. I had the window seat and shuffled a bit closer to the window to stop her touching me. She then took this to mean she could further spread. This happened multiple times through the journey and by the time I got off I was practically hanging out of the window.

People who let their small children career around coffee shops, especially when they are busy. It gives me the willies. I have visions of buckets of scalding hot coffee/tea being dropped on them.

So, people who start a sentence with "so."

Especially on the radio.

does she also start by saying "last week, now was it Monday or Tuesday? It can't of been Monday because that's when I saw beryl but Tuesday was when we took the cat to the vet... maybe it was Wednesday..." it doesn't ducking matter which day, what happened?!!!? (Continues into random non event that happened to someone I have never met but she's the butcher's sister in law's cousin so obviously I'm going to give a shit.)

@m0therofdragons I was just going to put this exact same thing - people prattle on for ages about tiny insignificant details in stories that you JUST DON'T CARE ABOUT

When you miss a call by a one ring and call back immediately - but the person has somehow managed to teleport themselves 500miles away and doesn't answer.

Or:
They text and ask you to call ASAP, which you do immediately, but they have already put their phone back in their soundproofed handbag and don't get back to you for hours. (Yes, you, mother..!)

People who work in post offices and libraries and do everything so painfully slowly it makes me die a bit each time. I worked in a library once, I was pretty speedy!

Parents who look at you with that special expectant face where they're waiting for you to break into an impromptu soliloquy about how adorable and perfect their child is.

(Gonna be waiting a veeery long time with me, buddy. Like, hell freezing over, long)

Drivers who try to give you right of way when you've already pulled over to give them right of way, I've just stopped for you and now you're telling me to go! Noooo! It does my head in so much!

@m0therofdragons

Yes! She also tells me the same story multiple times. I love her but man I can do without being told about the woman in the market's crappy holiday or whatever!

@QuestionableMouse so glad it's not just my mother that does it

Almost all of these!

Plus mothers at our school who walk 'chatting' at the slowest possible ever pace complete with a couple of double buggies along the narrow path into our school when there's about 10 seconds left until the bell, move out of the bloody way!!!

Parents at my charge’s fancy elitist London day-school who are SO keen to come over and say hello and then they find out you’re ‘only’ the Nanny and never give you the time of day again 😂

My neighbour who complains when my dog barks, once, but who takes every phone call in the garden because ‘I HAVE RUBBISH RECEPTION IN THE HOUSE’.

People who can’t be arsed / skew things to make you look bad when it’s their Fuck up.

My DS not sleeping, ever.

People who start loading conveyor belt before I've finished still got trolley full to put on.
People who take forever to set off through the traffic lights like they have all day .
People who talk on mobile while on public transport
People who talk on mobile while being served at checkouts
Co workers who feel the need to tell you the whole details of tv show/film that they watched last night that you did not care about because if you did you would've watched it
I could go on ...

@ShotsFired, yes on the “myself” “yourself” thing. It’s a thing down in the West Country where I live and work and clever people in my office do this loads on the phone to people we are supposed to sound professional for. I printed off a little mini guide entitled “Common misuses of reflexive pronouns” and put it on the notice board.
It hasn’t made a difference.
They’ll be glad when I leave, but I do really like them all.

Rude buggers who don’t acknowledge when you let them go first. I stopped several times today to let other people go, shops, doorways, pavement etc not sure even one of them said thank you. Absolutely boils my blood.

People who like you to know they spent a lot of money on something like you should be in awe of the.

People who are vague and can’t answer a question directly.

My DH and DM who never put the lid back on the butter.

People who wear odd socks. Gives me the absolute creeps.

The 5 people who thought the very best place to have a long lost catchup was right in the exit gap at Tesco self service tills.

In fact anyone who thinks supermarkets/aisles are the place to spread out for a natter.

People who don't stack their trolleys properly / mix and match big and little ones / leave them lurking at the back of a parking bay.

People who double park or use the drop off/taxi point to park when there are hundreds of spaces right there

People who can't keep up but still pack at the tills in Aldi and Lidl.

I have a lot of shopping related rage.

People who never ask you about yourself show no interest but you have to know all the ins and outs of there life. Sometimes i think im just here for people to offload there life on.

People who queue jump. Nah im just standing here for fun!

People who don't say thankyou if you've let them past held a door open etc.

A certain neighbour who seems to think i want there child to come round and play with mine the second i get in from work. Then feels its ok to let there child knock on my door all night till they get an answer.

People who, when I answer my work phone "Good morning Gunpowder speaking", they reply "Hello Gunpowder speaking". Fuck off, unfunny twat.

"Expresso"

I'm breastfeeding my nearly 2yo, and I'm quite when people ask if he also eats solids. Stop being thick.

Worst of all - if I compliment someone on something they're wearing or have on and they won't tell where they bought it from in some sort of childish fear of me copying them. Despite it clearly being bought in a shop where 4,000 other women have bought it. My SIL once wouldn't tell me which shampoo she used that made her hair so shiny, she wanted to be the only one with shiny hair

@ShotsFired
Those drive me mad too shopping related . If I didn't shop, drive or go to work I'd be happy woman

People who stop in shop doorways.

People who stop at the bottom of escalators, I will be unashamed to say mostly the over 65s in that category. It’s like dominoes behind them while they look on into the distance for M&S.

Slow walkers who take up the full pavement.

Mouth smackers when eating.

People who make loud phone calls in trains, restaurants, cafes etc etc.

People who wear really strong perfume in restaurants, theatre etc

And yes other people breathing, walking in my way and just generally being around annoys me! I don't think I am very tolerant

People who can't let go of their trolley in a supermarket.
They take up about 4 peoples spaces in front of the shelves. Park it and walk 2 feet to the shelf. No one is going to pinch your trolley. They would have to pay for the contents to leave the shop which defeats the whole point of stealing !!

People who sit in the middle lane on the motorway.

People who constantly play the victim.

People who refuse to take responsibility for their own actions (this often precedes the above crime)

The arsehole on the beach today who shoved his empty cans in between the rocks and when I challenged him told me he was "coming back from them later" bullshit

People who think their kids can do no wrong and are raising mini dictators because they wont parent them properly with a "no" or 'wait a minute I'm talking"

Wankers who start their sentence with "not being funny but...." and not only are they NOT being funny, they are actually being rude!

I am apparently pretty easily annoyed as this whole post has set me off.

But seriously-people my husband who chew non-chewable food such as yogurt. I am expecting some LTB. And I agree...