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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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luckycat007 · 01/10/2018 23:06

@vampirethriller I hate that too. Changing rooms are notorious for it.

Parking wankers

Cyclists who cycle in the middle of the road

Slow shuffling walkers

Loud people

People who listen or watch stuff on their phones without headphones

People who stare

People who are noisy in the quiet bit of a train

General humanity 🤣😂

Budgieinaberet · 01/10/2018 23:06

People who put out the rubbish without emptying the kitchen bin first.
I'm looking at you DH
Sentences beginning with So
And pretty much everything else every thing else every one has said

Chocolate50 · 01/10/2018 23:06

@Boyskeepswinging - I am one of those people! I really thought it made a difference! it doesn't? I honestly didn't know that.
But I love Bowie and I think your mn name is reference to that, so well you are ok even if I would annoy you by asking about upper and lowercase letters!

Opensesame1 · 01/10/2018 23:07

People who check into hospital or post cryptic shit on Facebook.

also people who "like for a prayer" on posts with pictures of sick kids.. Jesus doesn't have Facebook you planks!!!

People who complain about the fact I am a noisy eater. I eat with my mouth closed.. I have a cavernous mouth which causes an echo and when I eat a flump it sounds like I am chewing screws. I literally have no control over it!! If you don't like it sit somewhere else...

People who say pacifically instead of specifically.

People who say chicargo

People who wear socks with sandals... and men who wear just sandals.

MUA's who advertise their services with pics that look like a cat drew on their face with a marker.

Serious use of the word "hun". This should be reserved for sarcasm only...

I don't think I like people.

Chocolate50 · 01/10/2018 23:09

people who have just come back from traveling - do not sit next to them anywhere, you will never hear the end of it...

luckycat007 · 01/10/2018 23:09

Jobsworths too. The word 'uni'.

purplepigs · 01/10/2018 23:10

People who eat loudly
People who breath heavily
Nail biters
My neighbour who washes his car every day
Messy people
People touching me

MsOliphant · 01/10/2018 23:14

Haha, I have a ‘mâke up artist’ friend on Facebook —don’t give up the day job—who is forever posting pictures of her handiwork and touting for business- recently made her teenage cousin up for prom with all these contours and shimmery pink eye make up....

The poor girl looked like she had myxomatosis Confused

Apileofballyhoo · 01/10/2018 23:15

People who placemark. Grin

MsOliphant · 01/10/2018 23:15

What is the correct pronunciation of ‘Chicago’ if not ‘Chic-ar-go’?!! Confused

jackio2205 · 01/10/2018 23:18

People who lack personal space/their surroundings and slow walkers. As a commuter into London, both these things I consider a heavy burden to my daily grind!

The most petty thing of all- people that secuterry instead of secRETARY and generally when then mean to say genuinely, gaaahhh!!!

Opensesame1 · 01/10/2018 23:22

Awww I forgot about people who have travelled!!

Me: I have a sore foot
Friend: this one time when I was travelling across Europe...

🙄🙄🙄🙄

ShotsFired · 01/10/2018 23:23

Jackie and your "secuterry" - have you noticed how there doesn't seem to be a single tv presenter who is able to say words like "police" or "applause" - the come out as "pleece" and "plause"

Darkestnight · 01/10/2018 23:24

People who don't say thankyou if you hold the door open for them or let them go in front of you in a shop.

Nettletheelf · 01/10/2018 23:25

I’ve just come back from holiday so I have a rich seam of examples.

Yes to the escalator twats, why would you stop dead at the top or bottom of an escalator WHY WHY? Surely you must realise that you have a plane load of people behind you?

Women who were on loo seats then don’t even wipe it off, what is wrong with people? And you know exactly who they are, too, because airport loos always have long queues so you see who is coming out of the cubicle you go into.

Women who spend ages in public loo cubicles. What the feck are they doing in there? Are they getting changed and putting make up on or are they fussily flushing the loo four times in case anybody, you know, guesses that they have used it? You can be in and out of a public loo in two minutes, particularly where there is a long queue.

Overhead locker twats. People are trying to get to their seats but no, let them wait whilst you spend five sodding minutes fitting your stupid case in then remembering that you left your copy of Bella in it, thus requiring the case to be brought down again and placed on the seat whilst you rummage through it and continue to block the aisle. How are cabin crew not homicidal every day when faced with this twattishness?

buttontin · 01/10/2018 23:26

People that say “I did that thing I was going to do” expecting you to ask what the “thing” is, beg them for information. Pah.

People that abbreviate everything, “tab” for tablet, “razzies” for raspberries, “cub” for cupboard...

People that call people “it” when they don’t like them, as in “I won’t speak to it anymore”.

My MIL does all the above.

Actually the last one isn’t petty, it’s abusive.

mumsastudent · 01/10/2018 23:26

people writing "if you care for me/like me/thinking of me -or whatever" say like or share on facebook. waiting for workman(or whoever) to ring back HMRC when you are trying to get an answer to something they have done wrong, again. recognising some of the comments here might refer to me :) (& missing or mistyping a etter (get it!) on my laptop!

Darkestnight · 01/10/2018 23:28

Also forgot when people come right close to you eg in a queue if the shop is almost empty. Some bloke did it and told him not to get so blooming close to me. Have they never heard of personal space.

Nettletheelf · 01/10/2018 23:29

Oh yeah, ‘nucular’ instead of ‘nuclear’ (it’s not that hard to pronounce) and ‘sickth’ instead of ‘sixth’. The number is called six, not sick. Just FYI. Actually, round our way some people seem to think it is posher to say ‘sickth’. How I laugh. It’s almost as if they are worried that people might think that they are saying the word ‘sex’, so they have to expunge the ‘x’ sound. Sickth!

SoManyConkers · 01/10/2018 23:29

Someone always faffing in front of the item you want in the shop

People parking right next to you in an empty car park

Basically people being where I want to be

TitsalinaBumSquash · 01/10/2018 23:31

I have a super petty one that doesn't actually have any effect on my life at all but it winds me up.

Amazon, the 'ask a question' bit under products.

Someone's asked - Does this kettle have a keep warm function?

Some complete and utter time wasting shit has replied with - I don't know, I bought for my son at uni.....

Then why answer? It's not the law! It's there as a tool to help buyers. AngryAngry

TitsalinaBumSquash · 01/10/2018 23:34

Oh! I have another .... (you've got me started now!)

There seems to be a trend amongst my teenage children and their friends that means they can't speak on a phone with it to their ear anymore, it's always held out in front of their face on speaker.. why? Why could you possibly think we'd want to hear you talk bollocks about Fortnite for an hour to your friend who lives LITERALLY 2 DOORS AWAY?!

puppymouse · 01/10/2018 23:35

Bad breath, people who don't do the reciprocal wave when you thank them for allowing you to drive past as they wait, people who don't clear up their dog's poo, people who buy animals and then have to give them away because they get bored or can't cope.

And most recently, people who have older lovely safe ponies who have taught the whole family to ride but then advertise them on FB with no decent reason other than they want to get another one or it doesn't have a rider any more. Let the poor animal enjoy life and leave it where it is you twat. It's 18 years old. Bit specific sorry.

Oh and people who get angry and nasty at work but get away with it because they're "under a lot of pressure" and "that's just what they're like." It's not ok.

IloveJudgeJudy · 01/10/2018 23:37

@MsOliphant and @BonnieF It may come as a surprise to you, but some people (ie/eg me) have not flown in literally decades so really don't know how it all works. I hadn't flown for 20 years until last year. I had no clue about how security works nowadays. I did ask other people eg DH who has flown for business quite a lot, but I think if you do it all the time you forget the little bits like in Rome you have to remove your watch and bracelet. I didn't have to do that on the way out to Rome, but I did on the way back. No one mentioned it to me. How was I supposed to know? It wasn't actually written down anywhere but it seems that I should have known instinctively, according to you. I think your blood pressure would appreciate your not getting so upset by such things.

purplepigs · 01/10/2018 23:37

Totally agree with the pet comment

People who have their own children who won't date people with children - you can't expect someone to take on your child but you wouldn't do the same ! The world has some truly selfish people in it !