What behaviour from strangers that is not affecting you in any way really gets on your nerves?

[NancyJoan]

For me, it’s people who keep their coat on when they sit down in a restaurant. We went out for lunch today, two women in ENORMOUS coats at the table next to us, kept them on until partway through their meal.

Disclaimer: I know it’s none of my business, I’m lucky I have nothing bigger to worry about and they might just (both) really feel the cold.

Men who make that vile hawking noise at the back of their throat before spitting.

People who abandon their shopping trolley anywhere in the aisle to fetch something off the shelf.

People who don't appear to realise until they get to the till that they actually need their purse from the bottom of their bag.

People who come behind you when you have a massive trolley full and haven't finished loading it onto the conveyor belt and leave about a foot before loading their own stuff on.

Yes I'm aware that I shouldn't really visit supermarkets as the rage fills up me so much that I lose all sense of punctuation.

When someone posts on mn and people give them advice which they follows and posts to say they have and then people don't read the full post and keep telling them to do what they already has done - rtft!
People who leave desert shopping mid shop in the wrong place- worst offenders are people who leave chilled foods on normal shelves as then it gets warm and can't be resold
People who wear pyjamas in public

@NancyJoan I totally agree with the coat thing- my dh did this is the first few dates we went on and I thought it was either he wasnt too sure and was basically ready to get up and leave at any moment or because he had some kind of bo problem (I work in a high school and this is quite often what the smelly kids do!). A few dates in I asked him why he did it and apparently the coat was part of the outfit and the overall look, he owns a lot of coats, it still bugs me!

Loud sneezing

Sniffing instead of blowing their nose

Mouth breathers with garlic breath on the train/ bus

Also tapping and people who talk through presentations or talks. Yes they may be boring but some one has spent time planning them and it takes some people a lot of guts to get up in front of others and talk so just use basic manners. If it's crap there's usually some kind of feedback you can give just do it in the appropriate way

FUCKING WHISTLING.

People being enraged at short queues.

People being shitty to shop workers when it's nothing to do with them.
Yes, it is annoying when Waitrose doesn't stock Mace however, it's not the end of the world. It's certainly not worth reducing Brenda the customer service advisor to tears over you being a cunt about it.

People (normally men actually) who drive with their arm dangling out of the window. Just dangling pointlessly, as if the act of driving is so trivial that they can only devote one of their arms to the matter

People who go in a coffee shop, then mock the fact that there are several options available. It's usually men, doing a 'I'm just a simple fella' routine for all to roll their eyes at hear. "Just a black coffee, that's all I want! Why can't you just call it a black coffee?!" Sod off, you boring twerp.

People who do their banking at the ATM that's outside the bank, when the bank is open. Why do that? In fact people who do their banking at the ATM full stop. The machine is for getting cash out, end of. Do your banking online ffs, or go into the bank - it's open and there's no queue because, you know, everybody's banking online!

The sound of long acrylic nails catching on most surfaces

Giant eyebrows (not naturally bigger brows, I mean the ones that resemble slugs drawn on with marker pen). For some reason I find it hard to take facial expressions seriously with them there.

People who pack their whole trolley into bags at the checkout at Aldi but go at snail pace. I love a bit of race the shop assistant (bags laid out, shopping in correct order so it's as quick as putting back into the trolley). But don't pack your trolley by carefully contemplating where each item is going to go. Use the damn packing shelf.

Can't explain why but people on market place sites at like 7pm who list something saying "needs gone" and its like a pair of shoes so nothing that is taking too much space up.

People who get their, they're, there wrong.
Showy off sneezing loudly.
People who don't wash their hands after using the toilet (especially workmen in my house - toilet and sink in different rooms unfortunately, so I can tell if they don't )

SpikyHair is me. I am SpikyHair I bloody hate people in general. Going anywhere in a car, on a bus or train and people give me the heave. Terrible manners, spitting, talking loudly, drunk, eating and leaving mess everywhere, littering, letting their dogs shit all over theplace and not clearing it up. Just gross behaviour generally.

Yes to the people not tying their hair back. My son is a big fan of Matilda and the Ramsay Bunch and 🤮 I would not eat anything she has cooked with her hair trailing all over it.

And little girls in my son’s swimming lesson who have to stop every couple of strokes to push their hair out of their face. Grrrr. Why don’t their parents just put a hairband in their swimming bag?!

People walking slow in front of me

People eating while walking and people who litter.

Slow walkers in front of me and Pacific instead of specific

Men who trail aimlessly about supermarkets looking glum while their wives shop. They aren’t adding anything and they just get in the way,

Why are they there? Why don’t they stay at home and do something else, or sit in the car & listen to the radio? Anything except stand in the way. Drives me to distraction.

When young lads have a smart shirt on and do the buttons right to the top with no tie. Looks like they are strangling themselves (I think this fashion is probably a bit dated now so I haven't had the opportunity to be irritated by it recently!

Men and youths who walk along with the Liam Gallagher swagger like they've got a rugby ball up their arses. Looks ridiculous.

Kids playing football in the street outside our house or just generally playing. I suppose it impacts me in that I find the constant thump thump of the ball annoying but it's hardly something I could go and complain at them for. Luckily we're moving house soon

People in senior positions with terrible spelling and/or grammar. How?!

People who arrive late to exercise classes and faff about putting their stuff down and finding a space. And people who, despite having done the same dance class for a year, have absolutely no idea of the routine.

People who PARK in the Drop off zone outside Tesco

There is a dad at ds’s school who gives me the rage even though he has nothing to do with me.

He drops his child to school 1 day a week and makes such a fucking loud noise about it, performance parenting by doing boxing sparring or sports practise with his ds while they wait for the line up bell. Of he speaks to another parent he mentions REALLY LOUDLY about how he’s just dropping his boy to school on his way to work.

He’s clearly after a Father of the Year medal. every time he arrives and starts up I have to resist the urge to slow clap him.

People who stop in the middle of a busy or narrow pavement to have a conversation. The lack of awareness gives me rage - surely they could stand to one side?

On the train - people who play games/watch thing on their devices without headphones. Why would I want to hear it?

People who have no concept of personal space.

Overt displays of public affection.

Whistling. Makes me want to punch them.

People who get fillers in their lips. So many look like burns victims, what makes people look at that and think 'Yeh, I want that sexy look!' ?????