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 ( it’s always men) who insist on walking on the actual road when there is a perfectly lovely and wide pavement to walk on.

I don’t drive so it doesn’t affect me but it’s makes me so annoyed!

Noel Fielding on GBBO

People who do that backwards and forwards pigeon impression when listening to music

The pigeon thing - they do it from the neck up

On the train when someone bumps into someone else they vaguely know and then both parties feel the need to make awkward small talk for the rest of their journey when everyone knows they’d both rather be reading their book or whatever. Doesn’t affect me but drives me mad for some reason!

People who do anything inefficiently, even when it has no affect on me.

Entire families going supermarket shopping. Every one of them looks utterly miserable, so why?

When entire families go shopping and the kids inevitability play up, stressed parent meting out punishmrnts they’ll never enforce “right, that’s it!!! We are cancelling the holiday!!”

People at Bluewater that rent those ridiculously large kids push along cars on a Saturday and then drive them into the smaller shops.

People blowing their noses in restaurants. What on earth makes them think it’s appropriate to expel bodily fluids in front of people who are eating? It’s disgusting. Go to the bathroom where bodily fluids are supposed to be expelled!

Couples walking down the street slowly spreading to take over the whole pavement. My theory is that most humans actually walk diagonally rather than in a straight line. If you've ever walked behind someone you'll notice the same thing.

SisterOfDonFrancisco
Yes!
And groups of teens (usually certain subgroup early teen girls) who insist on walking towards you as a group with zero intent of moving over because they genuinely think they are so unbelievably important that they need to strut down the middle of the shopping centre. Bonus points if accompanied by the Mean Girls 'with move out my way' face.
Seriously, you're 14, caked in fake tan and makeup and not impressing anyone. Stop thinking you're (insert generic post industrial town)'s answer to the Kardashians and learn some bloody manners.

People who throw themselves around. For example they hurl themselves into a row of seats, jolting the entire row. Then they'll reposition themselves over and over, slamming their backs onto the back of the seat, causing more jolting around for their neighbours.

Totally irrational, but weather presenters wearing sleeveless dresses in winter while talking about gales/ sleet/ blizzards. I know it's probably hot in the studio but it makes me feel really chilly!

People who sing along to songs playing in a shop while wandering round. You come face to face with them and they continue singing right in your face! It feels really weird and confrontational somehow!

People who work in customer service and use the phrase 'I can only apologise'.

Thats really all you can do? It's just a get-out clause for not providing decent customer service and doing something practical to help.

Oh good I have a plethora of pent up rage that has no discernible logic

People who make a massive production over spiders or bees etc....dont get me wrong I totally understand those with true phobias and allergies but in my experience they are the first to quietly get the he'll away from the beasties

It's the flappers and the drama queens ,actually any flapping whatsoever makes me stabby

People who slow walk in the middle of an aisle ...any aisle whatsoever ...its ignorant...it takes nothing to move to a side and then bumble to your little hearts content while the rest of us can get on with things

People who pull really slowly when turning left

Overly hesitant driver on a roundabout (tbf I drive daily in London and people who do this are not at risk from me glaring but more from someone else trying to hit them)

Powered by fairy dust signs on cars

People who go clothes shopping with 1t of their family (good shopping annoys me but I can sort of understand why) and then basically work as treacle in gears by filtering around so every route is blocked by every member of the family agreeing that auntie Susan's new choice of coat is " a bit different and isn't she just crazzzzeeee to consider yellow but it's so like you...classkc auntie susan"

Fuck auntie Susan's new coat

Phew feel better now

Also, microblading.

It doesn't look real, Susan. It looks like someone has drawn lines on your head. Which they have.

People who work in customer service and use the phrase 'I can only apologise'.

Thats really all you can do? It's just a get-out clause for not providing decent customer service and doing something practical to help.

I think that's unfair. The person on the phone is unlikely to be the person who made the mistake in the first place and in a lot of cases they won't have the authority to actually put it right. They're really just the person who is there to bear the brunt of everyone's anger and take the heat off the people who actually screwed up.

Gino D'Acampo

I sat in a waiting room once opposite a young lady who had a tongue piercing. Every few seconds she did a huge yawn and simultaneously clicked the piercing against her top teeth. I have never despised another human being as much as I despised her in that half hour or so.

@treaclesoda I get that. I was a call centre manager so I do know that often people aren't empowered. But it's lazy. There is almost always some small way you can make things better. But it's a way to wash your hands of a problem. I banned my team from saying it! 

My boss who every time he talks or does a presentation jiggles the coins in his pocket. Gives me the rage!!!!

MrsVietor sounds like your organisation had a bit more common sense than some. I've never worked in a call centre but did work in a business that had a large call centre operation. Our call centre had the usual targets about moving calls along within X number of minutes or whatever, so they frequently just transferred them to the first possible free number within the organisation. So I'd have someone on the phone screaming abuse about something that I had nothing to do with, didn't know how to fix, didn't know anything about, didn't know who could actually deal with it and we weren't allowed to transfer calls onwards anyway because they decided that good customer service was to 'take ownership'. Oh, but you also weren't allowed access to any records or information that didn't relate to your own, very specific, area of work. When I told people that I could only apologise it really was the truth, there was absolutely nothing else I had the power to do. I'm so glad I don't work in an environment like that any more!

People on MN who say "wish that was my only problem" or similar when a poster posts a problem they have. So belittling
Also usually the first post on a thread is so ridiculous an answer for some reason - it is like they've seen a new thread and just want to get in first with ANY answer. Then reams of posts saying the exact opposte

Inspirational quotes on FB.
Adults who pose cuddly toys in cars or at home.
Vehicles given names ('Oh, we're off in Bessy today)
The use of too many exclamation marks after a sentence!!!!!!!!!
A gap before a question/exclamation mark !
The diet boards on MN with so much re-peddled misinformation.

Waiting and letting another car through when driving WITHOUT (at least) a nod/flash etc

People reaching over me in the supermarket..doesn't take much to say excuse me

When people pack at Aldi, just shove it in the trolley and go and pack elsewhere, that's how they work it

I can't stand others huffing and pufffings in queues we are all waiting to be served if you are in a hurry leave the queue and get on with your day

Talking on phones but not having your phone to your ear just talking into thin air annoys and confuses me!

Person 1: posts on Facebook venting

Person 2: what's wrong?/are you okay?

Person 1: oh yeah hun I'm fine/inbox me

Why??