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.

Maisy

Sometimes you have to get on the right end because somewhere along the line, the train splits in two and the front end of the train goes to a different destination to the back. They do tell you though.

Slow typers. I had my booking appointment with the midwife last week, they've recently switched to electronic records and the whole appointment was 2-finger typing, accompanied by painfully slow perusing of the various drop-down menus. I had to bite my tongue to prevent myself just taking over from her.

BarbaraofSevillle
That's quite clever!
Spot the small town girl here.

Jigging/repetitive motions. My children are all autistic, two of them have a degree of hyperactivity with it. They can’t sit still. One’s movement is driven by anxiety, the other just has to be in constant motion. I’ve just left my living room because the former is sat playing minecraft while bouncing her knee up and down, and the latter is sat playing temple run while belting out video game theme tunes and conducting himself with his foot.

Gah!

I’m silently seething while the kettle boils. It remains to be seen whether or not I’ll be drinking my tea on the sofa, or on the back dooerstep in the rain.

People clapping in the cinema. The actors can't hear you.

Also, people who clap when the plane lands. Unless it's a particularly difficult landing, it's a bit silly imo.

Loud London and Essex accents. Young people with these who seem to take pride in sounding completely uneducated. Particularly the way young people in Brixton speak ie “he didn’t AKS me”

Oh, and anyone who comes on to a thread about some celebrity and writes....

“Who?”

Oh fuck off. Why did you come on to a thread about Kerry Katona if you don’t know who she is?

People who....

Actually I will leave it at that.

People

That snorting thing when their nose is full of mucosey snot!

How long have you got?! So many things. Like you, people who keep their coats on in restaurants annoy me. What I've found even more bizarre though,is people who wear their coats to sit at a table and eat IN THEIR OWN HOME. I've witnessed this a few times lately,as the bus I regularly travel on pulls up at a bus stop outside a house that has no net curtains. My eyes were drawn to a brightly lit window with 3 people sitting at dining table eating,all wearing their coats! I know this doesn't affect me in any way at all,but it just irritates me! I tried to reason with myself that maybe their central heating had gone on the blink.
Another thing I find equally as irritating is people who don't just wear their coats indoors,but have the hood up on the coat. Quite often during the colder months,when I've been sitting in coffee shops I've witnessed this. And it's usually one of these enormous hoods with fur around that obscures most of their face. It always makes me mildly suspicious of them,like they're trying to hide their identity.

People who can’t have a chat without namechecking their conversation partner every time they open their mouth drive me waffy.

I used to get the same bus every day as one lady and her work colleague Margaret. The entire world knew she was called Margaret because every time this woman spoke she used the name. None of my business, but I wanted to scream.

People who use 'myself' all the time, it makes them sound like morons.

People sneezing loudly, it actually makes me grit my teeth in fury.

People who are clearly nervous drivers because they have their seat pulled up as close to the wheel as possible and they're gripping it for dear life. It frightens me that they are have so little confidence in their ability to control their car. I am confident to drive any car, on any road, at any time of the day or night, wearing any type of footwear from wellies to flipflops. A friend can only drive when wearing a certain type of shoe and refuses to drive on motorways and dual carriage ways and it irritates the hell out of me.

Alonghardwinter it's probably because they can't afford to put the heating on or they have "saved up" enough through the summer months to only put the heating on when it's very cold through November to March. Having coats on probably saves them much needed money 🤷🏼‍♀️

People who leave their car engines idling once they have parked. There are a couple of parents who do this outside my DC's school and they have their car engines running for at least twenty minutes, resulting in a haze of toxic microparticles for my DCs to walk through. Haven't these people heard of climate change?

@TheGoneGirl I sit right on top of the steering wheel - I am short and can't push the clutch right in if I sit any further back.

People getting in my way. Some woman this morning I could not get past her. It's like she was trying to piss me off. I didn't huff or tut or anything but trying to get past her she always stepped in my way. Annoying!

Close talkers
People who stand too close behind me in a queue
Whistling
The sound of people eating
Other people yawning
People smoking or vaping while pregnant or pushing a pushchair/pram
People who don't know how to drive around roundabouts 

People who don’t watch Coronation Street.

People who don’t drink tea.

People who like sport.

People who SHOUT ON THE PHONE.

With you puppy monkey! 👍

I've never watched an episode of Coronation Street in my life. I had no idea that people might be annoyed by that

People who wear coats/woolly scarves/hats on a hot, sunny day. It makes me boil with rage, I can't bear it. How dare they?

Or at the opposite end of the spectrum, people who wear a t shirt and shorts in minus 10 temperatures. I remember standing at a bus stop one day when it was minus several degrees and the young lad in front of me was wearing just that. The hairs on his arms were visibly standing on end, the goosebumps were visible and he was shivering. I would bet my bottom dollar that he was not poor; the expensive rugby kit he was wearing on his bottom half was not indicative of someone who could not afford a coat. I know it was none of my business but it really irritated me

This is one borne out of jealousy as I had to give up my motorbike when my ex left but motorbikes sat I traffic when it's safe to filter. I know it's there choice but it winds me up and makes me feel like they are doing it to remind me how poor I am.

Also adults who are obsessed with Disney. Not just the one who like it but the ones who act personally offended when someone says they haven't seen or don't like a certain film.

Open mouthed chewing, after shovelling it in with a fork used like a spoon. Eurgh.

My mother eating. She puts a mouthful in chews it for a bit, then puts some more in without swallowing. I don't know why, but it makes me so angry inside for some reason.