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.

The surprise contents of the walmart trolley made me giggle!

I was on the bus today sitting next to a person talking loudly in the phone. Personally, while I'd rather the world was quiet, I get that I don't own public space so I just put my headphones in. The woman in the seat in front was clearly annoyed. Totally understandable. But what she did with it was to turn and give a hard 2 second stare. Honestly it just made me giggle! I just wanted to say "ooh oh my good that look, so fierce! You lion! Grrr". It was a pointless act.

treacle my DS was like that earlier this evening, it is bitterly cold & he has gone to watch an evening football match, four hour round trip. He had a very thin cotton jacket on, I tried to tell him to wear something warmer but he knows best

People using a fork to cut , then shovel their food into their mouths, wtf is your knife for you idiots?
People who ignore signs in banks etc that ask you to respect the privacy of the people in front and hover over others
People who shop as a family at busy times in shops, what's wrong with leaving the kids at home with one parent or coming at quieter times, likewise people eating food they haven't already paid for going around supermarkets, also kids sitting in the main part of the shopping trolley being pushed around when they are about 10!
I need to just stay in my own world really.....

Tapping
Talking loudly on your phone on the train
Texting with sound
Allowing your child to play loud games on an ipad
Dawdling
Blocking pavements
Taking ages at cash machines
People using the self service till at the supermarket who wait until after they have paid to pack rather than do it as they go. That one blows my mind.
The people who queue for their stupid free cup of coffee at waitrose. Who queues for a bloody coffee particularly after you've just been shafted by waitrose. It's almost smug of waitrose. Go to Tesco or Aldi and spend what you've saved on a decent coffee if you must.
Families gawping at screens when in a restaurant.
People who stand at the bar so people can't get to it to order drinks.
I'm short so anyone who stands on front of me when I'm looking at something. Happens alot.
Eating loudly particularly in a cinema or theatre
The sound of wrappers being scrunched. Just gives me the rage.
Those stupid fake eyelashes that look like spiders. They look ridiculous.

I need to stop.

I also think I need to go and live in a bunker in a field instead of in a city.

I had a friend who used to categorise pavement blockers, so Cat 1 was, say, a person waiting outside a shop and partially blocking, Cat 5 was a couple suddenly stopping in front of you so someone could rummage in bag or pockets so that you nearly ran into them, and Cat 10 was a whole family including child in pushchair, dog and granny, strung out across the pavement, necessitating you to move into the road. I now do similar.

And my particular favourite. Those people who wait until they're at the barriers before betting their train or tube ticket out.

Jules You've reminded me of the variation that is people who stop dead in the airport security line, drop to the floor and start rummaging in their hand luggage for their liquids.

If they get their timing just right, several people will fall over them.

Category increase if they have a wheelie case fully open with clothing strewn across the floor and none of their liquids are collated in a plastic bag.

Pavement Parker's. I've ranted on here a few times about them

I hear you BarbaraofSeville

My list is in two categories ; noise and lack of foresight. So anything that is on those drive me mad. I definitley need to move out of London as I'm surrounded by people and noise and I'm less tolerant as I get older.

In shops, ditherers. Back and forward to the till area, obviously deciding and deciding again, before they pay.
My DH and I tend to call everyone else who happens to be shopping at the same time as us FIDs (fucking idiots and ditherers). We have very low tolerance of the bulk of the population

Yes lack of foresight. See those people who stop dead at the top or bottom of escalators because they haven't thought about where they want to go next.

Has anyone said those who take an unfathomable amount of time at the cash machine yet?

I think we're kindred spirits BarbaraofSeville

Another few that annoy me ..

Whenever someone posts a question re a newborn you always get the standard reply of 'google the fourth trimester hun' - I want to scream every time I read that

Also I hate how these cringy American phrases catch on and everyone starts using them. Most recent ones have been -
'You got this'
'You do you'

Makes me want to vomit

Lots of these things do affect other people. They make you late as they take too long to do stuff, they spread germs with their questionable personal hygiene or they make noise that stop you relaxing.
I can’t stand people walking around with a hot drink in a cup and people who carry their handbag in the crook of their arm. And people who put jeans on babies. Actually there’s loads more but I’ll shut up now.

Whistlers and sniffers.

Those are probably the only behaviours from strangers which irrationally destroy my mood and make me cross, but whistling and sniffing are like fingernails screeching down a blackboard. I used to use headphones and listen to music when I commuted by public transport purely to block out those sounds, nothing else bothered me.

People who use the phrase "I reached out to" when all they mean is they have contacted someone. I genuinely hate them.

I was in a restaurant dining alone the other evening- nice place good Italian food. The waiter constantly whistled along to all the tunes the entire time I was there. Quite loudly too. It was so annoying. I’m not sure if I particularly noticed it because I was dining alone but it didn’t seem sensible behaviour in the hospitality service.

"I LITERALLY exploded(or similar)" well, no, you didnt. If you had have literally exploded then all I would see in front of me would be a pair of shoes left. Or not.

People who say "I've emailed you" Ok... well I'll read it in my own time thanks.

Women with prams and usually holding a toddlers hand as well walking bang in the middle of the pavement, really really slowly, with no care that people behind might want to walk a bit more than a snails pace. Really bugs me! And I'm also pushing a pram and have two young dc walking so can't exactly walk on the road to pass.

I've just remembered backpacks. They are fine until they are in enclosed spaces, when ideally they should be removed from backs and carried by hand. Men in particular, on crowded public transport, don't seem to realise that they are a hazard to seated passengers!

I've just remembered backpacks.

Some woman on the tube pushed me a few times with her backpack trying to get it off. I didn't say anything but if she had touched me one more time I would have had some words with her.

She clearly couldn't give a shit though. She pushed past a man to get off when there was no need to and he told her it's not polite to push. She took no notice of him at all.

My youngest was knocked flying by a big backpack carried by a dad at Legoland in that police maze thing. Bottom of the backpack was exactly 6 year old head height.. He didn't give a shot, just stared at the then 6 year old he'd knocked down for a second then blanked him and carried on playing "fun dad" with his two children, complete with exaggerated cbeeebies voice.

Which reminds me that I also find ott "fun dad" (or "fun mum" but you don't get it quite as often, though they do exist - you even get the occasional performance "fun grandparent") loud "look at how much fun I am, LOOK at me and my inner child" performance parents really annoying. They always seem to be the types to push other kids out of the way, endanger other people's kids, block another child's view so they can stand at the front dadsplaining to their kids when all the other adults have stepped back, or hog communal playground equipment without a thought...

Bad dog training methods.

The one I see most frequently is people who yank their dog's lead at regular intervals. Nothing good is going to come of it, and I invariably I have to walk in the opposite direction as I get the rage on behalf of the unfortunate dog.