How do you not be irritated by everyone??

[Whatevermission]

Is this the curse of being middle aged? Or am I just a miserable old hag? I think I do a pretty good job of containing my seething rage and incomprehension of everyone's idiocy. I smile alot and friendly and chatty. But, wow, it's an effort. I used to love 'people', finding out about them and enjoyed how different we all are. Now I want to live in a cave and never have to have an interaction with anyone I don't already know and like, ever again

This is why I can’t do office life any longer and work from home in splendid isolation, couldn’t take the bullshit

Nearly 45 and sick of people's shit. IT DOESN'T BLOODY MATTER FFS!

I am still generally nice to people, hell, I even LIKE some people. But as for people's BS, my tolerance is now NIL.

To quote my late mother's attitude to life/everything in general "Oh just tell them to piss off!"

On holiday by myself . I don’t talk to anyone . I don’t want “friends”
I find a few days of keeping my eyes down ,headphones in and Kindle in hand works .

I wish I loved the human race;
I wish I loved its silly face;
I wish I loved the way it walks;
I wish I loved the way it talks;
and when I'm introduced to one,
I wish I thought what jolly fun.
--Sir Walter Raleigh
( not the Spanish Amarda one )

It's the constant fucking GOSSIP. At the school gates..all I can hear is 'I'm not being funny but...' I just zone out, curse my shallow 20's self, and revel in my superiority

This is me. Thank goodness I'm not alone

On my commute ..

People wearing huge backpacks on tube - selfish wankers

Noisy headphones - ignorant wankers

Manspread against women's legs- rude wankers

On train and nearby someone pulls out a bag of crisps and start both rustling bag and aggressively crunching - noisy wankers

Women opposite putting full slap on in the morning, including mascara applied with gurn face - slacken wankresses

People getting off tube/train then stopping in front of you whilst walking at short notice to start texting - inconsiderate wankers

People who talk on phone really loudly in carriage marked 'Quiet Zone' - blind wankers

It's simply exhausting getting to and from work these days.

The latest trend of listening to tv programs at full volume on a phone (no headphones) on public transport. I can’t believe people don’t see anything wrong with inflicting their choice of entertainment on you like that !!!

It's the stupidity that gets on my tits. I just want to ask people if they actually believe the bullshit they are talking or are in fact not that stupid but doing it for some other reason.

WHY are humans so fucking stupid? Just stop and think for a second, yeah?

I am 42 by the way.

I am so glad that I am not the only one who feels this way.I was getting worried about myself .I read something the other day that rang true .I am now an 'introvert extrovert'.Need lots of time on my own to cope with all the bullshit out there.

Also - extended adolescence.

does this mean in 10 years we can expect to see 30+ folk being completely incompetent?!

Manspread against women's legs- rude wankers

That one's easy. I shove my bag down next to me, right at the front of the seat, so it's between me & the manspreader. Various hard sticky-out objects like my glasses case & keys poking out on his side. Wholly in my seat so he can't object, but it makes it very uncomfortable for him to put his leg there.

One of my dhs relatives is a flat earther. I avoid family meet ups like the plague because they invariably involve alcohol and once my tongue is loosened I'm worried I'll tell him what an utter fuckwit he is. At Christmas he was prattling on about how dinosaurs never existed and Antarctica doesn't exist. His dcs are growing up hearing all this crap. Scary.

I don't even want to think about how much fun I would have with a flat earther.

I have finally found my tribe

Oh fuck, I’m only 35 and my tolerance left years ago. People are idiots.

This is the happiest I've felt in ages!
I get incandescent with rage at having to make small talk on nursery/school run.
Bullshit, bullshit everywhere. People lie to themselves all the time. Those fancy cars sitting in your drive, the pointless purchases, the P fucking TA drama. It's all a series of distractions until you die. That's all. I don't give a shite.
People who will cut you off mid sentence to attend to their spoilt kid in some meaningless way. I just walk away now, so fucking rude. If your kid has fallen/is stabbing another kid in the eye with a pencil/is choking on their own vomit fair enough. But if they are just being attention seeking brats, teach them not to interrupt and wait their turn. No wonder kids are growing up self-entitled assholes.
Mansplaining!
People who talk about themselves constantly.
Argh!

Kids that interrupt, I'm with you on that one Bedsidedrawer

I imagine in my head, getting down right in their face and going SHHHHHHH with spit flying at them.

I love this thread. I find the commute utterly hellish this days. So many noisy, smelly, inconsiderate, man spreading WANKERS.

I used to be a real people person. Now 99% of Other People can just fuck the fuck off.

I'm 43. @GoldenPineapples just wait a few years, you'll see.

Can I join? I'm 52 and all out of fucks to give. I'm tired of being barged out of the way when walking on a pavement because, you know, I'm a middle-aged woman and not important. And it's not always the menz who expect me to give way; it's young women with their real faces obliterated and a fake 'perfect' one painted on the top, nasty, long fake nails, orange knees poking through ripped skinny jeans. I'm tired of the lack of consideration for other people, this everyone's-a-celebrity culture. I told a chugger to fuck off the other day. Am grouchy old gimmer and I don't care!

OP, I've been on MN for about 10 yrs and this has to be one of the best ever threads, thank you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I find I have got 'worse' over the last 5 or so years and wasn't sure if it was menopause, death of parents and the awareness of time or what.
I am so fed up with selfish and inconsiderate people I can't tell you. I'm a good listener and at one time would (not so) happily sit and listen to some self centred fecker drone on but not anymore if I can help it. I used to bump intoan ex neighbour regularly who could blab about her health, job, family , social life and general miscellanious stuff in the space of ten minutes without once asking how I was, FFS. Now if I see her in town I avoid like the plague.

I've not reached my 40s yet but, people who annoy me include
People who only talk about themselves.
People who whine about having a cold but cannot accept that chronic illnesses exist.
People who are incapable of being considerate.
Loud people.
People who talk to me when I'm not in the mood.
People who tell me how amazing their children are.
People who wear ridiculous amounts of makeup and think they are glamorous.
Just people in general. I prefer rabbits.

Here too. (43)

I just don't care about so much that I encounter on a daily basis.

Other people's kids
Other people's opinions
TV
Even music has been getting on my last nerve.

And the lack of consideration for anyone else other than themselves (as mentioned earlier) is astounding:
Driving, parking, building, DIY, their kids screaming, the obsession with mobile phones, the endless selfies....I'm sure that when we were younger it was considered vain, self obsessed and generally bad manners.

And if you dare, say something, or stand up for yourself, YOU are the one who is out of order!

Why am I supposed to care about other people's opinions? Why? WHY?

Do I care that you think I should cut the grass? No!
Do I care that you think I should build an extension? Fuck no!
Do I care about you being friends or not friends with who the fuck ever? No! Piss off!

And one more thing...

If I haven't spoken to you on over a year, I'm not interested in being friendly now Fuck OFF. Take the fucking hint! I don't like you.

If I'm walking along the pavement and it's apparent that the cheeky fecker who's approaching is going to barge right into me, I just stop still and wait and then they walk around me. I do it when driving as well and refuse to allow me and my small car to be made to move over for some git in a BMW or a 4x4 aka 'twatmobile' as dh calls them.

Try it. It works.

I feel that I should apologise for the amount of swearing in my post....

But fuck it, no.

OP, thank you from the bottom of my heart for such a cathartic thread.

@eurochick I'll see what? I'm getting more and more lighthearted and humoured as I get older.. when I was younger in my teens and 20s I was old before my time. I had two kids, was married with a house by 25. I took everything too seriously and lots irritated me. I was very sensible and trying to be too old for my age. Now in my 30s as the years have gone on I've chilled out in my outlook, don't take it all too seriously and find humour in most things. I've gone the opposite way...