Which inanimate objects do you have an irrational hatred of?

[ThePinkCushion]

It's acoustic guitars for me. If I see someone with one in public you can pretty much guarantee that its owner is going to start playing the bloody thing even though no one asked.

Shower cubicles are another. Why are they so bloody hard to clean? Between the glass and the little crevices. I hate them.

I need time to think of others though I'm sure it's a long list. What objects drive you crazy?

Eyelashes on cars
Fluffy pool slide shoes
Iced coffees

door handles. They can fuck right off. Always hooking my cardigan pocket so I get twanged back into the bloody door, usually coming off worse too. Smug metal fuckers.

Bastard packets that don't open properly. Like bacon packets. They have those tab things that just rip uselessly off and leave you stabbing at the lid in a rage. Why do they exist? What is the point?

Had to Google "buggy boards". Bloody hell!

Also hate ashtrays and any paraphernalia to do with smoking. Not so bad with cigars/pipes but have a severe phobia of the former with "ette" added to it.
I totally realise this is not normal.

Onion and garlic skins. No easy way to get them off and then they stick to your skin. And drop down through the vegetable rack. Bastards.

Household decor items shaped like llama’s.
Bath toys. You lift the effing thing up to put in the box and it soaks you.
Ironing board covers that ping off.
The food recycling bin.
Shoes in my hallway.

Brutalist architecture.

Any sticker or collection of wooden letters that tell me to do stuff like, “live, laugh” or ones that say “eat” in the kitchen. My inner anarchist comes out and I’m consumed with the urge to put them all in the wrong place -“bath” ones in the kitchen etc. Mostly, I just mutter “no I certainly won’t eat/laugh/love just cos you say so”. Bastards.

I second door handles bastarding things I've always always got bruised arms, and this is naturally their fault and not mine for being clumsy.

Dummys, horrible things.

The step at work I keep falling over.

The hygiene plastic around mascaras and eyeliners in boots. Double fucking wrapped to hold the security tag

Literally takes 10 minutes to get it open and chips my teeth

Umbrellas. Hate them. Headphones that tangle. Live love laugh signs. In fact all 'quote' signs

Another vote for door handles that attack my cardigan when I walk past.

@Pigletthedog YES bastard coat hangers!!

@LaMarschallin

I'm the same re smoking. Proper phobia. I have nightmares about it!

And Yy anything garden hose related

Invented by a sadist

@Pleasebeafleabite I'm adding all shrink wrap packaging. Can't ever get in anything!

Oh I love brutalist architecture. But I can see why people don’t!

My husband

Yes to umbrellas, coat hangers, door handles, plastic packaging etc. I especially hate the heat sealed clamshell packaging that you need scissors to open. After cutting the packaging half you try to force it apart slicing your fingers open in the process. It isn't until you kneel before it and swear to sacrifice the firstborn male of every generation for the next 500 years that you can finally access the contents.

@shoegalj I heartily recommend not using your teeth

Yankee candles annoy me these days they don’t burn properly anymore. I blame false economy with the wicks

Don't get me started on garden hoses! When you get a bloody kink in the thing and have to go all the way back to find it.

Hardback books. I don't know why, I just really dislike them. I will wait for a title I want to come out in paperback rather than buy a hardback.

Speaking of books. I hate, hate, hate, hate books with decked edges. They make me feel nauseated. Horrible things.

Scissors wrapped in packaging that you need scissors to get into!

@Soola
Mary Jane shoes Now we're talking. If you are over the age of eight forget them. On grown women they make me feel queasy. As if the wearer is going to suddenly start lisping and simpering in a baby voice.

Apologies for brief derailment...

@VanGoghsDog

That's brilliant!
I mean, not really - it's horrible but I've never met anybody who feels the same.
I, too, have nightmares! Worst ones are where I'm using one of the things and wake up to be sick (better than not waking up, I suppose ).
And totally well-meaning people who move ashtrays with bare hands...
If I know them well enough, I can ask them to wash their hands and then use anti-bacterial gel but if not...ugh! I spend the whole time praying they won't pat my arm or something.
If I typed the c-word now, I'd have to wash my hands.

Anyway. Sorry.

I also hate really hard plastic packaging that, when it eventually yields to the scissors, develops a razor sharp edge.
And red lipstick. Bloody articles rant on about how it's a classic look and there's a red for everyone....
I've a drawer full of the buggers (I give in and believe the hype every six months or so) and they all make me look like the Joker from Batman after a heavy night on the red wine.