What do strangers do that most annoys you?

[amandacarnet]

I mean everyday things, not things like genocide.
For me it is standing blocking doorways as they chat away. It is the total lack of awareness of other people that really annoys me.

Just generally be unaware of anything other than themselves.

Driving about, windows down, bass music playing loudly.

Not using earphones. My dh has had to spend a lot of time in hospital over the last few years and plenty of people in neighbouring beds watching telly/iPads at full volume. Doesn't seem to occur to them to wear earphones. And people doing it in other places too.

Noise pollution I suppose

Hate when men walk steadily a couple of paces me (I'm a woman) in lonely areas and make no effort to overtake.

Stopping suddenly or playing music/videos on public transport.

Start talking to you in a shop - Sorry do I know you? No .. so stop talking to me because I am busy and I don't have time to chat about the weather etc.

Cough.
Spit.
Swear.

Smoking anywhere that isn't a specific smoking area.
For example walking down the street and someone coming the other way blows smoke into your face.
Vaping is slightly less disgusting but only slightly. Fake blueberry smell in my face isn't great but at least it is less likely to give me an asthma attack.

Walking along while reading a phone in crowded place so other people have to dodge them. I just let someone walk into me the other day who was doing this.

Change their minds about buying cold things in the supermarket and just shove them on a random shelf or by the till. If they’re cold I walk them back to the nearest fridge. It is awful that food gets spoiled because they can’t be bothered to walk back to a bloody fridge.

Spitting
Littering
Putting things on the conveyor belt in a supermarket before I have finished unloading my trolley. Just wait untill I have finished! I'm in a minor rage just thinking about it.

Breathe

Standing too close at the atm.
Spitting in the street.
Hollering in the street when unnecessary.

People who wait at the till and only start packing once all items are scanned and payment taken. Ditto with those who only get their payment out right at the end.
People who stand back into the aisle to look at stuff in the shelves so that you have no choice but to walk in front of them.
People who stand talking in the aisles, people who leave their trolleys in an aisle and go off to bring stuff back to it.
People who, on exiting a shop, walk at a snail's pace putting their change and receipt away, often finalising this act in the bloody doorway. No there is absolutely no other shopper trying to leave behind you.
People who listen to music in public with no ear/headphones, or videos on their phones.
People having loud arguments on their phone on public transport, usually swearing and having no consideration for who else is being forced to listen.
People who try and squeeze past you instead of saying excuse me.
People who leave their wheelie bins on the pavement for weeks on end.
People who park so far on the pavement, you have to walk into the road. I once shamed a man for doing this as I was about to head down a straight adjacent to my house, with my son in his pram.
People who walk past several.people sat waiting for a bus driver to open up and get straight on the bus first, regardless of how many people are there, although equally annoying is when the driver signals he's ready and several.people nearest start dithering - "go on, you were before me", "no it's alright, you get on, I've got to find my pass" etc.
People who do not wait for passengers to disembark trains/buses before barging on, because that will get them to their destination much quicker.

Clicky shoes in supermarkets 😂.

Spitting is my number one thing. It absolutely enrages me. I watched a group of young men walking in front of me gobbing regularly onto the street the other day. My blood pressure went through the roof.

Walking too slowly in London. Get out of the fucking way. Anywhere else I don’t care but London is a working city and I have meetings to get to with little time to spare

Parents who allow their horrible brats to go feral in public

Performance parenting. Shut the fuck up

Aggressive rude fuckers

People who tutt and huff and suff but don’t have the guts to say what is pissing them off

Yes, and people talking loudly on their phones in public places or watching videos.
Also people who litter. I want to pick them up by the scruff of their necks and make them pick it up. I have started collecting litter and binning it... I must be getting old.

Oh and those selfish pricks who smoke as they are walking along so those walking behind have no choice but to inhale your disgusting fumes, your second hand smoke gives me an asthma attack

Sniffing on a train

All of the above, plus people who stop in the street to let me pass them when I am pushing the buggy, when there is plenty space for us to both keep walking normally. I then really resent having to say Thankyou to them. Just keep walking! It’s a buggy,not a tank.
(This obviously does not count people who let me pass when it IS a narrow gap, and we wouldn’t both fit, I thank those people with good grace)

Sitting next to you on public transport when there are plenty of free seats available where they can sit on a two-er on their own.

Stopping dead in the middle of the pavement and trying to avoid careering into them (as you know it'd be your fault)

Blocking aisles or pavements with buggies.

Walking 3 abreast on the pavement and not moving for anyone

But the worst crime I think people commit is:

Cycling on the pavement

Most of what's been said plus people jigging their legs, just stop it!

Drifting along slowly in the middle of a busy thoroughfare staring at a screen 😡

Yes, and people talking loudly on their phones in public places or watching videos.

During a recent hospital stay there was a woman admitted just as the nurse was sorting my discharge meds. She was on FaceTime shouting into her phone from the minute she came in until thankfully I left. It was as if she didn't have a fucking clue how to behave in public. The woman in the next bed to her had not long been given a cancer diagnosis. I was speechless.

Agree with so many of these!

A recent one from going on holiday...people "asking" you to move out the way so they can take their Instagram worthy selfie at any photo opportunity. Actually had a woman "shoo shoo" us out the way at one place (with little hand movements). I just stood there, gave her a hard stare and then laughed at her. We were the only people at this place, had been there all of a minute and these people turned up and expected us to shove off for their all important photoshoot.

People loudly face timing their kids on the train, using overly cutesy voices. "Oooo did you eat all your lunchies today?"..."muffle muffle"...."well done darling!" I know you are commuting and missing time with your kids, but please, the whole carriage doesn't want to hear it.

People falling asleep and loudly snoring on trains. Or doing that things where they drift in and out of sleep and wake up with a loud snort. Grosses me out for some reason.