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.

Anyone talking near ds. Doesn't matter who. It winds him up.

Couples choosing to sit on one of the few tables for 4 rather than one of the hundreds of tables for 2, so that there is nowhere for us to sit. Ditto families of 3/4 who choose the only table for 6 or 8.

Parents who let their children scream and squeal.

Parents who take very small children into restaurants and totally ignore them when they run around the tables, bang cutlery repeatedly on the table, shout, and are generally a PITA. Yes woman in the Farnborough Holiday Inn this weekend, I'm looking at you.

Other people's badly behaved children generally.

@ZeldaPrincessOfHyrule this is my personal pet peeve as well (I thought it was just me!) I'm sure people just think they're being nice, but cars have right of way. A learner would fail their driving test instantly if they did it.

I've had people look really annoyed when I don't cross the second they gesture me to, but that's usually because there's another car coming that they haven't seen!

I think everyone has something which makes them disproportionately annoyed for no real reason, and this is mine!

Loud and constant notification ‘pings’ on trains and buses especially when those people are on their phones...why do they need the ‘pings’ if they’re looking at their phones already?!

People who stand on your heels in queues. Just back off!!!

Loud mirror bike engines l make me want to murder their owners....or at least give them a piece of my mind.

Chew gum and fiddle, oh my god the endless bloody fiddleling, with their, invariably women, hair.

And also people continuing their phone conversations when they're being served at a till in a shop, I just think it's really rude.

People that stand with their hands on their hips, elbows out and you inevitably get elbowed as you squeeze past.

In supermarkets when people stand at the end of a conveyor belt watching their shopping going on a little holiday and stopping me putting my shopping onto the belt.

Yes to playing music without head phones.

People who stop suddenly either at the end of an escalator or just inside a shop door way.

People without blue badges in blue badge spaces.

It is the total lack of awareness of other people that really annoys me.

Same here. Pedestrians are getting more and more oblivious to the World around them (or just don't care!). I walk along a canal footpath every day. The sheer number of people who are walking 2/3 side by side, or with a dog on a long lead, who just won't go to the side to take up less width to let me pass them is crazy. They seem to expect me to walk of the slippy verge so they can keep the entire width of the footpath to themselves. Well, I've stopped doing it. I just stand my ground now and force them to go into single file or reign in their dog.

Same with footpaths, pavements, shop doorways, etc. People are rapidly becoming more and more selfish or so engrossed in their little bubble they don't notice other people anymore.

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

You do realise that there are busy people outside London too!!

That's another thing that annoys me - Londoners who think they're special!!

Londoners who think that annoying behaviour is alright outside of London as long as they don’t have to put up with it

Guys called 'Ste'. Bleurgh, bunch of prats.

People in supermarkets that get excited about putting the separator thing on the conveyor belt, barging into people.

Idiots sat in the window seat, who try to stand up as soon as the plane has landed, bending their necks. WTAF is that all about

Walking whilst staring at a screen, i refuse to move for such people( i feel no sorrow for the young lad in Oxford last week who dropped his phone and smashed the screen after walking straight in to me)
Sniffing, sneezing and coughing without using a tissue, on that subject why do Scottish women put the tip of their fingers against their nose then move their hand upwards to the end of their palm to wipe their nose ? Get a tissue you mingers !
People who smell of old B.O and mouldy clothes

Walk along reading their phone

Dither

Eat loudly

Talk loudly.

Just exist really.

Sat behind an old man on the bus last week who absolutely stank of old wee. I had to move seats.

The list is endless. But a few that instantly spring to mind are:-

Walking on my heels and refusing to overtake me. I'm disabled and a slow walker. I feel as if they're doing it to make me walk quicker. Just overtake me,FFS!

People in front of me in a queue leaving a huge gap between themselves and the person in front of them.

People sitting on the outside seat on a bus who huff and roll their eyes when you ask if you can sit down.

People who stand at a bus stop for ten minutes but wait until they're on the bus to start hunting in their bag/pockets for their bus pass. Ditto people who wait until they've painstakingly packed all their shopping (which is annoying enough) before looking for their purse/wallet.

Throw litter

Stop at the end of the pool when I’m trying to swim lengths, if you want to chat move to the side wall.
Drop litter !

When young kids decide to throw a tantrum and cry for a sweet, I wish they would help me telling said child off rather than buy the sweet, I refused to buy and ask me if they could have it after waving it around their face. I can afford to buy sweet but I refuse to buy it everytime dc ask for it. I'm teaching my child a valuable lesson. I'm sorry when he make loud noises and the tears hurts me to. But this is better for him in the long run.

Standing very close behind me in the queue! Practically breathing down your neck ahhhhh!

Speaking loudly, having phone out in cinema or theatre, going out of theatre mid performance and having to stand up for them, ditto arriving late for performance, stopping abruptly in supermarket or pavement, any form of irritating or loud laughter, faffing about getting on or off public transport, using self service machines when they know they are inept ...my list is endless

Walking slowly in front of me and controlling their rabid children!

People who swear