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What do strangers do that most annoys you?

211 replies

amandacarnet · 02/09/2019 23:12

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.

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CremeEggThief · 03/09/2019 22:41

One I'm noticing more and more lately is people asking the bus driver of the bus I'm on which bus they need to get, knowing for definite it's not this one. This usually occurs at the bus station, where there are several timetables all around the place, as well as a few rather useful "Where to Catch Your Bus..." noticeboards.

firstimemamma · 03/09/2019 22:54

"Could of"
"We was"

Chottie · 03/09/2019 22:58

@lavenderandthyme

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.

I was walking behind a group of young lads and one of them spat in the street. I just lost it and said 'do you have to do that in the street, it's a despicable habit'. Cue one red faced youth :)

TwatCat · 03/09/2019 23:20

I'm the most antisocial person I know.
I used to say I had zero tolerance for stupid people, but now I just have zero tolerance for people in general.

Eating noises.
Talking in a theatre.
Talking in a cinema.
Looking at phone in theatre or cinema.
People who can't say please or thank you.
People who have annoying laughs.
People who try to finish my sentence but have no idea what I'm about to say.
Blowing noses - I'd rather hear a sniff than a blow.
Twats who clearly can't drive.
Skinny jeans on men.
Low v neck tops on men.
People shouting at kids in public ( always makes me wonder what they're like behind closed doors if they think it's ok to yell at their kids in public).

Claricethecat45 · 03/09/2019 23:35

Anyone speaking loudly near me in public - transport, cafes etc

AND if I hear anyone telling the story of ' XXXX TURNED ROUND to me and said" or
"Then he turned round and WENT"

"He turns round and he GOES...." I can really FLIP!!! ( quietly, privately, of course)

WTF is it with all these people who 'Turned Round' before they did or do, anything`?

Im getting steamed up with growling grumpiness at the memory- and I hear it virtually every day :(

ElevenOhFive · 03/09/2019 23:49

When the person who was already at the pelican crossing before me has not pressed the button but still expects the traffic to somehow stop, yet said person is standing right beside the button, forcing me to reach across them with a look of utter contempt on my face to press it for them

Dobinette · 03/09/2019 23:51

People who invade your space to get past you in a restricted space, who then say, 'Sorry' instead of saying, 'Excuse me' and waiting two seconds for you to move out of the way. Why does everyone do this now?

People who sneeze and cough into their hands! Do they immediately find the nearest wash basin and clean said hands? No! Do it into the crook of your elbow, please, or just use a tissue - it is not difficult!

People who use exclamation marks as a lazy way of emphasising their point! 😁

Windbeneathmybingowings · 03/09/2019 23:54

A bitch in Sainsbury’s today blocked the tills with her trolley. Asked her to move 3 times, she didnt. The assistant moved her trolley for her, the bitch didn’t even acknowledge it.

Low and behold she’s suddenly stood behind me asking me to move my trolley out of her precious way. I don’t think so bitch, ask me three times and I’ll consider it.

Windbeneathmybingowings · 03/09/2019 23:56

people who sneeze and cough into their hands!

It’s all a spectrum, because around here it is very rare to have someone sneeze in to their hands at all. It’s either in your face, your air space, or followed by a large spit in to the street.

Mumofboth · 04/09/2019 00:01

Swearing loudly in public. Talking in a vulgar manner in public. My children could really do without hearing 20something year old men talk about all the “whores” they’re “fucking” and the like. If you’re going to speak in such a vulgar and disgusting way don’t do it outside my house please! 😡

Likethebattle · 04/09/2019 00:03

Standing to close when queuing, smoking in ATM queue or right outside the door to a building so you have to go through a cloud of fag smoke.

Stopping dead after going through a doorway or after stepping off an escalator....we’re still moving you twat! I shoved a Romans’ case in Palma airport as she stopped a dithered in a doorway! I just shoved her case roughly and said ‘you are standing in the way!’ I’d been up since 3am to get to the airport and endured the hen do flight from hell. I don’t know if she spoke English but she was the straw the broke the camels back.

metnums · 04/09/2019 00:07

Eat loudly
Misuse apostrophes
Saying "could of" when they mean "should have"

Likethebattle · 04/09/2019 00:21

*womans case not Romans’ ffs

Autumnintheair · 04/09/2019 00:22

Stand to close to me in a queue.
We are not going anywhere, there is no need for me to feel your hot breath on my neck!

Talk at me, assuming I'm a remainer.

Coughing without making effort to contain germs, same sneezing and making hacking noises.

Worst is spitting and snotting on pavement through nose.

Jupiters · 04/09/2019 00:25

So many things!

*People standing really close to me in a queue. Last week a lady was getting so near me we probably could have shared a jacket.
*People who automatically shorten my first name. If I've introduced myself as say Catherine, saying nice to meet you Kate isn't going to be right! Why ask what my name is if you're going to call me something different?!
*Spitting in the street
*Sniffing
*People who drive at 40mph no matter what the limit it.
*People who drive significantly below the speed limit. I know it's not a target, but if it's a lovely straight road with a 60mph limit on it, if you're too nervous to go above 40mph you really shouldn't be on the road.
*People who block paths/doorways just having a chat
*People who when faced with a fairly empty cinema still decided to sit directly in front of you. I had a guy with a top-knot do this to me the other day... He blocked or a good portion of the screen!

ShadyLady53 · 04/09/2019 00:41

People who get frustrated when my mother, who has had a stroke walks slowly. Or that are impatient and passive aggressive towards anyone that is elderly or disabled or struggling with a pram or whatever. Get some fucking manners and realise you don’t own the pavement and that one day it’ll be you that’s the frightened old dear trying to keep her legs going and have a bit of independence.

People that go to the cinema, theatre etc full of a cold and who proceed to cough and sneeze all over unwitting members of the public infecting them and ruining their night out.

People who start unloading their shopping on the conveyor belt before the person in front has finished unloading their trolley.

People who can’t get through a train journey without cracking open a beer or those cocktails in a can, even at 10am in the morning.

Noisy groups of people on trains who seem to think the entire carriage wants to know their life story and who giggle hysterically for the entire 3 hour journey.

People who let their little darlings bring their scooters into the supermarket, use roller skates, hoverboards or heeleys etc. I mean seriously? Have you lost your actual minds? Why can’t your kids just walk? To the twat of a mother who brought her 4 kids under the age of 7 into Tesco Express with her friend and her two similarly aged kids with each and every single child being on a fucking scooter - it would have been far more appreciated if you and your friend had taken it in turns to wait outside with the 6 scooters than have you repeatedly loudly say “Now children, lets have a bit of AWARENESS of our SURROUNDINGS, these nice people are trying to do their shopping so try and use your scooters CAREFULLY!” and have you beaming at us as if you deserved a mother of the year award for your performance parenting. Your kids were blocking every single aisle in what is essentially a corner shop. It was YOU that was lacking in awareness and common sense.

ShadyLady53 · 04/09/2019 00:46

People who sneeze and cough into their hands! Do they immediately find the nearest wash basin and clean said hands? No! Do it into the crook of your elbow, please, or just use a tissue - it is not difficult!

This needs repeating. Coughing and sneezing into your hand is extremely poor infection control. Crook of the elbow all the way or tissue, bin, wash hands thoroughly if you are near facilities.

KettleOn919 · 04/09/2019 01:49

People opposite you on the tube who yawn repeatedly but never cover their mouth, so you keep seeing this grim black hole filled with tonsils and teeth and sometimes gum opening up in front of you. And the more you try not to look, the more your eyes are drawn to it... yeurgh.

When you are standing on a relatively empty tube platform, and someone strolls the full length of the platform and comes and stands right behind you with their chin practically on your shoulder.

Likewise when you are on the tube and there are loads of empty seats available but someone chooses to walk down the carriage and take the seat right next to you. Especially if they then stick you their elbows and open up a broadsheet newspaper.

I don't enjoy tube travel. Can you tell?

Raspberryfrog · 04/09/2019 02:29

Kids with flashy shoes in cinema (happened twice now)
People who take up the whole pavement
People who don’t pick up dog poo
People who have never heard of headphones when listening to music
People who don’t have their change ready for the bus
People who let there kids scream and scream
And also a recent one I thought this was a Mumsnwt myth but it happened to me this week in ALDI. I was putting my shopping on the belt and the women behind me starts to put her shopping on as well no leaving me enough room. I waited till I was up to cashier and said in a very loud voice “I need to pass these to you because I have not been left enough room” the cashier then glares at the women as I can pass and pack at the same time and in ALDI they like you to be quick packing as does the customer behind her Grin she may think twice about doing it again .

Raspberryfrog · 04/09/2019 02:30

Sorry that was meant to be can’t pass and pack at the same time

FiveFarthings · 04/09/2019 03:21

Stopping dead in their tracks on the pavement so you nearly crash into them/standing around having a chat blocking pavements/aisles etc

Usually I get my own back by shouting/screaming ‘EXCUSE ME!’ so that they shit themselves and jump out of the way.

smileannie · 04/09/2019 03:30

Charge on to the tube without letting people get off first, not standing to the side of the doors of train so it’s difficult for people to get off, stand in middle of supermarket aisles chatting and my total, total pet hate . . . I park as far away from the shop as I can to avoid being near any other vehicles, come back to my car and yes, you know it, someone has parked right next to me!!! Why? Just Why.

janj2301 · 04/09/2019 08:48

@sueelleker my hubby sat next to a lady on the tube who stank of cigarettes, he moved seat. She followed him and yelled at him that he moved because she was black. He said no it's because you stink of cigarettes. The lady the other side of her agreed. Smelly lady got up, huffed and moved

Wincarnis · 04/09/2019 09:03

People who don’t cover their mouth or use a tissue when coughing/sneezing and don’t teach their kids to do so either.

People coughing/sneezing near food
People standing too close
People stopping at the end of an escalator
People stopping in doorways
People posing for selfies with that silly pout
People standing in the aisles on the tram (in the way of the doors) when there are empty seats...or standing by the door (in the way) looking at their phones
People eating smelly food on public transport
People having VERY LOUD phone conversations on public transport (the days of “I’m on the train” are long over)
People filming everything
And finally... The family that decided to have a picnic in the middle of a pedestrian footbridge and then cursed at me for wanting to pass

Cecilandsnail · 04/09/2019 09:06

People who, after paying for petrol, sit fannying around in their car for aaages before pulling off. Ffs there are people waiting, you can check your phone and put on lipstick somewhere else!!! Drives me bonkers, especially at my local garage where any more than 3 cars waiting causes the traffic to back up onto the road. Pay for your fuel and fuck off!!!

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