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.

Sniff
Cough
Eat loudly
Eating crisps near me
Chewing gum near me, even if I can't hear it still annoys me when I see their jaw moving
Spit
Snort up phlegm and spit it in the street (someone on the school run used to do this all the way to school and back every day making me walk on another path to avoid standing in it )
Hold one nostril and blow their nose onto the path
Walk closely behind me
Walk slowly in front of me (I see the irony here )
Block shelves in supermarkets by standing reading every label
This one I do feel bad for and realise it's me being very intolerant but I hate when parents don't tell their children to eat with their mouths closed. Every week when I'm waiting in the small hall for my daughter dancing there's another parent who brings snacks for her other child and they sit eating open mouthed lips smacking, its always a really chewy snack as well

Block shelves in supermarkets by standing reading every label

Sorry. I do this (and yes people get very angry when they see me picking up yet ANOTHER jar to check the ingredients and start huffing and puffing at me) but it’s because I have Coeliac Disease and IBS and as well as avoiding gluten and lactose, I’ve been advised to eat a low-FODMAP diet which is a nightmare. I always explain what I’m doing when I notice people getting annoyed with me and immediately offer to step aside so they can get what they want. I’d say 3/4 of the time they don’t want anything from the same shelf at all, they are just angry at me having to take my time. It’s usually men that think I’m calorie counting though .

Men who get in the way in women's clothes shops trailing after their wives, not wanting to be there, standing in front of whatever I want to look at.

Clothes shopping is not a quality couples day out.

Men who get in the way in women's clothes shops trailing after their wives, not wanting to be there, standing in front of whatever I want to look at.

Sensible clothing shops provide seating out of the way!

Smoke - I don’t want to breathe your toxic fumes and it bloody clings to my clothes and hair even in open areas. Those who smoke by doorways (especially hospital doorways) are the worst offenders.

Stop in the middle of footpaths for a chat not giving a damn that they are in the way.

Don’t think that it’s harder for me to manoeuvre the pushchair than it is for them to move themselves.

Drop litter.

I think all these things are getting worse not better and society is becoming more selfish by the minute.

Couple of commuter ones! Tourists on bridges in London on weekday afternoons/evenings crowded around the entry barriers, taking photos or chatting, lounging, exacerbating the bottlenecks. There are whole bridges to take photos and relax on, no need for it.

Hawkers on the same bridges doing the cup game and crowds standing around watching. Why?!

Most of the year I enjoy a nice walk from work over the river to a mainline station, building steps into the commute. But from June to end Sep the tube is less unpleasant!

Standing too close or invading my personal space.
Walking 3 or 4 abreast on a pavements and refusing to move for other people.
Spitting.
People who don't carry tissues and keep sniffing or snorting mucus in their nose. And then potentially wiping it with their hands.
People walking too close behind. I tend to stop and let them pass as feel uneasy.
People talking super loud / shouting (especially in restaurants) so no one else can hear the conversation at their own table.
People getting drunk on train or planes.
People spotting dead at the top of an escalator, so dangerous and inconsiderate.

Sorry ShadyLady53 I will bare this in mind next time I feel annoyed. To be fair they aren't always reading labels just standing scanning the shelves. But I am someone who has a set route around the supermarket and just grab the items off the shelf (mainly due to my toddler I want to get in and out as fast as I can ). When I go shopping with my mum I can have a full shopping trolley and come back to find her in the first aisle picking stuff up and putting it back

Tall people that go to the front and obstruct everyone else's view. I can't see or hear through their shoulders/ backs. The number of times I've gone to a school event and got nothing from it other than having brought my body into the room in the hope that my kids might register I attended, which they probably won't due to the human shields in front of me.

People with no sense of personal space. I might be small, but it doesn't mean I'm giving my space away. No wonder I have claustrophobia with people constantly spreading and craming into my personal space, not helped by not being able to see through people.

Packs of people that don't give way to allow a fair share of space.

People strewing the trollies around to block the supermarket up. Especially if there's a stock trolley. It is possible to move it 5 paces out of the way so everyone else can go about their business.
DH winds me up with this. He can park a huge car easily enough, but bloody hell, he can't arrange a trolley neatly abandoning it diagonally around the aisles.

Having to hear anyone else's tinny music/ videos, especially Peppa Fucking Pig. People who pull up outside my house to take phonecalls with the bluetooth so loud I can hear it broadcasting across my front garden.

Storming into an elevator without letting people get out of it first! Like ffs wait 30 seconds!

Oh and people who sit silent in a toilet cubicle to wait for you to do your business so you don’t hear theirs - as if the obviousness of it doesn’t amplify the situation!

Mine is probably a bit of an unreasonable one but drivers in multistorey carparks, you drive in behind them and they go up slowly at each level to look for a space on the lower levels.. i keep shouting in my head JUST GO UP TO THE BLOODY TOP THEY HAVE ELEVATORS YOU CAN COME DOWN IN

And as someone else mentioned, people who faff at the petrol pump after paying!

Dropping litter.
People on here starting threads ALREADY about all the Christmas tat they are going to buy which will all end up in landfill eventually.

Whattodo20192

Driving slowly, like 50k in a 100k zone.
It makes my 2 month old cry when I get stuck behind them and have to drive slowly

How does your 2 month old know how fast you should be driving?
Does he/she always cry if, say, you're driving slowly round a car park?
Do they have a minimum speed at which they're happy eg 70k? (I presume we're talking kilometres per hour).

Or do they somehow know that it's a 100km/hr zone and feel deprived that they're only being driven at 50km/hr?

Is your child, in fact, Jeremy Clarkson?

Those people who go through the tube barriers then stop dead so you have to push them to actually walk through.

Groups of people walking s l o w l y and blocking the bloody pavement. I work in the West End and live near to Portobello Road and cant bloody escape it.

Saying 'sorry' instead of 'excuse me' followed by 'thanks' or 'thank you'.

Mine is probably a bit of an unreasonable one but drivers in multistorey carparks, you drive in behind them and they go up slowly at each level

I was in ikea bright and early last week, so car park was empty and I parked right by the entrance (standard space, not bb or p&c).

Came out an hour later and spotted a distinctive car circling my block multiple times as I packed/returned trolley/set up maps on my phone. As I left I saw tons of spaces in the blocks just one further back.

If they'd just parked there they'd have been halfway round Sweden already!'

Public drunkeness.
Walking along so absorbed in their mobiles they are oblivious to whats going on around them.

Motorbikes and barking dogs, so selfish.

I don't feel I can say this irl

Multi story car parks...

When the person in front insists parking badly in a teeny tiny space between two cars, when there are 4 more levels which are practically empty. You sit waiting for them to complete a really difficult manoeuvre in to a space they’ll probably have to give up on anyway and when you finally get to park, you’re often out of the car and down the lift before theyve even properly straightened up!

People who arrive in a group on the train and sit at a table I am already sitting at, and then proceed to have a work meeting talking in loud voices as if I am not there.
People who treat the café like it's their office and have meetings and loud phone calls at the table next to me, as if there's no-one else around.
People who sit at my picnic table like I'm not there and have a big social conversation. Am I invisible?

See I like sitting near loud work colleagues on the train, I like to try to work out the dynamics and enjoy eavesdropping! Or choose to zone out.

Exist

Exist

Well, that’s just about covers it.

No one has said, people who stand in front of the glass partition outside the bus stop, so you can't see what number bus is coming along, really annoys me.