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Tell me about things that really irritate you

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MrsL1123 · 22/05/2020 22:40

I have quite a few.so I'll say a couple here to start this off

  1. When my husband "cleans" hoovers and mops the floor but then doesn't put everything back once it's dry (chairs on tables, moving bins or baskets) and I've to go behind him putting everything back in its place
  1. Loud chewers and slurpers- makes me feel sick
  1. When people make my tea and it's like dirty dishwater
  1. When the kids and my husband put their dirty washing in the laundry basket and don't separate it into the correct baskets (colours, darks and whites)

I could go on and on all night, I'm aware these are pretty trivial things but they do really bug me, what's yours?

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Notthisnotthat · 23/05/2020 06:25

Dog owners that bagged their dogs poo but then put them in my brown bin rather than using the dog bin on the other side of the street.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 23/05/2020 07:18

My dh’s explosively loud sneezing.
Though after so many years I’ve long given up telling him that it’s really not necessary to YELL! at the same time.
I think he just enjoys it.🤬

ShirazSavedMySanity · 23/05/2020 07:41

People not picking their feet up when walking, instead they shuffle along.
I had a woman in flip flops follow me around the supermarket yesterday and the shuffling noise on the floor made my teeth itch. 😡😡

DH sneezing. He doesn’t just do one, there are seven in a row. Every. Single. Time. Drives me mad.

People (looking at the three members of my family here) walking past stuff on the stairs and not taking it up.

Or worse still....DH taking it up and then leaving it on the bed for me to put away.

DH not using the cling film properly so it tears in all the wrong places and won’t work properly.

Dog owners putting their dogs poo in a bag, and then leaving it on the floor, or worse still, hanging it on a tree. Take it home FFS.

Litter.

Honeybee85 · 23/05/2020 07:44

When DH doesn't wipe the table after he has eaten something there. I hate eating from a table that has stains on it.

Wet towel in the toilet. Feels grim to dry your hands on.

TroysMammy · 23/05/2020 08:07

Not emptying the washing up bowl after they have finished. Then people putting mugs in the cold, icky water for someone else to take out to refill with hot water to wash them. Yuck.

Leaving dishes to soak and then the water in the bowl goes cold, see above.

Spelling mistakes in work and not being bothered to learn to spell them correctly. It's not Coriner it's Coroner, crones is spelt Crohns, it's not a soar throat, it's a sore throat. There are many more examples I could give.

Incorrect spelling and errors on online news pages. Today a local paper article mentioned a sceptic tank.

StaffiesAndPonies · 23/05/2020 08:21

People on Facebook commenting ‘Can’t share. Pls change settings’ when they are in a closed group that has always been closed and is the same as every other closed group in that you cannot share from it because it is closed. I know this is of no consequence at all but it really does my nut.

Nocaloriesinchocolate · 23/05/2020 08:21

Very grateful for this thread. I read the title and thought ‘ooh yes, there are lots of things about DH that irritate these days’ and was about to type them when I realised how incredibly petty they are and apart from one, I should get perspective! The one exception is the same as @sparklingbrook -the channel hopping during ads so the first few lines of the next part of the programme. Why not simply mute the ads?

ooooohbetty · 23/05/2020 08:21

People who cut their food and scrape the knife along the bottom of the plate whilst doing so. I want to kill them

People who talk while the film is on in the cinema

People who make any noise at all whilst eating in the cinema

People who wish their children, husbands, dead relatives happy birthday on Facebook.

frazzledmomof3 · 23/05/2020 08:26

People that dont use please or thank you.
And theres a lot lately for some reason

My father in law also

Boogiewoogietoo · 23/05/2020 08:42

My dog digging holes in the lawn. Takes her 5 seconds to dig a trench, and then I’m left filling it in seeding it and watering it for the next 3 weeks. Drives me to distraction!

polkadotpjs · 23/05/2020 08:48

As a newbie to dog walking (for a friend) I'm
Bemused / enraged by the dog poo in bags on the ground. Why? I really don't get it

YorkieTheRabbit · 23/05/2020 09:07

The wind, perfectly happy with a light breeze but wind Angry it’s gusting up to 50 mph today, yesterday was the same. Puts me in a bad mood.

Litter, why dump it? You carried drinks cans, food containers etc when they were full. Once you’ve finished eating and drinking they weigh far less, can’t be that much effort to carry them home Confused

Noisy people.

FizzyPink · 24/05/2020 22:31

Ahh @YorkieTheRabbit you’re like my DP. He works as a tennis coach (outside at the moment) and all I hear about all day is the bloody wind and how much he hates it.
Even this evening while we’re sat in the garden he remarks on how surprised he is that it’s so still after being so windy this morning Hmm the man is obsessed!

isabellerossignol · 24/05/2020 22:42

The noise of people clattering about upstairs. DH and I are hoping to move to a bungalow because the noise just drives us demented.

Electrical · 24/05/2020 22:45

When people get a status dog breed whose sole purpose is to act like a dick, and then act shocked when it runs up to other dogs in an aggressive manner. Nah. They’re always called Tyson/Diesel, or ridiculously girly names for being a killing machine.

People using poverty wage staffs labour and patronisingly asking them what they want to do for a ‘proper’ job.

When people act shocked that their lives are considerably harder, more expensive, germ and excrement addled and sleepless when they choose to have a kid. Like this is new information to them.

People weaning infants too early and damaging their guts for life. Anti vaxxers.

Sulkers.

People who force their kids into their new farce of a relationship-calling some random bloke a ‘partner’ and trying to ‘blend’, be ‘a family’, just stop it. Fuck whoever you want but don’t force already messed up kids into having your new shag into their house.

TwatCat · 24/05/2020 22:45

Someone else using my coffee mug in work.

BelfastSmile · 24/05/2020 22:48

People who write Facebook posts to someone who stole their bike or jumped the queue for the bus or whatever, and start it with "To the lovely person who...". Drives me mad!

And people who go off on one on Facebook and end it with "Rant Over". I don't even know why I hate it so much, but I do!

KeepWashingThoseHands · 24/05/2020 23:07

DP leaving multiple cupboard doors open in the kitchen. WHY???!!! Just shut them FFS

Aaaaaand breathe :)

mumofone2818 · 24/05/2020 23:09

when DP makes so many noises in his sleep as if he's eating with his mouth open and i cant ever sleep!!!!!

sometimes i sleep in the livingroom or "accidentally" punch his arm because i get so irritated i go crazy!!!!

this is currently happening right now while i anger type on my hone next to his annoying ass

Yellowcakestand · 24/05/2020 23:10

Boy wee on the floor, forenames and surnames that begin with the same letter, Jonty Messers name from the news, people that are on my Skype calls who don't mute and breath into their microphone, Kevin Bacon, people who press the button for the lift more than once!

justemmaxx · 24/05/2020 23:22

My beloved husband.....breathing Grin

Whoopsmahoot · 24/05/2020 23:38

Noisy eaters

AmericanLemonade · 24/05/2020 23:44

My sister is loud on a ridiculous level, she talks at such an obnoxious decibel that she can be heard from any room of the house when she is just 'talking'. Its actually painful.

ChocolateCheesecake20 · 25/05/2020 00:21

Ds putting laundry in too of the basket because its clearly too difficult to lift the lid and put it in.

DH has a habit of leaving a part of clothing hanging out the drawer and shutting it. May be a tiny bit but it irritates me.

QuestionableMouse · 25/05/2020 00:28

My mum and sister who apparently can't communicate directly and use me as some sort of pa. Just fucking phone each other!

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