Really, really, really petty things that annoy you

[BuzzShitbagBobbly]

(and which have zero impact on your life!)

My list includes:

• Companies which have the owner's initials as the business name. I have no problem at all with (say) "Clare King Picture Framers", but "CK Picture Framers" winds the shit out of me.

• Similarly, businesses which merge two names to create one made up word as the name. For example, Clare goes into business with Jenny and they call it "Clajen Picture Framers" Grrrrr!

• People who use lame examples as brilliant suggestions. E.g. say someone (not me, I assure you!) wanted to organise a really original/unusual theme for a party. The Lamer would say "how about tarts and vicars". Nasty AND boring!

I'm sure I have a million more...

People who wait until they've paid to then pack their bags at self service tills. Pack as you scan!

On the coffee subject - people who seem to not understand the concept of STRONG coffee. Strong as in lots of coffee.

They think this means I just want less milk - No. I want EXTRA coffee, yes that means 2 or even 3 teaspoons instead of one as it's a weak ass instant coffee and otherwise just tastes like brown water. I drink espresso if I can get it but if not I like to try and get the closest approximation using instant. I have no problem with instant, I use it at home. I just use the good expensive stuff and put lots in! Drives me mad and then I have to drink it all and pretend to like it meanwhile desperately looking for the nearest sink to dump it in.

Someone I know is self employed and works alone, yet he's just come up with a new company name and had a load of signs made up that use a plural - think 'the London Coin collectors'. Collectors?! You're one guy!! He also isn't from London. It actually annoys me so much I've had to unfollow him as it makes me rage every time I see it pop up.

Bf has an extremely annoying habit of leaving the lights on in every room he goes in to. In the DAYTIME!!!! Makes me want to strangle him, it's really not that dark in here, I have windows on 3/4 walls!

cars that are behind or in front of me on the road...annoys me to the point i have to pull in sometimes...

Cutesy terms for food and drink. I don't want a 'biccy' and you can fuck right off with your 'dippy sauce'

@Pissflapflip

Cutesy terms for food and drink. I don't want a 'biccy' and you can fuck right off with your 'dippy sauce'

you dont want any chippys or drinkies then?

bottleofbeer would you mind sharing which shower gel it is? I have psoriasis so I'm keen to know anything that may help.

Sugar on the bench, tea spoon unwashed on the holder also stained because unwashed, toilet seat left completely up al I in middle of night I sit on the cold bowl and then get shock, glasses left around the house, cushions being used to bums instead of backs when left flattened, I could go on all day; I really do need to chill more ...😊

so in*

People not checking what they've written and then making corrections like I have just made (hangs head in shame)

for bums then left grabs coat...

Just remembered, how they eat off spoons on tv programmes like Masterchef or the Great Gardeners showdown or whatever it was called. Allotment challenge? Bbc2. The female judge tried the various chutneys, jams etc with a teaspoon and just ate off them in such a weird exaggerated way. I had to stop watching that bit.

My dh also uses whatever towel is available, currently mine. He just doesn't understand why I might not want to use a towel that he has used

Also dh not filling the dw up properly so I have to restack in order to get more things washed. Or he'll stack it so the bowls are too close and the water can't get in between and they come out still dirty, but worse as it's been baked on by the heat when it dries. Rargh!

I don’t “police” anyone’s grammar but I can’t stand it when people spell allowed like “aloud”.

Referring to shoes, trousers and lips as singulars.

'She paired a red lip, with a classic trouser and statement shoe.' Fuck off!

When DP picks a pair of socks off the clothes horse and, as he is holding them in his hand, asks me whether they are dry.

DP rolling over in bed in a manner reminiscent of a humpback whale breaching the surface of the sea and slapping its tail on re-entry.

People who wait until they've paid to then pack their bags at self service tills. Pack as you scan!
I'd love to but self scan machines are dicks and can't seem cope with my bags.

@EmpressSuiko

I don’t “police” anyone’s grammar but I can’t stand it when people spell allowed like “aloud”.

I blame Girls Aloud for this

Those pop up boxes when Internet shopping, telling me how many other people are looking at this item right now. I don't care!! But you are stopping me looking at said item to see if I want it!!

Secetary instead of secRetary has annoyed me for years.

I used to tell my DH that if i had a terminal disease I would write a list of things he had to do when i was gone - top of the list was always to open the curtains in the morning as otherwise the kids would have grown up in the dark 🤣🤣🤣. Now they have left home i Dont care so much as if he wants to live in the dark its up to him!

Declaring your love to your children on Facebook when said children are very young and are not on Facebook. Like 'Love you my little blah blah blah....'. Just stop it. Your baby can't read. Go and cuddle them instead.

Post-workout selfies. Why? Yes you're sweaty and all that. Everyone gets sweaty during a workout. Progress pictures are different, sweaty selfies are attention seeking bullshit.

The way by boyfriend says 'gosfel' instead of 'gospel', 'furlonged' instead of 'furloughed', ' nucular' instead of 'nuclear' and completely makes up words when he reads aloud. I say nothing though because I'm foreign so it seems wrong to be correcting him.

People holding knife and fork in the wrong hands or even worse not using a knife at all and pushing food onto your fork with your fingers. Eating with mouth open. Talking with mouth full.

It's just the ordinary dove. It doesn't clear it up but it doesn't aggravate it either.

@longcoffee - completely agree re those singulars!

Writing or saying 'click' when someone means 'clique'

'Cannot' written as 'can not'. No, it's wrong!

I don't mind being called Madam, but something that irritates me is when I hear the man in front being called Sir and then I'm not referred to as anything at all. Usually by a male assistant. Use the titles equally or don't fucking bother.

Having to enter my title when registering on a website.
It should never be a mandatory field.
Whether I am married or not is irrelevant to the purchase I am making.
Fuck the patriarchy and mind your own business.

Husband eating biscuits immediately after I've hoovered and sweeping the crumbs onto the carpet.

Husband loading the washing machine (yay) which is in an outhouse, without telling me. Husband then tutting at me when he comes home and finds the washing is STILL in the washing machine in the outhouse because his wife had no idea he'd put a load on.

Husband coming in from the garden and turning my lovely clean bathroom into a scene from a pig farm.

Husband. Just husband.

Grown adults who replace 'th' with 'f' - as in 'fink' rather than 'think' and 'free' instead of 'three'. It makes me shudder.

My husband's inability to close cupboard doors and put things in the recycling bin instead of on the kitchen side, about 30cm from the bin. Argh!

People who type women instead of woman. i.e. 'She's a really petty women'.

When DP picks a pair of socks off the clothes horse and, as he is holding them in his hand, asks me whether they are dry.

Yes, this