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 leaving doors open
People leaving random cupboard doors open
People just leaving shoes around
People leaving toilet seats up
People not changing the toilet roll

Yes, DH, you.

Not being Americanist (used to live there, have lots of family there), BUT the way almost every YouTube instructional video or article by an American begins with:

‘I’m just gonna dive right in....’

‘I’m just gonna jump right in...’

or

‘I’m so excited to be doing / showing / sharing this with you....’

Please tell me I’m not the only one who feels incensed by this. Why I do, I have no idea - but I do!

When people are eating and have a crumb or sauce on their lip or corner of their mouth and don’t seem to notice arghhhhh

When rubbish is left on the side when the offender realises there isn’t a bin bag in the bin....rather than just replacing the bin bag!!!

‘Pacific’ rather than ‘specific’

Incorrect use of grammar e.g their/there/they’re, your/you’re. Oh, and apostrophes in the wrong place.

‘Couple goals’ social media posts - #datenight etc.

People on selling sites who write 'first to see will buy' on the ad...no i wont now just to prove a point.

I’m on a Disneyland Paris social media group. A really common question is ‘what will the weather be like?’ (insert month that is months away). Then lots of posters become weather forecastasters/psychics.

Chickeny chopping boards always get a dunk in the sink to get the raw bits off before it goes in dishwasher. Every. Single. Time.... DH puts it in the sink....so I have to take it out to fill the sink to wash it....if I fill it with it in the sink I get splattered with chickeny water. Yuk!

Also he takes the dog a walk and leaves the grimey lead either on the freezer or in front of the microwave. I then have to move it to get to the freezer/microwave and then wash my hands....as I'm needing the microwave or freezer I'm handling food!! Drives me mad 🤬

Thought of another one, people who spit when they're out

Google like made for discount eventually get 15% off place order then get email offering 20% 😡

My ex husband used to say "the eye area" and "a pasta dish" - it used to drive me crazy.
And when we were in my car, with me driving, and him in the passenger seat, every time we approached a junction or roundabout, his feet used to move as if he was braking (l was slowing down and nowhere near the car in front, if there was one). l passed my test first time, the same as he did. Once he did it so fiercely he actually stamped on the floor, and l 'invited' him to either pack the fuck in or get out and walk.

@LHMBF

Thought of another one, people who spit when they're out

That's not petty, it's gross!

When people say “I’ve got two choices” no you haven’t, you’ve got two options and choice to make.

Same when Lord Elrond says in LOTR “you have it one choice” well if there’s only one option then it’s not a choice as there’s nothing to choose between.

Some people constantly writing loose when they mean lose alone with payed and layed.

I also hate leg jiggling, tapping, snivelling anything like that.

Use of word "kiddo"
People smiling when walking along a street

CharlottaCarlotta that’s the polar opposite to the TripAdvisor UK forum, where any questions about weather are met with screeds along the lines of, “British weather is famous unpredictable there’s absolutely no way to make any guess as to what the weather will be like on 15th August until at least 11pm on 14th August it could be anything from a heatwave to DRIVING SNOW who even knows if there will be a UK maybe a mega-tsunami will have carried it to just south of Greenland by then what are we psychic??”

And I’m not saying that pedants on trip advisor are my pet peeve but once I casually mentioned, “The time several years ago when Flora gave out free tubs of low fat spread outside train stations on the hottest day of the year lol how dumb” and someone actually googled to find out when this event had happened, then gone through the average London temperatures for that year to prove it had actually only been the third hottest day of the year.

When you're driving along at a good speed nobody behind you music on enjoying life.

That's one car and one person waiting at side junction just has to bloody pull out in front of you, not brake slamming just interrupted your flow.

And you just know without any doubt they will then proceed to just potter at a really annoying hit quite fast enough speed.

The RAGE is unreal... just wait wait just one more pissing second for me to go past happily.

GRRRRR and I'm not even road ragey about anything else.. just that one thing.

People (DS) who takes of his trousers and pants off at the same time, so they end up inside out with the pants over the trousers like superman. Which means I then need to pull them apart to put them in the washing machine

@myusernamewastakenbyme that's me, even if I actually want the item, I think nope I'm not buying it now 😂

@tectonicplates

*Scottish Borders is a specific area. The name is correct.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Borders

www.scotborders.gov.uk*

I'm well aware of the Scottish Borders, I live not 10 miles away from them. It's still a completely incongruous and idiotic name.

There is one Border. 'The Border Region', 'The Scottish Border', 'Scottish Border Council', all absolutely fine.

It's as daft as 'The Scottish Coasts', 'The Scottish Countrysides', 'Scottish Airspaces' etc

When the radio is on in the background and no one is listening to it!
When someone tells me about what happened to people i know nothing about. Ex mil did this. Telling me mundane things about a neighbour up the street who I didn't know.
DP constantly farting.
People who burp loudly.

Oh and the worst one is when people call little girls princess!!!! I could punch them.
Little man, soldier for boys.

On Amazon where you can post a question about a product and another shopper responds with "Sorry no idea".

Then don't answer the question! It wasn't specifically written for you! Winds me up every time.

@TheEmpressMatilda that's brilliant!! 😀. Both your original comment and the time that some people have to prove total strangers "wrong".

People who write 500£ or 500pounds instead of the actual way we are supposed to do it. I just don’t get it. Why do they do it?

If you do it, fucking stop because it’s weird.

OP who just put endless links to pictures instead of taking the time to screenshot them and add as a picture. I just scroll on by.
Also the same with links to songs they like. Just name the song and artist. If I want to listen I'll look it up.
As in the famous quote 'ain't nobody got time for that!'