Really, really, really petty things that annoy you

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(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...

[quote DotDotDotty]**@SanFrancisco49er* I have the opposite problem. I have a name with an obvious shortening... But I don't like the short version. But people automatically shorten it. I'll introduce myself by my full name and people will say things like "nice to meet you short name*". It like they've failed at basic listening and comprehension!
If I've introduced myself as my full name that's clearly what I want to be addressed by![/quote]
My name can be shortened a couple of ways, one of which I hate. I don’t mind either my full name, or the very shortened version, but the middle sizes version I hate loathe and detest.
If people use it I ignore them.

This is a silly one. You know when you're doing something and listening to music - on earphones - and then the cord catches something and yanks it out of your ear? Well, I'm not joking, but for a split second I experience a sense of murderous rage! It's SO annoying.

Or it is even worse when someone your hardly knows uses a nickname for you and puts it in front of a shortened version of your name eg loopylottie

you hardly know*

There are many, many things that annoy the shit right out if me...

The bloke in the Top Cashback advert, no readon, just does

People who say 'bless you' when you tell them not particularly sad things, usually with 'awww' stuck in front - patronising as shit

Also, people who say 'gasuntide' (sp??) when you do sneeze - pretentious knobbers

My neighbours and their virtue signalling, yes, it's a vuvuzela, now put the fucker away

People on talent shows who sing down their nose, and are never told it sounds shit

People who come to my door to deliver stuff (usually a parcel for Mrs vuvuzela) and then wave or tap the window at the dogs that are barking - fucking stop it, it makes them worse

Dust - bloody hate dust

People who don't do a good job - you pay them to do it, they say they can do it, so do it

People saying 'marshmEllow' instead of 'marshmAllow' or 'Pacific' instead of 'specific'. I would have added using 'crutch' instead of 'crotch', but I just googled it to confirm and apparently that is interchangeable. So, I'd now like to add the fact that that has been annoying me completely irrationally for years for no apparent reason.

@AlrightBabby - it’s gesundheit, which is German for health. I use it instead of ‘bless you’ sometimes, because I like the way the word sounds.

People saying 'marshmEllow' instead of 'marshmAllow'

Oh god yes. This is making me feel furious.

gesundheit

Common and acceptable in (parts of) the US I think.

@eatsleepread

This is a silly one. You know when you're doing something and listening to music - on earphones - and then the cord catches something and yanks it out of your ear? Well, I'm not joking, but for a split second I experience a sense of murderous rage! It's SO annoying.

Omg definitely this 😂

Adult actors lip synching to baby voices in adverts. I usually fast forward all adverts anyway but if I catch a few seconds, grrrr. That Haribo policeman one gives me the rage!

'DP nearly but not quite closes kitchen cupboards and doors. How hard can it be?'

It must be very very difficult to close a door as this seems to be a recurring theme. My DH is very busy with important man things. He uses the time saved for his crucial other activities - farting, loud sneezing, throat clearing and playing on his phone.

@BendyLikeBeckham I think I love you

When people say/type 'Huh?'
Calling any female child over the age of 2 'baby girl'
Alot
One word answers here on MN ('I've got this funny rash, what is it' answered with 'GP')

ARGH just saw it again... 'I have a 24 month old' NO YOU HAVE A 2 YEAR OLD. What is this obsession with saying ages in months?!?!?!?! Is it to keep them sounding like babies for longer?

I can identify with many of the ideas on this thread.

My husband who insists on greeting me each morning with "how are you?". What's wrong with 'good morning'? I've just woken up, I've been up several times in the night with our baby, I feel like a zombie, we have to get the older children ready for school, I do not want to engage in conversation until I've had a coffee. I've taken to ignoring his question and just saying "morning" in my typical grumpy morning way.

His insistence on locking the front door even when our children are playing outside so they have to knock to be let back in.

How he puts the saucepans back in the wrong drawers.

So hard not to type kids instead of children as to not upset people on this thread What's wrong with kids in an informal context?

The small saucepans should go on the top shelf of the twirly thing in the cupboard and big saucepans and frying pans should go on the bottom shelf. How does DH not know this?
And this has come up but he'll load the dishwasher thus : bowl plate bowl plate. NO! It should be bowls together because they fit together and plates together in a different part 😡 and he puts cups in the middle of the top which means if I'm trying to add a cup I have to either squeeze past his or rearrange them . Just fucking do it properly.

And on the rare occasion he folds towels he doesn't match end to end, he kind of folds them haphazardly over twice. Again , just fucking do it properly, it takes maybe half a second longer per towel

People who use ‘nothing’ instead of ‘anything’.

I didn’t do nothing.

Boils my fucking piss!!

All these "influencers" on Instagram drive me absolutely nuts

People who use the term 'boils my piss' because they heard it on Mumsnet and thought it sounded clever.

AllTheWorldIsGreen Nope bears it on tv.
some of us have lives outside of Mumsnet 😂

@Hushabusha If my cups and glasses aren't put in just right, they turn up the other way during the wash; and end up full of water.

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8436387/Parents-reveal-everyday-petty-things-infuriate-them.html

When the Daily Fail "journalist" copies and pastes from MN to create an article.

I'm also annoyed my comment didn't make the feature 😂

I can hardly type this it makes me so unreasonably angry.

I like your dress, where did you get it?
Oh from shop X. It was on sale.
Yes of course it was on sale, it was available for purchase in a shop.
No I mean it was discounted in price.
Then you mean in the/a sale not on sale. Everything (except the staff and fixtures) in a shop is on sale.

Oh and typing about this makes me feel weary which means tired not nervous; the word you are looking for to say you are nervous or hesitant is wary.

Sorry if this has been done already -

But people adding ‘s onto shop names.

So:
SainsburyS - YES
Marks and SpencerS - YES
Lidl’S - NO
TescoS - NO
Aldis -NO
Waitrose’s - NO