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 put a ring up for sale on eBay with no size listed, or put 'don't know the size but it's fairly large/small' etc. So many do this and it's absolutely useless, who's going to buy a ring with no clue of the size.

People who write delete if not aloud....people who write greatful instead of grateful and people who write gawjuss...
Also people who keep posting about Corvid 19 on FB....its Covid you bloody idiots.
Oh and people who call me hun...fuck off !!!

Parking meters that insist you pay a minimum fee even though there is not enough time left before you don't have to pay for you to get your money's worth.
Eg , I want to park at 6:30. It's free after 7 but I have to pay £1 which is the price of an hour. I only want to pay for half an hour.
Or the local hospital parking which insists on me paying £3 to park for 4 hours. But I'll only take one hour

Hun doesn't bother me but love really does as I find it very patronising.

When I text my DP saying something like "I just got soaked in a rain shower" or some other non important event and he replies with "really"! It does my head in, I now just reply to that with no! He does it to nearly every message, he could text saying "is it raining there", I say " yes it's lashing", he says "really?" God even typing it annoys me to the point of heart flutters

Pop-ups appearing the minute you open a website asking if you'd like to complete a survey. No, I don't want to complete a survey, I want to check the train times, and I have no feedback because I haven't got onto the website yet!

When people start a new thread on a Tele programme in telly addicts when there's already one going so they haven't bothered to look 😆

WhatsApp voice notes.

When people write/say draws instead of drawers and use of instead of have! 😡 has no affect on my life but makes me want to scream.

I hate it when the phone rings as my family always seem to phone me when i am doing something and then they moan that i didn't answer the phone. Also my nan can phone several times in a short space of time and i just feel like screaming i spoke to you 2 minutes ago ffs. I don't like it when people don't blow their nose and they sit there going sniff sniff instead.

When people (yes, you, dh) are stingy with the ice in a drink. Two ice cubes is not enough in a pint of squash. And it’s not expensive or rare - it is frozen water, so there is no need to ration it.

Voice Notes on facebook messenger. Or anything really.

People phoning me and leaving a voice message which doesn't say anything urgent or important but just "I tried to ring you- wanted a chat, see you aren't available. catch you soon, bye." OK, I KNOW you phoned- I have caller ID- please don't waste my time leaving a voicemail. If I don;t get back to you it is because am busy. I iwll get back to you when I can.

constant requests from friends to zoom chat. Am all zoomed out!

Pubs and restaruants that are stingy with the guacamole on nachos.

the fact that hardly anyone bothers with social distancing in public anymore, in shops especially.

Cyclists that won't socially distance. Cyclists that won't use a loud bell so hard of hearing me cannot get out of the way in time. Should be shot.

Friends that call or text and then if I don't get back to them within 2 minutes they try again. and again. Please stop. There's a reason why I am not answering. Maybe am busy, tired, trying to sleep, just don't want to chat, I- find- you- too -needy etc

oh and strikethrough. or me. because I cannot get the hang of it. -screw-you-strikethrough-

I used to work with someone who pronounced 'th' as 'f', and 'ng' as 'n'. For instance, they would say 'some-fin' instead of 'something'

This person was/is an educated intelligent person as well, I can't fathom it! It was like nails on a chalkboard to my brain

@SilverOtter

I used to work with someone who pronounced 'th' as 'f', and 'ng' as 'n'. For instance, they would say 'some-fin' instead of 'something'

This person was/is an educated intelligent person as well, I can't fathom it! It was like nails on a chalkboard to my brain

That would drive me nuts, too.

Affect instead of effect irritates me 😀

The bus is due to leave but the bus driver is watching videos on his phone, so I’m here with you.

My DH does that, I think it’s a second language thing. It’s infuriating and I tell him so all the time.

His mum also says things like strick instead of strict and Chris instead of crisps. Words like terraced, my IL’s wouldn’t understand.

BBC 2 starting almost all shows 2 minutes late.

The way my neighbour sneezes, it’s over-exaggerated and loud like AAAATTTCCHOOOOOOOO and she does it at least 3 times in a row daily

Boris Johnson’s hair moving when he talks

When cashiers ask you questions like ‘did you find everything you wanted/ is there anything else you need/ do you want to sign up for our email subscription’ just let me pay and leave asap!

Shop assistants sating saying, "No good?" When you hand back an item. Makes me want to reply with comments on the poor quality and fit, esp in Marks. I know it's not necessarily their choice of wording, but it's so negative. Even "Any good?" would be better, or even "would you like to try something else", "could I get you a different size".

Also iceberg lettuce in chicken caesar wraps. I know caesar salad is meant to have crunchy lettuce, but I always feel ambushed.

People who do not put their supermarket trolley into the little hut thing neatly and it means that the space can do longer be used efficiently when people try to add more trollies.

Today, my irritation is the use of 'staycation'

Really

Fucking

Annoying

Also, when 'amateur' is pronounced with a 'ch' in it.

People who stand at crossings without pressing the button and wait for the traffic to just 'magically' stop (pre lockdown, and assuming road is relatively busy). Then I turn up and press the button LIKE YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO, and when the traffic stops, they have the bloody nerve to walk across with me!! I feel like saying 'sorry but these cars have stopped for ME. If you wanted them to stop for YOU, then maybe YOU should have pressed the damn button instead of waiting for me to do it for you'! 😡

Once, years ago, it happened when I was rushing to work one morning (on foot), and I was so enraged I actually leaned across the person to press the button and said hyper sarcastically, 'You know, if you press the button, the cars actually stop' (in my defence I was late for work and also I was in my early 20s and sassy as hell 😬). She looked at me all baffled and said 'But I'm not in a hurry'!!

How can you not be in a hurry?! It's 8.45am!! Where are going at 8.45am that you don't have to be there by a certain time?! Out for a leisurely stroll?? In which case please get out of my way!!

Not that I actually said any of that but I certainly thought it.

It still drives me insane every time! Doesn't matter whether I'm in a hurry or not. Just press the button! (Though maybe with your knuckle or elbow or through your shirt or something, just for now 😬!)