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 say "how are we" instead of "how are you", especially when only talking to one person.

‘Recipes’ on FB that start with “Take a packet of brownie mix” - it isn’t a real recipe if the main component is a packet mix.

Dh asking me a question then not listening to the answer, and asking me the same fecking question 10 minutes later.

Dh eating whatever he wants, including chocolate, and not putting on any weight while I only have to sniff a Cadbury’s wrapper to gain a pound.

Another one that's just come to mind. We live in a small village and there are a number of properties on different roads with the same house number and postcode.

Delivery drivers inevitably use a sat nav which takes them to 1 Avenue Rd when our address is 1 Barn Drive (not really!) Why not use google maps, or you know, an actual map that will show you exactly where I live?

I can just about allow the reliance on sat nav to pass, but when the house you are outside is clearly not mine, why not call me so that I can direct you to me. But then I am annoyed when they do call me which is petty

@threesmallcows

People who pronounce 'kahki' as 'cackey' instead of 'carkey'. I know it's an American thing but it still annoys me.

Why would you add an extra letter?

Adult women who write 'Eeek!' In texts etc, presumably as an expression of excitement.

Vapid twats.

People who ask for advice about "large size clothes" or "large cup size bras" without specifying their size. It actually makes a huge difference, because several high street shops go up to a size 22, but once you get to a size 24-26 there's even less choice. Ditto with "large" bras - FF? HH? Loads of bras stop at G so it makes a huge difference.

@merryhouse

People who disingenuously say "but there isn't an r in..." when they know perfectly well that the vast majority of Southern British accents do not have a rhotic r

The way people disingenuously say “the vast majority of southern British accents do not have a rhotic r” when they now perfectly well that the beast majority of English speakers have a rhotic r.

Also the way people who don’t have a rhotic r discuss language as if their way is the only way.

My OH who when ordering at McDonald’s will say ‘can I get blah blah blah’ for every single thing he orders. He doesn’t vary what he says just ‘can I get’ for everything even if ordering 5/6 things.

My OH when every single time I go to put salt on my chip shop chips says ‘there’s salt on them’ when he KNOWS I like them super salty.

When people are drinking something like Prosecco or cava and call it champagne! They are all lovely drinks but they are different.

When people write 'his' instead of 'he's'. For example, 'his tired'

People singing the wrong lyrics to songs.

Vast! Not beast!

Dh using his ugly towel, and then leaving it hanging in the bathroom so any visitors think that I condone the use of the ugly towel.
People who don't understand that both the rhotic and non-rhotic pronunciations of words are perfectly cromulent.

The word 'kid' in the singular. Kids plural, fine, but 'my kid came indoors' just grates and sounds so odd. It's 'child'.

'Station stop' on the train: nope, it's a stop or a station, but not both.

Incessant sniffing, but equally, incessant nose-blowing.

Personalisation/infantilisation of objects: 'don't forget to recycle me' on products, 'Sorry, I'm not in service' on buses. Yuck. Fuck off with this.

The phrase 'I think you'll find...' Usually a key weapon in the arsenal of the mansplainer.

Dh asking me a question then not listening to the answer, and asking me the same fecking question 10 minutes later.

This too

Oh and stupid responses on dialogue boxes:

'We couldn't find that file for you' or 'We can't open two files with the same name'. It's a fucking Excel file! Is there a troop of elves working in the back of my computer looking for files? Where has this stupid 'we' nonsense come from?!

Calling thread cotton and fabric material.

I can't even articulate my very strong feelings on the subject it makes me so cross.

It's thread. It's fabric.

That bit of paper they put in real Greek yoghurt.

Creaky voices.... lots of 18-30 year old girls have them... if you hate it then you will know what I mean
When the word privacy comes up in the security message before you get through to an organisation, especially if it is a 20/30 something saying it, sort of ' pwivecy'... makes it sound smutty. Bit like private parts!!!

People who wouldn't use an apostrophe to pluralise a common noun, but do for a name. It irritates me unfeasibly.

People who pronounce the letter H as haitch. Especially when they work for HSBC and in particular when they are part of the huge circuitous automated voice system.

The many children at school who ask to ‘go toilet’.

DH holding things up in his own hands and asking me whether they’re clean.

The way he hangs washing out.

Toast crumbs in the butter.

@MaidenMotherCrone But also, people who correct you when you refer to any kind of knitting material as wool,. on the grounds that it's actually made of something else like polyester. It's traditional in the UK to use the word "wool" to describe whatever you're knitting with, regardless of what it's made of. "Yarn" is an Americanism in my opinion.

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!

Omg this. ^

There’s a cafe owned by a brother and sister duo near me that’s called... BroSis Cafe.

I hate the name with such a passion that I will never go there. Whenever I walk past it I just think “whhhyyyy??”

Oh god yes.... haitch🤬

The many children at school who ask to ‘go toilet’.

I used to teach a child who said “please may can I...”

So polite but so infuriating.

The way my DH uses the hand sanitiser. He puts a blob in the palm of his hand then rubs his palms together super fast. It's supposed to be spread all over the hands. Idiot!

I hate when the cinema machine starts telling you your reference number is incorrect from the nanosecond you add the first digit and then lo and behold when you have finished entering it, it is correct. Hang fire machine.

I try to use the same water glass all day and DH swipes it, uses it and puts it in the dishwasher. So I get another one out...it goes the same way.

People who spell weird as wierd.

My sister when she talks about making an Indian curry or a Chinese curry.