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Things that make you inexplicably angry

196 replies

ElsaMars · 12/05/2021 21:01

Things, not people.

Here's mine, when my 8 year old creeps out from randomly hiding from me and shouts 'boo!' which she does quite often, I always yell 'Jesus Christ!' (I never normally say it) and feel the most massive anger, its bizarre.

Also, people beeping their car horns as a greeting and loud motorbikes.

OP posts:
devildeepbluesea · 12/05/2021 22:04

@JobRetentionScheme

Boris Johnson Matt Hancock Michael Gove

Says no more !

Apart from all of the above...

People who talk over other people
People who position themselves (deliberately or otherwise) between me and the person I'm talking to.
People who turn their back on me in a conversation group.

Gives me the seething, not-so-well-controlled rage.

ShirazSavedMySanity · 12/05/2021 22:33

Bra strap falling down.

Uneven pavements - when you step on it and don’t realise it’s uneven and one of the flags tips up and engulfs your foot with water. Then I’m raging. Can’t abide wet feet.

Add also to that - cold feet give me the rage and make me so grumpy.

Facebook status along the lines of ‘autumn walk’ - no, just just went on a walk. Or ‘family time’, no, you just did stuff.

Motorbikes creating their own Lane or own place in a queue. No, I was there, do not try and jump in.

thebakeoffwasntasgoodthisyear · 12/05/2021 22:38

OH never wipes the crumbs/ mess from the worktop after making food. He'll make sandwiches in the morning then just go to work, leaving the crumbs for me to clear up. It drives me crazy.

Me too. I’ve found a way to avoid getting angry though - I simply gather the crumbs each time and pop them into his bag (he carries an annoying backpack everywhere). I figure if he likes the crumbs so much, he can carry them around with him.

LongIslandIcedT · 12/05/2021 22:40

A sunny day until 3pm when it pisses it down for the school run. The kids are always let out late on these days. 😠

Aprilwasverywet · 12/05/2021 22:40

People who let their ddogs bark incessantly in the street.
Especially the woman with the white yappy thing that wakes me every Saturday...

Yes you with the white hair and yellow coat..
Angry

TrixIrl · 12/05/2021 22:42

DH watching stupid Twitter or tiktok videos in bed before we go to sleep. Like I know I'm up reading and were probably chatting and he has it down low but it gives me inexplicable rage. I live in fear that the pregnancy hormones will cause me to snap and waaaaay overreact one of these days!!!

Noshowlomo · 12/05/2021 22:42

The sounds of my husband eating and drinking. That fucking gulp. I want to rip his throat out.

MargaretThursday · 12/05/2021 22:48

The sharing of Facebook posts that are obviously completely made up but have people falling over themselves to comment inane things.

Or are there just for people to validate themselves:
One of the groups I was in, was good at first, but seems to have been taken over by posts that say "my dc has really bad self esteem, look at and say if you think it's any good" followed by an amazing picture/video.
Really if they don't genuinely know they're good, then they probably aren't going to believe a bunch of strangers that say so on a fb post.

There was also a number of "look what me with my poor diy skills knocked up in half an hour in the middle of the night", followed by a picture of a three storey playhouse, fully furnished with a thatched roof etc. In the middle of a "back garden" the size of the local playpark.

And the "hit me with what I should do with this "little space" followed by an area/room that you could fit four of our house and garden in.

It was a reasonably supportive group when it started, but it's now a massive show off.

Wincarnis · 12/05/2021 22:49

Coat hangers
Bra strap falling down
Drivers that don’t indicate

JustSaying101 · 12/05/2021 22:49

Those plastic containers for ham, bacon, etc that are designed for you to pull the little corner and they open perfectly. They NEVER work!

Diddumz · 12/05/2021 22:49

Pranks - especially on social media.

MumofSpud · 12/05/2021 22:53

Those childproof (and everybody else proof) lids on washing tablets.
Gives me the rage!

MumUndone · 12/05/2021 22:54

Being unable to find matching socks in our clean laundry mountain.

MumUndone · 12/05/2021 22:56

Having to untie the laces to get my shoes off.

Whymrsrobinson · 12/05/2021 22:58

Yes to plastic containers for ham etc. Also why plastic? It lasts for ever, for something that needs to be consumed in moments. What happened to grease proof paper?
Definitely dog owners that collect dog poo in a plastic bag that will never rot and then HANG IT ON A TREE. Wtf? How is that better than letting your dog poo in the brambles that noonewill ever go in and that will rot quite quickly. Who do they think will go and collect and dispose of tree poos?
In the future will people think they were religious? ‘ they had these Christmas trees and then they had these poo trees. ‘
See, ranting definitely ranting!

PerpendicularVincent · 12/05/2021 22:59

The beeping sound that lorries make when they reverse drives me insane.

Also crap radio station phone ins. Jeremy Vine had one about plastic hedges last week, and was asking people to text in if they'd ever had an argument with anyone about them.

rainbowcakes · 12/05/2021 22:59

My dad on occasion makes this really annoying whistling sound that literally sounds like a bird trilling really loudly and high pitched. Absolutely cant stand it, i feel unreasonably furious as soon as i hear him doing it. My mum feels the same Grin

ichundich · 12/05/2021 23:00

Dusting;
putting clean washing away;
queuing;
separate taps for hot and cold & public loos with freezing cold water in winter;
afternoon game shows;
litter;
cigarette smoke, especially when I have a cold;
ball games (if I have to take part in them)

SappysCurry · 12/05/2021 23:01

Voicemails and people not using indicator in car 🤬

Lostinthewilderness · 12/05/2021 23:02

People without kids parking In parent & child spaces

Dog walkers not picking up poo

The selfish idiots who park in the car park at DDs nursery despite not having kids in the nursery

Thelnebriati · 12/05/2021 23:05

Practical jokes. They arent funny and there's usually a butt of the joke, they make me irrationally angry. I think I 'read' them as bullying and not an attempt at humour.

RUOKHon · 12/05/2021 23:05

When I’ve just cleaned the litter tray and one of the cats goes straight into it and does an enormous shit.

thelightishere · 12/05/2021 23:07

Jar lids/bottle tops that are impossible to twist. I get ridiculously pissed off at this!

Thatswatshesaid · 12/05/2021 23:08

To many noises at once
People whispering, especially close to my ear
Clothes not being ‘right’

thelightishere · 12/05/2021 23:10

And dog shit on pathways/in parks. Every flipping walk I went on when still in London I'd come home with dog poo on my shoe, no matter how vigilant I was!

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