Things that make you incandescent that you know are unreasonable

[nightlarking]

I'll start;

People being hellishly "loud" around the napping baby when actually they are not being particularly noisy/behaving perfectly reasonably.

Absolutely everything that happens at work at the moment. And almost everybody here (except the students - university lecturer).

And recumbent bicycles on the road. Just unnecessary nonsense.

People who decide that night shift workers don't need sleep.
"Well you don't need to sleep all day surely?! Can't you just....."

No, no I can't because yes, I do need to at least attempt to get somewhere near 8 hours sleep, like everyone else, and it's often broken by the daytime life noises, sunlight and ignorant twats like you! And I also need to do all the household stuff that needs doing when I get in from work or before I go, just because you've been asleep during the hours I've worked doesn't mean it hasn't happened, and no, being awake and alert through the night, 5 times a week is not the same as having a baby that wakes up a couple of times a night, or having an all night party session!
I've done all of them and they don't compare!

I think I need to go to bed now 🥱

Today: everything my DH does. Every single thing.

Other days:

Phone-in radio is 100% horrendous and when I rule the lands I shall outlaw it immediately.

Lips smacking when eating - I often 'remind' the children how to eat nicely and quietly when my FIL is eating near me

Not so much slow walkers as they probably can't help it (I'm slow at the moment due to pain/pregnancy) but more the folk who take up the whole fucking pavement and you can't get past. You are 2 people, you're ambling along stopping every 10 seconds, how are you taking up SO much space?!

Delivery people - the new norm appears to be abandoning our parcels roughly in the vicinity of our house. No doorbell, no knock, no card through the door, and we don't use the front door so have absolutely no idea it's there.

People shouting in the street at 2am on their way home from the pub or whatever. I know I've probably done it in the past but I am murderous at being woken up by drunk strangers.

Fuck all that shit.

Children who don't have manners that are as good as a very polite adult's. I know it's unreasonable, I know my expectations are way too high, I know kids don't understand the kind of nuanced social niceties I'm expecting them too, and I know that I'm setting my own daughter up for a lifetime of being a pushover by insisting on her being excessively polite, but I can't help it.

People who believe that the information they find is more correct than yours. Especially when it really doesn't matter either way.
"Don't believe what you read there, my source is better" fuck off!

• current conversation over plants 😂

People walking in the swim lane. I try to tell myself they are entitled to use the facility and may be recovering from an operation or whatever but it still annoys me. Plus people doing backstroke as they can’t see where they are going and drift about the lane making overtaking difficult (And people swimming too fast in the slow lane, and one lunatic doing butterfly) I really need to chill out and just enjoy the swim.

@JustGiveMeGin

I'll get flamed for this but I don't particularly care! Any DIY program on TV that jumps in to help families sort their property out... not talking about those that help people that are ill or had a disaster (although, shouldn't they have home insurance?). I mean like one I briefly saw earlier, mum and dad were low level hoarders so they hadn't decorated for many years. Nick knowels and team swoop in and as long as the family remove half of their possessions from the property the team redesign and redecorate it for them.....really, live in a shit hole long enough and someone just sorts it all out for you? Meanwhile the guy on the news in social housing that was leaking faeces through his ceiling could have been watching that program and I got the rage on his, and many others behalf

Ha, I've been watching this programme in a car crash kind of a way. I'm muttering 'How can you live it that? How can you subject your children to it you selfish fucker?'. Then there's the obligatory sob story of they lost a grand-parent/ a child was ill 15 years ago shmizzle. Don't we all have things like this? It's called life! Now I'm coming across as uncaring/ not respectful of MH, but this is a post about being unreasonably angry. I just want to shout ' Tidy up after yourself, it's minging'.

Still going to watch it, though.

My SIL's dogs. They go wild with excitement when we arrive, jumping up and barking like mad. I just want to run away because, for me, it's total sensory overload. It pisses me off when they jump and slobber all over me. It's not the dogs' fault and, really, I should be more annoyed at SIL who hasn't trained them not to do this. The DC find it overwhelming too. Once the dogs calm down, the DC love to play with them and make a fuss of them, but I can't stop feeling irritable and being a bit of a misery guts.

Waiters constantly coming and interrupting you while you're in the middle of a deep conversation, whilst eating out. I know they're only doing their job. And I promise I'm not horrible to them - smile politely and say yes, all fine Thankyou' etc but inside I'm just "Fuck the Fuck off I'm getting something important off my chest and now I've lost my train of thought"

It's totally unreasonable but it really annoys me!

The now obligatory crying on every TV program. Every. Program. Doesn't matter what I'm watching, someone always, always has to get tearful.

Fucking man up and get a grip.

@Fizbosshoes

Small children pointing out how short I am, either to their parents or to me. And telling me they're taller and have bigger feet than me. Thank you. I am very short. I've noticed. It wasn't your own achievement that made you taller than me! You just had more favourable genes.

Argh yes! I’m 4”11 and unlike some people who are average height until puberty, I’ve always been the shortest in the room. I love my height, it’s probably the only thing about myself I’ve never felt insecure about so it really irritates me when people take the piss, especially as my young niece has started doing it - she’s my height now and will probably end up about 5”6 so there’s years of this to come. But if I ever complain I get told to lighten up…it’s all good natured and I would hate for her to ever feel awkward around me so I ignore it but do always mention that I like my height and there’s nothing wrong with being different heights…

Asking dh if there's anything we need when I'm off to do the weekly shop and he says "bread... milk... " which he KNOWS I get every week as default!

The constant news reporting, mainly on social media I must add, of people that have done something lovely for someone else and who are praised as heroes just for being kind.

That horrible screech children do for no reason that goes right through you like finger nails on a chalkboard. The parents never appear to hear it the same way everyone around them does. I don't mean when they're having fun and they squeal.

Child proof tops that turn out to be adult proof tops.

I was on the tube once and a guy was blatantly reading my phone over my shoulder so I went to the notes app and typed ‘fuck off and stop reading over my shoulder’

Genius.

Coat hangers.

So many of these.
Myself/ yourself when me/you is intended
Loose when lose is correct
His instead of he's
There/they're/their confusion
Literally - when it isn't
Haitch
Seagull
Accept/except confusion
Slow walking
Fast walking
Pavement cyclists (15+ y)
Pavement scooters
Noisy eaters/open mouth eaters
Hun/babe/bae
Bows on bald babies
Noisy breathers
Constant use of 'like', 'actually' and 'basically'
Politicians not answering questions but wittering on
People who park on/by zebra crossings etc and will "only" be a minute
Queue jumpers
Elevenerifers
#making memories /#so blessed/#this one
Flat earthers
Antivaxxers
Breastfeeding guilt trippers
The autocorrect on this phone

I should probably stop.

Weatherwaxon

I'll add the bastarding low, autumnal sun. I'm getting disproportionately angry at the bloody sun blinding me every morning in the car. How dare it!

People starting every answer to any question with "so..."

Saying 'almost unique.' It's either unique or it isn't.

Car idling, particularly near a school.

Children running amok in restaurants.

People just standing there, unable to decide which brand/type/flavour of whatever that they want , in a supermarket.

When you're at temporary traffic lights and your light turns green yet, you can't move off because of all the twats ignoring the red light their end.

Horse people. Especially the horsies who use horsey terms that the rest of us don't use, and then wait for us to ask them what exactly it is because they are all knowing and superior and so very brainy. Urgh. Knobs.

Americans.

My neighbour is a raging Karen-Transphobe-Tory-Racist, but it's her constant gormless look that is unreasonably annoying. She is the visual representation of the words 'huh' and 'blurgh'

By far the worst are cyclists. They're all dickheads, even the ones that think they're exempt from the cyclist stereotype.

Those "easy opening" or "closing" packets that are anything but.

People who try and cross the road about 2 feet from the traffic lights.
People who press the green Man and then cross anyway.

Anyone reading over my shoulder,it does my head in.

The spider that keeps making a web across my garden path. I can't see it when I leave for work at 6am and end up waving my hands Infront of me like a rabid T-Rex.

DH watching something on tv-usually football or playing fifa. I start reading/ messing around on my phone/ occupying myself quite happily only for him to then start talking to me/ rewinding "plays" and talking me through them and then getting miffed when I tell him I don't give two shits about the footie. I used to feign interest but CBA now.

Easy peel packets of any description. Clearly invented by someone who has no actual clue what easy peel means ... Or a total sadist. Guaranteed to send me into a rage when the stupid corner bit peels off leaving an unopened packet.

Also not being able to make a new paragraph on here. Omg. It's so irritating. What am I doing wrong?! Why doesn't return work? 😡

People standing choosing for ages in the supermarket, blocking my way. People sneezing loudly/having coughing fits. DH being incapable of bringing his key with him when he goes out so I have to stop what I'm doing to go and let him in. Just bring your key FFS! Anyone sauntering along at a glacial pace when I'm in a rush. I will think of more ...