Petty things that annoy you

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People who say they don't drink . But couple months later they are pissed at a party Or just have a drink with their meal.

When someone advices what you should do with your hair or other personal stuff when you never asked then on the first place.

When you say no thank you and the person keeps going on and on.

When someone gets on the bus stinking of stale fags. And when you breath you can literally taste it. 🤢

You're in the checkout queue at the supermarket. The person in front has packed most of their shopping but the till ninja has finished scanning and says 'that's £45.76 please'. Instead of stopping at this point, paying, then finishing their packing what do they do? Well they just casually finish their packing and only then do they pay. It absolutely infuriates me.
And people who continually clear their throats. I could cheerfully throttle them.

@amillionrosepetals

You're in the checkout queue at the supermarket. The person in front has packed most of their shopping but the till ninja has finished scanning and says 'that's £45.76 please'. Instead of stopping at this point, paying, then finishing their packing what do they do? Well they just casually finish their packing and only then do they pay. It absolutely infuriates me. And people who continually clear their throats. I could cheerfully throttle them.

I never stop my packing to pay! It’s never occurred to me and I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone else do it - it means the conveyor belt stops moving so the person behind you can’t continue unloading their shopping and so slows the process down.

Certain members of my Dps family who help themselves to food off other peoples plates .Its mainly chips ,so if want chips ,bloody order some .
Also cyclists and people on scooters who don't look or signal when want to turn right.

@cptartapp

Grandmothers playing mum and pushing the baby in the pram whilst the parents trot along beside. Smacks of over involvement to me. Irrational I know.

My mum would do this to steady her.

Walking behind someone who doesn’t pick their feet up. I have to call out, “Pick your feet up!” as it annoys me so much!

You shout this out to strangers??

People who leave the tops of everything in the kitchen etc. Plus jars close to the edge of the work top so they can be easily knocked off and then the sugar is all over the floor...

(DD)
People who think I've lived in a cupboard all my life.

Mansplaining.

People who think housework does itself.

@amillionrosepetals

You're in the checkout queue at the supermarket. The person in front has packed most of their shopping but the till ninja has finished scanning and says 'that's £45.76 please'. Instead of stopping at this point, paying, then finishing their packing what do they do? Well they just casually finish their packing and only then do they pay. It absolutely infuriates me. And people who continually clear their throats. I could cheerfully throttle them.

Ah I have simlar . Load shopping on the belt before you get to the packing bit. Cashier has already scanned 6 items. You say can I have 2 bags please . She's says yes whilst scanning another 6 items then gets the bags for you. time you have opened it. she's scanned another 4 items. So your behinde with the packing. The people in the queue are giving the hurry up vibes. But im only behinde because the Cashier did not think to see if I needed a bag before she started scanning. So In this case I don't stop to pay. As I'm packing. But I do if I'm not behinde with it

@Frazzledd 'I do this alot' 'A lot of people do'. Right or wrong 🤔

Alot is not a word. It is always ‘a lot’.

You can, however, allot something / an amount of something. So, an example could be ‘the newspaper made the decision to allot a page of advertising to each candidate.’

People not shutting cupboard doors

People who stop in the shop doorway to put their change/ receipt/glasses back in their bag.

Using the word 'everyday' instead of 'every day' and 'are' instead of 'our'

When people eat noisily / with mouth open / make a sucking noise when they put food in their mouth.
When people are given a knife and fork but don’t use the knife, just shovel their food around their plate and into their mouth.
When car drivers think they’re being helpful by slowing down and waving you across the road, and sometimes there’s no one even behind them - surely just go past, then I’ll cross in my own time thank you very much!!

The spelling ones annoy me a lot as well. Internally I'm always thinking "maybe they're dyslexic" but it's still annoying. I read an entire chapter in a book once, it was about a misprint in some wedding invitations - every single instance of the word 'stationery' was spelt 'stationary'.

Incorrect use of too/to and me and my mum/my mum and I is annoying me irrationally at the moment. Again, reading a book and someone asks the killer "why did you shoot at my friend and I?". The killer responds with "ooooh get you, correct grammar and everything!" This was a before publication arc so I let them know they were wrong, but seriously.

My brother sent me a text the other day to tell me it was "girlfriend and I's nephew" . I see that a lot also and it drives me potty - he can't possibly think that is right?!?

Odd socks, DS1 keeps all his socks loose in a drawer and just picks two at random like a sock buffet. I hate it.

Slobbing around in pyjamas. DD puts pyjamas on as soon as she gets in. She comes to the dinner table in them and now her boyfriend does the same. I can't stand it.

When people offer you a drink of Coke but what they mean is a Diet Coke, Coke Zero or Pepsi.

People who take tiny shortcuts, like walking over my front lawn instead of on the drive or at a local shopping complex there's a bit of grass and a low fence next to the foot path, people walk over the grass and clamber over the fence to save about 2 seconds walk on the path.

PIL when they visit come round the back of the house and peer in through back door or window rather than ringing the front doorbell like everyone else.

When people say fetch instead of bring.

Also - of and off are two different words!

People who can't use of and off properly. Also to and too.

For example:

"I'm going to take my shoes off."

"Oh you're taking your shoes of? I'm going too take my shoes of to".

It's strange because they pronounce the words properly in speech but in written form they always get it wrong.

It really annoys me when people say “ I turned around & I said….” My friend’s Dad apparently used to answer with “ What are you a bloody ballet dancer?”! Brilliant!

People who don't repeat themselves.

If I am (insert noisy activity here, like washing up) and I don't hear my DH when he says something, he will say, "Nothing" and get really irritated if I just would like to hear what it was he said--if it was important enough to say in the first place, I would like to hear it!

If it's something he deems important enough to repeat, he'll repeat it in an angry/impatient way, rather than just saying it again, louder or even at the same volume now that I've shut the water off or whatever. I'm looking forward to getting old...

Related: People who rephrase what they said instead of repeating. I just didn't hear you--you don't have to explain what it means!!

My next door neighbours who insist on putting their bins and recycling in front of my house on bin day instead of their own. Guess whose garden it goes over when the wind blows it out of the recycling boxes?! Makes my piss boil on a weekly basis!!

@SirChenjins. But that wouldn't actually happen. The cashier can't tell you the cost of your shopping until he/she has removed all your shopping from the conveyor belt and scanned it. Perhaps you and I just need to avoid each other when shopping lol.
@Imatramp1 The people in the queue are giving the hurry up vibes. That will be me lol.

@Frazzledd "I do this a lot"

[quote amillionrosepetals]@SirChenjins. But that wouldn't actually happen. The cashier can't tell you the cost of your shopping until he/she has removed all your shopping from the conveyor belt and scanned it. Perhaps you and I just need to avoid each other when shopping lol.
@Imatramp1 The people in the queue are giving the hurry up vibes. That will be me lol.[/quote]
And me if I was in the queue. But I was not 😅

I think so! It doesn’t make any difference time-wise to whether people stop/pay/continue packing or continue packing/stop/pay.
My shopping ire is saved for the idiots who put their shopping on the belt before the person in front has finished unpacking their trolley - only ever had it happen to me in Aldi for some reason but I’ve learned to block the entrance to the conveyor belt with my trolley and unpack backwards.

If I'm doing a fried egg and the yolk breaks when I crack it into the pan I feel like I could stab someone.

My shopping ire is saved for the idiots who put their shopping on the belt before the person in front has finished unpacking their trolley - only ever had it happen to me in Aldi for some reason
Mine is the inverse of this, people who pack like they’ve never met a hurry or a purpose in their life after they’ve paid so the cashier starts putting my stuff through and it piles up on theirs and there’s no room to put my bags out or move my trolley through and I just want to RAM it at their snail-like selves.

@amillionrosepetals

You're in the checkout queue at the supermarket. The person in front has packed most of their shopping but the till ninja has finished scanning and says 'that's £45.76 please'. Instead of stopping at this point, paying, then finishing their packing what do they do? Well they just casually finish their packing and only then do they pay. It absolutely infuriates me. And people who continually clear their throats. I could cheerfully throttle them.

I can’t see how this affects you? Either way they have to do both packing and paying. Are you an encroacher? Do you shuffle right up behind the person in front as though your impatience will make it all happen faster? When people do this I take my time and I’d definitely pack my shopping and load it back into the trolley before coming back to the till to pay.