Petty things that annoy you inordinately

[IntermittentParps]

Mine is when I pour a mug of water for tea and the teabag tag gets dragged into the mug. SO tiny but SO irritating.

But cupcakes are the bully boys of the cake world and have driven out fairy cakes, like grey vs red squirrels.

This is a genius analogy and what I was really getting out with my moan.

We used to have fairy cakes with icing. British, civilised, understated.

Now we have cupcakes with frosting.

The grey squirrels have taken over.

@melonhead

Thank you *@Triffid1* ! I feel seen!! I've had three examples in the last couple of week - I bought a salad from a new deli and there were bits of egg shell in it. I told them and they said 'it's because we use fresh ingredients'!

In a local boutique I went to buy a leather bag and saw some of the stitching was coming off - they said it was 'because it's artisan'!

Lastly, I ordered a cake for my daughter's birthday from a local cake shop from an expensive place where the owner is vocal on FB about people buying local. It was £40 and obviously frozen and I found the exact same one for £12 on a food services website. I texted the owner and she said she'd 'had some help this week'!!

I'm done with buying local.

Mind blowing. Mine is a local shop that acts like you're an inconvenience every time you walk in. And after an altercation a few months ago I've refused point blank to darken their doors again. it's very satisfying. Especially as the product I bought from there is now purchased at a fraction of the price from a bigger chain or Amazon!

Cupcakes look better than they taste. 60% frosting (not icing) 40% cake.

Fairy cakes taste better than they look. 5% icing 95% cake. HTH.

My cats who will only eat one flavour of cat food which comes in a multipack of four flavours.

My neighbour pulls her bin so it is square with my gate post, so I have to put mine behind my car, or move hers.
I don’t even leave the house before they’ve emptied the bins so it makes zero difference but it annoys me.

It’s so Petty I can’t mention it without looking like a lunatic and she’s such a lovely lady she’d be mortified.

People using who instead of whom. Drives me nuts.

When there's a massive long OP on here and people quote the whole post when responding. Just why?

A “pop of colour”. Stupid. George Clarke said it 4 times in 10 minutes in his “Old House, New Home” programme the other day.

Fashion people talking about “a trouser”. Just the one leg?

So many people type “your” instead of “you’re” and myself, instead of me.

Eurgh, cupcakes. Boring cakes with 3cm if greasy, sweaty, horrible icing.

@5thnonblonde

Less instead of fewer When push doors have a pull handle on them (like in commercial developments) instead of a handle one dude and a push plate the other so you end up trying to pull a push door

If you haven't watched Game of Thrones it is almost worth watching all 8 series for Stannis correcting someone to fewer. And that same person correcting someone else a whole season later.

Happy sigh.

Remote controls for TV and DVD player. They drive me mad.

People who have a lot to text out but won't just call you I stress. And then when you call them, they text ' can't talk, what's up'

And “vaccines into arms”. Too graphic. We don’t shout “scalpels into bellies” for appendicitis or “drills into teeth” when we go to the dentist.

There's an advert on Spotify for Celebrations with a woman murdering a Christmas carol then making stupid noises towards the end. Makes my blood boil whenever I hear it.

When someone infront of me in the supermarket at the checkout doesn't divide their shopping on the belt with the separator thingy. I load my shopping and try and make them buy my loo rolls. They soon panic.

@IntermittentParps

Mine is when I pour a mug of water for tea and the teabag tag gets dragged into the mug. SO tiny but SO irritating.

When people say 'must of' instead of 'must have'

@DentalWorries

MIL buying endless crap for my house under the guise of it being a present for DP. It’s always something we would never buy, that doesn’t have a place in my stylish very minimal house. If I wanted a great big garish painting I would buy one.

Watching films on TV in the evenings and it being interrupted every 10 minutes by adverts so it takes over 2 hours to watch.

The Post Office being closed 1-2. I know they need to have their lunch but why at the same time the majority of their customers are also having lunch and therefore have time to pop to the post office

I don't understand why they can't just stagger their breaks 🤦🏼‍♀️

@Whatwouldnanado

People who say '"Can I get?" instead of "Please may I have...?" People who say "It's not a problem..." or "No problem..." when I thank them for doing a basic part of their job. Am I supposed to be grateful they haven't been troubled? People young enough to be my kids who address me as "Hun". People who bugger about with capital letters ending emails,. Yours Sincerely, Kind Regards. Makes my teeth itch. And don't start me about apostrophes.

People have also started saying 'I'll DO a latte/cappuccino' etc. Drives me nuts. They do it in selling sunset all the time

Not realising I've broken a nail and it gets caught on a piece of clothing "shivers* can't stand it. Urgh, makes me feel horrible

Drivers who don't indicate

People who walk side by side and not single file for a whole two seconds to let you pass in the opposite direction. So rude. Ditto groups of people who decide to have a full on conversation in the middle of the pavement blocking everyone, making it difficult to get past

Cyclists, who when on the road, think traffic lights don't apply to them

People who say '"Can I get?" instead of "Please may I have...?"
I sometimes feel like I'm on a one-woman mission. I go out of my way to say 'Please may I have a flat white?' etc. My DP takes the piss. I don't care.

People who put something on the side, usually a glass, of my freshly cleaned and buffed sink

@Fatgalslim

When there's a massive long OP on here and people quote the whole post when responding. Just why?

Because it doesn't give you any way to snip the specific comment you're replying to. You hit "quote" and bam! the whole post is quoted.

HTH

Anyone British saying ass when they mean arse. Unless they are referring to the animal.

Also saying pissed when they mean pissed off. Pissed means drunk, not cross.

Also poop. It is poo. POO!

@Whatwouldnanado

People who say '"Can I get?" instead of "Please may I have...?" People who say "It's not a problem..." or "No problem..." when I thank them for doing a basic part of their job. Am I supposed to be grateful they haven't been troubled? People young enough to be my kids who address me as "Hun". People who bugger about with capital letters ending emails,. Yours Sincerely, Kind Regards. Makes my teeth itch. And don't start me about apostrophes.

Oh god I work in customer service and I say no problem , you're welcome doesn't sound natural to me but maybe I should try that I don't want to piss people off