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Very small things that give you the rage

252 replies

Thepearlsthepearls · 31/01/2022 15:23

Mine are:

  1. when you run the tap and it either comes too fast or catches on something else in the sink, thus spraying water everywhere;
  2. catching my clothes on the door handle.

These two very minor inconveniences give me the absolute rage. Anyone else?!?!

OP posts:
squashyhat · 31/01/2022 17:07

When a passenger presses the button to let the bus driver know they want to get off at the next stop...swiftly followed by another...and another...and another.

FFS a buzzer/bell sounds and a large sign saying BUS STOPPING lights up the first time it's pressed. Which bit of the driver knowing they have got to stop don't you get?

Ameanstreakamilewide · 31/01/2022 17:08

@lifesabitchandthenyoudie

agree with so many of these...

@Woodlandarchitect Clothes without pockets - what about clothes with FAKE pockets! So you get the stupid zip or flap but no use whatsoever! Grr.

@Minniem2020 about the toilet roll... that was me, sorry Blush

I've got a lovely coat with pockets.

So far, so good, right?

No it isn', because they're too shallow to be functional and everything falls out 5 minutes later.
Who signed off that design??

'Yeah, women like pockets. Yeah, that'll do'

Workinghardeveryday · 31/01/2022 17:20

There are soooo many!!! Here are the ones that come to mind:

Spider poo.

Dust when I have literally just dusted.

Kids making the bathroom look like a war zone when I have just spent an hour cleaning it.

Rude teenage dd, zero manners.

Flushing toilets as clearly no one in this house understands how this is done and will happily leave a poo for me to find.

Carrying mental load of all jobs/admin for home/kids/dp.

Always having to think about what is for tea, buying it and cooking it or no one would eat, this includes breakfast and lunch/packed lunches.

Anyone touching my bath towel.

Dog wanting to play when I sit down on an evening and attacking my feet.

And today’s winner is I have just noticed tuna juice has been splattered all up my kitchen walls, clock and window.

PossiblyDreaming · 31/01/2022 17:23

Attempting to use the self checkouts in Marks & Spencer. I don’t often shop there but whenever I do there’s always a queue for the self checkouts as everyone using them seems to have never encountered a self check out ever before. I don’t know who decided that the average M&S shopper was capable of using a self checkout but they need to be shot.

Knobhead101 · 31/01/2022 17:31

When you y lock your car via the fob, load your hands with shit to take to the car, grab the door handle and pull just for it to slam back out of your hands as apparently you didn't actually unlock the car. Love it.

inheritancetrack · 31/01/2022 17:40

DH leaving the key in the lock and me outside...again

Scout2016 · 31/01/2022 17:41

Paper straws.

JuergenSchwarzwald · 31/01/2022 17:42

The ones you said OP.

Also when websites move about so you click on something and it's moved so you click onto something you didn't want. And which is potentially dodgy if it's eg on Twitter!

noUggscuse · 31/01/2022 17:42

Priti Patel

Pbbananabagel · 31/01/2022 17:43

At local soft play - there are some chairs arranged around the edges that parents can sit in. Not loads and no tables. I hate it when parents leave all their shoes and coats etc on one of these instead of putting them on the coat hooks/shoe pockets. I had to breastfeed my baby standing up with 7 or 8 chairs like this with no one actually sitting on them.

Imissmoominmama · 31/01/2022 17:45

People whistling in places I need to go to, like the supermarket.

I’ve walked out without my shopping before now; I get really anxious when I hear whistling.

People wouldn’t sing at that volume in a public place, so why whistle?

GameofPhones · 31/01/2022 17:46

Anything that doesn't work first time and has to be repeated.
Things that require three hands, like removing vacuum cleaner parts (the brush, the extension tube).

TimBoothseyes · 31/01/2022 17:48

My car.

JuergenSchwarzwald · 31/01/2022 17:49

Why do doors need two hands to unlock them? Who thought that was a good idea when you are inevitably carrying things when you go in and our of your house?

SavBbunny · 31/01/2022 17:51

People parking next to me when there is a whole empty car park. Ditto queuing behind me when there are empty tills.

MrsPear · 31/01/2022 17:52

The fact that my husband and my children do not understand the laundry basket. You lift the lid put the clothes in and close the lid - and the household fairy washes, irons and returns it. They just leave the clothes piled up on top.

NeverDropYourMooncup · 31/01/2022 17:55

When DP opens the second pack/bottle/jar of something, leaving half of a perfectly usable one open to go off, get spilled or otherwise get wasted. I've tried explaining that the idea is to wait until the one on the go right now runs out or goes off and then open a nice, clean fresh packet without having to go to the shops and possibly pay a higher price than the offers I usually buy things on, but the concept seemingly doesn't compute.

The one that annoyed me most recently was when I picked up the lightest carton of milk and innocently tipped it into my tea, only to find it consisted largely of bile and smegma. And there were no more teabags because he'd left half a box out when opening the next one and then spilled water over them. The cats didn't mind the three open cartons of cat food in the fridge though, as I just gave them the lot at once to get the stuff out of there.

Other things that annoy me are

Contact lens packets left on the sink/windowsill instead of in the bin that's directly underneath. Everything else is left clean, there are never bristles left in the sink, the soap is back in the soapdish, towels are never left on the floor and there's always a toilet roll on the holder and the inners put into recycling - but contact lens packets always get left out.

Finding damp things that have been left in the rarely used tumble dryer so they have to be washed again (and properly dried this time) upon discovery.

Why all my socks disappear in the wash into his stuff but never come back in pairs, only ever in singles.

Being told that all the washing up has been collected up and done, only to find five things in the spare room and at least one glass underneath the sofa at any given time. See also 'all the washing' excluding the stuff that really needs to be washed. Despite getting a dishwasher, I suspect this will still happen.

How any tool is instantly leaped upon and squirreled away in a drawer/under the bed/on the windowsill/a parallel dimension in the spare room where I can never find it, instead of going back in the toolbox and replaced in the tool cupboard. When I'm the person who does mechanical/technical/practical stuff here.

How you can never find a matching set of bra and knickers in the shops unless you need something like a 40GGGGGGGGGGGGGG bra and a size 2 arse. Even within ten minutes of the staff putting the new range out.

That every bloody dress in existence right now will either be in your size and the correct length but will only be ditzy florals, ruffled and frilled, leopard print and wholly unsuitable for work, but the things that are more sober and acceptable to your very formal employer are either a) not in stock ever, they just claim they exist or b) finish roughly 2cm below your arse cheeks.

Being a size 6 and a half on one foot and a size 6 and 3/7ths of a half on the other. But with a metatarsal width that means the only shoes that would fit are wide fit, meaning they turn into flippers.

Websites where you have to go into the Vendor preferences and individually reject cookies for over a hundred different companies because the site hasn't opted for a Reject All button and has set the default to On with the reasoning that people will give up after the first 125 individual gestures and allow them all that lovely, valuable data harvesting to sell on. side eyes MN

Yika · 31/01/2022 17:55

Trying to find something I should be working on by trying to remember which of a bazillion Teams conversations it was in.

DuesToTheDirt · 31/01/2022 17:57

People (well, DH) not writing things they've used up, or are about to be used up, on the shopping list. Then I got to get some from a cupboard and there's none left. Recently we've run out of kitchen roll, ibuprofen, and several other things, but yesterday was the worst yet - we ran out of COFFEE! Shock

IntermittentParps · 31/01/2022 18:01

@Pbbananabagel

At local soft play - there are some chairs arranged around the edges that parents can sit in. Not loads and no tables. I hate it when parents leave all their shoes and coats etc on one of these instead of putting them on the coat hooks/shoe pockets. I had to breastfeed my baby standing up with 7 or 8 chairs like this with no one actually sitting on them.
I'd have dumped someone's stuff off a chair and sat down.
Peanut82 · 31/01/2022 18:01

One that really grinds my gears is, for example a woman posts a Facebook status update, her sister comments on it and they insist on calling each other sister in every comment
"Hope you're ok sister"
"I'm fine thank you sister, how are you sister"
Shouldn't bother me but it gives me the rage 😂

DuesToTheDirt · 31/01/2022 18:02

Websites that flash up a message saying, "Please complete our survey, we'd love to hear what you think of our website," when you've been on the site for precisely 2 seconds.

And cookies, bloody cookies. The amount of time I spend clicking to accept/reject cookies is unreal, and I curse the people that came up with this regulation.

AngelinaFibres · 31/01/2022 18:02

@VeganVampire

On hold music. JaJa credit card in particular. Guess what I'm doing right now.
Virgin holidays hold music is Justin timberlake. Was on hold for hours trying to get a refund after first lockdown. Never ,ever, ever want hear JT sing "Gonna have you naked by the end of this song" ever again.
WickedWitchOfTheEast87 · 31/01/2022 18:02

@SmokeAndBone I'm with you on self service I hate it everytime I use it the bloody thing malfunctions! Just to add to it I also get pissed off everytime a staff member encourages me to use it and I say no they carry on trying to get me to use it. I once snapped at a staff member in Tesco after I politely said no three times to using self service he carried on so I snapped " what fucking part of NO do you not understand!" And he responded with no need to be rude yet he seemed to think railroading me was acceptable!

My other pet peeves are:

  1. People who don't scrape the food off their plates and put it in the sink where it goes soggy.
  2. People who can't accept it and keep pushing me to change my mind when I say no to something.
  3. Men who don't put the toilet seat down!!

I could go on but I'd be here all night lol

DuesToTheDirt · 31/01/2022 18:09

Online payment forms where you have to enter 16 digits with no spaces. Stupid. It's much easier for humans to make sure they've entered the digits correctly if they are in four groups of four, and it's very easy to allow this on webforms.