Very small things that give you the rage

[Thepearlsthepearls]

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?!?!

Former dog owner here and hopefully prospective future Border Terrier owner again

Our cleaner not putting the knives correctly in the knife block. There is one slot for each knife and they go in height order. How hard can it be. She’ll shove 2 in one slot, and the short end of the block being for the short knives is entirely lost on her. Drives me bonkers.

Delivery drivers who knock the door and ring the doorbell at the same time.

Jet 2 holidays app - when you go in to look at the details of one holiday, it seems to be impossible to go back to your main search so I have to search all over again. Oh and it's not possible to search on heated pools.

Household printer. I refuse to engage with it.

Pairs or groups of people who walk slow and take up the WHOLE fucking pavement so I can’t get past. Then act annoyed when I say excuse me and have to squeeze past.
GET OUT OF MY FUCKING WAY.

Aaaaaand breathe.

People who are late - only 5-10 minutes but if you do that every day...

My DH's conviction that washing the dishes only involves plates and cutlery. No cooking implements need to go near the water, in fact the best thing is to leave them on a warm cooker for the food to dry on properly.

@Cheeseandlobster

Websites that deliberately hide their contact details so it's near on impossible to find a number to call them on.

Yes. Agree 100%

The printer
Everything I read on the feminism board

Caitlin Moran. Sorry that sounds so bitchy. But I can't watch or listen to her.

People who park in parent and baby spaces with 10 year olds! Or no kids at all!

Oh yes I forgot the other one.

DH putting the laundry on. He's banned from drying it as he sticks everything in the tumble dryer and apparently my descriptions of what can and cannot go in it are incomprehensible. Therefore I see the washing as being my domain and time it when it suits me. It gives me the rage when he puts a load on because effectively he has dictated to me the timing for hanging it up and often there is not enough drying space available.

Reading a thread on MN in the morning, forgetting to mark it as "Watch this thread" and subsequently not remembering where the thread was to be able to find it!

That pushes my button so it does!

@IWasFunBeforeMum

People who park in parent and baby spaces with 10 year olds! Or no kids at all!

Those spaces are for children under 12. Not just babies.

@Okbye

Pairs or groups of people who walk slow and take up the WHOLE fucking pavement so I can’t get past. Then act annoyed when I say excuse me and have to squeeze past. GET OUT OF MY FUCKING WAY.

Aaaaaand breathe.

A couple of times during the pandemic I just stopped where I was and spread my arms out so they had to go round me. (Not specifically a pandemic issue but I would have thought it would make people more aware of giving each other space, but obviously not).

One lot was on a wide pavement, leaving me no space by walking 6 abreast.

The other lot were on a path that had mud either side, 4 abreast and taking up the whole path. No, I'm not walking in the mud just so you can walk next to all your friends at once.

People who put teaspoons the wrong way round in the drawer.

@Okbye

Pairs or groups of people who walk slow and take up the WHOLE fucking pavement so I can’t get past. Then act annoyed when I say excuse me and have to squeeze past. GET OUT OF MY FUCKING WAY.

Aaaaaand breathe.

Oh yes, this! Happened to me yesterday. And the day before! They give me such a filthy look for having the temerity to walk or run past them!

@DuesToTheDirt

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.

Webforms which don't tell you what format they want you to put things in (eg postcode - do they want a space or not) and then tell you you've done it wrong.

When driving, when I let someone out I. Front of me even though it's my right of way and they don't even wave to say thank you. I honestly want to chase the buggers down!

@SavBbunny

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

I've done the empty till thing - it gives me time to get my stuff onto the conveyer belt while the person in front finishes off.

Otherwise I start putting my stuff on and the cashier puts it through right away which means it's sitting waiting to go into bags with nobody there to do it.

@IWasFunBeforeMum

People who park in parent and baby spaces with 10 year olds! Or no kids at all!

You would hate me then, my child is 12 and we still use the spaces. Mainly because she's dyspraxic and would probably gouge someone's door trying to clumsily get out of the car in her own elegant way.

My DH takes out the plastic bag from the kitchen bin, brings it outside to the wheelie bin but doesn't put a new bag into the bin. I don't realise he has gone out to the wheelie bin and press the foot pedal on the kitchen bin (to chuck in the bits from the sink after the washing up for example.). What happens?

I end up chucking the crusty bits from the lasagne for example right onto the bottom of the bin and end up having to wash it out before I can put a clean bag in!

Spleen now fully vented

My family leaving the front door open in winter. Their excuse is that it's only a minute, to which I mentally (or physically) say yes, but you've let all the f*ing heat out in that minute. Our house is not the warmest and it drives me nuts.

Ditto for being incapable of ever turning off lights.

Cupboard doors left open

Oooh lots, I'm a walking rage machine daily.

Yes to catching sleeves on door handles. One of these days I'm just going to rip the clothes through the handle in rage
Dropping lids off milk/pop bottles, every single time I try to take one off or put one back it swishes round the bottle neck and then flies onto the floor, fucks me off no end.
DH having one of his epic shits and then not opening the window after, like who the fuck wants to go in and smell his shit. So selfish
The kids waking up on a school morning before I finish my cuppa. Like why the fuck can't they just let me finish it first then get up and start their usual whinging and whining
When the dog won't come in from the garden when I'm shouting for him, he just turns and looks at me like I'm something he's stood in and carries on, knowing fine well I won't come out in the wet/cold/onto the mud to chase him. Dick
People who advertise a job yet can't get the spelling/grammar correct in the advert. They have the audacity to ask for qualifications, experience etc, yet they can't even get the advert grammatically correct.
Clothes that need putting away
Getting into bed then needing a wee
When you're hoovering and trying to hoover in the furthest part of the house that the cable will stretch but it won't reach and then you realise the cable has a fucking knot in it so you have to go back and unknot it so you can carry on

Oh there's so much more but I'll leave it there