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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:
Bogeyes · 01/02/2022 05:27

Visitors who fail to close the front door behind them as they enter my house. Grrr

ClaudineClare · 01/02/2022 05:27

@Bogeyes

People say Epsom...it's bloody Epson...it has an N at the end not an M!
If you mean the town, it is Epsom! Or do you mean something else?
halfsiesonapotnoodle · 01/02/2022 05:33

I reckon she means Epson as in the printers. The town of Epsom is very well known.

ClaudineClare · 01/02/2022 05:36

Yes that must be it!

decemberrainydays · 01/02/2022 05:39

@CopperApricot

Not being able to just push my feet into shoes without having to bend down and pull the back of the heel out with my fingers. Gives me the rage every. single. day Angry
Get one of those long handled shoe horns.
Bogeyes · 01/02/2022 05:40

The printer company

Eileen101 · 01/02/2022 05:40

Kitchen cupboard doors and drawers being left open Angry

DHs shoes being left behind the door/ between the door and the wall so I can't get the fecking double pushchair out of the door, without having to move the shoes, to the larger area for shoes, less than 1 metre away Angry

EatAllDay · 01/02/2022 06:01

Everything to do with kids and meals. Swimming lessons.
Everyone slamming the back door EVERY SINGLE TIME so the house rattles.
Should of / could of .. instead of should have / could have. Makes me 😡 ANGRY 😡!!
DH drumming his fingers. OMG the rage!!
Everything to do with toilet rolls.

EatAllDay · 01/02/2022 06:09

DH uses the tea towel to wipe surfaces. After cooking a meal the tea towel can have any amount of tomato or burnt marks on it. Then he gets a clean one. I am not joking; last week there were SIX tea towels in use wedged into balls on the wrack. Wtf????? argghhhhhhhhhh!!!!!! I cannot understand his logic. We have a super large kitchen roll two inches from hand. RAGE 😤

Ecosralayce · 01/02/2022 06:19

when people (my family, mostly dh) put things back in the wrong drawer in the freezer. Even after I have bought a label maker and labeled the bloody things Angry
when ds leaves his schoolbag hanging on thebottom of the banisters instead oftaking it up to his room (it sticks out into our narrow hall making it hard to get past)
people opening a new bottle of milk when the previous one isn't finished

loads more....tbh. I am easiliy irritated these days!

GeneLovesJezebel · 01/02/2022 06:35

And it’s Epsom salts.

EatAllDay · 01/02/2022 07:01

Dh eating take away pizza with a knife and fork…. Every time

EatAllDay · 01/02/2022 07:02

MIL in general

Especially her belief she’s allergic to practically everything

halfsiesonapotnoodle · 01/02/2022 07:17

If I see 'loose' weight one more time, I will explode. It's lose ffs. Loose means 'not tight or restricted' and rhymes with moose. Lose rhymes with booze.

Justleaveitblankthen · 01/02/2022 07:39

When you breezily walk into a gloriously empty supermarket early morning to buy an essential item before work.

Aisles devoid of all the human race except the 6 inches of space where your item is located. This person then spends 10 minutes blocking the area with seemingly no intention to buy/texting their other half/scrutinising a list/chatting with a companion.
and gives you the death stare with no apology when you politely ask if you could grab some milk/bread/eggs.

Happens every bloody morning🤬

Justleaveitblankthen · 01/02/2022 07:45

Oh, another supermarket one while I'm here.
Rarely venture into the toilets, but when I do..Completely mesmerised by how the other users of the adjoining handryer can complete the job in half a second flat they can't. The door handles are dripping with their hand water 😑

KatherineJaneway · 01/02/2022 07:49

People who get to the till at the petrol station only to start craining their necks to see what pump number they were at. You've been stood there for a good few minutes!

DickMabutt73962 · 01/02/2022 08:03

People who don't clear their plates properly and put proper food in the sink

People who chuck the sponge/dish cloth in the sink so it's soaked and covered in whatever else you pour into the sink

People who don't scrunch up the cereal bags and so it goes stale after 2 days? Do people like stale cereal? I know way too many people that do this

People that don't notice spills they make and just leave it

I'm a nanny and a lot of mine are kitchen related!

DickMabutt73962 · 01/02/2022 08:04

@Cheeseandlobster

When you try to call a business or council and they make you listen to a huge amount of waffle before cheerfully announcing they are too busy to answer and cut you off. Why make you listen to all that shite first? And how rude - at least allow people to choice to hold
My head nearly exploded when I waited 50 minutes to move up a queue to book a blood test, only for the call to cut off when I got to number 3 🙃
Frigginintheriggin · 01/02/2022 08:08

I totally agree with PP about people who just stop in shop doorways/pavements etc. I have perfected a growl for that...
Hiccups is something that gives me the rage. Especially if its my adult DD or grandchildren who has them. I don't deal with them well if its me either.
Queue jumping in shops makes me angry too 😤

Bedsheets4knickers · 01/02/2022 08:22

Clothes reviews on websites . This is one of my biggest annoyances .
I don't care if whoever it's for loves it or makes them look good .
I want facts !!! Comes big/small , order a size up/down . Does it Itch ? Does it wash well ?
Or they say I just love mine ..... WHY ???? Tell me why you love it .
DRIVES ME MAD 😡

sueelleker · 01/02/2022 09:04

Assembly/operating instructions which are entirely in pictures. WHY CAN'T THESE PEOPLE USE WORDS?
Especially when it's just one exploded diagram. I can just about cope with comic-strip style directions, but when it's all one diagram, forget it.

PeskyRooks · 01/02/2022 09:17

When one of my children leave 3 baked beans on a plate. Why make me scrape 3 beans into the bin?! Couldn't you have eaten them? Fgs!!

petalblossom · 01/02/2022 09:18

Adults calling a skeleton a 'skellington'

People parking in the drop off zone outside Tesco and doing their shopping

People asking me every day if my feet are cold because I'm wearing flat shoes. I don't like wearing boots

People putting photos of me on Facebook. They don't seem to realise that even if they don't tag me all our mutual friends can still see them.

floridamanatee · 01/02/2022 09:20

People telling me how much weight they've lost