Things that people do that give you the rage (lighthearted)

[rubberhead]

So going to a shop earlier, parked far enough away from the door as my car is quite big and I like to keep it out of the way of trollies etc. There was a small car parked (badly) two bays up from me but it didn't affect my being one bay away. Test if car park was empty. I come out to discover some delight had shoehorned themselves into the empty bay beside me also I a massive car. As I get closer I can see they have kids. I also see that the door is flung open and hitting my door !!! I gave him such a look of "what the hell are you doimg ?) luckily my car wasn't damaged but why the feck would someone do that? It wasn't a child/ disability space so it made no sense that he struggled to get in while passing other empty spaces to get to the most awkward spot. Am I being weird for thinking this was weird lol?

People who bimble around in a busy area have a special place in hell.

First big work event since 2020. Had forgotten that grown adults feel the need in a 45 minute session to constantly glug from water bottles.

People smoking right outside the exit of a supermarket, so you have no choice but to go through the cloud of their exhaled stench. I wish supermarkets would ban smoking on the site.

Anyone who buys/breeds brachycephalic animals, be it cats, dogs, rabbits. Fucking disgusting. Did you not want an animal that can breathe, no? Wankers.

Owners who let their dog bark endlessly when they're in the house and could easily call them in from the garden. Mine get hauled in if they bark because it's ANNOYING!

Family in Aldi-2 grown up sons, they were both at least 6ft4, as was dad, all stopping to exclaim over products all the bloody well round Aldi. They weren't English, so maybe they've never been to an Aldi, I'm probably similar when abroad, but ffs! I only wanted a few bits!

This probably isn't fair - because I don't THINK they can stop... - but people who sort of whistle when they say an "s" sound.

I'm sure I read somewhere once that a particular kind of brace makes it happen, but honestly it's all I can concentrate on!

My first ever boss did it and she was a total dick (unrelated) but it's affected my view of teeth whistling S-pronouncers forever!

When you're walking along a footpath and try to pass someone who is standing still, and they start walking in the same direction as you just as you walk past so you're walking awkwardly side by side.....WHY?!?!

Is it just me that gets so irrationally angry at people invading my personal space like this?!

People who use the word hack when they mean tip.
People who say 'Could of' it's could have.
Anyone who drops litter.
People who beep their horns when leaving somewhere-why?

The car park thing drives me nuts.

We had doggo in the car a few days ago, quite hot and needed to nip in to the supermarket for some dinner stuff. DH parked right at the back of the car park in a completely empty row. DH nipped in the shop while I stayed in the car

I opened the back doors - we were parked at the end so one door was open over an empty flowerbed. Someone insisted on parking in the space next to us, so I had to get out and close the other door. The rest of the row (15 spaces or so) was completely empty, plus about half of the rest of the car park. Of course, they’re entitled to park there, etc, etc, but why? What was the point?

The irrational thing that really gets my goat, is people standing in front of benches. Sit down, or move out of the bloody way. Don’t block the bench for other people.

Able bodied people or they've just got loads of shopping using the disabled/priority seating on the bus. Then just watching me struggling on with walking sticks.

I have a colleague who uses words that she clearly doesn't understand the meaning of, some she can't even pronounce correctly. It makes me absolutely seethe as she refers to the male prostrate gland or the lickle baby she'd seen early in clinic.

My DP's narration of the weather - if its not blue cloudless skies, blistering sunshine, and 25C heat beating through the windows, he'll say "It looks cold".

It annoys me on multiple levels.
Firstly, he says it in a way which is half-asking me about the temperature like I'm some kind heat diviner. This'll be at 7am when we've both just got up, I haven't been outside and he's stood right by the backdoor out of which he can very quickly poke his fat head. Why the fuck would I know the temperature?!

Secondly, related to this, his half-asking tactic is a veiled question about what he should wear - does he need a jumper, a jacket, a hat gloves, shorts etc. I don't know because (as above), I haven't been out in it. But I also don't know because I'm not him, I don't experience the world and its temperatures and climates in the same way that he does. Stick your nut out the door, find out the temperature, then decide on your attire.

Thirdly, it suggests that there are only two temperatures - hot or cold. If it doesn't look boiling hot, for DP, it must be cold. Not mild, not temperate, not a little bit chilly, not warm, not warm-ish. Nope, hot or cold. This irritates me. Immensely.

Finally, he's relying purely on visuals but temperature/weather/climate is a multi-sensorial experience. Just because there are a few clouds and the sun's not beating down doesn't mean its not hot. Similarly, a cloudless sky with bright sun can happen in the middle of winter but you wouldn't assume it was 'hot' (well, DP probably would).

Spam calls. Half an hour ago I was cuddling my daughter and my mobile number rang. The number was from Edinburgh. I knew it was spam but answered anyway...

Me: hello?
Caller: hello
Me: hello
Caller: hello
Me: 😳
Me: how can I help you?
Caller: hello ma'am
Me: so are you going to tell me why you're calling or are we going to say hello to each other for the next half hour?
Caller: hello. I'm calling from AMD (or something?) Insurance
Me: aaaaand...?
Caller: how are you today?
Me: too busy for stupid calls like this one.

At that point I hung up.

A lisp?

People who stop in awkward palces to check their phone or have a conversation.

People looking at their phones instead of where they're going. I've sometimes stopped and moved to one side, hoping they'd walk down the middle of the pavement. They walk into me instead.

This made me laugh out loud!!

Which brings me in to people who ask how I am. I’m tempted to say ‘dying actually’. That would shut them up. Why do people pretend to care? It’s such a waste of time and effort.

Indeed. If I know it's spam and the caller asks me how I am, I often reply "I was fine until you called" before hanging up.

@riesenrad

Cyclists who "ding" me on a wide path telling me to get out of the way, when I am already out of the way because I always walk well into the left hand side.

Haven't RTFT so somebody may have said this already, but the ding isn’t “get out of my way”, it’s “just letting you know I’m here so you don’t step across me”.

Cyclists who don’t ding on shared paths & suddenly whoosh past, esp when you’ve got wayward small children with you, are my bête noir 🤣

(Also people who don’t know their R from their L so stop at roundabouts until nothing is coming.
Also people who don’t indicate when they’re turning off a roundabout.)

People who press the crossing button before they’ve looked to see if there’s any traffic at all. Idling at said crossing light because moron has already crossed as there was no traffic.
University students waiting to cross an empty road because they are waiting for the beeps. I would not give them a job if they didn’t have the common sense to know how to cross a road safely on their own.

When you're in a shopping centre or a street with shops and the person in front of you just stops dead to look at something in a shop window, causing you to almost collide with them.
In fact, shopping centres give me murderous thoughts before I even get there, hence I avoid at all costs.

People holding their knife like a pen to eat.
Hanging full dog bags in trees and shrubs.
Not indicating before turning, even though you can see me waiting to cross. Or just randomly swerving off the road.

University students waiting to cross an empty road because they are waiting for the beeps. I would not give them a job if they didn’t have the common sense to know how to cross a road safely on their own

maybe they're foreign and aren't allowed to cross the road at home if it's not green

Haven't RTFT so somebody may have said this already, but the ding isn’t “get out of my way”, it’s “just letting you know I’m here so you don’t step across me

No it's "I am an important cyclist who needs loads of space so get out of my way". I got dinged twice by a cyclist on Saturday while way over on the left hand side of a reasonably wide towpath and I did ask her why, when there was so much space. I really dislike being "belled" - just say excuse me - but not if there's enough space to get past!

It turned out she had a dog with her, so wanted the entire towpath and for me to step aside.

I had a friend like this at school. Met up with her one morning to walk to school and she was shivering in just her polo shirt, no coat or anything. She said it looked warm because the sun was out and the sky was cloudless and blue. It was January and there was frost on the ground.

The woman who parked next to me when my DH was changing the flat tyre. Like, what the fuck, you are giving us sympathetic looks as we hoick the car up on the jack, so park right next to us in a car park with loads of other spaces available?! Batshit.

I work in a shop and there’s nothing more annoying than when some people let thier toddlers run riot and then panic and shout at us when they can’t find them. Happens more often than you’d think. Just keep an eye on your kids, especially ones under 7.

Another one is When there’s load of empty seat on a bus, and I mean like 4 people on the bus and someone gets on and sits next to you. Like why? Not gonna lie, one thing I loved during covid was no one was allowed to sit next to you on public transport.