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Your everyday minor annoyances.

122 replies

WildRosie · 27/08/2022 11:11

Why are pub/cafe/restaurant tables always wobbly ? I have a knack of finding them. I'm going to start going out armed with folded pieces of paper and beer mats, just in case.

OP posts:
DublinDoris2000 · 27/08/2022 13:27

People who play music on a speaker in a park or beach.
People who stub out a fag and just drop it on the floor.

Floogal · 27/08/2022 13:29

People who read your messages but don't reply, but later send you game requests or forwards. Like you're supposed to be grateful.

People who park on the pavement.

Nice guys and white knights.

harrystylesbeard · 27/08/2022 13:30

When you hold the door open for some one and they walk through and don't say thanks

woodhill · 27/08/2022 13:30

Loud endless conversations on mobiles especially on public transport

MrsDrudge · 27/08/2022 13:36

People who throw litter out of car windows.

FunsizedandFabulous · 27/08/2022 13:39

Anything with a tiny extra lip on the side designed to help you open something, but you end up looking for scissors or a knife instead. Angry

woodhill · 27/08/2022 13:43

MrsDrudge · 27/08/2022 13:36

People who throw litter out of car windows.

Yes and anywhere else tbh

FunsizedandFabulous · 27/08/2022 13:44

The Lycra brigade. I'm a cyclist, but I'm the slow, steady, upright sort that wears ankle clips over their mom jeans and carries half a weeks shopping in the panniers. The Lycra brigade don't like me. I'm not quick enough. My bike comes nowhere near to their £10k graphite grey Boardman show off bikes and their f*cling helmet cameras. Wankers, all.

ThisIsMyHappyFacee · 27/08/2022 13:45

People

iklboo · 27/08/2022 13:54

People at the till who appear to be completely shocked that they have to pay and spend ages rummaging in bags / pockets for their money or cards. Also on buses when they've been waiting bloody ages for it anyway.

NippyWoowoo · 27/08/2022 13:57

DublinDoris2000 · 27/08/2022 13:27

People who play music on a speaker in a park or beach.
People who stub out a fag and just drop it on the floor.

People who play music from their phone with no headphones. I was on a bus this week with one. Or people who have phone calls on loud speaker.

TigerRag · 27/08/2022 14:04

People on their mobiles, not looking where they're going, walk into me and look at me as if I'm in "their" way

Groups of people taking up the pavement who can't walk in single file and expect me to move. But where? Into the road with all the oncoming traffic?

People who don't introduce themselves when they speak. Someone who I'd never met before, responded with "don't you know who I am?" when I asked who she was.

fedupofthenonsense · 27/08/2022 14:10

Leaky tea pots! Oh the rage!!!!!

fedupofthenonsense · 27/08/2022 14:14

Or.... when there are like 50 empty tables in the staff canteen but the randomer who you don't know decides to sit RIGHT next to you.

NoMoneyHun · 27/08/2022 14:17

Aldi fridge doors here open outwards and people stand infront of them for ages. Pick something and moooooove.

Kids across the road are outside jumping on the trampoline from 7.15am until 11pm EVERYDAY. I know it's the holidays, I know he's a child and they make noise but bloody hell. His trampoline is in the front garden 😳

fedupofthenonsense · 27/08/2022 14:23

Also when people don't get that the conversation has ended, resulting in that awkward stare whilst continuing to stand in the same place.

Justleaveitblankthen · 27/08/2022 14:25

The single file walk out of Tesco's is currently excruciatingly slow. I'm not talking about the elderly either, just everyone seems to be in 'just got back from Greece & have the tan and attitude to suit' mode. Resplendent with flip flops and bermudas.. and stroll accordingly 😶

SizzlerFizzler · 27/08/2022 14:31

Definitely people stopping in a shop doorway, or at the top of an escalator, to have a little chat and a bit of a look around. Keep moving, fuckers!

torquewench · 27/08/2022 14:32

People who stop and chat in shop doorways. JUST MOVE you ignorant feckers

saltrock123 · 27/08/2022 14:39

Go to the beach nice and quiet nobody there. Go for a swim, come out of the water and some moron has set up beach chairs umbrella etc right next to you ! FFS there's a whole empty beach ! Why ??

KatherineJaneway · 27/08/2022 14:40

Driving through red lights when they had enough time to stop.

Not watching the road ahead and moving forwards when there is no room resulting in a blocked junction.

People who dither and hold others up.

Those people that won't move out of the way when the tube door opens and you are trying to get off. I once had to push through a family as they stood there like lemmings blocking the entire doors to exit the tube. I said excuse me please a few times but I am not getting stuck on a tube as they have no common sense.

LovelaceBiggWither · 27/08/2022 14:43

People who quote long long long messages that everyone has already read and add one line.

KatherineJaneway · 27/08/2022 14:47

saltrock123 · 27/08/2022 14:39

Go to the beach nice and quiet nobody there. Go for a swim, come out of the water and some moron has set up beach chairs umbrella etc right next to you ! FFS there's a whole empty beach ! Why ??

The same people who park next to you in an empty car park

100problems · 27/08/2022 14:50

The self scan devices in Sainsbury that stop working half way round the shop

Angry
100problems · 27/08/2022 14:52

Also men with rucksacks on the train that don't seem to understand the rucksack adds to their depth when they turn round Hmm

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