Your everyday minor annoyances.

[WildRosie]

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.

Those boxes that the liquid tabs for washing machines come in. You have to push both sides in and pull at the same time - how? I usually end up sticking a knife it it. Have changed to powder now as they piss me off so much, and I think its better for your machine anyway

People who buy scratch cards one by one in shops they stand check their results then ask for a number 1 or 2 and meanwhile a huge queue builds behind them and said card buyers nearly always do this during work lunch hours when by their appearances they are retired and could have all day to buy cards

People who takes ages to choose from a menu. They cant decide between two things and ask the rest of the group. The rest of the group give them an answer. They still dither. The waiter is waiting. Jesus god, have the bloody salmon, it's not that deep...

When I need to ask my mum something but I can't because she's dead.

Like, today, I need to know what year she got the Kenwood chef, because I always believed she got it when she moved into her first house, but today looking for the model number, it can't be any older than 8 years after that! But I can't check with her for confirmation.

Shoe labelling. I like a leather insole, very often the 'inside' symbols will be leather and manmade but you can't tell which bit is which.

Those squeezy yogurts like frubes for kids lunvhboxes, that children cannot open.

I worked in a school and there was not one child who could actually open them. With the rip stripes that dont rip, and that they have to hold the tube tight enough to tear without then squirting the yogurt over their hands, their jumper, other children.
I knew kids who would just gnaw into them to avoid them bursting everywhere.
Kids would ask us to open them and I would have to open 25 of the bastard tuves every day.

And jars that have really round bits under the lip - so you can't get your knife in to get the last bits of chocolate spread out!!

It’s to stop the liner getting stuck in the bin when you empty it. The holes prevent the vacuum. I empty my bin a lot more than wash it, and I’ve never had one with holes, so I’m a bit jealous that your bin designer is a better designer than any of mine have every been!

Because MN has historically not had a qquote function

Bloody ditherers. You've lived inside your own head all your life - how can you not know what you do/don't like FFS?

People who can't let you light heartedly vent minor annoyances on threads without commenting on how everyone should cheer up and stop complaining. Luckily none on this thread so far!

Clothing / shoe sizes. Why aren't they standardised?

@OldEvilOwl

it took me a while of getting SO frustrated, but I found a solution...

I open them once & then rip the lid off!

I can't stand the mess powder makes in the drawer.

People who stand in doorways.
People who don't say thank you after you hold a door for them or let them out of a junction when driving.
General rudeness - not saying thank you and please.
People sniffing.
People cracking their knuckles.
General selfishness.
Pepe putting empty juice cartons or milk cartons back in the fridge.
Not refilling the loo roll when you use it.
The kids saying 'in a sec' when I ask them to do anything 🙄
People not listening.
On a train, people on their phones or listening to music without headphones in.

Quite a lot of things! 😂

(((HUG)))

there are things I want to ask my Dad, but now can't either xx

I'm trying to ask my Mum loads of stuff, without making it too obvious I'm asking her before she dies!! & without making her to dad about my Dad not being here, everytine we talk .

When I use my sewing machine but I’ve left the thread too short when I start sewing and it whips up inside the machine and I have to re thread it. It drives me insane, out of all proportion to the actual occurrence.

@SylviasMotherSaid used to work in a convenience store and that was one of my biggest pet hates. That and someone trying to pick numbers on separate tickets. Usually tended to be pensioners or unemployed people buying them.

People who stand by the exit doors or at the bottom of the stairs on the bus. Or who crowd round the train doors on the Tube/Overground platform when I'm trying to get off - I just barge into them when I'm feeling particularly impatient. And those who walk towards me in pairs or more, taking up the whole width of the pavement; I am not invisible, neither am I going to move into the gutter.

@Floogal its so frustrating and I have one of those faces where I really try hard not to look impatient but I’m afraid it shows anyway . Honestly wish there was a scratch card counter especially when you are clock watching on your lunch and just need a sandwich or water

Whistling. STFU!

People walking really slowly in shopping centres like they are promenading down a seafront on holidays.

Sitting on someone else's splashes of wee on a toilet seat which you didn't see when you scanned it.

Knickers that give you a wedgie when you start walking anywhere

Shop assistants who ask "are you alright' (I'm good thanks!) instead of 'may I help you'?

Coffee that is weak or bitter.

Your OP made me think of one. Not every day but twice weekly when I take dd to the library for toddler group, one of the kids table legs just collapses in on itself when dd leans on it even slightly. Every time I think why haven't they fixed this fucking table yet.
I mention it occasionally but it's still the same.

Also whenever I am rushing out the door in the morning I always get the pocket of my coat or hoodie caught in the door handle/cupboard door handle. Argh infuriating.