What annoys you about someone that has no effect on you whatsoever but still irritates the hell out of you.

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a colleague will not put her phone on silent ( in case of emergency) but will leave in her bag and every times it rings and it’s often a cold call she will leap in the air in panic to turn the phone off .
I’ve said leave it on vibrate , leave it on your desk so you can turn it off quicker but no . She never answers it and grumbles that it’s cold calls .
I’m not bothered about the phone ringing but this leaping up in panic and a mad scramble for her phone makes me want to hit her with her daft phone .
why not leave on your desk or stop panicking every time it rings I don’t get it .
i know it has no effect on my life but I’m worried she may have a panic induced heart attack ( I’m joking ) .
share with me lighthearted irritations that you have.

I wear make up and keep a clean house (and work!). Sorry! 😆

During my GCSEs the person sitting next to me in the exam hall would jiggle their foot up and down for the entire exam. I could see it out of the corner of my eye and became hyper aware of it. Very distracting and I still remember the irritation 25 years later! I realise IABU.

@TragicMuse People (my husband) who drive past 10+ parking spaces in a car park before selecting a space with no more significance than the rejected ones. It's not to go to the back, or to a regular favourite area. I don't know why he does it. Frankly, it's weird and annoying

I'm married to one of these, the more spaces in a car park, the longer it takes him to decide on where to park, and it usually ends up next to another car, no where near where we are going

People who call children 'sexy' - my MIL did this with my son when he was a baby and it made me rage...

People who feed their kids in supermarkets with stuff they've picked off the shelf, not brought in with them. Makes me angry wondering if they're going to bother paying for the eaten food, or just teach their kids that they can do what they want

This is such a twatty mn reply.

Is he from Yorkshire 😅 that's what we all sound like

People who say “Do you know what I mean” after every sentence. Yes I do know what you mean because I am not a bloody imbecile. Also Tory politicians who have clearly been instructed to say “Putin’s war in Ukraine” at every available opportunity as the answer to every problem that afflicts our own country. Why are there no tomatoes in Tesco? “It’s Putin’s war in Ukraine, do you know what I mean”?

YES YES to people holding their knives like pencils. I was out with some very good friends last week. At one point I noticed they were all doing it and although I averted my eyes and continued to enjoy my meal I lost a little respect for them.

Any woman under the age of 80 who has her phone in one of those wallet style cases that open up.

Gosh my DH does the parking thing too. Went to one of those Starbucks on the motorway around 10pm, so place deserted and he goes to park at the end by the bins.
Go to the supermarket, again lots of parking spaces and he parks literally at the furthest spot.
Wants to reduce chances of being bumped into apparently.

People who say they’re “terrible” or “can’t function” when they haven’t had a good night’s sleep, and complain all day about it. Even worse when they try and justify shit behaviour (rudeness, bluntness, incompetency) by saying they slept badly.

NO ONE LIKES GETTING A SHIT NIGHT OF SLEEP.

Rant over.

My daughter and friends say “literally” in every sentence.

Had one of those, worst is you at first reply and hope about it not realising you're setting a precedent.

People who wear the wrong clothes for the weather. It makes absolutely zero difference to me if they’re too hot or cold - yet somehow it makes me want to scream and shake them.

The woman who gets her heavy winter coat out the moment it goes a bit cloudy in September (it’s still 20 degrees!) That man you always see without fail out shopping on Christmas Eve in shorts. Why?!

Embarrassing? Imbalanced? Wtf?

Every American person I witnessed in restaurants over my holiday in the last couple of weeks that could not manage cutlery.

I’ve seen it many, many times before, but it intrigues me. It’s like they have never seen a knife before and can only assume it’s for rudimentary spearing down meat onto the plate. Then the cavalier abandoning of said cutlery at the end, sometimes not even on the plate. And this was a posh hotel 😂

I know one person who has on her FB bio 'my views and opinions are mine and not those of the groups I am affiliated with'. I have never heard this person express an opinion on 15 years, and who tf cares their 'groups' are 2 craft groups and a bunch of 'mummy' bloggers.

And someone I work with says 'kind of' at the start of every sentence 'kind of yeah, did you have a good kind of weekend? Kind of did you do much?'. At first I didn't mind them, but as time progresses their very voice annoys me.

I realised recently it was me and, to my credit, have tried to change. When someone was telling me about something they'd experienced, I far too often would respond with a similar experience either of my own or that I'd heard from someone else. I'm a bit socially awkward and it was an attempt to connect and show I understood, but I came to realise how irritating it must be. When someone needs to vent a little, or if they think they have an interesting story, just let them do that and appreciate them for themselves!

Ughh yes, it turns my stomach. Similarly, "nom nom" or referring to food as "noms". Straight to jail!

A good friend of mine uses all of those but I almost cut her out of my life when she wrote in a text that she was making a "sammich" (sandwich). She is almost 40 years old 😭

. There's a particular poster on telly addicts here that does just this

I think it's meant to be cute.

People who tell you how many calories are in everything you put in your mouth because they started their new diet. Grrrr.

Oh this!! I always want to scream, 'You're making contact not carrying out a piece of performative dance'!

Plus I always hear the song by The Four Tops 'Reach out I'll be There' when anyone says it.

People who think "absolutely" is a response
People who use the word "hun" (written especially)
I used to be married to a "shorts man" now I'm married to "where will I park man" 😂

Oh and the phrases "unpack" and "critical thinking" on MN 😂

Such a cathartic thread. People saying they’re getting a drink when they mean water or a hot drink. Totally irrational of me. And the, like, expert on the, like, radio yesterday, who peppered her, like, answer, with the word “like”, so that I was, like, distracted from what she was like saying.