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.

People at self serve checkouts who scan their shopping and stack it on the packing bit without bagging it.

They then pay and hold the queue up while they pack it.

@DanceMonster I used to be exactly the same but I noticed I started using it without realising after I recovered from a serious illness. When I thought about it, it was because I needed a new language for describing when I felt ordinarily-unwell instead of ill-with-a-serious-illness.

I have a colleague that uses dramatic, flowery language when on the phone to customers, she enunciates everything loudly, reads back their names using the phonetic alphabet and thinks she’s Shakespeare I’m sure.
Watching her on a call is like looking at an actress on the stage - over the top facial expressions, hand gestures and the head bobbing, oh the head bobbing…
Shes loud, annoying and it’s like having a theatrical performance all day, every day. Exhausting.

That's because it confuses the bloody machine which starts randomly shouting that you're trying to steel a toothbrush because it can't recognise its been put in a bag!

Yes! It was this:
www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4748491-tedious-performative-under-eaters

Very enjoyable thread except few posters who didn't get the point. Btw. who keeps track of what work colleagues eat for lunch?! Get a life 😂

The very concept of people sending any pictures of their food to other people is something I'm old enough to find very strange and common. If you've made something fabulous, a fancy cake maybe, then there may just about be some justification but a plate of meat and two veg is totally irrelevant.

One parent complained to the school, and wanted the exam board to be informed for special consideration, becasue her daughter though my shoes made too much noise when I was invigilating. They were close fitting summer sandals, they did't flip or flop around at all or squeak.

@AffIt I didn't know about the soft return! That's very useful.

I thought I was the only person in the world repulsed by the word meal. It's horrible! 😆

Oh my word where do i start
People who walk onto an escalator and then just stop on the escalator, walk down it or keep to the right and allow people to pass
People who go to security in the airport and then appear as if this is their 1st time there, get bloody moving and be prepared
People who drive in the middle of overtaking lane

People who say their mother is their best friend - no she isn't she is your mother , she does not need to be told every detail of your life, you can have a holiday with your husband and children without your mother going with you
Stupid people i work with who cant work anything or wont help at all, they deem themselves too good or to important to do anything
Business who show personal stuff on their social media, no i don't want to see your children or you swimming - this is a business page, show business only, your private life is private
People who wear pajamas outside of the house
People who automatically get into their pajamas when home even though its only 3pm in afternoon, same applies to dressing gowns. Pyjamas are for bed
Biggest bugbear is people who get electric gates and then no buzzer to ring to get in, same applies to people who never answer their front door
Local women where i live who always walks with her dog on the nearly empty beach where i walk my dogs , instead of going the other direction to stop her dog driving my dogs mad, why ?? Why cant you walk in the other direction ?

But you're judging them too 😂

People who park outside my house engine on scrolling like they are hypnotised

people who pierce their kids ears

women I know who work full time,do all the family admin & kids stuff, all the emotional stuff and cooking etc, then call their fella their king cos they simply exist and stay with them

people who let their dog poo on ground without cleaning ( very common where I live)

The list goes on and on

@Gingerlygreen they actually have signs up saying not to do this now in my local supermarket as it drives the machines mad, you leave it in the side pay then pack.

When people talk smugly about their neurotypical child/children going to school every day as though it's this big proud achievement and they're going to be Einstein. And I don't mean when it's their first day or something, it's usually reserved for 7/8/9 year olds, and even worse when they then rave about every little thing of non-outstanding academic success- usually something along the lines of 'tommy got a gold star this week for bringing his teacher a book when she asked him to, so proud of the little man'. Like oh please give it a rest, so your child managed to conform and sit in a room all day, get a grip. Bothers me because they're gonna give them a complex and train them into complying whatever anyone ever asks of them in the future with no understanding of why, other than it makes mummy proud.

More like 'it's in t'shed' if my late Tyke OH was saying it though it was usual on the proper side of the Pennines too. I'll duck now!

This doesn't annoy me but I do look down on the people who do it, unless it's something genuinely funny or related to the car - & it has to be instantly recognisable, not forced like the one I saw the other day. It was squished up & spread out as you describe, & it took me ages to realise the owner thought part of it said 'BOOBS'.🙄It didn't, it really didn't.

Someone near me has a numberplate which is almost the make of their car, except one letter's missing (e.g. but not 'Renalt'). I always hoped they'd come back to their car while I was there so I could say, "Hey, our numberplates are similar!" & when they said, "No they aren't," I'd say, "Well, mine doesn't spell Renault & neither does yours."

But it doen't annoy me. No siree.

People who share their meal plans and 'prep' on Instagram/FB every day, as though they're a huge influencing nutritionist, and really think they're teaching others, and it's usually just some very uninspiring peas or broccoli, a bit of plain pasta and some chicken. Like 'yes, well done you've managed to balance your carbs, veg and protein like we learned in year one, but you're not inspiring me'.

It’s Rylan, not Ryland. And isn’t his birth name Ross?

Anyway, he’s a national treasure 😂

Absolutely fine to call a cat a princess... mine is "Mammy's little princess"
Not fine to call a child a princess!
I don't like "my little man" either to describe a son

A lot of people from the North exaggerate their accent, it's the reverse of the 50s and 60s when they would have had to hide their accent! I recall sitting a table in a restaurant and a very well know Yorkshire cricketer was on the next table speaking in a mild Yorkshire accent but when he was on TV he was the archetypal Ee bah gum Yorkshire stereotype.

East End and Estuary English, one of the many reasons I have never watched Eastenders or Fools and Horses, incomprehensible tripe.
People who say they have no accent, everyone has an accent, some are less pleasant than others, depending on where you're from.

This made me laugh also I be tempted to look at her blankly and say who is Betty do I know her?

I don't like people referring to their pets as furbabies, even when the cats or dogs are quite elderly.

😂