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 who refer to their spouse/partner as their best friend. Sounds narrow and like they have an imbalanced life. It's okay, nobody will think you love your partner any less if you happen to have a real best friend. Eye fricking roll. I expect it from teenagers, not adults. It's embarrassing.

Very 'girly' women. You know, all light & fluttery, childlike voice, obsessed with cosmetics & celebrity romances, giggles, bathes men in an unwavering glow of awestruck attention.

I know I'm being unreasonable! I've spent a lifetime learning how to socialise with adult girls, and think I manage to hide my irritation, but I still make as quick an exit as possible. Can't help feeling they're letting the side down - even if it really is just their personality.

I do my make up every morning and spend hours cleaning every day 😂 sorry

@LivingNextDoorToNorma: He’s out there pulling his car onto the front by about 830am, everyday without fail (then grumbles like hell when it gets to 8pm and he’s forgotten to move it back).

😂😂😂 Comedy gold.

@RuppyDa even when they have it on there phone, they never have the app open and ready to go, so still hold everyone up.

People who PARK in the Pick up/Set down bay at my local Tesco.
I don't need to use the bay, and it doesn't prevent me from getting past to park elsewhere.
But it still gets on my wick! Why?

Similar to above, we have a woman at work that regularly sends all staff emails unnecessarily and refers to herself in third person, but seems to alternate between her name and initials.
Eg….
Carol spoke to the student about why he was late and he told CA that he slept in whilst eating a mcflurry in front of Carol.

3/4 of these emails never needed to grace my inbox, and it took me far too long to work out that she was both Carol and CA - we have others with the same name and some with the same initials so I always thought she was emailing about other teachers.

Do you understand what this thread is about and have you read the thread title?

nothing IRL.
I have a long list of annoying things MNers do, though, lol

I have a friend who hums to herself a lot and it drives me bonkers. The worst thing is that after spending a holiday with her I now hum to myself and can’t stop 😩😩

Oh this by the bucket full ! I get 4 buses every week day and it happens at least once a day

My colleague who uses the phrase "ya get me" as punctuation in everything she say. She ends every sentence with it. In team meetings I make an estimate of how many times she'll say it and silently keep count. Current record- 74 times over 5 hours.

Everything about Kay Burley. Why shes always pissed/cluless yet has kept that job for so long. How uncomfortable and embarrassing she is to watch.
I could just never watch her but shes always bloody on.

Oh I know someone that says 'I / they / he / she ' turned around a d said '

I always think why the hell were you not facing the person you were talking to or why have you just turned your back on them and continued to talk .
And they say it so often I think why are you not dizzy ? !

Or their best friend.

People on social media who constantly boast about their rich lifestyle like their new 'Range Rover' and expensive items. Makes my skin crawl. It's not even jealousy I find it embarrassing to boast about it

A guy I sit next to at work sometimes gets calls from his wife and he acts like they are discussing something so top secret to the extent that he basically refuses to actually speak. He answers the phone, not kidding, by going 'hmmm?' and then it's like he's playing the 'yes/no' game while he tries to avoid saying anything that anyone could overhear.

The thing is, he has the volume on his phone quite loud, so often I can hear the wife's side of the conversation anyway. It's always something banal like what should they have for dinner and he's all covering the mouthpiece and going 'the first one you said, yes, that one' to avoid saying 'shepherds pie' in earshot.

No idea why but it drives me nuts!

I know someone who touches her tongue to the corners of her mouth every time she speaks.

So 'I'm just grabbing a tea' - tongue dart left, tongue dart right.

She obviously can't help that she's developed an odd habit but every time it makes me track the tongue and think about lizards.

A colleague who to talk through every detail of a task they’ve completed to anyone who’ll listen when it’s very day to day stuff. And adds ‘I think I’ve done a great job with it’.

People who celebrate Christmas during Advent.

people wearing those plastic or pleather trousers that look like bin liners.

Neighbours who have friends over and stand OUTSIDE their house IN THE ROAD chatting to them, loudly, yelling at other people up the street.

Why can’t you go inside your fucking house??

…that felt better.

My next door neighbour has family that walk past her house 2/3/4 times a day. I'm not sure whether she works from home or doesn't work but it's any time if the day. They will stand on the end of her drive shouting her. She will go to the top stairs window, open it and they chat. She never comes to the door / they never walk to the door. Both have dogs so they both bark at each other. I can't really hear what they say but they constantly laugh. Don't get me wrong I wish I was more like them as they sound happy but the constant shouting every day for 5 years drives me mad.

My in laws have a chain across their driveway and then spend their lives worrying about whether they’ve taken the chain off because they’re expecting someone, or rushing out to put it back on again as soon as someone leaves.

Much like a pp, a delivery driver ONCE used their driveway to turn round in about 10 years ago and they’ve never got over the shock of it. They live on a quiet cul-de-sac of about 6 bungalows, there is ample room for anyone to turn round without troubling their driveway and apart from other residents they probably get about 2 vehicles a week going down there. And even if anyone did do the unthinkable and use their driveway again - does it really matter enough to justify the endless bloody conversations about ‘the chain’.

It annoys me so much.

People who put the massive head bows on their baby's head/ try and tie the little girls 3 strands of hair up.