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.

There’s a person who’s house is next door to a theatre venue I regularly take my DD to. The venue has a car park for about 4 cars and the whole street it’s on is either double yellows or permit parking. Most people arrive to pick up and hang about for about 5 minutes max. There’s an each house has a driveway big enough for a car and also an allocated parking space outside - well I say allocated but it’s a marked space and the sign is permits only. When o tried to park in the unmarked spot parallel to the marked parking spot this woman stood at her window with hands on hips giving me dirty looks. She came and went and then came out and got in her car. She reversed off her drive so I moved back a bit further into a double yellow spot just make sure she had enough space to get out. She then parked her car where I had been waiting and went back into her house. This forced me into waiting on the double yellow I was avoiding. So she has her drive, and a marked space outside her house already but wanted the unmarked spot next to that space kept free as well!! FFS!! Public highway.

I should add that although it did effect me once it doesn’t effect me now as I avoid that spot but have seen her do it to others.

Men whistling ,rattling keys and hand in pocket rattling money .

People who queue in the supermarket with their shopping and wait for it all be packed before rummaging in their bags for their cash/card! (Much like the bus people)!

This, but also, uh- huh, ah-hah-ers.

It does actually affect me though, because I become irrationally enraged by it.

People I’ve just met who find out my first name and then use it every other word. I don’t know why but it irritates the life out of me as just seems so fake and over-friendly.

My child is has learning difficulties and having my phone occasionally in the pushchair was the only way to stop her trying to get out of screaming constantly. She has ADHD and struggles hugely to just chillllllllllllll

Please don't be so judgmental. This is meant to be lighthearted

Oh gosh that gets on my nerves too!!! I love my hubby, I really do, and we have great conversations but OMG he is NOT my best friend. I have a best friend. She is totally different.
I think it's added irritation when people post on FB for anniversary "x years ago I married my best friend ". HAVE YOU?? Really?!

@Jodielou5972 Have you never asked her why she needs a permanently wet lower lip?! I just tried it and my lower lip is freezing cold from the saliva going cold 🤢

People who ‘annoyed’ at things other people do that make them happy ie, wearing make up, wearing perfume, anything that has nothing to do with/doesn’t affect the person moaning about it. Why are you so obsessed with other people?

The man in the office next door to me (we have private offices in a shared workspace). He used to work at the other side of the open plan part and his laugh drove me insane. It sounds soooo false. I was so happy when I walked in one day to see his desk cleared. And within minutes it was right beside me 🤦🏼‍♀️

I would be point blank refusing to take part in that nonsense! It's against my personal beliefs

My husband, who I love very much, has a way of putting his hands out too soon when he's going to pick something up. I appreciate I sound bananas.

Pure evil. 😂😂😂

People who refuse to recycle their rubbish. Everything goes in the same bin. Glass, plastic, paper, food scraps. All in together.

When people start every sentence with 'so'. Why???

Omg yes!! It's so irritating and rude!

A very unpleasant work colleague that every-single-day asks everybody, one-by-one in the office what they have for lunch today ?🤯
please motherfucket… get the fxxx outa here with your meaningless small talk !!
I can’t bloody stand it but I also don’t have the courage to be honest and tell her to skip my turn and jog on…. So I normally say “nothing interesting”
Any ideas welcomed lol

Women who say their Mums are their best friends, and vice versa. No. They're not. They're your Mum/Daughter. Not your best friend! Weird.

The way my DM says 'Bournemouth'.

Oh you know, some food.

Me too with the word 'meal'. I never ever say it.

Oh, may I have a rant about one of the volunteers who insists on helping at group lunches but doesn't listen and can't seem to control herself? Last time we all got together I bought six cheeses and four baguettes. We had no idea how many were coming and so I asked her to slice one baguette and put out three cheeses on a board.

I explained that if a lot of people came in we could put the rest out but if not the cheese would store better if in its packaging. Ditto the bread. She agreed.

Turned round to do something else and when I turned back she'd sliced all the bread and opened and sliced all the cheese, too... The weather was bad and we had fewer people than normal and I had to take home all this chopped cheese and dozens of rounds of bread, rapidly drying out. She does something like this every bloody time. I find it difficult to be in the same room with her. She's so pleased with herself for volunteering but she won't listen to instructions and she leaves a wake of irritation wherever she goes.

I absolutely cannot stand people sticking out their tongues in photos. Something about it really repulses me but it seems to be getting more and more common. I'm sick of seeing photos on social media with people hanging their tongue out of their mouth like an Alsatian. Or poking out the tip. Vile.

When people say they’re going on a ‘date’ with their kids.
its just weird. You date your partner and spend quality 1-2-1 time with your kids if that’s how you want to put it