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 have a director who has yet to master the art of the 'soft return' in Teams messages.

I'm happily working away until:

'Hi AffIt'
'How are you?'
'I hope you had a good weekend'
'I took the dogs for a run on the common'
'X client has aske'
'Sorry, hit return too soon'
'X client has asked for X'

AAAAAAAAARGH.

I have explained countless times how to use Shift + return, but it doesn't seem to stick.

She is lovely and very good at her job in all other ways.

@wonderinglywondering Lol Cross posted

A colleague who went traveling a decade ago and talks about it non stop

People who use 'his' and 'he's' the wrong way round.

People who hold their knife like a pencil.
People with babies or small children spending the whole time on their 'phones rather than engaging with their children.
Morons leaving their engines running for ten minutes or more. Record is some halfwit locally with a diesel van and it was at least 25 minutes. Summer and winter.
Electric vehicles with Zero Emissions plastered over them. It should say Zero Emissions Here.

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People parking in any way that breaks the rules- on the pavement, on double yellow lines, in pick up bays, in P&C places without a small child or worst in disabled bays. I think it's because I am almost physically incapable of breaking rules and it feels unfair!

The way my mum stirs her cuppa. She whisks the spoon around so much that it chinks the mug 30+times (just to stir a bit of milk and sugar in). It's so bloody loud too. I swear she's going to wear a hole in the mug.
As soon as I hear the kettle on, I can feel myself getting wound up and bracing for it. Totally irrational I know, but I just can't take it.

The builders doing 2 doors down extension keep parking over our drive. DP is out and I don’t drive and they’re always gone before he’s but every time I see their bastard yellow van pull up I feel like screaming fuck off and park over the drive of the house you’re doing nobheads!

Also the car parked on the pavement at the end of the street. There’s loads of room to get past it just irritates me it’s always smack bang in the middle of the path.

Omg this reminded me of a work colleague who used to stir his tea like a maniac. No swirling in a normal circular pattern, just every which way like a fucking madman. I did tell him he was a lunatic for not whisking properly 😂

A colleague of mine has one of those small 1-cup cafetieres. He puts in the coffee, the boiling water, pushes the plunger down immediately and THEN waits for five minutes before drinking🙃

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The man who takes his car OFF his drive and parks it right outside his house ( correctly parked no dropped curb and not blocking his own drive ) so no one else can park there on school drop off an pick up... just because he doesn't like people parking there.

It's a wall. No one has ever blocked him in, he just does not like anyone parking there!

Why buy a house right opposite a school if you are that bothered about people parking there for a couple of minutes twice a day!

My friend who lost some weight recently and get into a habit to posting daily her selfie with some wannabe positive meaningful memo on social media, it's just why???🙈🙈

@BertHandsome 😂 that would wind me up too, stirring any which way, no circular motions?! My eye is twitching just thinking about it. 🤪

People referring to three and four year olds as toddlers.

I really dislike the word "meal". When someone uses it, it makes me want to prod them with a fork. Ditto "cloth".

My exmil did this and exh used to call her the salamander 😆

People who type ‘BrExit’.

The unnecessary use of capitals in Daughter and Son.

People who boast about their homes being ‘immaculate’.

Oh no, I think I would have to say something 😂

Presenters who say Er frequently during a presentation.
People who hold their forks in their fists and shovel in food.
People who sit next to you in the pub/restaurant and talk so loudly you cannot hear each other.

People who say yes, no when asked a question. So what is it yes or no or what omg. Or yeah yes no, someone on radio 2 was doing it today and I was shouting shut up at the radio. Also The Chase contestants who take so long to press the button ffs, I just can tell during the cash builder that they are going to be a fanny.

People who pace about when on the phone rocking on their heels and randomly going back and forth when in a busy area. Oblivious to getting in other people’s way. Watched a bloke do this in front of a train exit barrier today. 😑

It’s this level of sad petty behaviour that really bugs me! Our ex neighbour used to have three roller blinds in the front window. He’d do them at staggered heights so it was like steps and would do different patterns with them. I couldn’t help but glance at them every time I passed but knew it would boil my blood when I saw it 😂 GET A LIFE!!!

very tight dresses that wrinkle over the hips etc

The word meal

Colleagues that aggressively whips tea back and forth rather than stirring circularly.