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

[gettingolderandgrumpier]

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.

Why is poor LindorDoubleChoc getting so much stick for her post about heavily made up women??
I want to say to anyone who has a go at her, ‘ You have completely missed the point of the thread you humourless, stick-up-your-arse thicko!’
But I absolutely LOVE this thread. So many funny posts.

Lol. This reminds me of a (not very bright) young friend many, many years ago who was telling me about her new job. She said ‘I angle all the letters.’
i thought how do you do that? I was bemused thinking she had to measure them or put them in the filing cabinet in a certain way. A few seconds later I realised she meant she had to ‘handle’ the letters. 🤣

Yes, I hate this, too. I want to say to the man ‘Hope it’s not too painful when you push that baby out of the end of your penis.’

I’m laughing at myself because I do this! 🤣👍

Oh yes! An old colleague used to talk all.of.the.bloody.time about his time in that fictional land of Africa. He never specified where he was, which was all the more interesting. Except the whole team was white bar me; and we were located in Europe/ Eastern Europe. Oh eff off. He would also change his marriage ring from his right hand to his left hand whilst he and I were in conversation and turn every bloody work chat into a UK history lesson. So glad not to have him to work with anymore.

People who take every opportunity to palm their kids off to grandparents etc then claim that the kids are their “absolute world”.

People who take pointless photos for Facebook that just so happen to have their new/fancy house, car, kitchen, in the background.

At work when you’re one minute late for a zoom/teams/Skype call and someone dials you onto it.

🤪😂😂😂 Love this!

Nope, I just love how it looks.

People who constantly boast about how clever or beautiful their child is 😡 They don’t seem to realise that we all think our own children are beautiful. A colleague reminds us on an almost daily basis how stunning her daughter is, gets right on my nerves!

People who do monologues instead of conversation.

People who give you a breakdown of every little detail of their day instead of just getting to the important/ funny bit etc.

People giving TMI about their cold like 'I was bringing up lots of mucus' 🤢🤮

Got loads more but those sprung to my mind.

Oh my gosh. I keep correcting my 2 dc. I didn't even consider language evolution. 'Search it up' just seems grammatically incorrect and gets my goat eveytime they say it.

Women who have to have their partners with them shopping. These b old men hang about in shops, getting in my way, or sitting on the only available seat, because these women couldn't be bothered to learn to drive.

This. The same people will try to correct you when you say, "Can you send the email to John and me?"

I have mine in one of them.Stops it breaking when I drop it.

Someone at work brings chopped ham in to balance on a cracker. They lift the chopped ham and it gets on their fingers and then falls on the floor and it's stressful to watch. I did ask one day.. Why is it all chopped and flakey thinking it was a way of saving after cuts from the week.
But she said she deliberately cuts them up!

Rather than dealing with one piece of ham on a cracker she deliberately cuts it up!! She does this to herself!!

People in work who wait all day for me to make myself a hot drink then all pile on saying ‘oh you’re making a round are you, go on then I’ll have one.’ This only annoys me so much because the people who do this NEVER make a drink for others. This means that there’s usually a 5/6 person round for me to make.

I have purposely not made one all day to see if anyone breaks and makes their own and they don’t!

It’s so petty but my blood runs hot at the thought of it.

Although having said that, I feel I’ve missed the point of the thread because that does directly affect me!

Last one but someone mentioned tea stirring so I have to say this. My Mums husband whisks his tea like he’s making scrambled egg. It’s so aggressive and loud. He then finished the spectacle by tapping the spoon on the edge of the mug roughly four times to announce the end.

This one is going to be controversial and I may hide after…. But people’s obsession with bloody tea! And the assumption that everyone drinks it. And people looking at you like you have 3 heads if you say don’t drink tea.
Tea is fine. I don’t hate it, but I’d never deliberately seek out a cup of tea. There are far nicer drinks around.
There, I said it.

I’ve said this before on other threads but DP will pick up a bowl or tub of something – let’s say hummus, with its cardboard sleeve that says “hummus” on it, and go “What’s this, hummus?” while stirring it by prodding it around with the BACK of his spoon, like a sociopath. No matter if it’s something homemade and nicely presented, and doesn’t need fucking stirring, there he is with the back of the spoon, asking “What’s this, salad?” Monstrous.

People who take themselves so seriously as if they are much more deeply profound than others. I cross paths with academics in my job..

Hahah yes this!!!

People who comment on handbag threads to shame the OP for spending her own money on something she wants and can afford.

A friend and her sister, let’s say their surname is White, refer to their Christmas celebrations as ‘the White family Christmas’. They also refer to their daughters as ‘the girls’. Never by their names. Always, I’m doing this ‘with the girls’. We’re taking ‘the girls swimming’. ‘I’ve invited Mum, Dad, Elaine, Mark and the girls.’ Has no bearing on my life but I find it so irritating.

You can refuse. Sex Matters website has info on your legal right to refuse.