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.

Joggers who run in the road on narrow country lanes. The verge next to them is wide enough for them to get on to when they see a car coming, but they don't. They expect me to swerve them instead. Sometimes I have to stop to let them pass, as I'm coming up to a bend and have no idea if a car is coming on the other sides. Absolute entitled f-ckers.

A colleague who always comes and sits next to me when I'm having a nice quiet lunch and chews/crunches loudly (I've never heard pasta being eaten so loudly) and breathes heavily through a blocked bogey nose, big horrible deep breathing. I absolutely dread him coming in and sitting down.

My DM who talks while eating, displaying big mouthfuls of whatever she's eating, clearly unable to finish chewing and swallowing before talking at us. It's gross.

Two food based ones!

She knows full well what it means! I think she over-emphasises the word too since I made the mistake of saying it annoyed me 🙄

Big chain cafés like Starbucks and Pret that don't have their toilets open, and pretend it's because they're broken. The sign stays on the door for months on end. Why don't they just say that despite being a global franchise, they don't want to spend money on customer comfort? Gaaargh!

No, I know the kids don't have LD as I've got to know them a bit. She is a teacher but not at their school. There are other families around who have chosen different schools out of the village for various reasons and that doesn't annoy me at all because those families are around at clubs/activities or at the playground or in the shops or cafés or out walking at the weekend. It's the fact they don't seem to enjoy living here - they're always driving off somewhere else.

They probably don’t enjoy living there. I think people would say similar things about our village but I hate it!

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The way my mum says ‘oction’ rather than auction (at every opportunity because I once told her it was annoying)

The trouble with things like this is that once you notice it you can't stop noticing it.

Don't read on if you don't want to be annoyed by something you've never noticed before.
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Some one pointed out to me they couldn't stand the way Boris Johnson says the word "to" and it really annoyed her. I'd never noticed it but sure enough next time I heard him give a speech there it was and it's a word politicians apparently say a lot.

He says it in a really perculiar way. It's not the way normal people say it ending with an ooo sound. I can't even write how he says it its so weird. It's like a short vowel closer to the start of the word tutor.

I was living an untroubled existence in this regard. Now I have yet another thing to be annoyed about that has no effect on me.

You are going to be joining my club now. It's like an annoyance version of The Game. You just don't want to ever know about it. I did warn you.

People who add a laughing emoji on a thread or a comment like "lol that's hilarious" + the poster's name so I then have to search through the thread to find the hilarious original comment. Quote Function, people!!

Perhaps she thinks the same as you? Why can't you walk in the other direction?

@iceandfireagain I DO WAlk IN THE OTHER DIEECTION IF I SEE PEOPLE WALKING ON ONE SIDE. It's a big beach with steps down to it you can easily see both directions as you walk down where people are so go in the other direction. it's how most people operate here. not my fault she hasn't got the jist of it. there could be a 10 foot gap she could walk in but no she has to walk on top of everyone else

My husband passed away last year. He was the odd one of his family. No one came to visit him, call/text him or generally bother with him at all. He spent 4 years homeless before meeting me.
The thing that gets my back up is when 'his family' have now put all over SM "when you really wanna talk to - - - - - but can't" or " how can i cope now - - - - - has gone" or " thinking of you everyday". Etc..... Changing profile photos of "you and him" (even though these are very old photos now, as you've no new ones cos you didn't see him)
WHY DIDN'T YOU BOTHER WHEN HE WAS ALIVE!!?? you are just craving sympathy from everyone. Accept you wasted 15 years not bothering with him instead of making out you had a close relationship! Maybe start by getting to know our children! We've had 3! (my MIL only lives 2 streets away)
Can't begin to say how much this angers me. 🤨🤬😠😡

When people say "with all the trimmings" when referring to a roast dinner. It's like nails down a chalkboard to me and I don't know why.

Someone I used to work with constantly said "if that makes sense" at the end of each sentence. "I told Mrs Smith you'd call her back, if that makes sense?" - Not sure that's an irrational one though, I think that would annoy most people.

Also people that text in to the radio to say they're dancing round the kitchen or some other pointless rubbish. It makes me irrationally angry.

Oh, God - yes! Using their logic, none of us could possibly know anything about the Romans, or the 1973 FA Cup final, or anything in between. Silly arses.

Me too. People seem very squeamish about the words, dead, death or died. I wonder why?

Another one, when someone is wearing a particular item and the article says, it's is a nod to her Mum, MIL, Sisters style. Whit? Really grates on me.

Worst still is people who say "Breggsit"

I always hear this as "past", your loved one is now in the past - while it's true it somehow seems more callous than "died"!

if you didn't notice that one then the way Gordon Brown breathes when he talks is really going to be aggravating.

if you didn't notice that one then the way Gordon Brown breathes when he talks is really going to be aggravating

@chaosmaker you can't miss that though - it's the weird jaw dropping tick

I share my flat with my ex 😳. He hums all the time. Reads to me from his newspaper and generally drives me mad but I can't say anything as he is very good to me. I'm not that healthy and he takes care of me. My children think I'm nasty to him. 🤷‍♀️. They should try living with him. But I'm not. Honestly.

I was talking about my brother who has always suffered with anxiety and he used to hum to make himself feel calmer. Just a thought.

My Mum pronounced vagina as vageeeena and Penis as peeeenisssss in an attempt to either sound 'posh' or less rude maybe? Argh

I’m another one that can’t bear ‘passed’ or ‘passed away’. It irritated me beyond measure if people avoided saying ‘died’ to me when my parents died.

People die. End of story. I needed no one to skirt around this fact with inauthentic euphemisms.

Recently had to have a word with myself about my cynicism when I saw various trades in over a few days replacing a supermarket toilet that had been 'out of order' for a while. The whole room was gutted and re-fitted.

@Inbetweenie993 how often do you talk about genitalia with your mum though?! 😂