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 must admit I really enjoy this thread. My new favourite is someone's mum or MIL who takes off shoes and puts bare feet on coffee table when visiting 😂What the hell.

I used to cook for my nephew but got so grossed out as he would have so much food in his mouth at one time he resembled squirrrel with cheeks filled with nuts. Sadly, his parents never taught him table manners.

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thank God, I thought it was just me growing unbearable of the world around me. Like a grumpy old woman lol

i am just like that and at the moment, apart from my own children and family, I hate everyone and other human beings. I am even thinking about working with animals as going to work surrounded by idiots every day is getting on my nerves.

great uplifting post !!! 😊😉

Misuse of words!
Pacific instead of specific is one.

My DH says "thery" (which isn't even a bloody word instead of very 😡

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My MIL says ‘wherefore’ in place of ‘whereas’. It has a completely different meaning. It also sounds as if she’s launching into a Shakespearean soliloquy.

The use of 'of' instead of 'with' appears to be acceptable now.

As in 'I'm fed up of it'. My English isn't great, but it just looks and sounds weird to me.

ALSO 'I text her', rather than 'texted'. Why does 'to text' not get treated like any other regular verb? Treat - treated. Grate - grated. Text - texted.

@herbaceous See also 'I am bias'.

Apparently other people daring to have a car number plate of their choosing REALLY annoys a lot of Mumsnetters.

I would count myself among that number. Personalised number plates are near the top of my 'nothing to do with my but still makes me unreasonably cross' list.

Also use of ‘of’ instead of ‘have’…..🙄

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People who back into parking spaces.. I just don't get it as you are not saving any time and just hold up traffic.

It’s so much easier to park and safer to exit the parking space though

But invariably, people who back into space hold up upcoming traffic. i.e. at the supermarket. Meaning, people who don't back into a space just wait until the traffic is clear therfore not holding anybody up.

SM posts captioned '...with this one'
People who start their sentence with 'I mean...'

Strange comment. Unless the parking space is enormous, you can't get in by going forwards, it just doesn't work.

Me too.

There's a You Tuber that says "fravourite" with an extra 'r'. I can just about cope. Just.

It’s likely to be easier to reverse in than reverse out. Plus I always think, take the opportunity to do the reversing while I can, the car park may be busier when I come to leave.

And if you’re talking about parallel parking, that definitely should be done in reverse.

Backing into a car space makes for an easier get away.

I’ve always had a problem with the word “meal”. It just sounds really overlong with a stretched out “meee” in it and makes me think of a basic dish like gruel, nothing delicious.

“We‘re going for a birthday meal.” Ugh.

Also, “treating” someone to something nice, as in “Mum treated us all to a meal” double horror. And those weirdos who have invented it in the past tense:

”He tret us all to cakes”.

Are they making up a word?

I also hate the word meal. I don't like the 'eel' sound and it doesn't sound like something appetising at all. Double hate for 'slap up meal'. I always think of someone eating really messily and slapping their knee when they've finished 🤣

I absolutely hate it when people talk about “putting their stamp” on a property. It really grates.

Unfortunately I also love watching property programmes so it’s a form of self harm.

“ Meal “has reminded me of the terrible expression “ Are they feeding us?” Said by an adult.
I know someone who says this in situations where there is an event that doesn’t specifically say that food for adults will be provided, such as a child’s birthday party.
Makes me see them as babies having mush spooned into them.!