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.

When I was a child my dad worked long hours and my mum couldn't drive. She bought a large sack of potatoes from the greengrocer in town who reversed his truck into our drive to deliver them on his way home that evening. We were sitting at the table eating when my father suddenly leapt from his chair, roared like a lion and belted up the drive to bang on the roof of the truck for daring to turn into our drive. He was swiftly followed by my mum who was desperately trying to stop him being incredibly rude. It was more than 40 years ago but we still laugh about it.

I do this. Then chink the spoon twice on the side of the cup after 😂

Adults using the word "yummy".

I have a colleague who talks really slowly and seriously like she is interviewing you all of the time. All conversation is serious. I also think she thinks I'm really weird any time I make a joke as she finds nothing funny 😏

Maybe a spy on the side, and it's hard coded into his behaviour

Bite to eat...

Or worse 'shall we go for a bite'

People who don’t take their shopping bags to the supermarket and either leave them in the car or don’t use them at all. I see them at their cars bagging everything there to put in the boot, or loading items directly into the boot. It has no bearing on my life but the inefficiency drives me nuts! So much double or triple handling…aaargh!

(I don’t live in the Uk and it’s not the type of place that does the Aldi speed check out thing I read about!)

This thread is
Is cracking me up , thank you 🤣🤣

People up the road (same street) have their house on the market for far too much money and I am unashamedly over invested in it 😂

People without children parking in the parent and child spots. There has never been a time when I couldn’t get a spot because of them, that I know of, it just irritates me that they don’t follow the rules.

People who don't pack as they scan on the self serve counter.

People who tap or hum

People who stand on the left on the tube escalator.

People who dither and faff about in front of the ticket machine on the tube.

Couples who walk next to each other really slowly and block half the pavement.

DH when he tries to show sympathy. It always comes across as fake.

DS who has ADHD and will repeatedly do something when he's irritated , like tap my arm.

The dog hassling me to walk him by pawing my leg.

DM moaning about parking on her road. Who bloody cares

My Dsis wittering on in a dull monologue where my only function is to listen to her absolute tripe .

My boss and his wet blanket attempt at managing.

Tea slurpers.

Colleague who licks the foil lid of her yoghurt at lunch time . I was oblivious for a long time but once I noticed it drives me
crazy- visually and auditory

Maybe people find the way you look laughable or a bit ick. You don’t think they might feel more self confident by making an effort?
Go about being bare and miserable if you like, but you're saying more about yourself here than the people you're judging.

@IglesiasPiggl a few of us have and he insists that 'both ways are right' 😂 just argh!

People who call dinner "tea". Yuck.

People who whistle unidentifiable tunes.

People who post/talk about their poxy cats (if my username wasn't a giveaway). Extra annoying is the number of posts on my local neighbourhood forum of said cat gone missing 🙄

Slow walkers, especially if they are taking up the whole pavement.

Men who have rolled up black jeans, a beanie hat and a moustache. This "I'm so edgy" look drives me fucking bonkers and is the basic (bitch) bastard equivalent.

Families/tourists during school holidays who pick the morning and evening rush-hours to travel across London, particularly if they insist their little darlings take-up a seat.

People who try and strike up conversations with strangers during queuing or travelling. My mum and MIL love doing this and it makes me cringe. Not sure why they can't just be a miserable, anti-social bastard like me.

Possibly you are my sister!

Colleague whose ring doorbell notification constantly goes off and is always on loud,

Must be birds flying past her sensor cs no one gets that many deliveries!

@Notsurewhattodo29 they aren't, they're tacky.

People on public transport who sniff constantly- blow your fucking nose is what I internally yell at them.

The nasty bastards who pull up phlegm from the deepest recesses of their lungs and spit out the contents as they walk past you 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

I do that 😬

People who call their dinner tea are just from the north, as a rule.

People taking shortcuts that save seconds rather than walking on the path.

People wearing odd socks.

People wearing leggings.

Those big hair bows some women wear and the ones you see on baby girls.

DH eating a yogurt, so much scraping and licking.

When pet owners call their pet my boy/girl or worse my old boy/girl.

I guess the puzzling one for me, is say you ask do you want to do x activity, and they say yes, but then when it comes to the activities and they are completed it transpires that they thought the idea of it was more better but don't actually prefer the activity not because it was not good just that they preferred the fantasy and would of preferred to c, activity instead etc.

It's like I can accept your perspective but then why not say that when asked

Bemused. What is wrong with “meal” and what word would you use instead?