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.

Omg there's a mum on the school run and she has a loud annoying voice that you can just hear across the entire street. And does such exaggerated arm movements too and if her child gets a certificate the whole school run hears about it.

If I tune into a colleague tapping on their computer keyboard it really irritates me to the point I want to take my keyboard and smack them with it.

slow walkers /people who stop dead at the end of an escalator or the likes

people who use parent and child bay. I wouldn’t mind if they were parked at the furthest end of the car park if it meant I could get the car seat/child in and out of the space, until you’ve been in that situation you don’t appreciate they aren’t a luxury as much as a necessity!

people who don’t thank you for letting them pass while driving/ people who don’t indicate

calling pets your babies/child- Sorry but it gives me the ick hard. Calling your parents grandparents to said pets. Double ick.

calling your child 27 months old etc. my son is just shy of 9 months old and I just throw out the nearest month he is already no idea what week I’m on - stop after about week 12.

loud chewing/holding your knife and fork in the wrong hands. Holding cutlery like you’re hacking at it.

people who send 200 1 line text messages like
hi
sorry I didn’t reply
just at the station
did that date go well?
have had a horrible day
work was just mental
😥😰😵🥴🥴

Just write the dumb message out and send. Don’t ping my phone 200 times it’s so distracting!

this thread is therapeutic! Thanks op!

I once unfollowed an acquaintance on sm because every photo she had of her and her family (husband and toddler) are always her husband and toddler looking at something else other than the camera like it's unexpected or a natural pose or the back of their heads and her always gawping into the camera close up, like a selfie and with a stupid smug looking smile. It honestly just made her look like a deranged woman following a poor dad and his baby around taking selfies with them just getting on with their lives.

The email/photo thing is so annoying! It means you can't even search for it later as there isn't any text. Grr.

American politics especially Trump and the Republicans.

I am English, live in the UK and have never even been to the US.

I'll give you that babies are generally clean but once they can move, children ARE dirty every day IME 😬

I also have a phone issue

Someone whose phone rings constantly at work and who also takes personal calls

Ringtone is a very very well known song

I have bitten my tongue MANY times

A friend of mine who posts on Facebook often about things she's done or have happened and they have to relate to how rich she is and money ... does anyone really care ?? She has no life doesn't go anywhere expect work yet she believes everyone is jealous of her ... why I will never know

Whistling. Especially that tuneless torture. If you absolutely must whistle then for the love of God, do the Archers tune or Robin Hood or something!

Meow! I have a full face of make-up and it takes me 10 mins. It makes me happy, it is my look. I get a great response from it but if anyone secretly finds it laughable then that's on them and their insecurities.

Oooh I was trying to think what annoys me and this reminded me. Is the vixen still on it? I haven't watched it in ages and I used to get really irrationally angry that her thing is to breathe on her glasses and then put them straight on. Like you're meant to be super intelligent woman! Why are you fogging up your glasses before putting them on? It's actually annoying me again just typing this.

I have a colleague who always uses the word ‘abreast’.

‘Thank you for keeping me abreast’, ‘Please keep me abreast’, ‘I’ll be sure to keep you abreast’.

I hate it so much

The phrase "reach out" to mean contact. It makes me think of desperate arms trying to escape some awful situation.

People with Ring doorbells because they're always so loud you can hear the ring doorbell from the detached house next door in the deepest recesses of your own home.

Stop announcing to the entire neighbourhood you've had a delivery and TURN THE BLOODY THING DOWN!!

My ten month old's insistence on grinding their teeth.

People who seem to think every cat without a collar is lost or a stray and constantly post about them on their local Facebook group.

Male colleagues who are older and (apparently) more experienced than me but still their hand held to do the simplest of tasks.

DH's ability to fall asleep at the drop of a hat.

When my children say they are going to ‘search up’ something. It’s ‘look up’ or ‘search for’. ‘Search up’ just sounds wrong to me.

People who book a taxi to take them home on a night out, before they have even gone out.

Restaurants who ask you to pre book food for a large party

People who cannot say anything and something correctly, but instead anythink and somethink. Also clearly saying would of and should of. It makes me want to scream.

There's a woman on our local But Sell Swap FB who charges way too much for old toys and games. Like $40 for a used version of monopoly. And $20 for a used child's book. She's always re-listing (not selling? I wonder why!?).

My mil pronounces the L's in tortilla

There's a small war vets memorial garden I ealk past on my way to work. Its close to a massive park, towpath and lots of streets.
It has signs saying no dogs allowed, but there is one man who walks his dog in there.
He could walk it in the other places mentioned but chooses this as it's secluded and possibly thinks he's dog is special. Gives me the rage!

I have a colleague who is annoying as fuck in MANY ways but the worst thing is when another colleague says hello to her she replies in a toddler voice and says hewwo instead of hello.

Non-Americans using “Americanisms” I have no idea why it irritates me it just does

haha 😂 just reading this drove me nuts!

@AtrociousArtichoke aargh I’d have punched her teeth in by now! (not really)

You are a more patient person than me 😂