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.

People who use the self-service checkouts in supermarkets, scan a bunch of items, pay and only then pack the items into a bag, always one by one and super slowly. Clearly they should scan-and-pack as one smooth, efficient movement instead of taking double the time to do such a simple task.

People who park right next to your car in an otherwise empty car park. Cannot for the life of me work out why people do this and it annoys me irrationally.

My local farmshop restaurant for making the best sausage rolls in the entire world and only having them on the menu sporadically and with no warning so it's always a guessing game as to whether you'll get one or not when you visit 😁

Twatty teenagers around here who scream all the time, I have come to hope they are in fact being murdered, sadly I think its the mating call.

Another one, whilst I’m on it. People who park in disabled bays without a blue badge. I listened to this chav (Bran if you must know) ranting on TikTok about how there were no Parent and Child Spaces in Asda.

As she was ‘only going to be a minute’ yeah right she parked in a disabled bay and went in. She was then most annoyed when someone was filming her car when she got back out and challenged her for parking there. I mean, what a fucking hypocrite!! Not having a parent and child space is a nuisance but for someone in a WAV who needs to get their wheelchair out, they may have had to leave Asda if there were no spaces available because of her selfish actions. My blood was boiling watching that video. People are so self centred and entitled.

@HangerLaneGyratorySystem - she's really just asking why YOU don't love her when everyone else does... she can't work out where she's going wrong.

colleagues (one in particular) who has young children (1 in school, 1 in pre-school )
always coming in late, huffing, banging her stuff down, stomping around, every meeting has to revolve around her schedule, as if she's the only working mother on the planet.
and when I need time off for an appointment, it's like I don't matter
grrrrrr
that feels better!

I get you but I’d prefer your example to the incorrect use of ‘myself’ arghghghggh 😡

Marry your best friend if you like them so much 🤷‍♀️ DH is my best friend and I’m never going to be made to feel ashamed of that by you or anyone else. The last person who eye rolled as me when I said that DH was my BF and her boyfriend wasn’t her BF split up from her boyfriend 3 months later. No surprises there.

My DH often ends a sentence with a 'so' hanging and it really annoys me. So...what?

He also puts empty drinks cartons in the general rubbish bin, despite me reminding him time and again that they go in the recycling. The bins are right next to each other FFS!

On FB, the people that ask you to share some frequently shared post about cancer or Samaritans or such like, and put "I think I know which of my friends will share it". I like to decide for myself if I think something is worth sharing, and won't be guilted into sharing something.

People taking the Internet personally and merailing.

I reckon the 'why' is because he's trying to avoid making it obvious that he's taking a non work related call in the office. It's annoying, though, because it's still obvious! Might as well just get the conversation over concisely and return to work rather than faffing about communicating ineffectuvely...

People who stir hot drinks and then hit the rim of the cup with the teaspoon.
Stir, stir, ding, ding.

Arrrgghhh this is awful!

People who refer to breasts as ta tas

Women who take their husband shopping and they clearly dont want to be there, getting in the way!

The way my mum eats her cereal when she stays. I have to stay upstairs. That spoon gets cracked off the side, noise a buoy makes in the sea.

Colleague refers to teenage son as "the wee man" she is talking to you but looking at everyone else who is in the vicinity. Takes over every conversation on any topic and turnd it on to some pish that's unrelated but all about her. Talks through her teeth then a tinkly laugh while making her tits jump up and down if there's a man there. I want to shove her in a cupboard!

They park their one car in their huge double garage anyway, not like they ever even have it on the drive (and never go anywhere in it if they can help it so if we go anywhere together we have to all squeeze into our car - which is clearly fine to get scratched or damaged/ unlike theirs).

If they DO absolutely have to go somewhere in their car, they insist on parking in the furthest most abandoned corner of the car park/ somewhere else entirely to minimise chances of another vehicle coming anywhere near it. That doesn’t really qualify for this thread though as it does directly affect me in that it’s a trait DH has inherited and last time we went to the seaside (in winter - it was bloody freezing) we basically parked in the next town along then did the hour walk in with a pram refusing toddler because he has internalised the message that there’s something inherently wrong with parking near to your actual destination. The actual resort town we were aiming for was deserted, with plenty of parking as it happens.

Another colleague one - a Partner at the firm I work at always puts in emails "please may you find this for me", "please may you get this document scanned", etc. At least it's polite I suppose!

Slurping hot drinks. Gives me the rage

People who post photos of their bog standard Sunday roast on FB, especially if it looks like it’s straight out of Aunt Bessie’s. Nobody wants to see your frozen Yorkshire puddings and piles of grey beef, thanks!

People who write ‘Gawjus hun, you look stunning!’ beneath selfies of other women on SM.

My stepson eating his cereal with a teaspoon, 3 cornflakes at a time, and slurping the milk. I have to leave the room.

When you ask someone a question but they just ask you a set of questions in response - and then at the end of the conversation, they've walked off and you realise they STILL haven't answered your bloody question...

The fact gas prices are so high, Shell etc are making criminally insane levels of profits and no-one can do anything about it. You can mispronounce as many words as you like AFAIC, but this gives me the absolute rage. I'm getting angry again just writing this.

Men who refer to themselves as boys. I've been a naughty boy. My boss used to do this. I had to leave the room

@JimmyHalpert yes! My DP and his family refer to his DS as ‘little man’ - they use in preference of his name, so say he’s walking ahead somewhere and he needs to come back, they’ll call out “LITTLE MAN!” instead of using his actual name. He’s 8. I hate it, and refuse to join in

Omg I write ect... 🫣🫣

People who cast judgment on my lunch. I had one particular colleague who would comment on every single lunch I had.

‘Ooh look at you having tuna sandwich for a second time this week! I couldn’t possibly eat the same thing so often, how do you bear it?’ - because I like tuna..

‘It’s tomato soup today is it? Trying to stay off the bread?’ - nope, no hidden meaning, I just fancied soup…

People who can't cook.
It has zero impact on my life, but I'll be thinking to myself "come on, get it together you useless article!"
I have a friend who's raised two kids to adulthood and can't even throw together a basic spag bol, so the whole family lives on convenience food.
Internally I feel deep judgement and rage, but of course keep that to myself!