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Things that make you irrationally angry

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Coldpizza2 · 20/04/2023 22:14

Just that really. Lately I've been getting seriously angry about stupid things but I can't help it. I have no patience and get furious inside! So many things piss me off. For example:

  1. The wind, I hate the stupid wind. Why is it so windy? My hair in my face, shit blowing everywhere.
  1. My bra strap falling down. Even though I'm too lazy to tighten it. Pisses me off!
  1. Dropping stuff..I keep dropping things. Spoons, tea towels, anything really. Fed up picking shit up.
  1. When the water runs up my arms when I'm washing my face. I want to claw my eyes out or smash the mirror.
  1. People who can't shut doors. Like why? It's a cupboard, is it supposed to be left open? NO
  1. Crumbs sticking to my feet! Pisss off
  1. Things that beep at me from the kitchen. "BEEP" your washing is done, better hang it up. "BEEP" dishwasher is finished, better put it away. "BEEP" oven is done.."BEEP" air fryer is done better get dinner out. Fucking BEEEEEP!

Please join me!

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AliceMcK · 20/04/2023 23:22

Sooo sooo many things

My complete memory loss and total brain fog! I’ve gone from someone who remembers every birthday date & telephone number to someone who can’t remember my kids names half the time let alone my phone number.

Constantly walking into my fucking bed, it’s bad enough my coordination is off but the horrible pointy wood ends on my bed are the exactly the same height on my legs as where I inject myself with meds every day and where my beloved dogs wagging tail whacks me every day. Who ever said being healthy wasn’t painful 😖 😢

Arrogant wankers who spoke/vape in public, especially where children are around and outside shops & restaurants. I don’t want to fucking expose my children to your poison, nor do I want to battle my way through a cloud of nicotine to get into a restaurant, spending the night and smelling your disgusting fumes 😡🤢

My chroinic pain trying to be masked by Drs rather than then trying to find a cause. Thankfully money talks, especially in healthcare systems outside the uk, now I’m not being fobbed off and actually being treated correctly rather them NHS Drs trying every bloody drug that “may help” to see what works.

People who do NOT pick up dog shit.

People doing a full shop at the petrol station after filling up but not moving their fucking car so the rest of us can use the pumps gggrrr

Rude people in customer service roles. I spent my entire working life in customer roles, just fucking smile and count yourself lucky you have a job. Fine you don’t have to take shit, but you do have to provide a happy customer service because it’s your fucking job.

Coldpizza2 · 20/04/2023 23:22

MissPoldark · 20/04/2023 23:14

People who can’t seem to queue properly gives me the absolute rage.
they come up to the queue and instead of joining at the back, just hover along the side.
Or they don’t stand directly behind the person in front, but just to the side, so that you end up with a wiggly messy line.

Or people with no sense of personal space that stand so close behind that the slightest movement means you knock them with your bag.
leaving too large a gap just as bad, as this makes the line vulnerable to queue jumpers.

perhaps deserving of its own thread!

You would think it is a simple thing. Why can no one stand behind the last person. They look so confused as to "where do I go" JUST JOIN THE END

I lost it again when you said a wiggly messy line🤣🤣

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nzeire · 20/04/2023 23:23

Leaf
blowers

Footgoose · 20/04/2023 23:24

When an invite to or notification of an invent only states the date and month but not the day.
Makes my blood boil that I have to go to the effort to check what day of the week it falls on .

RiverRed · 20/04/2023 23:27

Drivers who slow down abruptly as they manoeuvre to turn right but don’t bother to indicate right until AFTER they’ve begun to sodding turn.

OllytheCollie · 20/04/2023 23:29

People who cannot grasp the idea that if something is at the bottom of the stairs it is to go up and if it is at the top it is to go down. Why is this so fucking difficult?

Coldpizza2 · 20/04/2023 23:29

nzeire · 20/04/2023 23:23

Leaf
blowers

Yes!! And those stupid bin cleaners that come round and ruin sunny days with their stupid power washers. Or any neighbours who have to power wash everything in sight on a nice day!

Dave, you have cleaned your cars 5 times this week ffs.
Do I want to listen to this shit while I sit out my back. I think not. Bsssshhhhhhhhhhhhhh fuck off

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neilyoungismyhero · 20/04/2023 23:29

People who buy a £5 item and then say they don't drive can you deliver.
People who don't park straight in a parking box making it difficult to access your door.
Slow drivers on Motorways
People who wait until they've packed the very last item on the belt then start rummaging about in their bag for their purse and then their points card.
People who hang their dog crap on trees.

FantasticButtocks · 20/04/2023 23:32

@Bunnyhair

Crumbs in the cutlery drawer make me want to burn the house down

This made me guffaw Grin

I'm adding - those hard plastic packages for things like earphones or replacement toothbrush heads, and you cannot get the plastic outer casing off without scissors and even then it will only cut into shards of plastic that inevitably cut you! Angry

ComputerWifeKaren · 20/04/2023 23:36

Yes to the wind! I’m often very angry about it because it picks up every tiny bit of my waist length hair so it flaps about above and around my head. Or does a big flail on top of my glasses right across that I can't shift by hand because I’m always carrying two heavy shopping bags at the time. DD tells me to stop saying "TURN THE WIND OFF!"
Never used to be this windy when I was a kid. Instant ongoing blood pressure rising bullshit! Fuck the wind! Fuck off to some massive high up spinny windmill and leave us ground people alone!

Maverickess · 20/04/2023 23:38

People who tell me to smile - I'm fucking ugly mate, sorry, and you caught me in the moment before I saw you approaching, I'm actually fine and quite happy to serve you and smile, but stop telling me how I fucking feel because you're a customer and think you can. As soon as I clocked you I did smile, and been perfectly welcoming and nice, but you can't possibly resist pointing out that I look furious unless I'm smiling like a serial killer because I'm an ugly fucker can you?!

The wind my DD takes the piss out of me because I get so cross "It's fucking win-DY AGAIN!!!"

That one bastard sock that gets stuck in the washing machine sill and is fucking soaking and full of suds - just stay in the fucking drum you awkward little shit!

And the other bastard sock that you always drop on the way to the machine, no matter what you use to carry it there, and don't notice until the machine has gone past the point of no return adding things.

Pocket and handle of any description. Just. Fuck.Off.

And Henry......... Insolent little twat.

TheaBrandt · 20/04/2023 23:40

Anything other than soft tinkly conversations in gardens occasional lawn mowing is fine too. Leaf blowing / power wash / music / shouting - damn you to hell your neighbours hate you

MissPoldark · 20/04/2023 23:41

Or any neighbours who have to power wash everything in sight on a nice day!

Dave, you have cleaned your cars 5 times this week ffs.
Do I want to listen to this shit while I sit out my back. I think not. Bsssshhhhhhhhhhhhhh fuck off

we must have the same neighbour. Every warm sunny day demands a job done in the garden using a power tool. The amount of time he spends jetwashing his decking or whatever it is he’s doing over that there hedge, I’m surprised he hasn’t worn the wood away.

tailinthejam · 20/04/2023 23:42

People who decide to stroll right round behind my car when I am reversing in a car park. The car is already moving backwards, reversing light on, and they still walk straight out behind me so I have to slam the brakes on.

Just look where you're sodding well going. AAArrgghh

Coldpizza2 · 20/04/2023 23:42

NashvilleQueen · 20/04/2023 23:10

Every single thing on the original list OP so much so that I wondered if I'd written it in my sleep.

Also:

Shampoo/conditioner bottles that are stupidly designed where the lid is on the bottom but you can't close them with one hand (so I have to bang it on my thigh whilst holding the shampoo/conditioner in the other hand). It never works so I then have to smear the product in my hair to free up both hands and then the bottle is all slippery and I drop it. Every morning.

Touching anything in the kitchen with wet hands.

When one massive rain drop hits me on the head or the back of the neck when I'm doing something (like bending into the car or opening the front door). Fucking impertinent.

Not being able to select the right key even though I can see it in the bunch. It hides away.

And also Henrietta Hoover who falls over every single time I try to pull her sorry arse around a corner

Definitely the stupidly designed shampoo/conditioner bottles. If I have to move them from the shower into the bathroom to have a bath they just leak all over the floor in a huge mess. Great. I feel so relaxed.

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Coldpizza2 · 20/04/2023 23:44

ComputerWifeKaren · 20/04/2023 23:36

Yes to the wind! I’m often very angry about it because it picks up every tiny bit of my waist length hair so it flaps about above and around my head. Or does a big flail on top of my glasses right across that I can't shift by hand because I’m always carrying two heavy shopping bags at the time. DD tells me to stop saying "TURN THE WIND OFF!"
Never used to be this windy when I was a kid. Instant ongoing blood pressure rising bullshit! Fuck the wind! Fuck off to some massive high up spinny windmill and leave us ground people alone!

"Fuck the wind" I hate it! Hate hate. It's pointless, go blow somewhere else

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Margot78 · 20/04/2023 23:44

Horny pigeons. Hear me out. I see it so many times, there’ll be a (presumably) female pigeon minding her own business on our back garden fence and then a (presumably) male pigeon flumps down right next to her and starts waving his arse up and down and inching towards her in a frankly irritating and unimaginative. Honest to God it gives me the rage. I feel like shouting out the back window “F* off and leave her alone!” The randy little bastards are so persistent, the poor female either ends up relenting or flying off just to get some peace. Just seems so unfair. The poor female pigeons need a MeToo movement or at least an eye roll emoji.

silverlentils · 20/04/2023 23:44

In my bathroom there isn't a place to hang a toilet roll holder so I stand the roll on the bin so it's off the floor and in easy reach. I live alone so it's only me who does this.

Every time I need to put something the bin I am irrationally furious that I first have to bend down and pick up the toilet roll before I can stand back up and put my foot on the pedal to open the lid.

silverlentils · 20/04/2023 23:46

Sodie · 20/04/2023 22:50

Bags for life, just the feel of them.
Henry hoover.
The sun shining when it isn't summer.
Opening a tablet packet and getting the side with the leaflet.

Number 4....why is that...whatever end you open them, it's always the wrong end!

Hillsmakeyoustrong · 20/04/2023 23:46

Horny pigeons 😂🤣

Fillybuster · 20/04/2023 23:50

Nrtft. Yet.

I’m absolutely furious when the sodding bathroom scales report numbers that don’t correlate to what I want them to say. Even when I know I’ve spent the whole bloody day eating like there’s no tomorrow.

Also dcs that can’t be quiet when I’m asleep in the morning

And DH’s nighttime toilet trips. I’m tempted to LTB

Coldpizza2 · 20/04/2023 23:54

Fillybuster · 20/04/2023 23:50

Nrtft. Yet.

I’m absolutely furious when the sodding bathroom scales report numbers that don’t correlate to what I want them to say. Even when I know I’ve spent the whole bloody day eating like there’s no tomorrow.

Also dcs that can’t be quiet when I’m asleep in the morning

And DH’s nighttime toilet trips. I’m tempted to LTB

I hear you. Ohhh dare we delve into kids and husbands. I think that's a whole other thread🤣

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Coldpizza2 · 20/04/2023 23:57

Margot78 · 20/04/2023 23:44

Horny pigeons. Hear me out. I see it so many times, there’ll be a (presumably) female pigeon minding her own business on our back garden fence and then a (presumably) male pigeon flumps down right next to her and starts waving his arse up and down and inching towards her in a frankly irritating and unimaginative. Honest to God it gives me the rage. I feel like shouting out the back window “F* off and leave her alone!” The randy little bastards are so persistent, the poor female either ends up relenting or flying off just to get some peace. Just seems so unfair. The poor female pigeons need a MeToo movement or at least an eye roll emoji.

Should be the #mecoo movement.

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Margot78 · 20/04/2023 23:59

Coldpizza2 · 20/04/2023 23:44

"Fuck the wind" I hate it! Hate hate. It's pointless, go blow somewhere else

Apart from pollinating crops as well as many pine and fir trees and providing a renewable source of energy, yes wind is completely pointless.

LaughingCat · 21/04/2023 00:01

People walking slower than me in front of me. I know you don’t know I’m here because I’m behind you but how fucking dare you be in my way, trundling along like you’ve all the time in the world!

Unfairness. Anything unfair. I’m like a toddler. This can range from a boss publicly calling out a mistake from one of their team to full blown racism/sexism/any kind of prejudice. I go into full rage mode. Seek and destroy style.

My other half breathing on me in bed. I don’t know why. The feel of air blowing onto my bare skin makes me want to punch him repeatedly until he stops breathing. Occasionally the sound of him chewing will have the same effect. I hold back the urge but seriously, it’s tough.

When I see an empty loo roll in the bathroom. That, right there, should be grounds for homicide.

I’m quite an angry person but I cover it poorly with humour. 😁