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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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TomatoSandwiches · 26/04/2023 20:02

When I drop something a few times in a row and Ben Affleck, just his face makes me start to simmer.

Dottymug · 26/04/2023 20:08

The whispering in the bloody Tresemme advert makes me want to throw things at the telly.

Milkhoney · 26/04/2023 20:10

Individual hot and cold sink taps. We’re so archaic in this country that they even still exist. Wash your hands and choose between frostbite or 3rd degree burns.

tubes (like toothpaste) with screwtop lids. The fucking stuff always keeps squeezing out while you’re fighting to get the lid back on.

babies clothing with buttons, especially if those buttons are on the back.

MissPoldark · 26/04/2023 20:32

There was a MN thread quite a while ago asking the same question, and someone said when water runs down your wrist to your elbow when you're brushing your teeth and I was like Yessss 😡

this reminded me of those darn ‘airflow’ hand driers that blow all the water up your sleeves! Am I doing it wrong??!

IHateLegDay · 26/04/2023 20:43
  • people telling me I've done something when I haven't/haven't done something when I have
  • being ignored
(Both caused be abusive relationship trauma)
  • stubbing my toe
  • bad drivers
Londre · 26/04/2023 20:52

“Assistance needed” at self service tills, especially Sainsbury’s where they need to see your voucher before you can proceed!

alabamathunderpussy · 26/04/2023 20:55

I'VE FOUND MY PEOPLE!!!!!

CountingMareep · 26/04/2023 21:25

People in front of me at the checkout counter who wait until their shopping has been scanned and paid for before they start packing it into bags OR people who stand and watch their shopping scanned, then when asked for payment spent 5 mins routing through their bag to find their purse.

If you’re the assistant on the other side of this, it’s even more annoying to get the kind of customer who pays, then frowns over the receipt and starts quibbling over the multibuy prices and whether the machine has added them up right. FFS, I’m not here to haggle, you want haggling, you can do that in the souk on holiday. 😡

CakeWarrior · 26/04/2023 21:54

Stupid people. Like how do they literally get through their bloody life. Going through a patients medical history at work;

Me: You have ticked no to any medical conditions - but I see in your notes that you have a history of high blood pressure?
Patient: No. I dont have high blood pressure.
Me: But you take medication for blood pressure
Patient: Yeah - so i dont have high blood pressure.
Me: Exactly - so you have high blood pressure.
Patient: No... because i take tablets.
Me: But you take medication because you have high blood pressure. If you stopped your meds it would go back up.
Patient: so that means i dont suffer with high blood pressure so i dont have any conditions,

FUCKING FACEPALM. Honest to god. How im not smashing my head against a wall is beyond me.

RenoDakota · 26/04/2023 23:07

Low sun getting in my eyes when I am driving, even more so when the roads are wet, causing extra glare.
I used to drive east to work in the morning and west home (obvs) so got it all the frigging time. Sunglasses didn't seem to help either and I often felt like pissing my pants with frustration.

bluebeardswife7 · 26/04/2023 23:19

Shoe laces. They never seem to stay done up these days. Maybe because I am not wearing skinny jeans so much. And my feet are much further away than they used to be.

WeekendInTheBoondocks · 26/04/2023 23:25

When the shower head gets clogged up with god knows what and the water jets go everywhere in all directions and wet my hair that I was trying desperately to keep dry 😡 makes me incandescent with anger

LeftyLou · 26/04/2023 23:28

Dottymug · 26/04/2023 20:08

The whispering in the bloody Tresemme advert makes me want to throw things at the telly.

Is that the one where she tells you to listen to the sound of the brush through the hair whilst loudly whispering? 😡
100% agree!

Penny31 · 26/04/2023 23:48

People who stop dead at the top an escalator. Trying to decide which way to go, rummaging in their bag etc. move out of the way!

Cocteautriplet · 27/04/2023 09:55

When people do shout outs on the radio (often Radio 2) detailing their wonderful weekend plans and mini breaks… like ‘Dorothy and me are off to a pampering spa weekend in Jersey to celebrate Cousin Berth’s 50th I’m on my 4th g&t!’… makes my life feel so crap by comparison as I scrub wee out of the carpet (potty training) or lug baskets of washing around!

Realistically this might be the first break Dorothy has had in 25 years but it still feels like a slap in the face and like everyone else but me is having a lovely lux life 😂😂😂

SinnerBoy · 27/04/2023 20:50

Penny31 · Yesterday 23:48

People who stop dead at the top an escalator.

Oh yes, I posted about that a while ago, a load of moronic students decided to stand at the bottom of one, in Denmark. I was shouting at the me to move, fucking move and eventually, they all went over and fortunately, someone pressed the emergency stop.

No real injuries, by some miracle and I was taken to task and asked if I needed to have been so aggressive.

Okaygoahead · 27/04/2023 22:18

People telling me something I already know. Yes, it's irrational - how can they be expected to know I know something? - but it drives me batshit lulu up the wall.

The fact that medicine packets always open on the leaflet end is just to remind us that all of life is futile, pointless and endlessly, endlessly frustrating.

People who jump exaggeratedly at 'loud' noises that are miles away/clearly nothing to do with them - just calm the fuck down already.

Crumbs. Just that. Crumbs. How can there be so many in my kitchen and my life. Why do the crumb generators (not me - I don't eat bread and never go near those feckless fucking crackers so rightly called out by a PP) not see them and immediately clean them ALL the fuck up? Righteous fury.

Okaygoahead · 27/04/2023 22:20

Otherwise, this thread has delighted me more than I can say!

thatsahardno · 27/04/2023 22:44

This thread has made me feel normal. THANK YOU.

  • Little (usually empty) packets of things that get caught up in my fluffy jumper sleeves so that I’m either swiping things off surfaces everywhere I go, or decorated like a Christmas tree
  • My cats who refuse to explain their food preferences to me, leaving me baffled as to why Felix As Good as it Fucking Smells chicken flavour is fine on Tuesdays but NOT FINE ON THURSDAYS. Fluffy twats.
  • Whoever decided to bless women with 30 years of periods, to be rounded off with the finale of the menopause. Fucking hell.
  • Hormones (see above)
  • Headaches (see above)
  • Red wine (see above)
  • Politicians. Self-serving sociopaths.
  • My nose which refuses to stop dripping 😡
thatsahardno · 27/04/2023 23:08

The word creamy 🤮

getafringenotbotox · 27/04/2023 23:09

Zofloraqueen27 · 20/04/2023 22:18

People who sniff, make any noise whatsoever when eating or drinking, whistle inanely, smell - in fact anything that sets my misophonia off - then I feel murderous but it is not irrational.

I am the same

thatsahardno · 27/04/2023 23:10

When the duvet gets that sheety duvet-void at the top. Just fuck right off.

Birchtrees · 27/04/2023 23:13

People who leave dog shit in little tied up bags on benches, hung from trees, just left by the side of a path. It makes me absolutely furious.

ColonelOfTruth · 28/04/2023 21:40

Just experienced the boundless rage of my hair getting caught in the tiny gap between my nail bed and varnish. Absolutely rage inducing for a split second!

Fallingoffacliff · 28/04/2023 21:59

I HATE filling my car with petrol and just want to do it as fast as possible so i can leave. So when a person fills their vehicle, then proceeds to rummage around in the boot of their car, lost in their own selfish world, completely ignoring the queue behind them, the rage i feel is unreal. So now, i go really late at night to fill up, to avoid the SLOW people.

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