Minor irritations that drive you disproportionately nuts

[Kingsleadhat]

Having to search for the use by date on foods. You eventually track the bastard down printed in tiny type on a bit of inner packaging which you then have to hold up to the light and use four pairs of glasses and a magnifying glass to read. Drives me bonkers. Would love to hear other people's disproportionately infuriating petty annoyances.

Yes! Totally agree.

Also after your first two sentences I thought you were referring to posters on here who reactivate zombie threads...

That annoys me too

Easier to say what doesn't annoy me. I'm middle-aged and a misery guts.

Not sure if it's because I have a chest infection, or I need a bit of the old hrt. (took me several goes to post that image haha)

Scrawled notices.
Seeing rows of bottles in the tiny bathroom window from the outside of a house (still annoying if it's a frosted window)
Stupid pebble driveways when the pebbles spill over onto the pavement
Dry cake.

The prices in my little sainsburys, £3.50 for a bag of maltesers? Insert them one by one up your nostrils, robbing bastards.

On the subject of out of date posters…

Can we just GET RID of anything that’s left over from the Pandemic please?

Stickers on floors showing where to stand can bog off too!

Minor ailments. I've currently got three. But also a full time job. I can't be arsed fighting the gp admin hellscape to get new prescriptions so I'll carry on scratching until I break and face the music.

@AuntieJoyce I don’t get the slumping over trolley thing. What difference does it make to your life?

Other than not wanting a trolley where a stomach or breasts have been slumped all over it, I feel for the user of the trolley as a mobility aid, and wonder if they have had an OT assessment or had a proper assessment? 🤔

Again- this is NOT the point of the light hearted thread!

Sometimes the easiest thing to hand CAN be a mobility aid YABU! There are not many scooters available and what if you can’t self propel using a wheelchair.

People that feel the need to sit right next to you on a bus/train/cinema etc when there are loads of empty seats!! Like, why? Leave me alone!!!

People who get distracted when telling a story and go off tangent, leading to it taking ages to get to the point 🙄

Changing your password. I have to do it on the till at work now a month and also on the hr app. There is just not enough significant dates!!

The teeny tiny cut on the tip of my thumb. I am trying to eat an orange and the pain appears to be on a level similar to that of a traumatic amputation!

That last clue on the crossword that you can’t get. I end up swearing at the newspaper.

Definitely! Especially if it’s pre pandemic, gives me the rage!

The person who parks next to your car but decides it would be fun to park so close there is no way in earth you can actually get into your vehicle. So you have to open the other door and shuffle across. Why?? I would spot that I have parked so inconsistently and adjust.

My dressing gown sleeve getting caught on the door handle making the door bash my arm and the rest of me getting catapulted in the opposite direction

DH sniffing when he has hay fever. Get a bloody tissue

Endless security on apps or websites that send a text you have to wait for and then you have to flick between the app and message to read the code

Cheese wrappers that say peel here and then when you finally manage to undo it a bit the plastic tears across the front

Oh yes to this. Every Monday I log into the Asda app to do my order for the week. It is always a similar amount, to be delivered to my address. Why the ever loving fuck do I have to do the bank verification for it every time?

Work have just introduced MFA for accessing certain online areas. Fair enough. Except that we're not allowed to have our phones with us! Policy changing in 3, 2, 1...

@Pebblesontheside

People crawling along towards a red traffic light rather than coming to stop and waiting

This is called 'slow to flow' and it's suggested for better fuel economy - it takes less power to speed up if you're already moving even slowly than from a standing start.

I do it....I hope I'm not the one annoying you ☺️

Drivers

Drivers who park next to you in a car park with numerous spaces 🤬

Drivers who don't indicate

Drivers who pull in front of you coming off the roundabout 🤬🤬

Tuesday mornings, bastards.

When they do a half-arsed job of cutting pizza before serving/delivering it.

When you delegate a task and they ask you to remind them about it.

Set your own reminder from numerous methods either traditional or tech savvy! Your are spoilt for choice.

I'm looking at you DH - you've hardly a long list to remember and I'm not setting myself up to be the blame when you inevitably 'forget' because I didn't remind you.

Websites that make you click millions of sodding cookie denials instead of having a simple 'reject all' option like Mumsnet until fairly recently