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.

Also the use of high importance flags from work colleagues. I’ll triage my own work thanks

People who don't proofread their posts in even the most cursory manner, especially when it's the actual thread title, or the OP's opening post.

So you wade through a post full of uyywe goobelygoos followed, if you're really lucky, by a series of one-word losts interrupting the flow of the thrwdg to say:
*utter
*gobbledygook
*posts
*thread

Read your post before you press send, not after, dammit!

And if you find a typo, use the damn edit function. If you get to it in five minutes you don't need to take up the thread allotment with extra posts correcting it!

I hate the new pricing system at supermarkets with a total rip off price and a nectar card/ whatever card price that's a bit more normal (but still not cheap). Forces you to hand over a load of data to get the normal price, or be ripped off.

I also hate people calling all school holidays "half term". Half terms are a week off halfway through a term. The others are summer/ Christmas/ Easter holidays or if you want to avoid Christian calendar titles say summer/ winter/ spring school holidays.

People chewing audibly.

A rarer one, on stage is where I've seen this most especially in dance, is in the case of school uniforms where they nearly always pair a summer, straw boater hat with a winter uniform!

Holibobs instead of holidays!

Your instead of you’re!

People using the work critters instead of creatures, as if we've all turned into old Texan men. Ugh! It's everywhere these days.

Open mouth eaters
Tail gaters
Servers in shops and restaurants who don't like serving and behave as if you're a nuisance
Staff in shops too busy chatting to talk to you when you're obviously waiting to ask them something
Men who force you to swerve round them or off the pavement as they won't give way to pedestrians going the other way
My DC never turning off lights in their rooms when they go out
Patronising mansplainers

Self service checkouts that always dislike where you put your items in the bagging area (yes you M&S)

Covid restrictions posters actually covid restrictions full stop! My town still has the "stay at home stay safe" message everywhere they have only just removed the plastic surrounds and the barrier at the pharmacy half the staff have hearing issues I've spent THREE YEARS SHOUTING AT THEM ABOUT PRESCRIPTIONS half my town are saying we are in the middle of a pandemic walking around glaring at people asking why no-one is wearing masks anymore while simultaneously not wearing a mask 🙄

Morrisons self checkout do you have your own bag? Yes, "please place the bag in bagging area and touch "done" when finished" ok "done" UNEXPECTED ITEM IN BAGGING AREA REMOVE THIS ITEM BEFORE CONTINUING

Also the way it says "done" irritates me almost as much as the word "moist" 🤮

Asking directions.
And people don't say it's beside a well known shop.
Like today, looking for the toilets in Tesco.
Asked 2 people,both gave me wrong directions.

They should have told me it was actually outside the store but beside another well known store.

There's a fly in my front room. The door is wide open.
But no it can't possibly fly out of that massive space it flew in.

When dds bus driver speaks to me like shit and has a list of complaints that is rhymed off every day, but when dh brings dds out he gets smiles, nice comments and no complaints. I feel like drinking to deal with the driver.

People stopping in doorways or other narrow passing places

When the indicator on the car clicks off before I’ve finished using it. It gives me great pleasure to preempt this by using my finger to hold it in place until I hear the defeated ‘click’. I’ll decide when I’ve finished indicating!

Loud people who like the sound if their own voice

Mmm, perhaps I'm a middle aged, peri-menopausal grouch but most of these don't seem "minor" to me!

My (genuinely minor) contributions are:

The word lush. x1000 when used to describe something like, for example, a newborn I love my best friend but this might end our 30 year friendship

Inappropriate/inaccurate use of "myself/yourself".

Tubes that come with the seal that require you to turn the lid around and close it to punch through. Totally irrational, astonishingly insignificant... but sends me into a rage every single time.

Yes! Taking a drink from the cup and not swallowing because they then say their next line!

Tailgaters and the black Mercedes that overtook me today by stepping over a small roundabout and then speeding 40+ in the village.

See also empty suitcases!!
They don't even try to pretend they're heavy! 🤣

I have a client that highlights just about everything....and everything is urgent. Occassionally he'll need something by 3pm or similar (highlighted....obvs) and then gets aggrieved that we didn't see it (amongst the 10 other highlighted urgent jobs he sent! )

Other than not wanting a trolley where a stomach or breasts have been slumped all over it,

You realise they'll have umpteen times more bacteria on their hands, right? Especially after walking around the supermarket touching products that lots of other people have touched!

Today everyone and everything has driven me nuts.

Menopause + being knackered = a very crotchety TribeD. I may move into the shed until the rage passes.

Someone in the seat behind me on the bus chewing gum.

Mine are mainly bus related.