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.

Thanks @Hfuhruhurr. I am honoured. It is genuinely innocuous and bugs me disproportionately. I've absolutely no idea why.

Apps - fucking hate the things. There's an app for everything these days and I invariably forget my login details after yet another app update. School-based apps are especially shit.

Pronouns. Utter wankery.

Tins that don't stack (I'm looking at you, Heinz). How hard is it to make the base slightly tapered so they sit securely on each other instead of falling out of the cupboard onto me with associated high volume clattering?

The word 'minimoon'.. it's called a honeymoon.

People who hold their phones horizontally in front of their mouths while holding a conversation. Always makes me think they’re about to vomit all over the phone.

Doubly irritating if they are walking along slowly dressed in very expensive, brand new, perfectly co-ordinated exercise gear, especially when it involves a pink baseball cap with ponytail poking jauntily out of the little gap at the back.

Tresemme conditioner bottles (the big one)
You can tell there is half a bottle left but it won't squeeze out one handed. So you have to stop and do some contortions of the bottle ...for it to make a few farty noises and a too-small blob of conditioner plops out when you know there is loads still inside.
They are the stupidest design and make hair washing take way longer than it should and make the menfolk of the house complain we take too long in the shower when we are grappling with a friggin conditioner bottle!

@Spodey If your friend has a blue disabled badge and takes it with her when you drive her somewhere, she can put the badge in your car window and you can park in a disabled space (at least, you can in the south west where i live - my dad is disabled and so was ny father in law, so am experienced). You can also use it to park on double yellow lines as long as it's not actually dangerous to do so. Do check with your local authority.

Oh yes. I had to stamp on the bottle to get some conditioner out once. Lid shot off and bathroom floor looked like an accident at a sperm bank

CeliaCanth · Today 11:08

People who hold their phones horizontally in front of their mouths while holding a conversation.

You often see people doing that whilst driving, too.

People who stop in supermarket doorways, for a chat, or to go through their receipt. Why? Why? Just walk another bloody ten feet and be out of the way!

Shampoo and conditioner - gaah! I keep the bottles lid down and after a couple of hours, it slips down to the top.

Plasters that fall off after an hour.

Tesco own wraps ( the ones you use for lunch etc) don't have a reseal flap on them so the go hard!!! So way of dealing them back up!!

Get so angry with myself every time I buy these!!!

Sorry for typos you get my vent

When my teenage son texts me to ask a question (usually for a lift or money) and then I ring him back as it’s quicker and he REFUSES TO PICK UP THE PHONE!!

Then texts to ask ‘What do you want?’. YOU contacted ME…..!!

Water bottles with lids impossible to clean with a cotton bud, let alone any sort of brush.

Catsmere · Today 12:24

Water bottles with lids impossible to clean with a cotton bud, let alone any sort of brush.”

You need a brush on wire designed to clean out the tubes on external fish tank filters 😃

Are you my DP? Every time we watch TV he points this out. That means that I now notice it. So now I have the double rage - rage at the empty cups and rage at DP for pointing out the empty cups.

Grrrrr just had this happen. People ringing your doorbell but driving off before you can even get to the door!!!

I hate it when you phone and the automated message asks if you’ve considered using their website ‘that has lots of useful info’ instead.
I’m not sure if anyone ever hangs up on the basis of this advice, but imagine it to be a vanishing minority.

When my DP voices a concern or suggestion or comment or opinion about the dog to the dog but its really directed at me.

Like "Oh Snuffles, you're looking very scruffy. Shall we groom you this weekend?"
Then a side-long glance at me.

Or "Oh no, Snuffles, I've just found a lump on your leg. Is that just an old age bump or do we need to get you to the vets?"
Then a side-long glance at me.

Fuck off.
Just say to me "Hey, Orange, Snuffles looks homeless. Shall we groom her this weekend?"
or "Hey, Orange, there's a weird lump on Snuffles' leg. Have a feel of it. Do you think its an old age bump or shall we think about the vets?"

Don't get me wrong, I jabber at the dog all day long. I tell her my plans. I ask her questions. I tell her how loved she is. But DP's weird backseat parenting through his inane comments to the dog give me the absolute bastard rage. JFC.

Absolutely fills me with rage. They think it's because we need to be closer to the entrance. I couldn't care less about distance it's getting a car seat out the door without taking another car out. Having medical conditions that affects joints makes it so much worse

Apps. Why does everyone want you to use an app, I don’t use your sodding website enough to want to install your shitty app on my phone, so stop pestering me.
Also cookies, having to either indicate your preferences when you only want to look at one thing on their website. Spend longer on cookies than I do on the website half the time.
People that leave a wide gap between themselves and the person in front in a supermarket queue. It really unsettles me when I’m behind them and I’m internally willing them to move forward, in case someone pushes in.

Tissue boxes where the serrated cardboard top has only been partly pulled up so it chomps on you like a shark when you put your hand in.

Tupperware box lids only partly pushed down, always one corner left up.

Just, why??

Also, coat hangers should be banned. They give me so much out of proportion rage they're going to lead to a heart attack I'm sure.

Yes, as if the query could easily be found on their website youd be listening to days endless pre-recoded messages and lift music just for the fun of it.

@MrsSkylerWhite is this the type you mean? (I know nothing about fish tanks.)

https://www.petbarn.com.au/aqua-one-3-brush-cleaning-set

They look bigger than the brush I have ... trouble with this bottle is it's one of those types with a little screw-up mouthpiece that doesn't come out, and is really tiny. Useful for drinking without spilling, but impossible to clean!

Yes but ours came with 8 heads, down to tiny.

Maybe a pipe cleaner?

(I'm becoming too invested 😁 bored, in bed with Covid)