What "type" of person drives you crazy?

[ErikaReadsTheDailyMail]

I was describing a woman at work to my DH earlier, and he said "oh I know that type, I work with a guy like that".

For context, this "type" of person (Erika in fact, hence the username):

Thinks Farrage has got a few good ideas actually, and he will definitely be getting her vote.

Doesn't think women should return to work full time after maternity leave because focussing on your career and not your children is just selfish.

Thinks that the people in boats should "go back to where they came from" and "stop taking our jobs" but "no wonder they come here, with all the free handouts we give them" (simultaneously, apparently)

Relishes in other people's unhappiness and uses it as some kind of horrible gossipy currency, ever terminal illness.

Has gleefully welcomed her (feckless) poor darling adult son back home after a messy divorce because his wife has treated him so terribly and he never should have married her in the first place. She's hoping he'll go for full custody of his daughter so that her former daughter in law can't poison her further (metaphorically, I assume).

I know I should be bigger, but she's just such a caricature of bigotry she really gets up my nose. She epitomises everything I dislike, all rolled into one person.

I wondered if anyone has one individual who really sums up everything they dislike? Bonus points if you name them!

Anyone who proudly says: "I can't do Maths, me"!!

People that always have to be the centre of attention and don’t ever like anyone else to have their moment.

People who buy a ticket with an allocated/numbered seat for, say, a football match, cinema, plane, train, etc., but then just randomly sit where the hell they want and act like you're in the wrong when you ask them to move so you can sit in your allocated seat!

Closely followed by people who are trying to find their allocated seat, but completely incapable of working out that row G comes after row E or that seat 51 will be further on to the right than the seats they're staring at being 41,42,43, etc and start walking left down towards the lower number seats, i.e. towards 40, 39, 38 etc. The alphabet and number sequences are beyond them! Same with plane seats - every single plane I've been on have numbered rows and then letters to signify the seat on each row - yet people get on a plane and can't work it out. It's not as if different planes have completely different seat numbering systems (maybe some small ones may, but certainly not the majority/mainstream) and very few people will never have been on a plane before!

People who just talk and talk for the sake of it. Filling the air with sounds that add no value, and either stop other people from getting a word in, or just waste everyone else’s time. Especially in meetings where you’re actually trying to understand or achieve something, and they’re just responding with a hundred varieties of “I don’t know”. Especially when those meetings were supposed to end 10 minutes ago. And especially when, just in case someone hasn’t heard enough from them, they fill in any potential gaps with really lame jokes, and then passive-aggressively point out that they’re trying to lighten the mood but it hasn’t worked.

The people in my local Facebook group who photograph random cats they encounter, update the general public on their (the cats') temperament and last known location and ask for information on who they belong to.

They are never lost or missing.

People who ask on Facebook etc., "what time does the village chip shop open", "is there a play park in the village", "what's the deadline for applying for the primary school admission", etc.

Just Google it!!

But just been reminded of another MN thread today about people who don't read signs. On Facebook, someone local posted asking why the village post office was closed, going on saying how sad it is if it's closed down, etc. Several people politely replied saying there were huge signs on both shop front windows and on the door itself saying it was closed this week for owner's holiday! The original poster had managed to try the door, find it closed, and somehow missed three huge signs, one right in front of her next to the door handle!

People who accuse you of all their worst faults. People who expect to act and say whatever they want with no consequences but are hypercritical of everyone else.

Yes to this!

people who have two different personalities on the go. There's always one in every work place. They are warm, breezy, funny and chatty to almost everybody but as cold as ice to you, and you try a couple of times thinking at first that you misunderstood or something but no that's there intention.

Currently having to put up with one of these.

Also hypersensitive to anything she perceives to be criticism, to the extent that I daren’t say anything in case it’s misinterpreted…

People who cover their insecurities by being insufferable know it alls.

We have one in our team at work and just today she was answering a question by reading from the document we had all read but spectacularly missing the point which was that the document was incorrect and we all knew that, hence the question in the first place.

Also, people whose voice rises above all background noise in a cafe or restaurant so theirs is the only voice you can hear. Shut up.

These people are the worst!!! Bull shit baffles brains in my workplace. They throw a load of corporate buzz words around and have really busy diaries full of pointless meetings to make themselves look ever so busy 😐

People who can't explain things in short and explain every single detail of their journey, conversation, back story... just get to the bloody point.

Parents who don't see any wrong in their out of control children

People who intentionally cause problems for others

Hobbycrafters. Usually fat with pink or blue hair, like to think of themselves as quirky, probably don’t work for a living, delusionally think they’re “witches” and witter on about paganism and wear pentacle earrings. They either wear black or hippyish tie dye, and they shop at Hobbycraft and try to sell shitty handcrafted stuff.

Old people who complain about young people. Miserable old gits. This generation is golden.

Life and soul of the party types

Inverted snobs

The 'Toppers ' always get me.
If you've done anything , they have done it better.

People who complain to school about literally everything or if they don’t complain directly, try to whip up dissent on the WhatsApp group. Just be happy anyone still wants to be a teacher and stop rocking the boat. No I literally could not give a fuck if the packed lunch the hockey team got given on the recent tournament didn’t meet UN nutritional guidelines or if the ( non important) maths test accidentally had a page missing.

My mum’s friend is like that. If you’ve been to Tenerife then she’s been to Elevenarife.

People who are quick to tell volunteers what they should be doing but will never actually volunteer themselves.

@reesewithoutaspoon I went to uni with somebody like this. He was a mature student, and good on him for going, but OMG he never listened! Always asking unnecessary questions, then when the lecturer patiently explained things to him, would often utter a plaintive, "but whyyyy?" My friends and I used to refer to him as the Why Bird.

Worse... I was about 19/20 and in a relationship with my now-husband, he was about 36 and kept hitting on me. I'd rebuff him and explain I was taken, yet he refused to hear about that, kept asking me out, and once told me he'd bought me a ring. Urgh. By my final term, I had an engagement ring. Still he persisted. I couldn't wait to graduate and leave the creep behind.

I hate ‘sometimes’ people.

Either we’re friends and you enthusiastically smile, greet and talk to me when we meet or we’re not and you don’t.

I genuinely don’t care which you choose but make a choice and stick to it.

Don’t be all over me until there’s someone you perceive as more important/useful around!

Totally agree on the ‘ I’m just so busy busy busy’ types. Not too busy to post & comment all over Facebook and Insta daily though are you Deidre?

Also agree on the non-committal types. I assume it’s because they don’t want to do whatever it is they’ve been invited to. Just say no then! No one minds! Stop trying to make out you can’t commit yet when actually we all know you’re just waiting until nearer the time to have an excuse to bail.

The older you get the more people annoy you. Eventually you give up and think ' I dont actually care anymore'. Thats the gift of getting older, I just switch off.