What is the one thing that other people do that really annoys you?

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What is the one thing that other people do that really annoys you?

Mine would be people who constantly sniff when they have a cold and don't blow their nose. I just want to give them a tissue and scream at them to blow their nose. Especially if I'm next to them on a train.

Ooh yes, that sloppy scraping of shoes along the floor, especially in a supermarket.

People who sneeze like a bomb going off. (Yes, I mean you dh!) Especially when they say they can’t help it. Yes you can! Just don’t YELL!! at the same time!

I'm 44.
Nearly everything annoys me nowadays 🤣

People who ask you something then don’t wait for an answer just keep talking.

My top one is also sniffing. Before covid, I had a daily commute on the train, and the sniffing drove me mad. I'd have to get up and move if I found myself next to a particularly prolific sniffer. I was never brave enough to offer a tissue in case it was seen as rude, although if i were caught short without a tissue myself, I'd be very grateful of the offer.
Thank goodness for WFH nowadays

This type of rudeness is top of my list of things I hate.

It is extremely rude to correct others like this, and showing bad manners is a worse offence than bad spelling.

Loud sneezes - usually done by men!

People driving up my arse on the road.

People sucking and chewing their fingers/biting their nails.

People cracking their knuckles. 😖

Performance parenting.

People showing off on facebook about their amazing wonderful life and their perfect little family and their amazing relationship with their partner! boak.

Parents screaming blue murder at their children.

Anyone squealing or screaming - often done mostly by young women or children.

People dry-blowing their nose. Sniffing and blowing their nose when there is nothing there - just for attention.

There's loads more! Too many to list right now! 😆

@ToxicChristmas · Yesterday 23:51

The stopping dead in front of you walking really pisses me off. I went to Aldi the other day and it was fairly busy. The amount of people who would just randomly stop slap bang in the middle of an aisle to check their phone or have a chat was amazing. The total lack of awareness (or care) for what is going on around them.

Well I get pissed off with people who walk so close behind you, that if you suddenly need to stop, they crash into the back of you. If you are finding people stopping suddenly being a nuisance for you, then you are walking too close to them!

Do you do the same on the roads too? Drive too close to the car in front, and then blame them if you nearly crash into them? If you bang into someone in front if they stop suddenly, it's ALWAYS your fault! Don't walk so close to people!!!

I'm literally world class at faffing, I annoy myself as well if that's any consolation! 🤣

However faffing normally happens if I have no set time to do something, it happens less if I am meeting someone!

People who ask irrelevant questions at the end of a work meeting when everyone else wants to leave on time.

Sniffing unnecessarily.

Music (or any sort of media) played way too loud on headphones - I actually find it more annoying than if they hadn't bothered with headphones, at least then there's no pretence that they aren't an annoying twat.

Wearing headphones initially gives the illusion you're not disturbing others....but if I can hear your shit music 4 rows away there's literally no point to wearing headphones!! 😠

(As an aside how is is comfortable to have music that loud right next to your ear??)

Watch videos or listen to music on their phones in public with no headphone.

I absolutely go MENTAL!!!! Arrgghhhhhhhh

Also...
When people say "we was down the shops" or such, rather than "we were down the shops"

Lie

Loud phone usage on trains

Throwing litter and not recycling

Twatty, you are my kind of person!
Also:
I'm excited for Christmas/insert any inanimate thing
"Look" seems to be the new 'so..'
I have flu - no, you have a cold. if you had flu you wouldn't be on social media, you wouldn't be out of your bed doing anything

The gotten one is guaranteed to send me over the edge. In fact, I have the word got. It's unnecessary. I have three apples, I've three appIes - mean the same thing. have got three apples means the same thing, but the got is redundant

How do people learn? Better to have stuff pointed out anonymously than make a fool of yourself on a job application or a document
Or indeed, in conversation

TBF, 'down' the shops sets my teeth on edge whichever tense used!!

Slow, mooching, pavement hoggers that do not break formation, or indeed have any awareness about their surroundings.

Ditto for dog leads that take up the full path.
I once did an out-and-back run that meant encountering the same dog lead twice. It was enough of a kerfuffle to get past from behind using manners the first time, that second time I just high-jumped over the bloody thing. They could see me approaching and still had no initiative to engage brain and rein the dog in from the opposite side.

I once had DH pace me on a 10k time trial run in a park. He set the pace, I trailed, and 1) it was amazing that people actually notice 6ft of man and move out of the way of their own accord and 2) it freed up so much of my headspace and energy on trying to anticipate where people are drifting around to, likely space to pass, the point at which to deploy voice and liklihood of them worsening the situation by skittling in all directions. It made such a difference just being able to focus on what I was doing and made me realise how much it takes having to plan for other people every couple of minutes and no wonder it annoys me so much.
(Meanwhile I am also keeping an eye out on other users like cyclists that approach faster, or on some routes, knobbers on electic scooters/ bikes on their drug-runner highway)

Clusters where there's someone visibly vulnerable are not the issue; they tend to pick a side and pay attention to their surroundings anyway. And I'm well aware that there's invisible vulnerabilities given that I spend a lot of time trying to keep a dyspraxic teenager following a functional line (and getting bumped in to by him). It's the social groups focused only on each other, headphones on or absorbed into a phone that are the bother, and there's a lot of them bimbling around.

That was theraputic 😁

People who fart amd burp and treat it as a huge joke. (And grrr the phrase "better out than in")

Ok you had a bodily function that smell is now invading my space because you were to lazy to get up go to the bathroom/outside to deal with your bodily functions.

Nope I dont fond it funny.

BTW also people who tells me I am a prude due to above opinions.

I'm not a prude I have different standards to yours. Doesn't equal your way is right Do what you desire in your home. in mine -use some manners.

Is the loud sneezing a man thing? Like an auditory marking of territory? My DH does this as well and it sets off the local dogs. 😂

LOUD conversations in public places. For God's sake, you're standing three feet apart, is it really necessary to BELLOW AT THE TOP OF YOUR VOICE?! Mainly men, by the way. I'm convinced it's just another variation on manspreading.

I’ve only ever corrected anyone online once, and that was after the poster had corrected someone else - and made a basic mistake in his own post.

What did strike me as appalling, was on a relatively small, closed forum, when someone pointed out - on the open forum - that someone else had used a Latin phrase incorrectly. It was cringe-making - especially since she could easily have sent a PM. But the person in question had always considered herself superior, and liked to make a point of it.

People who sit right by you / behind you/ I’m front of you in an empty location.

As someone on public transport a lot, it happens so much. Just yesterday I boarded an almost empty train carriage. I was surrounded by empty rows. Next stop, passenger gets on with two children and sits directly across the aisle with one and other child gets stroppy about not wanting to sit a row in front so the woman indicates to the empty seat next to me and child sits down! There were at least ten empty rows ahead of me before the next one person yet you decide to squash in next to me!!! Why?

Happened in the cinema recently too. Me and friend booked and for our cinema you choose your seats yourself. Likewise even if you buy your tickets at the cinema rather than online, it is still independent manual seat selection. Friend and I chose seats on opposite side to where the only other booking was. Plenty of space.
Arrive and sit down. It’s clear this cinema is t going to fill, a few people come in and we are evenly spread. Then two women come in and sit directly in front of friend and I. I just find it so odd, when there were only 4 tiny groups in this whole 200 plus seat cinema, you choose seats right in front of another pair, not even leaving a row, and then of course keep turning round with a glare at the slightest noise of popcorn or knock of seat where legroom is limited and you change position. For gods sake, move up or move away! Drives me mad.

People who don’t actually say what they mean, for example, fishing for compliments, ask a question / make statements where you’re expected to give a specific answer, give vague hints that they’re not OK, go quiet and expect you to ask if they’re ok.

Anyone who tries that with me isn’t going to get what they want.

Duplicate post thanks to rubbish signal on the train