Things that irritate you irrationally

[NoEffingWay]

People who use their phones in the cinema

When links to websites don't work

When companies only have email addresses and then no one responds to your email

When videos on tiktok or Instagram are dragged out over 5 videos when one would suffice

How service station drinks are 3 times the price!

Yes. I love 'Jump To Recipe' buttons!

I don't love people who post a recipe / Amazon review saying "Can't wait to try it".

People who bitch about 'Kier' Starmer.

Try the Skip Ads app (Android)

Facebook avatars - just a simple question but no it has to come with a cartoon avatar of the person with a microphone.

Oh, while we’re on FB avatars, people who use the birthday cake one for a post that has nothing to do with birthdays.

I’m often tempted to ask whose birthday it is but that would feel too snarky.

Someone sitting in the window seat I booked on a train. “Are you sure you want to sit there?”. Well yes, that’s why I booked it.

Oh crikey this. I came off FB altogether a few months ago (and feel much better for it, incidentally) but when I was using it those avatars really wound me up. They always looked so . . . smug?

Yes! There's something about the animation that makes them all look smug. They make me cringe!

@pizzaHeart

When people don't answer your email properly e.g you’ve asked them two questions and they’ve answered only one of them.

I've found my tribe! This drives me insane too. Even more so when they don't even answer one question properly. I.e. if I email asking whether x is y or z or something requiring a simple yes/no answer and they reply glibly "looks good" or a thumbs up emoji, when I clearly asked a question requiring a binary answer of yes/no or y/z.

I'm really finding I have to dumb down everything these days. Send a separate email for each specific question and dumb down the question into the simplest possible form. It makes things a lot harder and just increases the time I have to spend.

When shopping on online, those annoying pushy banners declaring "31 people are looking at this" or some such twaddle. It invariably covers the actual item I want to look at as well. Can't stand them.

Oh god yes, this is so annoying. Can I add, people who respond immediately with something like "I'll look into this and get back to you" but then never do, and consider their work is done since they have responded. Gaaaargh!

Americans calling children kiddos.
The sound of other people’s devices - although actually, I’d consider it a rational irritation.

Pretty sure that’s her point!

That makes me feel better. So as a non-Scot, it’s not terrible if I keep pronouncing it to rhyme with lock!

People who don't wear socks when wearing shoes, especially when it's a cold or hot spell of weather.

For some reason my phone keeps switching to silent mode and it irritates me irrationally - I'm the boss!

Just a word of warning - I’ve tried that tactic and then they answer my first email but not the subsequent ones. 😡
I even make nice clear spacings in between issues and put my questions in the plainest way possible. Nope. Nothing helps.

My friend does this I find it frustrating, I now refer to it as ‘Habs’ when talking to them (and ‘Bams’ B&M bargains)

My husband calls St Pancras ‘St Pancreas’. It’s lucky he’s so nice in other ways because mother of God that grates on me.

Yes 🤣🤣🤣🤣

My husband says ‘hurst’ instead of hearse. Makes me want to punch him.., but I don’t 😂.

Having to wait to use a toilet simply because l want to use it properly.

Sorry is that too major a thing to list here?
It just makes me feel like an afterthought rather than a person.
O.K., planners, I DON'T have a pee-pee. 51% of the world's population don't!!

Sorry. It just ANNOYS me.

I'll shut up NOW 🔚

People walking so close behind me they are practically kicking my heels. I'm disabled and a slow walker so I think they're doing it out of irritation at my slowness. I feel like saying to them FFS overtake me!

Toilets being described as a restroom. I can't think of anywhere that I'd least likely want to rest!

People in cinemas with their phones on. So distracting.

People who won't stand up to let me out of the inside seat so I can get off the bus,but just move their legs a couple of inches to one side. I'm not exactly a tiny person and because I have problems with my hips and knees,I find it very difficult to manoeuvre through a small gap. I nearly ended up in an argument and missing my stop a few weeks ago because the woman next to me just would not move sufficiently for me to get out.

My otherwise lovely friend calling 'Superdrug' 'Superdrugs'. I don't why but it really annoys me!

@JohnTheRevelator Public attitudes to disabled bodies are generally a massive irritant, aren’t they? Wheelchair spaces used for luggage, pavement parking . . .

People using their prams/buggies as battering rams in crowds, too. Your child is not a weapon, Sandra.

I may be just being dim, but I don’t understand what you are saying here 😮

I think it might be about queues for the ladies' loos? Not sure, though! 🤔