Things that irritate you irrationally

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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!

Oh I agree, plus it always seems to be the female toilets that the queues form. It’s not hard to enter cubicle, pull trousers down, sit, wee, wipe, flush and get out again, yet some women spend ages doing that simple sequence of tasks. It’s annoying. I want to kick the doors sometimes and shout ‘hurry the fuck up’.

People who mispronounce my surname when it is written down (it is a very unusual name but is said exactly as it is written if you just bother to read it properly. If you add an extra two syllables it is very like the surname of a famous person, and many people just lazily say that name instead).

People who stand still on the moving walkways in airports, makes me absolutely furious.

Surely you can see that for some older women, or women on their periods, or helping a young child, it takes rather longer to go to the loo than a man takes to use a urinal? That's why the queues are usually longer for the ladies. It's annoying but the issue is the lack of space allocated to adequate facilities for women, not the women using said facilities.

Traffic queue where a gap opens and someone is looking at their phone and haven't noticed traffic moving.
People trying to steer a car whilst holding a phone in one hand.
People in a shop taking selfies of themselves in front of bread, cake, cheese etc
Person in front umming/aahing about their order then faffing about with money or phone to pay.
Self scan. Item from basket, scan, place in bag. Basket, scan, bag and nauseum. Be quicker using a checkout

Oh, and when DH says "born up a tree", for Bon Appetite. He's been doing it for 20 years and presumably still finds it amusing.

And people who call is TescoS even though there is no S at the end of it!

"We're going to tescos"

Yes!
And also people (again, usually men) who put their hand on or around the passenger seat headrest when reversing!
In 20+ years of driving I've never felt the need to put my hand there when reversing!

Seeing this as a language option:

🇺🇸 English

Surely it ought to be 🇬🇧 English (country of origin) or 🇮🇳 English (country with the most English speakers, by a huge margin)?

This one actually makes sense to me. I think it goes back to the time we’d visit the butcher’s (shop) and the greengrocer’s (shop). It wasn’t a social call.

Nowadays, we’re not going to Tesco to speak to the CEO about reducing plastic packaging, we’re going to one of Tesco’s supermarkets to get some shopping.

Most things since hitting 43.

Oh yes, the "Rescue dog" heroes everywhere 😁 Always have a back story of how nervous/angry/crazy their dog was but now.. 🦚

Also, their dog is "reactive" as previously attacked by a labrador/Goldie/toy poodle/Chihuahua before. Hence the hatred for black/blonde /toy dogs..

Subway scene with a lively crowd😷

When following another vehicle and they swing out into the other lane to turn left on to their driveway 😡

It's so unnecessary to do that. Infuriating!

Yes, no one's dog is ever aggressive, always "reactive" 🙄

Opening the wrong end of a packet of tablets and getting the stupid leaflet in the way.

I will die on this hill.

Sends me raging.

A young girl at work yawns really LOUDLY several times a shift and that gets on my nerves. Yawning is fine but why the loud prolonged noise every time.

Another colleague scrapes every last drop out of their yoghurt pot every morning - the sound of the spoon scraping away makes me shudder. You won't die if you don't have every single droplet.

People smoking irritates me when I can smell it! Was walking to work on a beautiful fresh morning the other day, some old lady about 20ft ahead walking her dog, and all I could smell was dirty smoke the whole length of the road until I turned off. Then my hair probably smelt of it as I stepped into the office.

So many of these resonate - most are completely rational irritations though, including my top work related ones:

When people message "Hi Madickenxx" on Teams at work and then nothing else. Just send me a complete message that I can do something with!

People who insist on piping up in meetings but have nothing of value to say. Stop wasting my time by regurgitating stuff that's already been covered or isn't relevant to the discussion.

Yes, there is slightly more to it for some of us. I’m disabled so can take a bit longer. I try to use the disabled toilets when possible, but as most places double this up as the baby change (which those with babies have every right to use, before anyone comes for me!) it’s often quicker to use the regular toilets. Plus, as a disabled person who CAN use the regular loos where they aren’t ridiculously narrow I do sometimes feel bad for using the disabled. But then I’m in the regular ones, taking more time and riling people up. It’s hard to win, really. I completely understand the frustration when you’re waiting for someone taking ages, though. We’re all only human at the end of the day.

When people at work use the last of the hot water in the kettle and don't fill it back up!
My own little rule for myself, if it goes below half, fill it back up!

I do this and I promise (to quote Lisa Stansfield) I'm all woman 😂

Anyone walking too close behind me. What’s wrong with them. It’s anti-social.

Yes. Basically everything. And everyone.

Apart from pets and children.

To be fair, some women will be on a period, some may have Crohn’s disease, or IBS etc.

Oh same here. And there's always plenty of tp there coz they don't use it!!
But you need to be careful. Washing your hands afterwards can be difficult if there are any men or boys spraying (tho they're usually too intent on staring at their apps to notice!).