Small but massively irritating things people do in public

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I'll qualify this by saying I'm autistic and have misophonia so am probably more easily wound up than the average person!

Right now I'm sat in a hospital outpatient department waiting for my orthopaedic appointment and the others in the waiting area are driving me nuts!

One seat over- Youngish (late 20s) female who has huge, pointy, fake nails on and is using the ends to tap her phone screen - ARGHHHH! She's also sniffing A LOT.

One seat further from her - middle aged lady (wearing gorgeous knee high boots) who has the touch tones switched on on her phone - that awful bubbling noise at high volume - ARGGHHHH!

Other side of the room - 30s ish lady who is getting almost constant messaging alerts (again, volume is UP) on her phone - ARRRRRRRGHHHHH! She's also foot tapping like crazy.

Reading this back, the main issue seems to be bloody phones though!

Tell me your stories of things you didn't murder people in public for (but could've claimed justifiable homicide if you had). Make me feel like less of an evil cow 🙈

People who overtake you on the motorway or dual carriageway, pull-in in front if you & promptly brake, causing you to have to brake too.

Drivers who dont acknowledge you when you let them in/ pass etc

Drivers who dont indicate

Drivers who weave through traffic on the motorway at high speed & pull across all lanes of traffic to exit at the last moment.

Yeah, mainly idiot, selfish Drivers. 90% of the time it's men

Mine is people with pervasive voices in a crowd.

I can guarantee whenever I am in a coffee shop/restaurant/on a train, there is always one person/couple who you can hear above the usual hum of a room full of people.

It happened when I went into the office yesterday too. Office full of people, lots of normal chatter but one person who you can hear clear as day over everyone else. Every phone call, every meeting. I had my headphones on almost all day to block it out.

The escalator thing is exactly what I came on here to post. It's happened to me a lot more than once and I very rarely go on the tube!

People who have no concept of personal space.
I was food shopping yesterday, it was fairly busy. There was a person who just kept standing so close, and I mean a few inches behind me in multiple places in the shop. I could feel his bloody breath! It wasn't that I was loitering or taking my time in front of cabinets, I was actually hurrying, he just seemed to have no awareness that other people were there and would wait right in my breathing space. I saw him in the next queue over when checking out and he was far too close to the man in front of him then as well. It's such a horrible and uncomfortable feeling. I had a lady do it to me at an airport recently as well, she kept poking me with her bag she was that close.

People who cross the road by walking through cars waiting to go through lights, when there is a crossing twenty feet up the road! When I come to power these people will be heavily fined! Actually, let's just fine all jaywalkers, I can't stand people who refuse to cross the road sensibly!

Neighbours/anyone who ambushes you and says "Im glad I caught you ..." when you just went to put something in the bin. No you didnt catch me, Im not your bloody prey.

Couriers who deliver a parcel and ask can you take one for next door? "Sorry Im going away for a few days".

Anyone who begins "Can I just ask ..." No, fuck off.

People who faff about at the supermarket kiosk doing complicated lottery ticket requests. They want six of that one, two of this one, cash in this one and pay me in coppers, oh and I also want six for Tuesday and one for Friday but please take half my winnings to pay for 3 of them

People eating very strong smelling food in places like trains, cinemas, at their work desk etc.

@NuffSaidSam agree completely. I offer people packets of tissues it drives me that bloody mad 😂😂

Most of these. People who stand really close behind you in a queue, to the point they are touching you or bumping into your luggage give me the absolute rage.

When you're trying to cross the road and a large group is coming through other way and expects you to move. It's like some people can't bear to walk single file

People who can't walk in a straight line and just edge closer and closer when you're walking

People walking down the middle of the pavement but don't leave enough room either side for someone to pass

People who stop dead on pavements talking to each other and blocking the way so no one else can pass without going onto muddy grass or in the road.

People who stop and hold chats in front of doors that I want to go through.

People who let their kids run riot around supermarkets while people are trying to manoevre heavy trolleys, then complain when their kids get hit by them.

People who walk powerful dogs off lead (your dog may be OK, but the other dog it meets may not be).

People who dither in front of products in supermarkets blocking access to anyone that wants them. Dithering by looking at every ingredient on the product turning it round 6 times and then putting it back. Then picking it up again and doing exactly the same thing.

In short, people full stop.

I once worked with a woman who bought the lucky dips and then chosen numbers for our syndicate every week.

The lucky dips had to be done first as she believed that otherwise the chosen numbers would affect the lucky dip picks. I can only imagine the eye roll of the kiosk staff

A colleague in our open plan office repeatedly clicks his pen when he’s on calls. I fear one day I will snap and rip it out of his hand…

People who don’t start walking when they get to the end of an escalator! Fgs you don’t need to be deposited to the very end - start walking with 2 or 3 steps to go to keep things flowing.

Leg shaking/foot tapping when you’re on a shared bench or connected seats. I know it’s probably a habit but it’s still annoying for others.

People driving at 54 miles an hour, in good weather, on the motorway. Speed up or take a different route.

"The lucky dips had to be done first as she believed that otherwise the chosen numbers would affect the lucky dip picks. I can only imagine the eye roll of the kiosk staff"

Unless you know the way the random numbers for the lucky dip are picked this is surely impossible to know 100%.

Maybe it uses the last chosen numbers as a seed in some way for the random number generator.

Physically Pushing past when you are in the supermarket clearly choosing produce. More important than you syndrome

Pushing past in the street to imply you are going too slow only to go at a glacial pace in front of you

I've found my people! Yes, YES, YES to every bloody one of these. I also heartily agree that cutting your toenails in public (I literally gagged at this and I'm using literally, literally @PGmicstand) is not a small thing. It's a vile, disgusting, obscene thing.

Oh, and I also have raging PMT at the minute @MotherofPufflings so I'm even less tolerant than usual (if that's possible).

People who leave their wheelie bins blocking the pavement

Reading this back, the main issue seems to be bloody phones though!

I think the main issue seems to be your misophonia.

It must be horrible to be so irritated by life's noises.

I sometimes find them mildly annoying, like if I'm sharing a small office space with someone - the tapping of their keyboard as they type, breaks my concentration.

But it doesn't make me feel massively irritated thank goodness.

I work in an open plan office...

People eating smelly food for lunch (there is a staff room they could use)
People eating loud/cruncy food (apples, crisps)
People spraying deodorant or perfume

Out in the street...
Spitting 🤢
Leaving bags of dog poo at the base of a sign post/tree/lamp post. Why? Do they think the National Trust sign is actually a bus stop for the dog poo fairy? It's grim.

I feel your pain, OP. I'm also autistic and hate all phone noises. I have my phone on silent 24/7.

Other things that drive me nuts - speakerphone calls without using headphones (a few months ago I was in a quiet cafe with one other customer and she spent FORTY minutes on a speakerphone call ARGGGHH!), spitting, constant sniffing, body odour (very common among bus passengers).

Again pavement hogs. I live in a small town and side streets are narrow. So people (me) going one way and two people approaching who dont go single file so force me into road. If im stubborn and stay on the path its the huffing that does it. Also joggers who expect you to move. And, this is niche, there's an alley running down beside my house into town, one person wide- ancient. In the summer particularly its the visitors going through it saying "oo this is narrow. You'd think they'd widen it. Etc" also the ignorant cunts who dont think about waiting until you've got through before barging through.

Whistling.
I can't stand it

I regularly used to see a woman leaving bags of dog poo on our driveway or by our back gate. When I confronted her about it, she swore like a sailor and insisted she always took them away on her walk home. No she didn't.

I told her to leave them on her property (which was very nearby). I quite often lobbed the bags over her fence!🤣