Small but massively irritating things people do in public

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Thread Sub- Heading: things people do that make you want to punch them

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 buying something at a till who carry on with their phone conversation and ignore the staff member attempting to serve them.

People who post their thoughts for others to read online, but using irritating inaccuracies in their writing. E.g. Right now I'm sat in a hospital outpatient department, when sitting.

Oh YY to this - people who do this should lose the right to use supermarkets.

People who stand still once they've got off the escalator.
Those that take dogs into shops on a long lead.
Sniffers and hoikers.
Those that cram themselves into a lift rather than wait for the next one.
People who speed through roundabouts.

Generally existing

Mums with prams, walking side by side so they can chat, seemingly totally oblivious to the fact that they are taking up the whole pavement width.

People letting their dogs off the lead to run free, then walking along glued to a phone, thus not noticing when the dog does a poo or rushes up to harass random walkers.

People who fling open car doors without looking to see if there are pedestrians on the adjacent bit of pavement.

Right now it’s the charity people in our High St who have been there for days and every single time I walk past them and say I don’t have time to stop try the “well I’ll be quick then”. I know they have a job to do but no means bloody no.

Yes!
Sniffing or whistling in enclosed public spaces other people can't leave without considerable inconvenience (queuing for example). The sniffing is unbearable (I've skipped aisles I need things from in the supermarket to avoid following a sniffer down the aisle) but the whistling has the added aspect of being utterly deliberately, needlessly and selfishly impossing on the aural space of lots of strangers - the entitlement adds salt to the mental wound.

Sniff! Blow your nose!!

People who have the thingy turned on on their phone that makes the keys click or beep when they type. Gives me the right rage. People who keep sniffing, especially on public transport when you can't escape!

OMG people who stop dead in shop doorways do my head in! Usually men I've noticed. They take one step into the shop then slam the brakes on and look around in a confused, helpless manner,as if to say I can't cope with this!

When you are standing in a queue in the supermarket and the person behind you is so close to you, you are almost touching.

I get fed up with moving slightly away and they bloody well follow you.

Stand back for goodness sake.

Oh god yes. The rugby on Sunday catching the train home. Me, DS - tiny for his age and SEN and clearly needing help, pitch black but loads of people (about 6 deep on platform) and DH on a heaving platform. A train arrives and myself & DS pushed by people but in particular -one very overweight man - I had tight hold of crying DS - and said we will get the next one - separated from DH. The big bloke ignored me and shoved me and DS on the already packed train and shoved another load of people forward and we had nowhere to go. Separated from DH - thank god for stranger Dan and Nigel rugby 🏉 players who ended up pushing back and large man couldn’t get on. The station over voice was ‘stop pushing- there are children step away from the doors stop trying to get on’ etc But Dan and Nigel protected my son who was crying. Train left (luckily DH was able to catch the next one) and Bless Nigel and Dan who were actually looking out for everyone else. Room became available to stand ok and they put parents and children in the space or a guy who looked like he needed it. They stood for 90 minutes and left everyone sit when seats became available.i was fearful for our safety of being crushed.

Dog walkers using stupidly long leads/extendible leads or no leads at all, with a dog that isn't properly trained.

Nasty buggers on the internet

Oh, where to start?

Whistling, culprit is often male. I don't want to hear you trilling like a budgie, makes me murderous.

Congregating in doorways/at the top of stairs or escalators/the middle of the pavement. MOVE.

Moving to get into the lift before I've had a chance to get out. Patrons of the local M&S seem to be particularly guilty of this (maybe elsewhere too, I don't go to many other places with lifts now that I think about it).

Plenty of other things but I'll probably get raised blood pressure if I think of them.

They exist.

people blocking supermarket aisles chatting and completely ignoring you while you try to lean over them to get items.
People sitting on the bus/train next to me with a raging cold, coughing, sneezing and snotting all over the place.
People that let their bratty kids chase pigeons/seagulls on the ground trying to kick them.
People burning shitty plastic stuff in the summer when others have their washing on the line.

Agree with some of these. Today I was paying for petrol and a bloke was stood just a few inches behind me. I kept looking over my shoulder hoping he'd take the hint. I purposely went really slowly. I tend and stared at himself I left and he gave me a friendly smile so I felt a bit bad

There's this pt at my local gym & she's got a voice like a foghorn. You always know when she's there as you can hear her annoying, droning voice over the music

Agree phone use in waiting rooms, kids especially without headphones, just piss off.
I'm already wound the fuck up in the dentists, I don't need your kids fucking repetitive shite blasting out.

Mine is people with pervasive voices in a crowd.

This. Not necessarily in a crowd. I can be sat on a sunbed on a beach, on a plane, train wherever and I can hear someone's life story or why Jean is such a cow, or why Doreen up the road has an annoying son, or why their husband shouldn't do this or that.

Worse on a plane. You can't escape

They really piss me off. I don't mind if I say no and they leave it, but the pushing on with further questions or assumptions is infuriating.
Now if they ask me if I care about kids/the environment/the elderly I say no, I hate them/it and keep walking. Obviously I don't, but ask a stupid question and all that.

People.
All people.

That's a bit sad. There are some wonderful people in the world. Only a small percentage are tossers

Families do it too - stand back everyone, we’re coming through