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 🙈

If the OP thinks that for her it’s mostly a phone thing, it’s mostly a phone thing!!

I suspect I’m also worthy of a dx of misophonia but it’s also definitely mostly to do with phones for me also. If they didn’t exist I’d struggle on public far less!

@PuppiesProzacProsecco thanks for this thread. I’ve found my tribe!

Absolutely people who sniff.

Round here, people who pull out across a lane of traffic to turn right - or worse, people who honk at you because you won't pull out across traffic. It scares the fuck out of me, and a lot of van drivers do it on the low-visibility turn onto the main road near me, where if you do it you are sitting sideways-on to all the traffic pelting towards you at 60mph, hoping they slam their brakes on. Just why?!

People who presume because they are doing Couple Things they take priority. That includes people walking right down the centre of the pavement arm-in-arm because they are too In Lurve to separate their bodies, but also people who shop as a couple and therefore need to have a long discussion of what they're eating for Sunday dinner while everyone else is just trying to pick up a fucking chicken before they die of old age.

People (usually men) who think they're so hilariously witty that the whole bus/train will want to hear their entire monologue.

People (usually women) who spray perfume in public.

Anyone who tuts/pulls faces about crying babies when it is entirely obvious their attendant parent is just as desperate as everyone else to get them to stop crying, and only wishes they could.

People who take up the entirety of an under 3's play area because they want to bring their 2 month old on everything and there simply isn't room for an adult in the small space.

Yes! I came on to say people who text on public transport who leave key tones on.

So clicky that they may as well be sending it in morse code

As this is why I WFH and shop online I can a avoid people as much as possible these days

I don't have PMT but I am really grumpy; I'm going to go again.

• People who cannot park the car they drive and do that ridiculous multiple-reverse thing where they go pointlessly backwards and forwards several times in order to move the car ... nowhere. I'm fine if you need to stop and look or whatever it is that's important to you, but FFS, if the car is in the space then bloody leave it there. You're not a cat trying to get cosy on the sofa; you do not need to wiggle back and forwards six times until you've warmed the spot.
• People who try to queue jump on behalf of their kids. 'Can little Johnny have a go next, he really struggles with the waiting!' Especially when it's an adult asking a child to give up their turn.
• 'I'm just going to nip in quickly' as an excuse for queue jumping/interrupting someone doing something.

The chomping. I cant even stand my husband doing that on a night. I shout at him often. I have sleep apnea i now have a machine. Hes put up with alot. With a family gathering its like flipping torture one family member chomps with gob open. I want to stab him I have misophonia no doubt. Tbf probably im probably autistic, i need a break from people i cant cope with it for too long. Makes me shut down. I need my own space. Also dislike spitting. No need for it.

People deciding to park their trolleys opposite each other in the supermarket at angles that completely block the isle and then spend ages stopped there.

Foot tapping here too. Not just the sound, the visual of it bouncing up and down as well...I've been known to shut my eyes on public transport to not see a bouncing foot opposite me!

Many phone offences - not having it on silent for anything.

Many eating offences in my eyeline - not knowing how to use cutlery, chewing with open mouth, making noises.

Whistling. How I hate it. Thankfully, it’s dying out.

@TY78910 I used to work in a library, and one of our more “fragrant” customers once asked to borrow a pair of scissors, we presumed for cutting paper. No, he proceeded to cut his toe nails in the reading room - grim!

For me it's definitely people walking really slowly in front me (not older people or people with mobility issues) chatting away like the rest of us have all the time in the world to get where we need to be & taking all the pavement up. Also people who put out there bins on bin day in the middle of the pavement, so I have to move it to get past, because their too lazy to put it closer to the wall. Also people who rattle their food packets whilst crunching abnormally loud & heavy breathing like darth vader with asthma at the same time. (Fellow autistic, with mysaphonia here, so I feel your pain OP)

Well, mine is about people who just stand there and DON'T SAY A WORD TO PEOPLE WHO ARE BLATANTLY ANNOYING THEM.
What has happened to us all that we can no longer speak up ? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Noise cancelling headphones are truly a wonderful thing, highly recommended in many of these situations… blissful to literally switch off the annoying person having a loud speakerphone conversation or whatever it is…

There was a man sitting behind me in the bus playing loud videos over and over again. I turned round and glared at him repeatedly. He just kept on doing it . My BP was through the roof yet I was not able to muster the gall to tell him to turn it off. I was almost at that point though when I got off the bus .

The fact that the news is forever reporting on assaults and worse because someone dared to challenge this behaviour- people are too scared to say anything.

Mostly phone and/or TFL related.

People who dawdle along in tube stations staring at their phones during rush hour, holding everyone behind them up.

People who have loud phone conversations on public transport. Extra rage if they’re on speaker/facetime. Extra, extra rage if it’s a pointless conversation ‘you alright babe?’ ‘Yeah babe, just on the tube,babe’ ‘cool, I’m just on the bus’ ‘cool’ 😡

Parents who let their kids watch crap on their phones without headphones on public transport, so everyone has to hear peppa fucking pig on blast.

Dickheads who jump on the tube before letting people off.

People who go to the supermarket with their partner then block the shelves while arguing over what to buy. People who say cohort instead of group.

People who stop in their car to speak to a pedestrian or another driver and completely block the road while they chat. Usually when there’s plenty of room to pull over to chat.

People who use ‘hun’.

People who stand and lean over you whilst talking to you when you’re seated.

Argh yes cohort!

I agree with all of those except the leg shaking. I jiggle my leg a lot.

I do it because I'm stimming with ADHD. It helps to regulate yourself when stimming. I can't always help it.

The toenail thing is absolutely disgusting. I would have wanted to vomit.

Omg are you me?

I abhor people who do not indicate.

For the people who hate certain noises, I recommend loops. My god, they've saved me in so many situations.

Man next to me had a nervous leg on the train, sat there with one leg twitching the whole time. I realise it must be a stress thing and they don't perhaps know they are doing it, but it really puts me on edge.

Grow up!