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 walk in front of me in a supermarket when I'm looking at a shelf and who also stand and look, blocking my view. Grabbing a quick item with an apology, 'Sorry' or 'Scuse me!' are fine. But just to stand there so I can't see?

Is it just me or is that rude?

Omg yes why do they immediately get closer?

Children (or anyone) listening to devices without headphones in a public place.

people who answer their phones to tell you ‘they can’t talk right now’ just bloody well let it go to voicemail then?

Families who all go to the supermarket together and then let the kids run riot

Now it’s dark at 4pm there are lots of people in my area who clearly shouldn’t be driving in the dark - hesitant, slow and slamming on brakes when cars come towards them. So annoying.

Overly enthusiastic and demonstrative parents who talk to their children at the top of their voices about every inane thing, comment and over explain everything going on in the moment. I spoke to my kids a lot too when they were little but I wasn’t doing it for anyone else’s benefit and I didn’t feel the need to use my loudest voice either.

I could go on……I’m getting grumpier as I get older 😂

Gosh it's hard to choose just one, I hate so many things about people!

Probably phones/ipads on speaker is the worst. Especially if they're scrollimg through reels so the noise changes every few seconds.

I'm ok with sniffing on public transport compared to the alternative - people blowing snot all over a tissue then handling said tissue for the rest of the journey then touching every handle and rail on their way out. Sniff it back up!

People saying umm and err while they work out what to say next. If you can't find the word you are looking for, just pause while you think about it.

Please save a bed in this camp for my husband. His sniffing drives me bonkers.

I worked in Oxford over summer and the tourists were a fucking nightmare. Genuinely no idea how locals cope. They kept just stopping in the middle of the pavement so I’d very nearly crash into them. I witnessed more than one of them standing in the middle of the road to get a photograph of themselves in front of a building.

I was often in a rush to get from Cowley where I stayed to the Bod where I was researching and for anyone who knows, it’s around a 25/30 min walk. The pavements are incredibly narrow, I would constantly be trying to manoeuvre around slow tourists dawdling and taking pics. Honestly, kudos to any Oxford locals who haven’t lost the plot.

Sorry that was a rant about the hell that is Oxford.

I also hate people eating McDonald’s on the train because it just has that McDonald’s smell. Not sure what it is, any food smells like it but it lingers for ages and makes me queasy.

Why is it men that whistle? I've never known women to do it. And yes, drives me nuts.

You feel like you feel but my Bikeability leadership training says otherwise. I'm doing as trained to do for safety. A cheerful good morning is not sufficient warning for many. A bell is more effective. I'm not being imperious, I'm making a noise that is easily distinguished so that you know I am there.
Some people are chatting and miss a good morning, others have earphones in. There are those with hearing impairments to consider too.

Unless you expect cyclists to get off the bike and walk past or around every pedestrian on the multi-user path, you should accept that by dinging their bell from further back on a wide path, they are doing what's correct. It's so you don't dart across the path as we are passing.

Parking half on a narrow pavement. People/prams/wheelchairs have to go onto the busy road to pass.

Dog shit leavers.

spitters

Loud speaker listeners

People I visit who have TV on loud when conversing

Interrupters, let people finish what they are saying.

Tail gaters. Fuck off, I’m going to go slower you cunt.

52 miles per hour in the middle lane of the motorway twats. Move.

40 miles per hour twats joining the motorway. The A roads will suit you better.

Train spreaders. Their shit all over the shared table.

Bag on train seat twunts. Yes move it, I’m not standing to accommodate your bag for 4 hours.

Me, me me people who ask NOTHING about anyone in conversation but talk at length about themselves.

Supermarket belt neglectors, put the fucking divider on between your shopping and mine.

Oh yes! ‘was sat’/‘am sat’ rather than ‘sitting’!!!!!

Ugh this one for me. Where I used to live was especially bad for it except the pavements were also ridiculously thin. People also parked on the pavement taking up the rest of the room. I had one relative in a wheelchair and another with a double buggy and often had to walk ahead and push them all in to their front gates to allow them past. Infuriating.

This! Was in a lovely cafe the other day, by the sea in Dorset, and a man at the next table kept vibrating his leg bloody irritating and anti/social, can’t understand how his partner put up with it or didn’t tell him stop. Okay on your own home (if you’re really can’t train yourself out of it?????) but wholly inconsiderate to inflict on strangers just wanting peace cup of tea.

Yes @BabyHairs especially if they are blocking a dropped kerb!

When you're walking along quite happily at your own speed and approach people who have been standing still the whole time you've been coming towards them, they then pick the exact moment you're about to pass them to start slowly walking in the direction you're going, forcing you to slow down or alter your path to avoid collision. Drives me bonkers and happens surprisingly often.

Not giving some indication of thanks if I allow a car out in traffic. It grinds my gears.
Not saying thank you if I hold a door open for a stranger. I’m not an unpaid doorwoman.
Not saying thanks if I let someone through on a narrow stairs or passageway.
I just like good manners.
People saying “I seen it..”
or “I done it….” 🙄

I do wonder if that person worked in sales, perhaps? I have someone like that at work and on office days, no matter if they're inside or outside, they use an outside voice. I think because when you're trying to sell all day, you have to have an authentic, bubbly voice which requires a bit of volume. Ideally those people need a separate room where they can be as extravagant and flamboyant as they like without wrecking other peoples' focus.

People who drive right up your exhaust pipe on the road.

I can be in a long line of traffic ahead, I see someone in the mirror roaring up behind me and drives right up almost in the car. Do they not see the line of cars in front of me, do they never think if the car in front of them brakes suddenly, they will end up in the boot as they leave hardly any room to safely brake?

It's not always men either, a lot of women do it too. I wonder sometimes if they have poor eyesight and if they had their eyes tested it might improve their driving skills on leaving a safe distance from the car in front or have their licence removed as they are an obvious danger to other motorists.

Pillocks!

Groups of people standing around chatting whilst blocking the pavement.
Groups of people walking slowly in a line
People stopping at the top or bottom of an escalator - this is pretty dangerous
People blocking ticket barriers whilst they look for their ticket
People standing in a passport queue for ages and when they finally get to the window they start looking for their passport.

Mine are all about people making me wait.😂

People in London who let their dogs poo on the pavement or in parks where people sit and leave it there - just gross. You wouldn’t go to the bathroom and leave a big number two for someone to clear away so why let your dogs do it. If you decide to get a dog, be responsible and clear up after it.

This and people watching tv shows/films on trains without headphones.

Shufflers- people who walk at a snails pace and hold you up
Men who spit in the street ugh
People who talk on their phone headpiece thingies so they walk along airing their thoughts to the world at top volume

People who save seats on a busy train for their friends who are getting on at a later stop. There were people standing.

I’ve put that as minor as it didn’t really affect me since I was getting off 15 minutes later.

It’s nearly always in a supermarket, since it has that kind of floor - people who slop along and don’t pick their feet up! It really grates on me.

People who discuss personal issues on their phones when on a train journey .I would prefer not to know about the situations people are facing. Keep calls to a minimum when it involves information that should not be shared with other people.