Small things that irritate you

[Creu]

But you accept shouldn’t?

Someone has parked their car outside my house for the past 6-7 months and haven’t moved it even once. It’s taxed and MOT’d, so can’t do anything about it. I know it’s a small thing and I know it shouldn’t annoy me, but it is oddly irritating.

Haha cross post!

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People in yoga. Coming in late, knocking over their water bottles during a stretch, breathing really loudly, just irritating.

People yawning without covering their mouth.

This isn’t an original observation but the infuriating lids on tetrapak cartons that are now attached and make it impossible to pour

Seeing another persons tonsils and spittle is so gross.

I particularly hate the packaging bacon comes in. It often comes with a handy tab to open it that always comes off without actually opening the packet.

Also tinned food with ring pulls and the ring pull snaps off and you have to use the bastard tin opener.

in the same theme, when you open a new milk and the little tab comes off and you have to stab it with a knife.

rage.

My neighbour's daily reverse parking fails, into a space large enough to park a bus. I've lived in my house for 13 years and it's not improved at all. It still takes her several attempts, all with far too many revs. And her sons now drive and they're exactly the same!

Getting petrol. It annoys me. I have to either make a special trip or stop on the way to or from somewhere. Paying at the pump has made it slightly more bearable but I still feel pissed off standing on the forecourt with a petrol pump in hand. I tend to wait until the fuel light comes on just to avoid it. I’ve been driving for 30 years and this has never not irritated me. I’m considering an electric car next and this is one of the motivating factors!

People sitting too close to me when we’re both eating. Ever since someone spoke with their mouth full and a small bit of their food spat on my plate, I can’t stand anyone close to me. Makes me feel ill.

That last bit about the frying pan made me laugh out loud!😅🤣

I, like previous posters, live in a block of flats with a communal corridor. I can hear everything that goes on in this hallway arrangement and when my neighbours say goodbye to visitors they go in for that extended, "Going but not not going," leaving chat palaver.

It shouldn't irritate me but it does, sometimes.

"Bye"
"Next Tuesday?"
"Wednesday. No. Thursday."
"Bye"
"Did I tell you about Gladys?"
"No! She's had her op!"
"Knee?"
"No hip."
"Anyway. Did we say Friday?"
"Bye bye."
"No. Monday."
"Her ankle, you said."
"Elbow. That's what I said. Bill's wrist."
"Bye again. We settled on Saturday?"
"Rained for days."
"See you on Sunday."

GET ON WITH IT!
STAY OR GO.

And heaven help me if they start on anything like politics or how much they despise various members of their families.

Lovely people, I'm sure but I don't want to know.

Needing to wash my hair. I try to get away with not doing it for as long as possible but hate realising at 23:00 that I need to be in the office the next day and my hair needs washing. Drying it is so boring.

You must be able to see my Road, OP!

Got 2 cars been stuck here since (1) last June… cheeky bastard SORNed it Jan 1st so it’s sat there, totally illegally and taking up a space all that time. It’s even going mouldy now😵‍💫
Apparently the Council & DVLA are involved and it should be gone shortly.
Car (2) dumped outside my house since November 20th… Tax runs out in May.
Damn nuisance to be honest, you can just never get close enough to our own car to hoover it out, sort out the dog covers etc, it’s just a bloody pain.

Who buys cars to just dump them? Never seemingly returning to them, just letting them rot?

Oh, I almost forgot.. just up the road, a rusty motorbike has appeared… forlorn and unloved in all the rain…no apparent owner who needs it! 🤷‍♀️

This is just a nice ordinary street, not tucked away, it’s fairly close to a main road, nothing special…God knows why we are “ the chosen street”

Passwords and secondary authentication. I get so wound up when I’m just trying to get a piece of information or look at something and it’s like trying to break the enigma code with facial recognition, putting in a number on a second screen, texting me a number which may or may not arrive and then when it does arrive you’ve already re-requested it and now it’s not valid and you finally give up and say “forgotten password” put in a new password and then it’s either some insane mix of letters number symbols but not those symbols or it’s “you can’t use a password you’ve already used” despite it saying your password was incorrect when you tried it…. Etc etc etc.

For a second I was in shock horror mode as I thought you had said hit the dog....however, somehow, hitting yourself with the frying pan becomes hilarious!😂

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People using “was” and “were” wrongly. “You/We was waiting for him for ages” ….urghhh

It irritates me that every time I get my hair done the price has increased because my hairdresser has been promoted from Stylist to Designer to Senior Technician to Artistic Director, etc or some other poncy name for the same woman providing the same service.

I'm bracing myself for her next step up to “Creative Architect” when all I want is a hair cut not a new cathedral.

People who think "alot" and "incase" are one word. I have to work hard to suppress the urge to comment on it on a daily basis.

This is so well written and relatable even though I don't live in a block of flats.

Adverts.

When you get the same 2 or 3 adverts in every single break in a programme.
'McDelivery? No just fuck off.

Also adverts where they start talking at a normal pace then speed up so much towards the end that you've no idea what they're saying. Just why? Who thought up this ridiculous concept?

The noise of the cat licking herself clean.

Tesco blocking the bloody Internet signal within a huge radius around their store so I cant check my bank balance before I go in, can't whatsapp my DC to ask them to check on some cupboard staple I have forgotten to check. All to prevent customers comparing prices whilst in store!!

Lemon-sucking posters on MN who wouldn't take a joke if it was covered in chocolate, gift-wrapped and handed to them on a silver platter.