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.

Noone instead of no one drives me mad.

Influencers or random people promoting products online, who constantly tap tap the product with their long, false nails. It really annoys me ( illogically )...

I have a shared driveway with my neighbour. For two years they have had a billboard up advertising a local building development. The same size and shape as a for sale sign. It IS technically on their side but is right in the middle so barely an inch from our side. They are getting £100 a month for having it there. They have never once mentioned it. I think if they just once acknowledged that is it a bit of an eyesore/pain I would be fine with it and say of course don’t worry. But instead I am becoming unreasonably enraged by it as time goes on. Two years!

The way that these days everyone says things are 'paired' with things, eg, 'what will you pair that with?' Irrationally winds me up.

@Lavender1974oh that would really annoy me.

People having loud conversations shouting at their mobile and having the other person on speakerphone. It makes me want to hurl their phone at a wall.

Videos,playing shit music with no headphones on public transport.

The facial recognition on my work laptop. Unless the light is in exactly the right spot, it says it doesn’t recognise me. No problem if my hair is sticking out, I have no makeup on and have forgotten to put on my glasses, that seems to be fine but god forbid the lighting is a fraction out. Then I have to find the scrap of paper I wrote the latest 15 character password on to be able to do some work. Pah!

The rise of labels and terms like 'disregulation' etc... when most kids need boundaries, structure, challenges to build resilience and less screen time/rewards.

Usual disclaimers about not meaning genuine ND kids.

Swimmers who are slower than you and don’t follow the lane etiquette of letting faster swimmers past.
Especially when they are taking a break, watch you approach and push off just before you get there AFTER I’ve already caught up with them twice before.
Also swimmers who gather up at the shallow end talking and thus completely blocking you from turning and pushing off to keep going. If you’re only here for a chitchat go meet in the cafeteria before/after.

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All the personal stuff you have to do between getting out of bed and going out of the house - washing, doing hair, brushing teeth, putting on various creams and lotions, putting on clothes and shoes and socks.
I want to just get up and go out into a warm world where clothes are not needed and nobody cares if your hair is like a bird's nest and you have wrinkles.

Mobile phone zombies wearing large headphones slow walking in the middle of the pavement, oblivious to anyone wanting to get past.

The search engine telling me that I visit a site often (usually wordle).
Like I didn't know already.
Why does that irk? It just does

People who post their children on social media but insist on putting an emoji on the child’s face. It’s so performative and really, really irritating.

I hate ‘alot’ as well. Bad grammar is irritating generally (I know that’s unfair of me) but alot is particularly grating.

@thistimelastweek on a similar note I find it irritating when google demands I sign in. No.

Socks pulled up over leggings. You are a laughing stock.

My 18 dd2 brushing her teeth in the morning, the delicate spitting over and over and then the banging of the tooth brush against the sink before she puts it away.

i mean im not whinging about her brushing her teeth and we get on pretty well but oh god that noise sends me crackers

strangely I don’t mind dd3, she gives them a good hearty scrub, spits once, toothbrush slammed back in the holder and then she’s on her merry way, thundering down the stairs and out the door 😂

Group chats, especially multiple ones for the same place of work

@Creu I feel you - I had a bright red van parked outside my house for 3 weeks and I hated it. It reflected red light into my living room and it was basically all I could see when I looked out of the window 🤦🏻‍♀️

See also, the noises accompanying yawns, in particular the back of the throat ‘ccchhhh’ noise that both an ex and my current partner didn’t do at the start but starting doing and I hate it so much I have to put my fingers in my ears 🤦🏻‍♀️

People who argue with me.
When I am right.
Always.
😉.

@Revoltingpheasants

“On a similar note I find it irritating when google demands I sign in. No.”

THIS!!! X 1 billion. 😡.

When I'm in a cafe or restaurant, and there's some idiot diner VERY LOUDLY and REPEATEDLY coughing really snottily and throatily, instead of walking out for a few minutes to clear it. Puts me right off my meal!

The internet's utter obsession with stupid ''dating'' sites, and have awful-looking women that are plastered in thick makeup and barely wearing anything!

Spitters. Whistlers. Repeated sniffing, not as in having a cold, just ...loud sniffing!

Some cyclists, those who whizz around at speed and don't give a hoot if they crash into the person on a walker who is crossing the road or getting on/off the pavement!

Parents who are ''Karen's and Normans'' who are entitled and thinks evetyone should get out of the way of their huge over-sized prams!

Overly-loud ''music'' in supermarkets, shops, cafes etc., where we can't hear ourselves think!

People parking right next to you in a large car park when there are hundreds of vacant spaces.
People engaging till operatives in extended conversation AFTER they have paid for and packed their shopping while you stand there waiting to move through with your purchases with a pained look on your face which they knowingly ignore.

The way mobile phones and social media have turned a lot of people into utter morons.

They stop to check their phone in the middle of a walkway.

They have noises coming out of the speaker. If you can afford a phone you can afford £20 Bluetooth earbuds if nothing else.

Everything is a 3 minute video to convey information I can read in 20 seconds and easily refer back to.

People posing around in public having their photo taken or using stupid hand signals.

Those 'mirror selfie' pictures especially when used to advertise clothing.