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.

At the Winter Olympics SO many competitors doing that heart thing with their fingers at the camera.

Also kids in photos doing the peace sign - just why?

having to delete so many multiple emails that say we noticed you've been looking, don't forget there's something in your basket, we've got your order, we're getting it ready, we've despatched it, it's out for delivery, it's been delivered, how did we do please rate us, please rate the delivery service too, have you considered these other things we offer

Think carefully about this. Personally I'd find plugging the bastard thing in all the time far more annoying than less frequently filling with fuel!

“Easy peel” packaging. Anything with a film on it, that has a tab that says “peel here” then the tiny corner breaks off, or it takes an inch of the peel off and leaves the rest. The “tear here” strip that you tear off but the packaging remains firmly closed. (Looking at you Cadbury’s).

Surely they have tested this to the limit in pre-production but it never works. Any given day I hear my husband shouting “ ‘easy peel’, my ARSE” from the kitchen.

Because it reminds you how much time you're 'wasting' on the site??

'wasting' being your OWN view, not mine.

it annoys me that it gives my the time I spent 'online' & whether that's more or less than usual. But it doesn't (cant??) differentiate between when the phone is just open on say MN & when I'm actually reading or posting. So 'accuses' me if being online when I'm actually doing something productive but just haven't closed the phone down.

Obviously I do just ignore it, but it does still irk me! & I tell it so🤣

People who stick their tongues out. Just why? It isn't attractive, it doesn't make you fun or cool, no one wants to see your tongue.

I was watching Gladiators and there has been both a man and a woman that have done it.

Next doors washing line tied to our concrete fence post

...plus the duplicate emails and texts from the delivery company, we've got your package, we're processing your package, we're going to be delivering your package soon (x a bazillion), it's out for delivery, it's on its way (x a bazillion), we've delivered it, here's a photo of you holding it when it was delivered, how was our service, sign up to an account, download our app...

Just FUCK OFF!

Getting in to the car, wondering why it won’t start, getting back out to unplug it. Does my nut in!

Tesco doesn’t do that. The structure of the store does that. It’s a big steel framed building with metal cladding, that messes with signals. The reason we know Tesco isn’t doing that is because they offer free wifi in all their bigger stores. Why go to the expense of providing that if they don’t want people checking the Internet in stores?

People who “whip” their coffee for ages, people who scrape every last bloody bit -
and then the pattern off their plate or bowl, people who scrape anything really…
Chairs against floors in cafes
Spoons in yoghurt pots
Garden tools against concrete
Utensils against pans
{my teeth are leaping out of my mouth at this point!)
People mindlessly tapping, pens, spoons, anything - just STOP!!

Oh god yes I used to really struggle with the sound of my dog lapping his (empty) testicles. And yet I really miss that guy.

Being asked for reviews for absolutely everything by every single company involved. Being asked for feedback constantly. Do I really have to tell the world every single time someone I paid to do something does what they were paid to do?

Adverts which are MUCH LOUDER than the TV programme that I'm watching. Usually it ends up with me having to scramble around to find the remote as quickly as possible so the noise can be turned down. Makes me want to avoid any of the products being shouted about!

Loving these! I must be a very irritable person, because there are so many small things that drive me a bit bonkers. Many of mine are noise related. I have mild synethesia so noises irritate in me in colour too, which I think just adds to the annoyance levels! I'll stick to just a few below:

Repeated sniffing, throat clearing or saliva based noises

Yawning without putting a hand over the mouth

Chair scraping noises

Any kind of slurping, so soup sucking, straw sucking etc

People who repeatedly put a spoon in their mouth with some kind of icecream or pudding on it and pull it in and out so that there is some stuff remaining on the spoon. I can't even look at them, it irritates me so intensely.

Bad or messy eating habits generally - so people who insist on speaking with too much food in their mouths and bits come out - dear god - arrrrrrggggghhhh!

The way some packets open now - they don’t open cleanly and seem superglued in the centre of the opening bit.

I’m going to add a second one - my inability to explain things properly sometimes ⬆️

Exercise classes starting late (and either finushing on tine or early) , or people arriving for the class dead on the start time & spending 5 mins getting their equipment out. I've made the effort to get there on time so they should too.

Those Instagram ads/video's where you don't see the person but they are holding an object of some description, say it's an envelope, and they peel it open in a certain way. Then they shake their finger at the screen, do it another way and make a close up thumbs up at the camera.

Fuck right off with your condescending suggestion you twat!

The parents who stand around chatting to each other every morning but take up the entire width of the footpath and expect everyone else - including my 3 year old - to walk in the road. Even when you say excuse me they don't budge. Ignorant fucking twats

If they ignore you again just say "can you please move as I am not walking in the gutter".

It's easier when you are walking too because you can stop and force them to go round you. I suppose another option is to stop and join in the conversation ;)

Mine is people who park on pavements.

Oh yes! Also influencers telling you you are doing XYZ wrong by wagging their finger at the camera. As if tying your scarf in a perfectly normal way is commuting the crime of the century

Sorry just seen this one has already been suggested (wags finger at self!)

Having to think about what to cook for dinner.

Every. Single. Day.

Worse when DS2 or DP are home because then there's lunch to think of too.

I quite like cooking, tbh, and will happily try new recipes, but sometimes the drag of having to think about it AGAIN when I just did it YESTERDAY ffs is too much.

And people making a little smacky noise with their lips when they lick the tips of their fingers. Just stop it. (Weirdly, the finger-licking doesn't bother me at all.)

Two more from today alone.

Firstly having to delete the spam email from a bot that says my cloud storage is full, every day I block the sender, the next day it returns in a different guise, it will not die, it is a daily chore.

Secondly having to call big organisations' call centres when none of the recorded options are right, so you have to press the "everything else" button that eventually gets you through to someone who tells you that's wrong and passes you onto another department who require all the same information all over again before telling you something will need to go through a support hub with someone else and having to listen to the verbal diarrhoea of each person at every stage repeating "perfect..... yes..... brilliant..... perfect....perfect" like some kind of tic when the situation is clearly not perfect. Knowing this you feel defeated before you even dial the number and have to muster every shred of energy to make the call in the first place

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