Perfectly reasonable things which you unreasonably unreasonable about

[GetOrfMoiLand]

Names with umlauts in them, unless you live in Germany or nordic lands. I don't mind accents in names, or that funny dot above the i in Irish names, but names with umlauts in get on my tits. Especially Zoë. Everyone can pronounce it when it is spelled Zoe. It is just attention seeking.

Damn - ant3nna got there before me.

It stands for 'Ministry of Transport'

I'm well in the know me!

and me. Shouldn't have double checked

Transport, isn't it - as in Ministry of Transport. So test is OK, surely?

People DM who continue talking/add a new topic of conversation when you say "I need to go now". DM is notorious for this - it's impossible to get off the phone when talking to that woman. And some of the stuff she goes on about is sooooooooooooo boring. It's always about random people I don't know/care about. e.g. "Mom, I have to go" "okay. Well, on Tuesday I went to see Bob, you know Bob, he's the one who's married to Elaine and they bought that house in 1973, well ... " "Mom, I really have to go" "uh huh. Well, Bob has bought a new tree"

How Dad puts up with it on a daily basis, I will never know. Actually, I do. He just zones her out.

Shouldn't that be VOSA test Euphemia?

Children's clothes which are branded for no reason. Not a blatantly obvious Spiderman TShirt so much as "oh that's quite a sweet denim skirt... Oh hang on a minute, it's got Dora the fucking Explorer embroidered on the pocket' .

"When asked when my new baby was born loads of people have replied "Oh, thats my birthday" or worse "Oh, thats 3 days before/after my birthday. "

Ooh yes that's my dad's friend's wedding anniversary.
Inevitably followed by "SPOOKY"

Criminals talking to me. This does not sound unreasonable until I admit that I am a criminal lawyer.

DH and DS eating the food that I've bought so that I have to go food shopping again. Happens every week!

Haven't read all of these, sorry if repeating ...

Shop assistants/receptionists/nurses/etc who continue to talk to each other about Eastenders/their boyfriends/how pissed they were last night/whatever across me, when they are supposed to be doing their job, serving or nursing me (or my relative).

when you have to peel potatoes and all the potatoes in the bag are really small and if they were big you could maybe get away with peeling 2 but because they are small you have to peel 10 or something. That annoys me. Small potatoes. Damn them!

And people (usually men) who stand in a queue to pay a car park ticket or checkout and only start to think about looking for their wallet after they have been told the total price - despite having had 10 idle minutes to prepare and oblivious to the queue and the fact that everyone else has their carpark ticket and change in hand.

oh, and other people being generally better-looking, better groomed, and younger than me. That too.

CatIsSleepy, I can't peel small potatoes (have funny fingers) so I just scrub them and boil/steam with skins on. I explain to everyone that the vitamins and fibre in potatoes is all in the skins.

When you have a houseful of people and you really need a cuppa but this means you are going to have to offer everyone else one and they will all say ?Oooh, go on then, if you?re making one!? when you know they have all wanted a brew for ages but not wanted to be the one to get up and offer to make one.

Catissleepy - the potato thing annoys me too, now I only buy baking potatoes which are much bigger so easier to peel!

which means they've all been doing that for ages!

what you should do is get up and say you're going to wash the pots/put the pots away/ clean the kitchen floor.
guarantee noone will offer to help, then you can go in and make yourself a cuppa without anyone noticing (you have to boil the kettle for the mop water, don't you? )

"And people (usually men) who stand in a queue to pay a car park ticket or checkout and only start to think about looking for their wallet after they have been told the total price"

wait. what?
have you been in a line behind a woman at an ATM recently?
wait in line 10 minutes.
decide to start fishing through bag for purse when they get to ATM, not while they've been standing there waiting.
somehow spend 5 minutes checking balances etc.
get money out.
put in second card. repeat.
stand at ATM organising their bag and purse and everything else for another 5 minutes instead of stepping to the side and doing it.

Children's clothes that either can't be tumble dried or need ironing!

and clothes that need hand-washing. who has time for that! well me tbh but I don't want to.

Currently, complete strangers who look at my arm (in cast, in sling) and say 'ooh, that looks painful'.

And people who should know better 'is it better yet ?' - no, it won't be for many months yet, if at all, thanks for reminding me.

Tourists asking me the way to things - which, if I lived somwhere complicated would be fair enough, but there are only two roads with things on in our small town, and the attraction of of the town is on either of those.

Children 6 and under answering the phone - my heart sinks. Being put on to DNeices of various ages while DSis / DSil bugger off for a fag or coffee.