What things are you unreasonable about?

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Mine is old people driving fast cars slowly. While wearing hats...

FFS, if you can't drive down a dual carriageway at 70 then:

A) You shouldn't be allowed a license.
B) If you are going to drive slowly then buy a slow car and save the money.
C) If you are that cold that you needs hat, turn the heating up.

Now, I know I am BU about this, but it bugs me. What bugs you?

Sorry crazycat. I took it a bit seriously there didn't I?! No, I don't live in London and have only spent about a day of my life there so have no idea about the traffic there.

come and join me on the A23 through Brixton of a morning...

that reminds me, I am also very unreasonable indeed about buses that block the yellow box at the top of my road . It's always a bus, without fail!

I'm more bugged by speeding and dangerous drivers than driving slowly, but I don't think that's unreasonable. Though in certain circumstances a hesitant/slow to react/uncertain driver can be dangerous, of course.

I wish people would drive more slowly in general and not tailgate you because you aren't conforming to the 'norm' of doing 35 in a 30 zone or 25 in a 20 zone, or because you are slowing down according to the road/weather conditions whereas they want to carry on like a loon.

Bringback it doesn't need to end that way . Let me start by saying I agree with you about phones in cinemas. Someone much bigger and braver than me snatched a phone off some texting dolt in the middle of a film and snarled: 'I might give it back to you at the end if you don't do anything else to annoy me.'

Crazycat Boris bikes and their stupid riders with the road sense of Isadora Duncan.

Hammy Never mind. We all go off on a tangent. If you ever come to London never hire a Boris bike and you'll be okay by me.

But Tesco's finest cauliflower cheese is shit.

It probably isn't even a cauliflower.

at Isadora Duncan

• misuse of language (especially 'could of' instead of 'could have' etc.)

• people who say they've had flu when there is a cold bug going around, and it required anything between 1 to 10 days off work. If you had flu you'd need more than 1 day off!!

• people scraping margerine back into a communal margerine pot, and similarly people getting coffee granules in a communal sugar jar (arggggghhh!)

I'm also unreasonable about cheese. It's disgusting. I won't eat it. At all. In anything. End of.

It is slowly occuring to me that I am quite an unreasonable person!

:)

People who keep anything that doesn't need refrigeration in the fridge.

Especially chocolate. I don't worry about my teeth rotting. I worry about snapping them off.

I am unreasonable about escalator/commuter ettiquette, e.g.:

People who step of the escalator and just stop. I will walk into the back of you. I have no choice. There's no point swearing at me.

People who walk up the escalator but stop a few steps from the top, meaning the next person has to stop a couple of steps earlier, and so on, until the entire line of people grinds to a halt.

People who get to the ticket barrier and stop right in front of it to rummage in their bag/pockets for their ticket.

People who walk the wrong way/on the wrong side in the Underground walkways.

I don't know why it winds me up so much, I think it's just that if everyone followed a set of simple rules, everything would work so much better and flow so much more easily, and everyone would get to their destination more quickly and with less stress and shoving. It's in everyone's interest to do it. Why won't they cooperate?

Glad you agree Getorf.
It is Beelzebub's phlegm.

Jeans, yes. OMFG.
Also trainers on babies.

Tattoos. God I hate them, the worst probably being those shin ones blokes have for MUFC or somesuch.
W
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Men who strip off at the first sign of sun, it's not that hot and neither are you put some clothes on.
Dad's with their dcs names tattoed on them, the ones I have encountered clearly have it so they don't forget the children exist.
White socks on men this is totally irrational I know but has been a hatred since I was about 15

People who use "I" when they mean "me" in an attempt to be correct.
"She asked Barry and I what we thought"
or worse
"This is for Barry and I's lunch"

People who mark their place in a book by either folding down the corner of the page or placing it upside down open at the page, thus breaking the spine. Have some respect for the book! Jesus, if you can't afford a real bookmark, a used bus ticket or receipt will do the job!

People who walk through or into or off or out of anything and then stop dead, blocking anyone else from walking through.

Get out of my way!

(escalators, lifts, doorways, those airport travelator thingys)

Oh yeah, people who STOP on the travelator thingy in the airport. Why are you not walking?

I have a top tip for London Underground travel.

When changing lines do not head for the tunnels and a long boring walk with the rest of the sheep rummaging, stopping dead, meandering and generally annoying you.

Instead, follow the Way Out signs, go up the escalators, look for the line you want and take the down escalators. Miles quicker and makes you feel like an anarchist but with less chance of kettling.

This doesn't always work. At Oxford Circus, for instance, they've got an annoying habit of closing some of the corridors at peak times so you can only exit though them. Then you have to beg a member of staff to let you back the wrong way pretending you're not from round here.

This is to to stagger the crowds to prevent people getting crushed or pushed onto the tracks on the platforms.

But if people weren't all standing around at the entrances taking up most of the platform looking at maps and chatting it would work like clockwork. Make them line up against the wall in an orderly fashion so my progress is unimpeded, I say.

I might give Boris Johnson a ring with that suggestion later. I think he'd be with me on that idea.

Life is butter melon cauliflower.
Geddit?

Am nodding furiously at most of these!

Jaydles I share your sock pain - am so glad it's not just me :)

Also - people in department stores who choose the exact moment they have reached the top of the down escalator to check their receipt against the contents of their shopping bag before stepping onto said escalator. Please, please, please move to the side. I know it takes no effort for me to say excuse me so I can get past, but this is a thread about unreasonableness!

Limitedperiodonly: I have a friend who's inclined to call "Rise and Shine" while the sun's still having his coffee, so I understand that I mustn't do that, I just seethe and grumble (to myself, in another room), then find something else to do.

I forgot to mention greasy water and grot in the washing-up bowl. Oh, no I didn't, I'm perfectly reasonable in loathing that, it's vile!

Yes i hate jeans on babies too. My 18mo has just started wearing them I wish she hadn't but e got a great big bag of clothes from someone and it had jeans in. Plus some of them are quite nice.

People who glare at me when I tell my DS in the supermarket that I'll give him a effing good hiding when we get home if he doesn't change his attitude..

He's my son and it's none of their business.

He's 20 FFS and a student at a good university. He should know by now that half a dozen Krispy Cremes are not as nutricious as a hotpot.

Lucretia I'll do you a swap. You can have my husband for the day and I'll have yours.

Then if you and MrLimited (that sounds so bad ) drive anyone to kill you because of your frenzied activity, MrShadows and I could identify your broken bodies later when we'd crawled out of bed.

Grr that sounded ungrateful. In fact almost all f the clothes are lovely, and we;ve been really lucky to get them, just meant that while I wouldn't choose jeans, because I have them DD is wearing them and when they're on I think she looks lovely :)

I get passive agressive annoyed when people don't say thank-you for things like holding a door open so they can go through it first.

I am completely unreasonable about noise during the night or morning if I'm trying to sleep. For some reason it makes my blood boil...

And finally: If men make innappropriate gestures/noises/calls to me I get very angry. This happened to me recently in Brussels when my dress got caught by my bag and as I adjusted it (a bit of leg - big deal!) a nasty old creeper whistled as he walked by me. So I was even more annoyed not to be able to give him an earful of a language he spoke.