Small unreasonable things that annoy you

[WalkingWolf]

Here are mine...

My mum putting hair clips in DDs hair.

Fil is obsessed with mowing our lawn in the summer. Of course it's lovely of him to do but he never tells me he's coming and just let's himself in. Really winds me up and I have no idea why.

Another Fil one. Whenever he comes over, if there are any dirty dishes in the sink, he insists on washing them. You can't stop him. The problem is that he doesn't actually wash them. He kind of dips them in the dirty water they've been soaking in, then puts them straight on the drainer.

Of course I wouldn't ever complain about these things and I'm definitely BU to be annoyed.

So tell me about the small things that shouldn't annoy you, but do.

Poor grammar and/or spelling. I know there may be perfectly valid reasons for either but they give me the rage.

My children bringing me rubbish (the wrapping from an ice lolly, for example) asking me to put it in the bin, walking past the bin to do so.

People ahead of me in coffee shop queues ordering multiple or complicated coffees which take aaaages for the barista to prepare, thus delaying my purchase of cake and a diet coke. I realise this is utterly and absolutely and totally unreasonable on a ludicrous scale (it's a coffee shop, people are going to order coffee!) but I don't drink tea or coffee and am baffled (and irritated) by the popularity of both.

i don't think i've posted before but this i really can relate to so here goes...if i have the abbreviations wrong please feel free to educate me :-)

fil asking 'are you ok' when i'm working from home 'just saw the car...' ggrrr yes! he lives 3 doors away...

fil coming to mow the lawn, knocking on the door and standing there saying 'its only me, can i mow your lawn' i can see you if you want to mow it get on with it!

DH taking the plates away after tea and then i find them on the worktop ABOVE the dishwasher...is it too much to ask to put them in there?

DD...showers in the morning and leaves her clothes where she stands, she then dresses, and proceeds to go about her daily business because the laundry fairies will move them right?

i'm a sock baller...if they aren't balled then the laundry monster seems to eat one!

Someone using my phone and tablet is fine but I hate it when they change the orientation. It's locked on portrait for a reason.

People scrapping their knives or forks together or scraping metal eating implements in their teeth. I have goosebumps writing this.

People that sit in my seat on the sofa. I'm on the slippery slope to getting old.

Ditto to the majority of comments on here

My v unreasonable gripes are summarised as "anyone who does not take my needs into consideration" i.e.

Selfish parking
No indicating (hello! Im sitting here like an eejit waiting for you!)
Unannounced visitors. Puts me on the back foot AND interrupts my -nice sit down and a cup of tea- erm extremely busy hour of housework while the baby has a nap.
Bad spellers - in fact not the every day 'made a mistake' spelling (which is perfectly acceptable)but the twitter/facebook/texters who seem proud to look dim and don't value education, grrrrrr

Parents who assume its ok to give my DD crisps/pop/sweets without checking. - It's nearly bedtime and I've got to deal with her sugar high for two more hours now!!

MIL commenting on how high the weeds have grown, BEFORE SHE HAS EVEN SET FOOT IN THE DOOR FOR AN ENTIRE WEEKEND

Ok, step away from the kitchen knives.,,

Had a colleague who ALWAYS said Saddurday and Tudor when she meant Saturday or tutor. Blood pressure used to skyrocket - open plan offices are EVIL.

Loads of stuff-people saying they'll 'drop in some time' esp when they're ppl I'd have no intention of inviting over.People who always ring at the kids bedtimes even though I always say,I didn't answer because it was as always the kids bedtime and it's not a good time to call,and it's always for no flipping reason!
People who get cross about not getting immediate or any replies to texts that don't require replies.
People who post those vague but mildly threatening Facebook statuses like 'people need to learn to start respecting people,you know who you are' I've never recognised myself in them but maybe I'm just really imperceptive?
My sister,and pretty much everything she does.Which seems very unfair but given that she always seems to have some sort of scheme or other going on I can't even take innocuous questions/comments/actions at face value as she always turns everything into an argument so I am always on my guard.
People using ridiculous management speak to sound important,or equally people being rude or swearing in meetings to prove how much of a lad they are,especially when they're not,at all,they're just rude.
Could go on,but will stop before I implode!

Wheredoallthecalc... Maybe they really were 'led' in bed.Maybe they are into some sort of S&M/bondage? In which case it would still annoy me as it is far tmi!

My husband breathes too loudly.

Here we go....

MOTHER

• saying "keep it up" every single day in reference to my diet
• Not stopping my 18MO son playing with dangerous items because "ow...but he likes it". Well just give him the scissors then!
• ringing me and saying "it's just me" when it comes up with MUM so I know it's her!
• starting sentences and just not fin....
• saying to 18MO "what have you eaten today then?" like he can answer. He can't. And it's her way of asking me what I have fed him.
• Her texting back 'ok'. to everything. So I think I have a message, go to look and there was no point.
• her incorrect pronunciation of 'Aldi' and 'nauseas'
• using the word "buggeration"

PARTNER

• asking me what is wrong 100 times a day. What is wrong is some arse is asking me what is wrong.
• Getting up late for work and then telling me angrily "I only have 30 mins to get ready!" like it's my fault.
• asking me "where is ..... and where is ....." like it's my fault he can't put his important items in one bloody place every day. And implying I have moved them or shoved them up my bum or something.
• never throwing away any rubbish - ever.
• never finishing a cup of tea and leaving the tea bag in so I have to scoop it out with my fingers every day.

ALL THE OTHER BASTARDS

• incorrect spelling / grammar on FB
• incorrect spelling / grammar from professional businesses - they should know better.
• the rudeness of receptionists at the Doctor's surgery
• the cats running through the house for no reason at 2am - sounds like herds of wilder beast

that feels better

Predictive text (luckily I managed to turn mine off).
Call waiting - 'Oh, actually I'm on another call . . ' like it's your fault you dared to interrupt them.
Will think of more I know

People starting their responses to a thread with "You do realise/you do know..."

As in:

OP - "I find words on walls very irritating"
Patronising world-weary respondent: "You do realise there are more important things to worry about, don't you?"

I had no idea! DO TELL ME WHAT I'VE MISSED.

Christ I can't stop myself now...

People using AIBU incorrectly (to my mind) and saying things like "AIBU to tell you all that Boden has 20% off this week?"

Well no you're not really BU, but that's not really the point, is it?

I think Coffee grounds on the washing up sponge has to be the absolute worst minor irritation listed here.

But The way school staff can be patronising. I am sorry, not even my children are allowed to treat me/talk to me like that. has struck a bit of a chord with me today. There does seem to be a tendency to treat parents like slightly naughty children at mine.

Yesterday I went into school for meeting. Took baby DS in the pram, queued dutifully and had the secretary watch patiently for a good couple of minutes as I made my way towards the door. Only when I was well into the bottleneck of parents, hemmed in by a good thirty people and half a dozen other prams did she decide to stipulate that none of us could take prams in. So I then had to do an about turn and basically barge everyone out of the way to put it outside, watched all the time in that slightly disapproving way by the numpty secretary who seemed incapable of anticipating this scenario as it unfolded before her eyes.

My oh holds his fork with his whole hand and shovels food in ,
He's also a noisy eater,everyone walks past stuff or over it instead of picking it up ,and oh leaves plates etc in front room then goes to kitchen without taking it out :( wow I'm quite easy to annoy lol

I read alot of mn threads but have not gotten around to actually joining. However I am so unreasonably enraged by this that I had to join when no else posted it.
Loud hiccups. The little open mouthed "hic" ones that never bloody stop. Hic ... hic ... hic.
I just want to scream to drink some at them to drink water. Also the way i ask OH a question and he will spend 5 mins explaining a longwinded answer to me in a way other than i asked but could have answered me yes or no In a fraction of the time- does my head in.

Scream at them to drink some water even.

I have another one that irritates the shit out of me! People who use the words 'yourself' or 'myself' instead of 'you' or 'me'.

You and me are perfectly acceptable and useful words in the English language. You are NOT sounding more intelligent or polite by using 'yourself' or 'myself'. You just sound like an idiot! There's a time and place for 'yourself' and 'myself' and this is hardly ever it. Grrrrr.

It's along a similar vein to people who always use I, to make it sound as though they are speaking correctly. As in, "would you care to join Theo and I for a drink this evening?" No. I wouldn't...myself is busy...

Oh god... I apologise in advance:

DS
-Scuffing his feet.
-Dawdling
-His current obsession with WWII
-Stampy Fucking Longhead. (Those parents inflicted with Minecraft will understand)
-"I can't eat that. I'm lactose intolerant. That means I can't have..." to anyone who offers him anything dairy based. Please, child. A simple 'no thanks' will do.

DB
-His voice.
-His temper
-His voice
-"Can you sort out my [anything technological] for me?"
-His voice
-The fact he talks at 189703 decibels. And considers that 'quiet'
-Do you really need the TV that loud?

DSIL
-That little 'Oaaaah' she does when she's provided with new information.

DNiece
-The attitude. I only asked you to try the cabbage. I haven't poisoned the stuff.

DNephew (4)
-Standing at the door crying "I want Muuum" for ninety minutes as soon as she leaves won't bring her back any quicker.
-No, come on. I cooked dinner. You said you wanted it. Going to bed without dinner is not an opti...I give up.

DNephew (1)
-Do we really have to scream ourselves to sleep? Really?

Neighbours
-Lets see if we can make it two hours of you yelling at your kids.
-If that scooter bangs against the door once more...
-That snooty 'I'm better than you' attitude... Yeah, I'm not the one whose child is being monitored by the school because he keeps hitting other kids.

DParents
-Racism. Homophobia... I suppose they've toned down the misogyny.
-"No, we can't see you Christmas Day. We're spending the third Christmas running with your sister, who lives five minutes from yours."

Clients.
-Time zones. It is no use sending me work at 5pm when you need it returned 'today'. I may be a subtitling genius, but for god's sake...
-"Blah blah blah... Fix any grammar or spelling mistakes..." You do realise this was the transcription my friend, a native speaker, wrote, and you're asking me to proofread and grammar check a language I'm still learning? Really?...

General
-My bloody town.
-This town's residents.
-Facebook

(Add to that... Me - rambling)

Nigel Farage's brain

God, I hadn't noticed 'Coffee grounds on the washing up sponge' but yes, that annoys me too. even though usually it's me who left them

Also, my friend's way of answering the phone –if I leave more than about a milli-milli-milli-second after she says 'Hello?' before I say 'Hi', she says 'Hello? Hello? Hello?!' in tones of increasing panic. It's ME! My name came up on your phone screen! I was just taking a breath in order to speak; is that not OK?

Also my dad giving emails stupid titles, the most annoying being 'Dad in '. Like I've got another dad, who lives somewhere else, who I might get confused with this dad.

And the usual language/grammar suspects: your/you're, their/they're/there, I text her yesterday [scream], people who can't do apostrophes, the person who says 'omit' when they mean 'emit' ...

Better stop now.

That's an interesting one cherrybombxo!

I hate when people say I'm going to tescos or asdas aldis etc

you're going to Tesco, asda, Aldi!!

When DH starts to speak and then pauses like someone's pulled the plug. A MNetter called it 'buffering', which was a really good description.

The worst is when he says: 'Oh shit!' and I go: 'What? What?' and he doesn't reply, he just looks panicked.

Oh my DH does that! He says "Babe! THEN LONG WORRIED PAUSE....and it will almost always be "I meant to ask you did you see Tom and ask him about the drill I wanted to use? or something equally mundane.