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.

That's another awful one! We've been hearing constant chatter about "aspirational targets", which makes my teeth itch. I told my boss that "aspirational" doesn't even sound like a real word

My DH takes his shoes and socks off in different places and will often wander around with just one shoe/sock on.

Say what? Why? Why?!

I can't stand the phrase "getting rid of toxic people" that some employers seem to use if they may be making redundancies. It was a favourite of my husband's employer (a US based company) during the credit crunch and recession. I must say I thought it was insulting, and hardly conducive to a happy working environment to know that you were all thought of that way.

Balled up socks and inside-out tights etc. in the laundry annoy me too.

Oh, also having to deal with call centres and poor customer service. I have just spent hours trying to get through to a person at T-Mobile. I kid you not, I spent half an hour trying last night before giving up or my lot were not going to be fed, and then all afternoon today before I got what I wanted.

Oh, and I also can't stand text-speak. I know why it came about, but I still loathe it and won't use it.

MIL (who hasn't worked a day in her life) saying cheerfully "bye darling, don't work too hard!" I don't actually have a choice about how hard I work. I am not going to go to a meeting, and at the moment when everyone looks expectantly at me, say "well I didn't prepare anything for this because K. told me not to work too hard"

Bags which - SOMEHOW I HAVE NO IDEA OF THE MECHANICS OF THIS - sit on their straps so when you pick them up by the strap later they tip over and everything falls out. How does this work? You had the strap in your hand, you lowered the bag onto a surface so so the bag hit the surface first and then you dropped the strap which should therefore lie on top of or beside the bag. How does it get underneath, ready to booby trap you by flipping the bag over?

People (I mean men, obv) who don't listen and bludgeon you with crap about user error and interrupt you all the time WHEN THE THING IS ACTUALLY BROKEN. You wouldn't talk to me like that if I had a cock. thanks for finally getting someone to look at it after I have been arguing for a week. Yes a wire was fucking wrongly connected and you should have listened in the first place.

"Telephone cords that tangle - makes me furious just looking at my desk phone at work. I have no idea how it tangles because I don't tangle it & no-one else uses my office"

You pick up the phone with the same hand that you write with. Then you need to write something down, so you transfer the phone to your other hand. Then you hang up.

You have now put one full turn in the cable. Do this a few times and the twists you add reach critical mass with the built in twist and woosh - tangle.

Step 1: dangle the handset by the cable so it untwists itself.

Step 2: move the phone to the left hand side of the desk (if you are right handed; the right hand side if you are left handed) so you don't pick it up with your writing hand.

Onlylovers, last night he took the left shoe off in the living room and his sock. He then made a cup of tea and went to bedroom to get changed out of uniform and took the right shoe off in bedroom and sock off in bathroom as he stood in a puddle (dogs water)

BMW drivers. Yes, I know some of them are lovely. But if you're being aggressively tail gated it's nearly always a knob wearing shades in a BMW.

chixie that's the funniest thing I've heard all week
and that's saying something seeing as my dd has just learnt the word clock...... But can't say L's

punk I am right handed & always pick up the phone with my left hand & hold it next to my left ear, so I can write with my right hand

I do dangle it - very satisfying

OK, well I understand taking off the right shoe and sock – necessity – but why oh why take off one shoe and sock while (I'm assuming) sitting about the living room?

The 10yr old dc is doing the same thing. One shoe on stairs and one in living room.

Maybe the pregnancy hormones are making me slightly irrational but I could quite happily bludgeon him to death with what ever is to hand.

Someone I exchanged a work email with replied 'happy to e-meet you!'
DH every morning sneezes loudly many times and says 'I must be allergic to the morning.' Every single day.

Mumsnet

Witchway - obviously it's the office gremlins that come out at night, move your papers so the really important one somehow gets lost at the bottom of a random pile where it should never have been, eat the paperclips, jam the stapler and swing on your phone cable. I had them when I worked in an office too - drove me bats!

Vezzie - YES to the bags! YES! My handbag is a particularly evil one, it has always done this, and saves its best efforts for when I'm in a rush. Bastard thing.

Chixie - is your DH easily distracted in other aspects of his life? I can only imagine that his concentration span only lasts long enough for him to take one shoe/sock off before thinking of something else he needs to do and wandering off, and then only later remembering that he's still got one shoe/sock on. I couldn't do this, I can't walk with one shoe off, it's too uneven!

What about people who don't indicate when driving? And they are usually the same ones who weave in and out of the traffic at high speed.

A simple rule which DH is seemingly unable to remember/comply with - when you do something smelly in the toilet close the door and open the window. Not hard you would've thought. Yet every time he drops a clanger (which he never fails to mention to me - delightful), I ask, and 9 times out of 10 it's not been done.

People who write "thoughtful little poems". Don't. Just don't.

We have moved office. It is much nicer than the old one and in fact rather posh.
Ever since we have moved - a few weeks ago - nothing quite works for us as it should (understandably) but we work around it.
At the same time - we are subjected to a CONSTANT barrage of really aggressive emails about utter, utter, crap.

• the kitchen (keep it clean; procedures about teaspoons; where to keep salad dressing; ARGH)
• the lavatories. Seriously, a paragraph of instructions about cleaning loos after you. A horrible, detailed, paragraph.
• the printer. "if you have no intention of collecting your printing...." wtf?! what makes you think the person "had no intention"?

WE are now facing into two really punishing trade shows and a very, very hard client-facing schedule. Seeing this stuff pop up on a regular basis makes me just want to walk out work out and go home to my kids, who miss me desperately. I don't leave them with a CM to be moaned at about teaspoons and shit brushes.

It really feels like senior management are just so pathetically, pettily excited to have a new office, to the inability of being able to think about anything else at all, while everyone else flogs themselves to death trying to earn the INSANE amounts of money it must cost to be here. I DON'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT SOMEONE LEAVING A TEASPOON ON THE SIDE. (I don't leave them there! I just don't give a fuck if someone else does!)

I haven't even read all these but feel the ned to add so here goes...
People at work who get away with doing sweet fa, people having obvious favourites in any situation - work, home etc.
Picking or biting nails, turning lights on when it's broad daylight, leaving damp towels to fester, lack of manners, people who sit on weight machines at the gym for ages resting, people letting their dogs crap on the pavement and leaving it there for us all to enjoy... I could go on but these are some of the things that spring to mind!

When people mishear and feel the need to shout what they misheard back at you in an incredulous tone rather than asking you to repeat -
"I'm looking for a hooded baby towel"
"You want a baby cow?"

People who propose just ordering bits and pieces from the menu "so we can all just share" (NO! I want to eat all of the one thing I choose)

Aldi checkout process

Plus lots more, I'm a very irritable person.

Those adverts on the radio selling finance deal etc, where they read out the small print about APR etc so fast it's unintelligible.

36monthlypaymentsat4.56%thensixyearsat5%withafinalpaymentoftenthousandpoundstermsandconditionsapply

Er, what?

Passwords at work.

Log in takes 4 and then each service we use takes more. I have 28 unique passwords. ffs

Man in the cafe today annoyed me.
He was talking loudly at the table near mine. Going on and on about his 'Fjord Fiesta'.

Fjord Fiesta

I've got a Fjord Fiesta - super car.