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Small unreasonable things that annoy you

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WalkingWolf · 16/09/2014 15:14

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. Blush 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.

OP posts:
icanhaveadarksideifyouwantmeto · 18/10/2014 08:04

DH insitisting that 9.00 am is the correct time to wake up on weekends!
let me have a lie in ....PLEASE?.

I think i will call him Bagpuss.....once bagpuss is awake, all his friends are awake too

OH and while i think about it, sending DD in at 8.55 for a 'chat' also counts as DH waking me up.

I have been known to go on strike and stay in bed all day while they go off....

I AM A GROWN UP . I CAN JUDGE FOR MYSELF WHAT TIME IS REASONABLE!

FreudiansSlipper · 18/10/2014 09:05

People who are almost laying down when they drive ffs pull your seat up and sit upright

People who when reversing use the palm of their hand to steer the wheel

Calling fizzy drinks pop (over 70 then acceptable) call it coke, lemonade etc or squash juice again it's orange/apple juice or it's orange or whatever the syrupy liquid flavour it is but it is not juice

Magmatic80 · 18/10/2014 15:13

People who sit on the aisle seat on commuter trains and buses leaving the window seat free and then slightly move their knees a millimetre so I can get by when I inevitably make a beeline for them. Drives me up the wall. We all know it will be rammed shortly. I make a point of trampling slightly on their feet on the way past them to the window seat. Grow up - is it really too terrible to not be on the aisle and get helpfully out of the way?

limitedperiodonly · 18/10/2014 15:46

magmatic I sometimes do that. My reasons are usually that I'm getting off very soon.

Other reasons - on older tube trains and buses there was a small section at the top of the window you could open. It never fitted, so if it was raining really hard the wind and rain would come through the join even if you closed it.

Another time was when I ended up with two people shouting at me on a packed bus. This is going to get long but I've told it so many times and I still can't make it any shorter Grin

I got on and the only seat available was a two-seater bench opposite another two-seater bench. That bench was occupied by a man sitting nicely in the aisle seat and one in the window seat with his feet on the seat opposite.

He took his feet down and smiled at me graciously. Strangely I didn't want to park my clean clothes on the seat where his possibly muddy, shitty shoes had been, so sat in the aisle seat.

A woman got on at the next stop and asks me to move up. I say nicely that I wouldn't because of the shoes, but she could if she wanted. Then I moved back so she could get in.

She asked again why I wouldn't move up and I said I'd just told her why, but if she wanted to, I wasn't stopping her. She then said: 'But I don't want to sit there.' Confused I said neither did I. She called me selfish.

Then Foot Rest Oaf berated me for being a prissy bitch.

The man sitting opposite buried his face in his paper. I stayed put. She stood and then tutted loudly when I got off. When the bus drove off I noticed she'd taken the aisle seat.

I know someone had probably put his feet on my seat that day. Possibly even the Newspaper Man without me noticing. But it's one thing to take a seat without knowing and another to sit thinking: 'I'm sitting on the shit from your shoes.'

samsam123 · 18/10/2014 16:24

men

feckitt · 18/10/2014 23:47

People who brush their hair in public. Yes, really. In town (my small town) the other day and on the train yesterday. Yuck!

thewavesofthesea · 19/10/2014 07:47

People telling me I'm tall (I'm 6ft). Because I hadn't already noticed.

Ohwhatfuckeryisthis · 19/10/2014 08:12

I have a few Dh related ones.
When doing the Guardian quiz he gets me to spell out unusual words. He takes the piss out of my pronunciation of forrin words. He takes a long time to answer-just like HE ISNT FUCKING LISTENING.
when I get up before him I creep about so as not to wake him. He puts the light on and crashes about when I get a rare day off.
When he has had a shower he never gets dry properly then gets in for a "warm" or a cuddle. Er, fuck off now.
(I loves him really)
Other people-the overuse of the word "babe"
Staff members who, for a simple cold, take most of the week off.

SunshineAndShadows · 19/10/2014 09:30

People who make the 'ah-ooh-ah' sound when they're yawning. It's a yawn not a fucking vocal warm up - you don't need to announce it to the world!

People who spit

People who eat noisily

People who stand so close in a queue it's like they're pushing you forwards - it's a line, there are people in front of me - squashing me does not make it move faster!

Airport security scanners that only allow a single person to remove their laptop, toiletries etc from their bags at a time when there is about 2 metres worth of conveyor belt and several of us could be doing it at the same time rather than one by one
And breathe!

0ellenbrody0 · 19/10/2014 09:31

Sniffing - blow your bloody nose.

Thatsmyboys · 19/10/2014 10:03

Couples that share an email account/Facebook account.

People who walk to closely behind me. Just say excuse me FFS!

The use of the word 'hun' as in honey. ' hi Hun' pukesville

My DP never shuts drawers or cupboards behind him.

I must have super powers too as I am the only person in this house who can change a sodding loo roll.

CrabbyTheCrabster · 19/10/2014 10:14

It would be a much shorter list to think of things that don't annoy me. I am a very, very irritable person. Blush

Strictlydonedancing · 19/10/2014 10:21

Yes! ..to the shared email accounts. I can never email my friend without her husband (it's his address) reading the content first (to "make sure" it's not for him) and then commenting on said contents, or explaining that she's not around at the moment, but he's replying anyway. Grrrrrr...get your own address, woman.

MrsMarcJacobs · 19/10/2014 13:37

work shirkers: People who do the bare minimum at work so they get praise when they actually do something on time unlike the rest of the staff who work their asses off for no praise and would get fired if they dropped below their current level of productivity.

MrsMarcJacobs · 19/10/2014 13:38

coasters - for no reason whatsoever.

Marcelinewhyareyousomean · 19/10/2014 13:58

People that don't fill the water filter up so that I have to wait for it to boil the kettle first thing. Why do you think the kettle always has water in ready to boil and the water filter jug is full? We don't have a water sprite and as of this second I've stopped.

SunshineAndShadows · 19/10/2014 14:54

People that walk through doorways then stop (blocking the doorway) whilst they remember why they've come in

EmpressOfJurisfiction · 19/10/2014 14:57

People who button their shirts up to the collar - especially polo shirts. I don't know why it looks wrong. It just does.
People walking behind me in noisy heels.
Cyclists on pavements. I think that when caught they should be given the choice between a hefty fine and a Bikeability course.

citruslemon · 19/10/2014 16:23

Colleague who anytime we go out for a work lunch orders soup and then looks at everyone else's plates and repeatedly says "oh I couldn't eat that much" and "oh I'm putting so much weight on". She's a size 6 and then everyone says "oh no you're not!" And she smiles but repeats in six times. EVERY single time we have a work meeting.

1lov3comp5 · 19/10/2014 18:33

limitedperiod I always annoy people who say 'can I ask you a question' by answering 'you just did'. The confusion on most people's face is great to watch!

limitedperiodonly · 19/10/2014 18:54

1lov3comp5 I don't think I've ever said: 'you just did' but I've wanted to so many times and completely understand you for doing that.

Emz449 · 19/10/2014 19:14

SLOW WALKERS! Especially the ones after the hour commute home coming off the train. get the fuck out of the way. Usually teens/students in groups

Also people who point out the free tills on the self service. i don't know why but it really pisses me off, not staff members of course, but other people in the queue.

Emz449 · 19/10/2014 19:16

also boyfriend who doesn't throw away the toilet roll tube! Just throw it in the bin!! It's in the same room!!

TillHammerZeit · 19/10/2014 19:49

When adults on forums say 'Oh but Santa is real'. It makes me want to hurl my Ipad through the window,or at their heads.

1lov3comp5 · 19/10/2014 23:54

limited once you do it with a smile, you're fine Smile. It's even better if they think they're being smart and answer your 'you just did' with 'can I ask another one' and you get to say your line again Grin it's the small things in life that make me happy!!