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.

Yesterday, I discovered that this really irritated me:

My DH watching something on his phone, with his headphones on, and laughing. It was totally silent in the room (I was doing stuff on the laptop) and all I could hear every few minutes was this really bloody annoying high-pitched laugh. His normal laugh is fine, but he was watching a Scary Movie film so his laughter was juvenile, just like the nonexistent humour in the film.

Tights hanging round my knees and being petrified I'm going to flash the gusset at the bus queue.

People making noise outside my house at night. Two blokes having a loud casual chat under my window at 10pm. I went outside in my pjs and sat in the car staring at them until they left. I've no shame. I also bollocked some teenagers congregating outside my house at 4:30am at the weekend. Seriously! F off home.

I get annoyed by people who make sandwiches without putting any butter on the bread, because they've decided (on behalf of everyone else) that it is not necessary.

I get annoyed with people who shirk proper butter for horrible margerine-type substitutes and then call it 'spread.' Spread is a meaningless word in this context and if you have to call it 'spread' it is clearly made from indescribable processed shit that defies any other name.

I get annoyed with people who have very grey/discoloured white clothes. Separate your laundry properly you idiot, it's not rocket science.

Anything to do with smoking whatsoever. All of it.

Estate Agents. I deal with them all the time because of my job, and honestly they really are 97% twats.

Can't stand the way DH coughs, DS blows his nose, DD1 sneezes and DD2 with her nibbling of certain foods.

I could go on for hours ...

Leaving coffee spoons on the side, dirty.
Loading the dishwasher wrongly.
Picking fingers and toes.
My dh does all these things and it really fecking annoys me.

Other than that he's perfect!

people who say pacific instead of specific

Whenever DH makes a brew he leaves the teaspoon neatly placed next to the kettle, as if to use it again. Which he never does. It creates a little sticky mark which must be wiped. Which he also never fucking well does.

Right now, I would say dd2. She's very unreasonable and is driving me mad!

Solution to ballled up socks is don't wash em. They'll soon stop. Warn them first but stop, right now!

People who don't say thank you when you put the divider thing down on the belt in the supermarket.

My friend who texts me to make plans for us to go out and takes a few days to reply to each message so,

me: What about Tuesday?

2 days later, her: Dh is working late on Tuesday, what about Friday?

me: Friday would be great shall I see you at the cinema at 8?

4 days later, her: that would be great see you then.

The radio channels which call Twitter "on the Twitter" and texting as "on the text". Argh!!

Buttons. The things make me cringe.

People who misspell or shorten names even when replying to an email where you have already signed off the name you wish to referred to by and your preferred spelling! Drives me mad, it's just bloody rude!

Also people who start emails with 'I hope your well'. I'd love to mail back saying 'You hope my well is what?'

Powered by fairy dust stickers in cars give me the rage

Lulu.

I have no idea why, she's never done anything to me personally but God, she makes me angry!.

And Claire Sweeny. Though that's rational, EVERYONE knows she's fucking irritating.

Haha Etihad I do that with tea bags...

• the use of recipes as some kind of metaphor, ie, "Take a cupful of affection, a pinch of passion.." etc - PLEASE FUCK OFF
• people using the word 'literally' in a completely baffling way, ie, "I've literally asked him to email me the correct procedure"...well, I didn't think you'd done it metaphorically
• people standing on the wrong side of escalators (actually I don't care which side you stand on, AS LONG AS IT'S THE SAME SIDE AS EVERYONE ELSE, MORONS)
• people in cafes saying, "Can I please get a coffee/scone/jacket potato?"...I don't know - can you?? Can you get it yourself? Do you not want the staff involved???
• fashion people using the fashion singular, as in, "She was really rocking a red lip"...UGH

And another one: the phrase "affordable luxury" - surely if it's affordable, it isn't luxury?!

Leaving the half cm of tea in the bottom of the mug ,then leaving the mug outside the dishwasher. Cue tea on floor as I come along and upturn it into the machine, expecting it to be empty.
Drivers who don't indicate
The autocorrect on Kindle Fire
Leaving a drawer 2 cm open when you used to be someone who had to have everything closed and lined up
Cushions that don't stay plump
Cold callers. Even though I don't answer the phone to them (caller ID)
Amigacat scratching the furniture to wake us up at 3 am so we can kindly go turn a bath tap on for her to drink from for all of 10 seconds
Cold misty mornings that turn into hot sultry afternoons. don't know what to wear at work.
Rugby union.
Doctors appointments being filled within 5 minutes of the phone line opening.
People who unfasten their seatbelt while the plane is still taxiing. Don't they realize it's probably still moving at 50 mph or more?
Morrison's cafe opening at 7 but not serving any kind of cooked breakfast till 8 . I'll just have the coffee then

There may be more.

People who gulp drinks or eat loudly.

Moody people, just say your piece and get over it, or if it's not about me then don't take it out on me.

People who say the end of your sentence as you are saying it.

People who can't admit they don't know so just blindly make stuff up.

People who are overly defensive and take everything as a criticism so feel the need to over explain it when I don't care that much.

This is mainly work stuff.... I need a new job

People who give their children "unique" names. Especially if the name is ridiculous or if they get upset when they meet another person with the same name as their child.

Oh dear god, Owlina the "powered by fairy dust" stickers make me rage too, especially if accompanied by tinkerbell and eyelash stickers.

Raspberries - gaah, I used to have a boyfriend who could never admit he didn't know the answer to something...note "used to"...

Amiga that is very irritating about Morrisons, agreed.

The powered by fairy dust makes me want to smack my head on a wall, it's powered by a diminishing fossil fuel that's fucking the planet, I should note I drive, so not anti car.

Loud eaters/breathers , also anything that says 'tipsy' like it's a 'naughty' treat, stuff like tipsy lemon curd or plum chutney, please piss off.

I've thought of another. People who BANG the keyboard when they type. Just like DH is doing right next to me now. Why can't you type quietly?! If he's working from home I can hear him bashing the laptop from two floors away. Ugh. Notso if he's your husband too, can it please be your turn to have him tonight? Not only is he bashing the keyboard with a sledgehammer (apparently) he also wants to watch the football and I want to watch Holby City!

The eyelashes on cars make me ANGRY