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.

I'm on a roll now, my bloody waitrose card, how to send the middle classes to the brink orgasm, give them a free coffee from a vending machine. You're shopping in waitrose people, you can afford the coffee, please don't let that be the highlight of your day. I'm also middle class but to poor to shop in waitrose, like the coffee, I'm bitter.

DH taking off his shoes directly in front of the door so if I come in after him I can't get the damn thing open. I now throw his shoes down the hall when I find them there. Makes no difference.
In cafes they have started serving my cakes or scone with the napkin underneath the thing. What the bloody use is that? Now if I want to use the napkin it is already crumby or soggy. Grrrr.

Hairy I LOVE that about my Waitrose card! ;)

Oh oh I know - ascribing moral attributes to food, as in Slimming World going on about 'sins', chocolate cake being described as naughty. FFS.

My dad putting leftovers , unwrapped in the fridge. No point trying to stop him doing it (he's a child of post war rationing) but for the Love of Jeff put it in a plastic food box. I don't want to open the fridge and see two finger fingers dolefully on a plate or a slice of pizza. Yes, he does eat them, but he'll have them next meal so it makes for interesting dining

And he'll save the tea-bags. I buy a big bag of % extra free or BOGOF when they visit (nice tea bags not Happy Shopper) but he insists on re-using the bloody things.

And he puts them on my champagne granite sink drainer where they stain.
The bin is two steps away
Theme here.

People with TEABAGS in public places eg meetings, staff room, boats, anywhere :(. I'm waiting for the boiler tap because I only have 2 minutes to pour boiling water onto my coffee granules, and you are farting around with your messy TEABAGS, spoons, sugar etc. Please move aside to complete your performance & make your mess without blocking the queue, my dash of water will take less than 10 seconds. Thanks ! :)

PS Please don't throw your used spoon into the clean dishwasher, some of us have OCD

People who stand about an inch behind you and breathe down your neck waiting for you to finish using the self checkout. Actually I don't think that's a small thing, it's so rude! Feel like telling them to back the fuck off and wait but am too gutless.

Haphazard dishwasher loading

Ice cream van chimes

The phrases

Must have
To die for

Especially when referring to over marketed useless shit

Yes BigBum, especially "To die for" when used in relation to food.

Oh my DGM does the thing your FIL does with the washing up, drives me potty. I know she's trying to help but honestly she leaves the dishes dirtier than they were before she 'washed' them... She doesn't even use a cloth .

DH's feet annoy me. Just the sight of them. He never wears socks either so I have to deal with his gangly hairy toes traipsing about the house..

Hate the fact DH tells me under no uncertain terms to not put his clothes away because apparently I don't do it right but they end up sitting in a pile on the floor for days and days and the pile keeps on building until I either throw them in the wardrobe to get them out of my sight or nag him enough to get through to him.

• medical receptionists who insist on not being able to find the date of your daughter's next appointment as 'the system won't allow them to check' until you persist in a belligerent tone and they reply, 'oh wait, it's tomorrow at ...'

medical receptionists who tell you that a 'meeting' with the GP is compulsory before deciding whether or not you can be registered at their surgery. WTF?

checkout staff

parents on the school run who walk past and ignore your greeting. GREAT.

parents who want you to 'look after' their extra offspring for just an hour each day. F* OFF and sort out your own childcare

The dishwasher. Unloading it. Loading it. Reloading washed dishes which haven't bloody been cleaned in a 150 minute cycle.

The Bosch washing machine for which every cycle lasts 2 HOURS. I mean 2 HOURS. What is with that?

Other drivers.

Librarians. A late book return fine is NOT the end of the world. I repeat NOT

My uni lecturer says PACIFIC instead of specific.

A LOT.

She says it every few minutes, it's a 3 hour lecture once a week. I tend to have a nervous twitch by 9.30am...

my DM's insistence on the value of houses being somehow related to your value as a human being. IE why don't we move house and buy this house...our house was valued the other day at £xxxxxxxxxxx

There is MORE to life than HOUSE PRICES mother

I meant - HER house was valued the other day at £xxxxxxx and she STILL thinks it's insufficient

Loud eating and slurping noises should be a legitimate defence for man slaughter.

People parking like inconsiderate fuckwits, leaving a huge gap between them and the next car (yet the gap is too small for another car to park in). So you end up with a street where, if everyone had moved up a reasonable amount, you could fit about another three cars. Does my fucking head in.

Everyone in my house leaving washing up on the work top above the dishwasher but never actually IN it, so fifty times a day I have to put one spoon or one glass inside it. If they can walk as far as the kitchen counter, why not open the fucking door and put stuff inside??

Ahh, that's better.

sounds like the future needs to invent a scanner barcode dishwasher which opens automatically when items clearly emblazoned with a barcode on the reverse can simply be scanned across the front of dishwasher.

People are clearly unable to OPEN A DISHWASHER. It is creating massive eruptions and irritations in homes nationwide.

I nominate Dyson to sort this out.

DH and DS1 putting dirty clothes on top of the washing basket. It doesn't take much to OPEN the damn lid and plonk them in

Whistling
The loose wheel on a local child's scooter
The way the squeeze says 'delete'
The way people park like gits on the squeeze's street
People who only fill mugs two thirds full
The word 'babby'
Swans sitting in fields

Swans sitting in fields lmao love it!

Why do swans in fields annoy you?

I don't know why, but it really pisses me off!

People ( ok teenagers mainly) who say "Hey" as a greeting. It's HELLO.

Oh dear, I say 'hey' quite a lot. Hangover from Swedish ex / Danish colleagues.

People who, when speaking or writing, start sentences with fucking "SO",
Cyclists on the pavement,
Virgin Media,
Royal Mail,
Nat West,
South Eastern Trains,
People who squeeze toothpaste from the middle, not the end,
People who walk right across me towing some pissy little wheely case & then get snotty when I trip over the fucking thing cos it's below my line of sight & I haven't seen it,
People who are apparently utterly devoid of situational awareness until you get past them & find the dozy twats have got their phones out.
I hate all of these with a passion, but the one that really makes my shit itch has got to be "So"
And breathe...

Twisted laces - minor OCD on my part!