Vent your extremely trivial irritations here (yes, WABU)

[JeanneDeMontbaston]

My neighbour is engaging in her daily chat right outside my door. She has a voice like someone strangling a duck, and she spends half her life having loud conversations in the middle of the street. Her daughter lives down the road and has the same voice, but half an octave higher and a bit louder.

She is also the most middle-class woman in the world and has now been talking for about twenty minutes about her front step and how it improves the look of the street.

She's very sweet, but her voice is going right through my head. What utterly unreasonable things are you irritated by today?

Men who turn into total divas in the pool when the medium lane isn't fast enough for them but there's already seven people in the fast lane. A guy literally flounced this morning because of this.

My DS's anorak went awol from nursery last week (stupidly didn't name tag it but who really has time?). Probably a coincidence but anorak has turned up on the peg next to his with someone else's name in it. Same size, identical jacket. This jacket hasn't been in stock for ages.

nick it right back! back. seriously!

From; I can't prove it so I'll have to learn my lesson regarding name-tagging clothes. Cheeky buggers though

General irritations.....

Toddler refuses to go to bed until approx 30 mins before my bedtime. So no downtime for Hairy today and a very grumpy toddler tomorrow morning when she's woken for nursery!

The fuckers that (despite using a major city train station at rush hour), still have not worked out that you stand on the right of the escalator so people in a hurry can get past you.

And..... my dear work colleagues who have to try to open the toilet door even when it clearly says 'engaged' just to check that it is definitely engaged .... I have no idea why this annoys me soooo much.

People who use worse and worst the wrong way round. I think this is a South of England issue, a bit like bought and brought, but I may be wrong.

Yes I'm so glad this thread is still around!

Mine is people who chose football clubs as their specialist subject on mastermind. I know its a really weird one but its so BORING! I'm always like 'pffft' when they say something like 'chelsea football club 1970 to present' and go make a cup of tea when they do their questions...

I am glad too, ollie. I had no idea it'd get so many replies, clearly we are all walking around in a very British state of suppressed fury.

Mine today: people who stop in the middle of the bridge near here to take pictures. I know this is totally unreasonable to mind, and I know it is a tourist trap, and I know it is a special level of wanky to mind. But it's also a very small bridge in the middle of everyone's short-cut to work!

the change for life ads. The sugar swap one was just on the radio. the earnest tones telling me sugar ill make me overweight and have heart problems. FFS!

The frenzied typing of the person next to me. Honestly, it's driving me spare. He also has a weird habit of hitting the space bar four times every 30 seconds or so, then deleting the extra spaces (I covertly watched as I wondered what the fuck he was doing).

I have had earphones in most of the day.

People who use # and @ anywhere except Twitter (eg, on here, or on Facebook).

If people want to reply to me on here, put my name in bold, DO NOT write @WorktoLive

I don't want to get into a debate about FB right now, because another trivial irritation is the undisguised hatred that some people on here have for Facebook, but my Slimming World group has a Facebook support/meal ideas FB group and one of the group has just posted a question, along with #3 #fucking #hashtags afterwards.

I'm 10 weeks pg and DH keeps looking at/commenting on my bump. Except it's not a bump, it's just that I'm bloated and had a jelly belly to begin with so I look like a python that's swallowed a whole goat. I've tried telling him to just shut up, but he can't help remarking on it.

On my bike ride in to the office today, coming down a fairly straight slightly downhill road, there's a minor road at the bottom that joins up with it. Tw*t in a BMW sees me, then pulls out anyway, ignoring the give way lines. Would you do that if I was in a car?

I want some of the new Ben & Jerry's, but the only supermarket near me that has them on special offer is too far to get them home before they've melted, and I don't want to pay full price for them.

Bloody Ritx have launched their Crisp and Thin range and they are too delish abd I have eaten too many just before tea Bastards

And now I want wine

"this morning, someone stole all my money, set fire to my house and killed all my family and pets.

aibu to feel miffed at this person?"

what are you expecting other than a lot of yanbu answers?

aibu is for areas of grey and seeing other possible viewpoints,not slamdunk obvious cases of bu or nbu

Yes, ariaba. May I add "AIBU to dislike the name Michael", "AIBU to really love blueberry muffins" and "AIBU to think pop starlet Wossername sounds exactly like girl band member Wosserface?"

IABU to click them, I am aware of that.

araiba, sorry

WorktoLive (I'll admit, I was so tempted to put @WorktoLive... ) the excessive hashtag thing on FB annoys me too. I have a friend who is really sweet and lovely but her every FB post is something like "fab day with my besties #besties #bestfriends #bffs #lovemygirls #girlpower #fabday #dayswithbestiesarethebest #thankgoodnessthisisn'tTwitter #somanyhashtags #runningoutofthingstotagnow"

ha ha ha I thought the hashtags in FB and everywhere but Twitter was just me being a technopeasant and not understanding that they did something wonderful in a parallel universe.

araiba But aren't the best AIBU where someone comes on and says "you selfish moron, people are perfectly entitled to set fire to your house on a regular basis and you are being passive aggressive/precious/judgmental/U to think otherwise" - that's half the fun.

Hahaha, brilliant Page! My cousin's fiancee does this constantly about her (not 'their') upcoming wedding (#bride #excited #bestdayofmylife #cantwait #flowers #pink #bouquet #wedding #marry #dress #woo) - Beginning to seriously worry about what she'll do once it's all over....

my son won't keep his hands off his penis and he is also sniffing his fingers im finding it irksome he is six KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF IT!

and stop sniffing them STOP IT!!!!

i blame his nan she is "ocd" about handwashing and makes him smell his hands to see if they are clean it is driving me mental the warmer it gets over here if it were cooler and i had actually slept last night i would not be so bothered

(not ocd diagnosed uses ocd as an excuse for mental/rude behaviour another irksome trait that crawls up my ass like cheap nylon knickers)

The man who has been ringing/texting my DH to get his advice on an issue completely unrelated to my DH sort all his problems at work out and be the one who takes the shit for it one phone call would have sufficed, but we are now on multiple texts with simply "????" It's made me angry and irritated and I think the person texting is acting like a petulant child (which he is).

Serious first world issue, but I am so grumpy today, my mum made butterscotch cookies, you know proper awesome chewy ones, and gave them all to me. Now Ive got to eat them.
and this f*cking samsung pissing tablet will not change i into I and i am too damn lazy to type properly!!! My phone manages to work out what i want from dswrgni so why can't you, huh? Huh?

Babybat - you could buy your icecream and a bag of ice to keep it cold on the way home.

I'm annoyed because I really want to try the new peanut butter ice cream Cornetto, and cant find it in the shops.

My colleague's eating their lunch at their desks is annoying me, they eat stinking, highly savoury food and it makes me heave. Today I worked through a fog of last night's pepperoni pizza, a Greggs steak bake and oxtail soup. The stench almost drove me to resigning on the spot.