Tell me about things that really piss you off even though you know you're being unreasonable...

[CrazyNewDogLady]

I'll start.

My mum always puts 'your' in front of every single activity, work, hobby I do and it annoys the fucking life out of me. For example, me and DH bake a cake every Saturday because we're cool like that. Every time we speak on Saturdays she asks 'Did you do your baking today?'. I find it patronising, like she's saying 'Did you do your little baking activity today? Ah, good girl'.

I know I'm BU. I know she doesn't mean to be patronising but it boils my piss. But because I'm BU, I can't say anything. So I have to just fume quietly and vent on MN

'Snack' as a verb (sorry, justwondering ). In face generally making verbs out of nouns. 'Parent' is also a noun not a verb.

That my parents say catch when they mean hold.

That people where I live, even the newsreaders on STV, pronounce thirty as thERty.

That people where I live, again even the newsreaders, pronounce words that end in -ed as -eed, eg fitteed.

That my parents say wakened when they mean woke.

People.

All driving related:

Drivers that can't keep up a constant speed.

Drivers that take ages to accelerate.

People driving at 40 - 50mph at night (very unreasonable I know but imo if you've passed your test you should be confident driving in the dark!).

Drivers that keep braking for no apparent reason or whenever a car comes the other way.

(Can you tell I've just been on a long journey )

Oh! And people who break for speed cameras, when they are already driving at or below the speed limit...

Yy to noisy nose blowing. Also loud sneezing - just fuck off - it's a bodily function, there's no need to turn it into a theatrical performance.

People who blow their noses then examine the contents of the tissue with great interest

40ish women who say the clothes they had been trying on we're sooo grown up, what on earth do they think being grown up is.

People who end a sentence with "Fact." when they've just shared their opinion.

Believing that loose is the correct spelling of lose.

My ILs calling Pain au Chocolat "Chocolate Pains" because they think it's funny. Every time.

When my mother leaves me a voicemail which starts "hello? Hello? Are you there? Pick up the phone!!" - I know she's of the answering machine era but she has a bloody mobile and knows how voicemail works! Grrr...

When I was a child and my friend's mum pronounced Peugeot "pew-got". Haunts me to this day.

People who wear eyebrow makeup but no other eye makeup, farting in crowded spaces, when a host leaves too long between brews so you're spitting feathers

People having conversations so loudly that others standing in the vicinity can hear every single word

I hate people whistling!! So, so much. Drives me up the wall

at the end of the day.

makes my blood boil

Why in god's name would you say tong? It's tung. Tong(s) are what you pick cake up with.

People who amble across the road on a zebra crossing, taking their own sweet time, oblivious to the fact that everyone is waiting for them. Hurry the fuck up!

A corollary to that: yesterday a woman was waiting by a zebra crossing so I stopped to let her cross and then she started faffing about with her toddler daughter, doing her coat up or something. I had no idea if she was still going to cross or not, and there was a police car behind me so I couldn't just go, since she was still standing at the crossing. Just pick her up and cross the damn road; did she really think the rest of the world should revolve around her child?!

'At the end of the day'

Whenever anyone says this I fight the urge to say "the sun goes down"

Also when people say literally when they mean figuratively. 'My blood is literally boiling.'

People who say 'I couldn't be bothered to cook just for myself' to me. I AM by myself. They know this. I don't want anyone else living with me so am I supposed to just eat pot noodles from now til I die as it's only worth cooking if you have a man? I'm worth cooking for!

Noisy tea stirrers. I can feel rage building just thinking about them.

Folk who think I should drive. I live in a city and always will do. I've never not been anywhere I wanted to go and I don't ask for lifts. I have feet. There are buses and taxis. Just Fuck off.

Playing Trivial persuits. We'll go to the cinemas. Would you like cereals for breakfast?

Why, why the plural?? Dh does it..he has no explanation. Aargh!

Being interrupted whilst I'm drying my hair. I'm not going to stop cos it'll go all wrong and weird. Leave me ALONE.

But the minute I start Dh or dc trundle along mouthing things which I can't hear so I have to switch off my hairdryer and get involved in whatever emergency couldn't wait 10 minutes, or phones and doorbells start up.

Yak triangle. I always move their stuff from cubicles into main area of changing room. They can like it or lump it

People who say "for me" when they ask you to do something. "Sit down here for me. Put your chin on there for me." It's so infantilising. But I know they're trying to be kind.
Also infantilising and downright stupid - "Having a little read, are you?" when I'm doing The Times crossword. I am BU but it still drives me nuts.
My brother, who's recently had a knee replacement operation, 6 months after I had one, asking questions about it, then mansplaining my answers back to me two days later as having been said by the surgeon or orthopaedic nurse. They're there on my phone word for word, but obv I'm too dim to know about such things, while the ortho people are inarguably right and thus their words carry weight. But I guess that's brothers for you. But still.

You know what - I've just tried to be understanding. Nah! Fuck them and indeed the horse they rode in on! Morons!
Oh yes ASmallhen - cereals too. Aforementioned brother asks for "cereals" for breakfast. Grr!
And refers to my granddaughter as "snivelling" when she has a cold. And despite my explaining the difference between sniffling and snivelling, continues to do so. Why??

Agree with most of the above, especially:

• being forced to interact with neighbours - hate it so much we now live a mile from the nearest ones ...
• people faffing about in doorways
• people at checkouts acting surprised at the fact they have to pay, and not being ready
• listening to other people sniff, slurp, chomp or chew, including on TV
• my PILs' eating habits - they both pat all the food on the plate, with their forks, and constantly rearrange it into a central pile, BEFORE EACH SODDING MOUTHFUL - I try not to look as it makes me feel so angry
• people using trendy words like 'source' and 'hack'
• pretentious menus and recipes - particularly the words 'pan-fried' - what else would you fry something in?
• the constant misuse of the word 'literally' (for other grammar fiends, see the splendid Weird Al Yankovic's 'Word Crimes' song on YouTube

There are plenty more, but OP asked for things which can be considered unreasonable ...

People who lean on their supermarket trolleys as though they are Zimmer frames (not just talking old people here, I see young people doing it too). Just push the fucking thing normally.
People saying 'pissed' when they mean 'pissed off'. Unless you're American, pissed means drunk. Stop it.
Teachers and social workers saying 'mum' when they mean X's mum as in 'mum's an alcoholic so X is a bit of a handful. I always want to say what's your mum's drinking got to do with X?
People starting threads with 'so'. I never read them.
People TALKING and LAUGHING and EATING NOISILY in the quiet compartment. I can't go in any more.
Oh and people thinking any more is word one. And the same with a lot. Two bloody words. No-one writes 'abit' so why 'alot'?
And tongue, like come and as someone (oh! and one) said, tonne, stem from Old English spelling. It is not pronounced 'tong' FFS!

One word, not word one!

People who use bags with the Harrods logo as tho' it's their local shop. YOU LIVE 200 MILES AWAY.

Packed up loads of stuff for a weekend away. Trudge to the car. As we get there DH is like "Oh the boot is full of all that stuff I need to take to the tip." So we end up with our things piled around us.
This has has just happened. Again. It happens every time. It's not the same tip stuff as last time. He seems to just constantly fill the boot with bits and pieces that need to go to the tip. Currently I'm sat in the back keeping an eye on DD, bag on my lap. The front passenger seat has our massive pram base awkwardly crammed into it DH, can barely change gear.
Why can't he stop constantly filling the car with crap, or at least remembering he has done it AGAIN before 12 seconds before we have to leave?!

Have to add people using 'yourself' when they mean 'you'. It doesn't sound 'posher' it's WRONG.
'I'll just get that done for yourself'.
They'll be saying 'thank yourself' next. Bloody hyper-correction.

And I do t like 'I'm sat', it's 'I'm sitting'. DP says this all the time and I hate it.