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

fibrecruncher - our DHs could go together in a sneeze off. I think nuclear war has started when my DH starts atchooing. I live in fear of him having a bad cold. I fear that my DH would outdo them all, there appears to be a family trait he has inherited for the worlds weirdest sneezing fits. He never sneezes just once, it is a whole raft of increasingly snotty sneezes, all loud and theatrical and often ending in a little whine that sounds like a dog. Ds's piss themselves laughing and if he's upstairs sneezing we are all usually downstairs whining after each one.

Every fecking morning when DH is up first and opens the curtains I have to go and straighten them up, and rearrange cushions on his settee that he just left all over the night before. every fecking day!

he is also a leg twitcher, can't bloody sit still so the settee shakes,the table rattles, drives me up the wall.

neighbours washing, I know it has no effect on me whatsoever but the random way she or he drapes stuff over the line and shoves a peg in any old how irritates me, behold my washing line neighbour, see how neat everything is? makes ironing easier too.

My mum saying 'I've probably bored you with this story hundreds of times' and proceeding to repeat it..

ExH demanding to know when DS'S parents' evenings are, but never actually making an appointment and attending one.
ExH expecting me to provide clothes for DS when he is with him, then returning clothes (and DS) filthy.

Bad spelling / grammar / punctuation (especially on social media and from people who know better)

ExH's beard (shudders) I sometimes want him to wear a placard stating he didn't have it when we were together!

And yes IABU because ExH does love DS and sees him every week, but I feel soooo much better getting that off my chest!

People who pluck the middle bit of their eyebrows (the ends beside the nose) so that they look really far apart.

And when people try and pluck their brows into a semi-circle shape like a rainbow.

Eyebrows are supposed to be eyebrow-shaped, not silly contrived rainbows or stunted tadpoles.

Arggh, my DH talks about 'cereals' for breakfast.

His DPs (my PIL) say lots of things that give me the rage. If there's a cup of tea that's gone a bit cold, they'll say "it wants hotting up". The tea doesn't want anything and hotting is not a word.
FIL: "I like beans, I do." Just stop after beans. Also you've said it a billion times FFS.
They also do the "your" thing. "Are you still doing your running?" and worse, "Are you still doing your little job?" [I have worked full time all the while they've known me (19 years) and I have a professional career]

MIL reversed into the front of our house last time they were here, breaking off a window sill. She claimed "that wasn't there before" and then that "it won't show". No, of course not.

Cars that drive across the zebra crossing even though you're clearly waiting to cross.

Thought of something else I hate... when people put 'so-and-so's mummy' in their name on Facebook. Really gets on my nerves when I'm reading through a discussion or something

Doing food shop and my husband suddenly disappearing with trolley when I have a load of stuff in my hands..... gives me the absolute RAGE and he does it all the fucking time. He just can't stay with me in any bloody aisle.

Just thought of another one. When people call the seats on trains or buses 'chairs'. Silly I know. But a chair is something you sit indoors,at a table,or to watch TV.Conjures up an image in my head of a load of free-standing dining table chairs sliding around on the the bus!

People with double-barrelled names who don't capitalise the second half of the name: eg Marie-helene, etc.

People on the train who have loud conversations on the train. You know the ones, they have their headphones and / or have the phone up to their mouth and on speakerphone. STFU! I am not interested in your mundane life.
People ringing me a nap time. FGS just let me enjoy the peace.
My dad rocking up at witching hour, turning the TV to rugby and wonder why the hell my kids are crazy. Because you nob, you invited yourself round, turned the kids cartoons off and won't interact with them.

People who hold their phone out in front of them during a call so they have to shout into it. Why?! I don't want to hear their bellowing one sided conversation. Is there some reason they can't hold it to their ear?

Pass me one of them ones
I have one of them ones

Took me nearly 30 years to beat that out of dh

Oh and the way other people hang their laundry! SHAKE IT! Please just shake it! Then hang it neatly! It will genuinely need less ironing..
I struggle to look at badly hung laundry even if it has nothing to do with me.. But anyone doing it with my laundry I go full on ocd.

'I text him'

Texted. TEXTED!

People who walk really slowly (generally in Marks and Spencer!)
Organisations that send marketing emails to my work email with subject lines like 'Just a reminder' or 'Sophia, we need your input' or 'Some direction please' that make me think I was meant to do something that I haven't!
Buses that don't run on time - if there is always traffic on that route, then change the goddamn timetable
ASOS's delivery/returns system
People at train ticket machines who take for-fucking-ever to tap their booking code in

Ithinkiamsinking Pretty sure this was the reason my last relationship ended..

People

lamiashiro yes! Text annoys me too.

People who say re-dick-a-lus

I remember when DC1 was born and I was doing the night feeding. When we had visitors and if my husband mentioned he got up in the night to change his nappy, que lots of 'what a hands on dad' 'such a good father' bollocks. No f'ing medal for me then. Yes- our children are 50% his so he can do his fecking share!

People in general on public transport. The chewing, mindless conversations, headphones leaking their shitty music and the smell of food. The absolute worst though are the ones who get on then look amazed that they have to pay, and then start rummaging around for what feels like eternity in their bag for money/pass.

Needy people in shops annoy me. The ones that seem to need 3 or 4 assistants running around after them because they decide, at the counter, that they'll have it in blue after all/in a size 12/a new one from the back.
It's ok, I'll just stand here while you treat the entire staff as your personal shoppers for your mega transaction.

The phrase "They come as a package" when referring to a single parent and their child. Had this said to me when I met my DP and his son. It's the implication that you would only take on the child because you want to be with the parent. Sure, his dad is the reason I met my stepson (not married but I've raised him as my own as his mum left them when he was a baby) but I love him for who he is, not because of who his dad is, and would always stay in touch with him if his dad & I were to split. I know this is a tad unreasonable because that's not the way they mean it to come across, but still it bugs me.

I texted sounds wrong to me. Like saying "I founded it" instead of I found it.

BrideOfWankenstein Thu 17-Mar-16 11:00:31
My mum's jaw makes clicking noise when she's chewing. It has nothing to do with the type of food she is chewing or how she is doing it. She cannot help it.
It gives me blind rage

I know I'm late to this thread, but I'd wonder if this was my DD in disguise

I find things on the right hand side of my body click a lot; jaw, foot, shoulder. Nothing I can do about it, unfortunately.

Meanwhile, I get grumpy at people eating with open mouths. Close that flaming gob while you chew