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

Tongue is pronounced tung to me

I hate that anytime I get to have a lie in, one of the neighbours decides to do some noisy DIY or gardening. Bastards.

Sometimes at work, where I deal with hr and am a line manager, I get really annoyed at having to deal with line management / HR type issues. I want to shout 'JUST BLOODY SORT IT OUT AMONGST YOURSELVES'. Not reasonable as I am paid quite well to sort this kind of shit out.
I also hate neighbours enjoying their gardens.
My next door neighbour's security light.
Elderly people who go to the local church, parking outside of my house (badly - it has to be said!)
Local children kicking a football up and down the road. If it comes into my garden, I have the urge to stab the ball repeatedly with a screwdriver.
What I really really really really hate is people waiting outside my office for me when I arrive at work. I'm always ten minutes early so that I can start in a relaxed fashion so, no matter how urgent the issue, it gives me the HUGE RAGE.

I could go on, but I'm pregnant and very angry!

People who stand on the pavement by a zebra crossing on an empty road, and wait for a car to come, and stop, before they will cross
It makes me furious when I'm driving and when I see it as a pedestrians
Don't even get me started on people who wait until they get to the ticket barriers before looking in their pockets and bag for their ticket...

The way my DH hangs out the laundry. I insist we keep ours separate now, but sometimes he'll still do mine to help me. It winds me the fuck up - shake the creases out and hang them flat you knobber! Don't just pick up each item and doing them in the general direction of the line.
Of course, it's pretty unreasonable of me to get so annoyed by this because it is nice of him to do my washing honestly though, just STOP

Doing= fling.

Autocorrect when it's incorrect also makes the list!

People who sit in MY seat on the bus to work. I can't cope with it, my whole day goes wrong. FUCK OFF!!

People who are too early! For example you invite them over say 7.30pm for drinks/dinner or whatever & they turn up at 7pm....I'm still finishing things off/getting ready. Can cope with 5 or at a push 10 mins early but not a whole 30mins!

People who call you the wrong name when they know you're called say Kate but insist on calling you Katy.

And on a more light hearted note my daughter & her socks.....arghhhh. As soon as she gets in from school she takes them off & just leaves (chucks) them anywhere. I mean anywhere, under the sofa, under a table, on the stairs etc. I've even found a pair behind the tv & also draped over my handbag.
I've lost count of how many times I've told her to put them in the washing bin. I think she doesn't understand me

Eating noises. Doesn't even need to be crunchy, I still get the red mist.

The symphony of FUCKING Lawnmowers/hedge trimmers on the first sunny weekend day of the year. Ditto men wearing shorts on said sunny weekend day in spite of it not being over 10c.

Oh and evenings getting lighter. Wtf? Who the hell wants LONGER before children will sleep? Sadists.

Rose I know exactly what you mean about MY bus seat .

Well I didn't THINK I was being unreasonable but apparently I was: yesterday I was doing some cleaning. Dusted the woodwork up and down the stairs and was about to hoover the stair carpet. DP in his infinite wisdom insisted on sweeping the stair carpet and knocking up all the dust back on to the woodwork. So I dusted it all back off on to the carpet and decided both he and the hoovering could fuck off. Totally unreasonable Because He Was Helping.

People who are all "ewwww" about prawns, or rare beef, or avocado. Its food. If you don't like it, don't eat it. Fair enough not to like it, but enough of the princessy ewwws.

People who go on about how "everybody always has their head in a smartphone these days". Yes, it's progress. It kills time. It doesn't hurt you. It can keep kids quiet, you can get things done. I'm not talking about loud apps, or being antisocial, just how someone is choosing to kill "dead" time, like on a commuter train, or waiting in the doctor's surgery, or whatever. It is not indicative of some kind of foreboding doomsday breaking down of society and will be the end of the world. It doesn't mean they don't love their family, or have disengaged with real life. It's just something to do. Like a crossword, a book, staring into space, listening to music. It's not a crime. They probably would not have had a conversation with you if they did not have their smartphone. They probably may have had a book, or a crappy magazine. They may actually be reading a book or a crappy magazine on their phone. That's okay. It's all okay!

When either I can't hear people or they can't hear me on the phone (hello? Hello? ) I don't know why but it's like the red mist descends about 3 seconds in and I'll either nearly put my finger through the mobile to disconnect or slam the receiver down.

People who pronounce 'envelope' 'onvelope'

My neighbour's DC play football in the garden all bloody day (starting at 8am) every weekend when it's not raining. The sound of the ball hitting the fence repetitively drives me insane!

I think the 'tong' pronunciation of 'tongue' is something that's come over from the States. It's definitely 'tung' IMO.

The shortening of chocolates to chocs. No idea why but it really annoys me.

veggietabulls

When I reply to an email at work and the recipient calls you 5 seconds later. Why? Just bloody read the email and reply. I can't ignore them either as I'm clearly at my desk. That really pisses me off.

On another email note. When I tell someone something they don't like over email and they drop the 'dear' and 'kind', just my name and regards. It shouldn't bother me but that also pisses me off!!

People saying that parenting is 'the hardest job in the world'.

It really isn't!!!

Pretty sure that scavenging for recyclables on a rubbish tip and not being sure you'll earn enough to eat that day is harder. As is working in a sweatshop for 14 hours a day at the age of 10.

Even without considering exploitative jobs in other countries, I'm pretty sure that most people would find being a brain surgeon more stressful and harder work than parenting most days.

I know, I know, people don't mean it literally...

No Nordic, they literally do!

Along with Vegitabulls, can I raise you "Umber-ell-a" instead of Umbrella?

It would have ruined a certain Rhianna song with that extra syllable.

Can I add that Rhianna song to the rage list whilst I we are on that topic

In shops where there's a long queue, and they then open another checkout. Then people who have only just got to the queue leap forward and get served first by the new cashier, instead of having some fucking manners and letting people who have been waiting ages go to the new checkout particularly when they then turn and give smug grins around to the people still waiting, congratulating themselves on being served so quickly.
Can you tell this happened earlier?

People walking really slowly everywhere. Just hurry the fuck up! Been in London too long.

My mum also does a little sort/snigger after every comment SHE thinks is funny. Bless her. I love her to death.

People who think that 'statuses' is the plural of status piss me off. Pretentious morons who insist it is 'stati' because it's Latin, however, immediately secure themselves a top spot on my hit list! 4th fucking declension, you intellectual wannabes!