What do you get irrationally annoyed about?

[ghosty]

I have been smiling to myself at 'am I being unreasonable to want to go to the BBC HQ and bite someone' and 'am I being unreasonable to be Homicidal with Rage about ...' threads

I am generally a chilled person ... I can't get myself worked up about parent and toddler car parking threads for example ...
And laughed till I cried over the 'grapes' thread years ago on Mumsnet ...

BUT: When I help my children do a jigsaw puzzle and find at the end that there is a piece missing I get soooooooooooooo irrationally angry that I want to chuck a chair out of the window ....
Obviously I don't ... as I am a 'nice mummy' and I would scare my children. But inside I am screaming "Where is that faaaaaarrrrrking jigsaw piece????????"
I have to go and take deep breaths and calm down or have a gin
I am the same with lost shoes.
And if someone parks their car on the pavement on the way to school and I have to push the buggy out onto the road to get past I have to suppress an urge to run my keys down the side of that car

So, what silly thing do you get irrationally cross about????

the washing maiden. It has this quirk that means it'll sometimes fold itself up just as I approach with wet laundry. This is guaranteed to make me see red, even though I KNOW it'll do it and its really no problem. Shamingly I booted it across the kitchen yesterday.. ooops.

o(its really unbelievably annoying tho)

What is a washing maiden?

May I join in this discussion and have a rant about odd socks please??!!?

See, odd socks, mildly irritating but not foot stampingly, screamingly annoying ...

Lost dice to boardgames however

No I find the entire sock thing VERY foot-stampingly wildly irritating (especially after midnight on a sunday and I've left it til the last minute to have four school uniforms ready and there's nothing that matches for the morning because the sock monster got everything!)

Actually the footstampy thing is probably nothing to do with the sock monster...DH tells me I'm most annoyed at myself for leaving it that late.... what makes me seeth actually is that he's right but I WON'T admit it!

Lego underfoot as I step across the landmine of a bedroom - that's another one for me

Buses that go so bleedin' fast you can't see what number they are until they've practically gone past you.

Quad bikes on the waste ground where I walk the dogs.

Apostrophes in the wrong places.

People talking while I'm watching Doctor Who!

Ooh yeah talking during Doc Who. Black eyes may be dished out.
Or phoning. Especially if it's just a sales call. We had one last night at 8.55! Why, do they have nothing better to do? At the beginning of most haunted they tell you all the history of the building and i get really peeved if anyone talks/visits/phones. (i am sad)We have no lo's yet so i suppose i should get used to interupptions.(sp?)

Dog poo/litter on the streets (esp if I see people dropping the litter)
Being crowded from behind - both walking and driving
Phone ringing when we're eating
People who eat smelly food on tubes/buses
People who push past on the streets or don't acknowledge a courtesy - as when you've held a door open/stepped aside for them to pass by, etc.

Cyclists cycling down pedestrianised streets.

When I had my double buggy, all the mums from the local private primary who parked their 4x4s half on the road and half on the pavement, which meant taking double buggy into the road.

I'll think of some more, I'm sure!

My minions at work, when they use the last of something and then don't tell me. Then next thing you know it's, can you order some more of such-and-such, there's none left.
I mean ffs, it can take several days to get things depending what I need to order? And what if my supplier is out of stock?????
That really winds me up.
Oh, and my boss sending me an email at 4.55 telling me, oh btw need you to give a presentation to the board tomorrow. Which he did yesterday. It's bloody stock day tomorrow and I have to prepare!!!!! Agghhhhh!!!!

When people park right opposite the school gates on the lines because they are too farking lazy to park further down the road and walk. You then have to poke yourself and your buggy out from behind the car (ie into the middle of the road) to see if it's safe to cross
YOU LAZY SH*TES

catbabymummy - stop mnetting and go and prepare, that sounds scary!

If I am in a shop and I smell BO ... like real, unwashed BO ...
I want to march up to that person and clonk them on the head with a bottle of deodorant ... there is just NO excuse for BO IMHO ...
Even if you are anti spraying yourself with anything 'nasty' you can get crystal mineral thingies can't you? And you can wear clean clothes can't you????

We sometimes get children who are a bit smelly at school...not BO (they are too young) but just generally unwashed and not well cared for. Maybe they grow up to be the adults with BO? I think you may be being a teency bit judgemental there ghosty, it's also a medical problem for some people.

Stickiness - can't stand it!!!!!!!!!!!!
People that smoke in cars with their kids.
Arguements
Getting no help from dp (he is usually very good)

I know that danceswithnewboots ...
Which is why the title to the thread includes the word "irrational" ...
In a rational frame of mind I obviously don't get cross, I reason with myself that it may be a medical problem etc.

An invisible person who walks his/her invisible dog near my house, and picks up dog's poo in thin fragile transparent nappy bags that are left just beside the kerb.

Why does this person expect us to carry her/his dirty poo into our homes to avoid it sticking flat into the pavement inside of its nappy bag? YUK YUK YUK

And it exasperates me more because this has gone on for YEARS.

Ah and mothers of normal children who spend most of their time criticisin mums and correcting other children behaviour totally unaware that they children are equally misbehaved and their parenting as bad (or good) as the people they criticise so much.

When dh puts empty packets/cartons back in the cupboard or fridge ....

When I can't find something that I need, and I know exactly where it was, but it's not there now, and I ask dh, and he says "Oh, I probably tidied it away", but he has no idea where...grrrrrr.

(poor dh, he's a lovely lovely man, but those 2 things are particularly irritating)

parents who excuse lazy parenting, and therefore bad behavior, bt saying "Oh he/she's only small"

Like the 2 year old whose mother was sat watching him try to rip my nearly 4 year old's face off. I had to physically remove him. I wasn't angry with him, 2 year old's are renouned nutters, but I was incandescant with rage at her. She'd have been the first to moan had I not got there in time and her 2 year old had got a slap in the gob.....

When they say "Oh but he's only small" I want to scream "YES BUT YOU'RE FUCKING NOT, ARE YOU, YOU APATHETIC BITCH!"

See, that's the irrational part.

some of these sound perfectly rational to me.

I think you're right Bozza, my gripes are probably fair enough, but it's the red mist, fist-clenching ARGGGHHHHH reaction that overwhelms me that is irrational

Have to say lol at this becos it remonds me so much of my "annoyances", especially car parking. I am new at this as i have a 5mth old lo but have been out walking with pram and a builders van has parked across most of the pavement, trhus making me use the rd, so v. ploitely asked said builder to climb down from roof and move van..... smiled lots of thanks and appreciation after he moved it,i went on this same walk for 5 days and each day had to request the same thing. By day 6 builders saw me coming and moved the van themswelves.. ho-ho

Well done Robbosmum