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????

Having to do all the washing and ironing in my house, even though I agreed to it cos I work from home, it still makes me very

Oh yes all of these...and...

People leaving their Christmas lights up all year. Aaaargh!! I want to go round with a ladder.

Mind you dh only took ours down the other day...

I was virtually breathing in brown paper bags every time I looked at them and nagged for England about it. He derived a lot of pleasure winding me up about it

i get soooo cross when I am being served in a shop and i have to hear all about the person who is serving me weekend whilst they are screwing up the clothes i have just paid money for and shoving them in a bag without ever once looking at what they are doing - it makes me want to leap behind the counter and poke them in the eyes with a hanger after i have taught them how to fold a sodding jumper (which isn't difficult you know) - aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh

People talking on mobiles on a train and saying "i am on the train and i can't speak"

people leaving empty food and drink cans rolling around tube carriages

people throwing litter etc out of their car windows

Ghosty, hats off to you for supressing the" keys down the side of crappy parked car" urge. I have recently taken to giving in to that urge I'm ashamed to say .

The one thing guaranteed to send me into an apoplectic fit of rage is if anyone pulls on or streches any of my knitwear, strange but true.

Doesn't bother me, but dh gets irrationally annoyed about waiting for longer than five minutes in a queue. He has been known to walk out of restaurants / shops / cafés if he has to stand and wait.

Oh, hello there Kitty!

Hello mossy !!

OOh I also get really annoyed when people don't say 'thankyou'. A friend recently told me she had stopped to pick up a £1 coin a young woman had dropped on the bus. As she was giving it to her it became apparant that this woman was not going to say 'thankyou' so my friend dropped the coin back on the floor and walked off. Good on her

coat hangers

toothpaste escaping from my mouth when I am brushing my teeth & dribbling down my chin. Makes me shudder just thinking about it.

There's a Blue Cow story that makes me want to throw things at the tv. Blue Cow is on the dark side of the moon, and there's no sunlight. AAAAAAGGGGHHHHH That's not the meaning of dark in this case.

(Notice that I'm not at all bothered by a cow being blue or visiting the moon on a double decker bus. )

Seeing people walking down the busy high street, shoving massive burgers into their mouths and then chewing with mouths open. Urgh.

Also, people eating with their fingers.

people who don't indicate when driving - though I don't consider that irrational when I am trying to cross the road with dying - so probl'y doesn't count!!!

Ooh yes drivers that don't indicate, especially if it's a busy roundabout and I've been trying to cross the road for ages!

And another thing. (Oh dear I'm on a roll now.) Twice a year there's a continental market comes to town and it sells really unusual foods from around the world. I get irrationally annoyed when I see people going into Sayers for a pastie. It's two days in the year ffs would it really hurt to try something different? Twice? In the year?

And packaging in the supermarket. Why can't they just throw all the tomatoes into a big crate instead of wrapping them up separately? (Have to admit this is made even worse by dh's obsession with organic / "Extra Special" food, which is nearly always overpackaged).

And I get annoyed at dh's obsession with "Extra Special" food. Okay I can understand the organic thing to an extent, but is an extra ten pence on a pack of mince making it "Extra Special" or "Finest" really going to make a difference if it's shoved into a stew anyway?

Aaaand relax. I sound like such a mardy cow now. I do know it's irrational.

people whose clothes labels stick out from behind their necks.

I want to reach out and tuck them in, but the last time I tried this, she noticed and I had to leave the shopping centre in case she thought I was a weirdo

Queueing for anything. I'm not normally impatient but there's something about a queue that turns me into a raging, muttering madwoman who HAS to be served NOW! Also dog poo outside schools.

When it's busy in town and I, with my pushchair and walking toddler, see loads of people coming towards me. So I stop to let them by and then people push past from BEHIND ME and rush past the people coming towards me.
Like I'm standing still for my health. I feel like screaming at them "I'm Fing letting them past not Fing window shopping you ignorant, stupid tw*ts!!!!!"

I live near a FE college and as I use public transport get to see a lot of the students. They are terrified of venturing up the bus if there isn't a free seat (ie if they can't sit on their own in a seat for two, or with a mate) they stop stock still with their great big bag and won't move.

So behind them are people trying to get on including me with little ones and buggy.
Steam comes out of my ears!! I usually resort to instructor mode and point out what they need to do ie MOVE!!

I know the world can seem scary when you're a teen so could I ask anyone whose child will soon be using public transport on their own to please, please take them on the bus a few times and explain the etiquette!!

LOL @ queueing .... it never bothers me ... or rarely. There is a queue, so my turn will come.
Like finding a parking space. Full car park ... I will go in and know that eventually (never ever more than 5 minutes) someone will come, get into their car and drive away, leaving me an empty space. So I will stop somewhere in the middle of the carpark, turn the radio up and watch for leaving shoppers. DH, on the other hand, will driver quickly round the car park, swear a lot, then say "Bugger it, I'm going home!" and go home, no shopping done.
That makes me shake with rage

Also agree with the cars parked all over path.. Have builders near me and if I think it's a tight squeeze I go anyway. If I scratch their cars/vans then tough s**t.
Hate taking pushchair in road as it's on a corner and people tear down it so fast.

when people leave the big white price stickers on the bottom of their shoes.

1] People who let their dogs crap all over the pavement and leave it there

2] People who have untrained dogs off their leads and let them jump all over people who don't like dogs

3] People who spit onto the pavement

4] People who empty their ashtrays out of the car door wherever they are

5] Politicians who lie shamelessly

Oh and white van drivers who come up behind you and sit on your bumper until you change lane

Any aggressive/dangerous drivers

Ok, I phone my mum for a good long chat on a Sunday. Get cup of coffee and announce to the whole family 'Right, I am going to phone Grandma'. Two minutes later....'Muuuuum, can I have some money/go out/where are my trainers/ can I 'just'go on the computer for a minute,what's for lunch? muuuum'

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