What do you get irrationally annoyed about?

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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????

Actually I think the checkout one is quite rational.

People who treat their pets like children. Some how I just can't be live and let live about that one.

Yes AnneJones that 'obviously' thing IS patronising! I get annoyed when your in a shop and instead of just saying 'excuse me please', someone tries sqeezing past you or knocks past you without saying anything. Or when i am with the pushchair and i DO say excuse me to someone to get past and they move an inch forward, then give you 'looks' if your pushchair bumps them abit!

Apols for repeat of 'literally' gripe - hadn't read all the posts!

(But I think it's annoying enough to bear repeating.)

And earlgrey i agree about the pregnant holding your belly thing. Sky in neighbours did that the whole time she was pregnant, it was like someone had superglued her hands to her tummy.

DH taking his trousers off and leaving his pants in them.

DH taking his trousers off and not taking the coins out of his pockets first.

DH taking his trousers off and not hanging them up, but just leaving them on the washing basket. Then asking where they are when they have been washed.

Socks. Everything about them.

Toy cars under my feet.

Stuff. All stuff. Our house is full of it.

That felt quite therapeutic .

Thought of some more

We're all ready to leave to go somewhere. DH suddenly has to have a glass of water.

DH says he wants to leave at a certain time. I get DS, DD and me ready (including all their paraphanalia). DH has only himself to get ready and takes about 5 times as long. I get stressed as it is past his time for us leaving. He doesn't get stressed.

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People who stand chatting on the pavement and begrudgingly move half a centimetre when you want to go past with your pushchair. I want to shout 'GET OUT OF MY FCKING WAY YOU STUPID CNTS' but I don't.

Yes powder28, that and when people chat in shop doorways! I have said to them when i am not in a very pleasant mood 'this is a doorway, not a public meeting room!' and they just look at me all confused.

Think we should just ram them in the ankles, that'll learn 'em!

You don't realise how difficult it can be with a pushchair until you have one and how nasty people can be. Like when drivers insist on parking half on the pavement which means you can't get past.

Another thing that really annoys me is when my dh has a sneezing fit! He does about 20 of them and it makes me want to punch him hard in the face. It must annoy other people cos his boss told him off for sneezing the other day because he couldnt hear someone on the phone!

people leaving their free Metro newspaper on the floor of the tube, don;t have a problme with them leaving it on the seat for some reason, why's that then? Very odd.

Also when people judge you for having children. I was at center parcs in one of the cafes once when I was pregnant with ds1, and I heard a girl say to her bf 'how old is she?' and her bf said 'dunno, obviously old enough to breed'!

I was 25

I used to work in a bakery and people used to ask for a carrier bag for one tiny item! I think people are obsessed with wanting carrier bags, it used to really bug me.

I hate cross-contamination!! Butter in the jam jar, ewwww! Toast crumbs in the butter, argh!!!!

What about sht stains in the toilet? My dh cant seem to clean the toilet after hes used it, and he seems unable to aim his todger into the toilet bowl. Toilet seat covered in pss really hacks me off.

Coathangers. I loathe and detest coathangers, especially those wire ones you get from the dry cleaners. I only have to open the wardrobe door and they instantly tangle themselves round each other. Take one out and it brings half a dozen friends. Ironing is my least favourite job, not because I hate ironing itself but because I have to carry handfuls of those wirey little fiends in one go.

people bumping into you and not even acknowledging it

dh leaving his clothes from the night before on the bedroom floor

dh NOT wiping up crumbs left on countertop

I get in an immediate rage when I'm busy in town, like when I used to get half an hour for lunch to go grab a sandwich, run in the bank/card shop/tesco's and race back to the bus, and there are at least half a dozen people with clipboards accosting you every three shops!

I don't care whether they work for a company trying to get me to change gas suppliers, or a charity. They are paid to be a nuisance and I really object to having the equivalent of emotionally blackmailed advertising thrust down my throat.

And even when I try not to get angry with them, I still have a brain malfunction! I saw a lady with a clipboard once smiling as I walked up the road, no-one else about. I started chanting in my head "Tell her you're busy, don't be rude. Tell her you're busy, don't be rude" so by the time she spoke to ask if I had a minute to talk, I blurted out "Sorry, can't talk, I'm far too rude!"

Which was in actual fact, more accurate!

lol at pacific not specific, mummypumpkin . my old boss (as well as being total d*ckhead) used to say someone was a 'mind of information', instead of 'mine of information' noooo, stupid man!

BananaBump. What you suufer from has a name. It is called pavement rage (like road rage).I also suffer from it

Also similar to computer rage I believe........