Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. Flexible and made to last.

Meet the Other Phone.
Flexible and made to last.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Original poster

To ask what really fucks you off?

471 replies

IDoDaChaCha · 06/08/2017 19:32

I know I know I was asking for it- going out in the car on a Sunday; 'Sunday drivers'... As I was sat/stuck behind yet another slow, overly cautious (shit - IMO) driver it infuriated me that she left a car sized gap between her and the car in front of her. These selfish twats idly trundle by just as the lights change leaving whoever was stuck behind them (and their massive unnecessary gap...) stuck at the lights. I curse them. What and/or who really gets you mad?

OP posts:
MouseholeCat · 06/08/2017 20:35

Ignorant people who have no interest in broadening their minds.
People who are repeatedly insensitive and never learn to think before they speak.
Procrastinating.
Lateness.
People who drive massive petrol guzzling cars. They are such entitled fuckers.

Original poster
IDoDaChaCha · 06/08/2017 20:37

CheeseAndOnion same thing happens with the slow drivers who leave huge gaps in front: others nip in and the queue gets bigger for all of us behind. Part of driving is 'making progress' and also being considerate to other drivers. Driving like you're the only vehicle on the road, well under the speed limit instead of at it (minors on your test!) are bad manners. Some here are assuming I tailgate, nope. I drive appropriately to the flow of traffic at the speed limit of the road. Some people ignore all that, dawdle along, create traffic, piss others off and generally get in the way. Not annoying? Oh yes they are.

OP posts:
wildbhoysmama · 06/08/2017 20:37

People who are really uptight about being on time. Chillax.
People who are irritatingly early. Just piss off, I'm not ready, the kids are in the shower and I've only got one leg in my pants.
Children who are manipulative, little fuckers- talking to you, whingey, bitchy 7 year old neighbour who tells my 5 year old to do things she will get in bother for and only comes into our garden because we have a climbing wall not because she likes my child!
Loud teenagers who feel the need to shriek at each other constantly - life is not that fucking exciting, calm the fuck down.

Middle lane drivers. Fuckers.

TheFirstMrsDV · 06/08/2017 20:37

People who self refer constantly. If you don't know what I mean think TOWIE and Big Brother.
They talk about themselves all the time in a particular way 'oh you know what I am like babe' 'ask my friends, they will tell you how much I love/hate etc'
The also tend to be the 'OMG it could only happen to MEEEEEE'

People who do endless quizzes on FB and share the results like they mean something
Chose three Fruits and we will Reveal your True Personality.
You are sensitive empath and incredibly artistic
'Oh GOD yes this is SO ME'
No
it
isn't

People who diagnose themselves as empaths, introvert etc even though they are not conditions but they make them feel exotic.

TinselTwins · 06/08/2017 20:37

Making a complaint in a restaurant or B&B etc:
"well nobody else has had a problem with it, we haven't had any other complaints about it"
Well someone just did complain about it you prick! So fucking deal with it

Hazard lights = I can park wherever the fuck I want, coz hazards!

Cyclists on the footpath telling me to get out of their way! on the footpath!

LaurieFairyCake · 06/08/2017 20:37

Oh god so many things Hmm

Basically the world being not exactly the way I want it

#IfICouldChooseIdBeAMassivePrincessBitch

Achoopichu · 06/08/2017 20:38

To those of you who can't stand cyclists - please still take huge care eith then. You'd never forgive yourself if you crushed someone's skull through impatience

TinselTwins · 06/08/2017 20:40

Ignorant people who have no interest in broadening their minds

and
People who make bad science statements, and then if corrected with actual science, reply that they don't trust science Confused
WIND UP did you not just try and FAIL to use (bad) science in your "fact" statement back there?

Original poster
IDoDaChaCha · 06/08/2017 20:40

Someone call 999 MartinJD needs emergency surgery to remove the massive stick from their arse Grin this isn't my political manifesto, love. I'm blowing off steam. It's what we do on MN.

OP posts:
Elendon · 06/08/2017 20:40

People who don't pick up their dog poo. People who walk down a busy road with their dogs in the middle.

People who don't let you out when turning right and have a long queue behind them yet there are no cars coming forward.

B&M trucks (huge) going through small towns where there are no stores.

People eating with their mouths open.

People who do shitty things to other people and couldn't give a fuck.

MyRedPepper · 06/08/2017 20:41

People who feel they are far superior to anyone, they are right, everyone else is wrong and then refuse to listen to anything you say because itnwill onbviouosy be crap.

Can you feel I met one of those not long ago?

NoKidsTwoCats · 06/08/2017 20:41

Ooh you guys are giving me more ideas! Grin

People who claim to be 'mad' or 'wacky'
Another vote for people who use 'I tell it like it is' to excuse basic rudeness
People who bang on about how 'awful/entitled/avocado-loving' millennials are
Trout and duck pouts (esp on my 50+ going on 12 sister)
People who don't say 'please' or 'thank you'
Tractor drivers who stay on the road for miles and build up a massive queue when there are laybys for them to pull into to let people pass from time to time
'Mummy/daddy bloggers'
People who, on an empty beach/car park, will set up their beds/park their cars RIGHT next to/in front of you. WHYYYYY?!

Roussette · 06/08/2017 20:42

Calling your pets fur babies. I mean ... really....

wildbhoysmama · 06/08/2017 20:42

Achoopichu- how cheery!

chipscheeseandcurrysauce · 06/08/2017 20:42

Slow walkers.

Like hurry the fuck up or move to the side.

TinselTwins · 06/08/2017 20:42

To those of you who can't stand cyclists - please still take huge care eith then. You'd never forgive yourself if you crushed someone's skull through impatience

Oh give over

People who get angry at cyclists half the time do so because they DON'T want to kill someone who appeared out of nowhere!

user1498911589 · 06/08/2017 20:44

people who talk about making memories

people who walk three abreast across the pavement

women who feel the need to hold their man's hand, touch his arm or put their arm round him as soon as they see another woman - we aren't all husband stealing bitches

lovely children who go off to private school and within six months think they are better than their former friends who stayed at state school

people who look down on single woman and exclude them at social events, thankfully I'm not single but I know women who are and who experience this.

BeyondThePage · 06/08/2017 20:44

People permanently attached to smart phones

People who are always late

They are usually the same people.

TinselTwins · 06/08/2017 20:44

Another vote for people who use 'I tell it like it is' to excuse basic rudeness

and "I don't suffer fools gladly"
makes me wonder if they ban mirrors from their houses, because only ignorant idiots/fools ever say that!

EnglishGirlApproximately · 06/08/2017 20:45

So many of these. My pet hate though is school run dawdlers who walk along the pavement at snails pace, three wide with assorted buggies, dogs and scooters. Hurry the fuck up or move aside to let me past, I don't what to have to walk in the road just to be able to get to work on time.

Neighbours friend who constantly parks across my dropped kerb so I have to bump down the raised kerb to get out, when there's plenty of space just three feet away.

Bloke across the road who spends literally hours trimming his hedge every day.

And relax....

MyPatronusIsAUnicorn · 06/08/2017 20:46

People who get in the fucking way when you are trying to take a photo! Went to an event today, lots of great photo opportunities and many people just strolling right across or standing right in the bloody way instead of moving over. I'm always considerate when I see someone trying to take a photo, don't know why I bother.

I agree with you OP about bloody Sunday drivers. On a 60mph road today, stuck behind idiot driving at 40mph. Then there was the driver doing 25 on a 40mph road as well. Just drive properly ffs.

MartinJD · 06/08/2017 20:46

TinselTwins: Not correct i'm afraid. Poor drivers (such as the OP by all accounts) will often try to shout at other road users regards of who is actually at fault.

Best,
M.JD

wildbhoysmama · 06/08/2017 20:46

Hear, hear op re: Martin! Chill the fuck out.

Nokidstwocats- hysterical about the people who sit on top of you on the beach! It's a standing joke in our house that my OH only enjoys the beach if other people are at least 10 metres away on every aspect!

ilivebythesea · 06/08/2017 20:48

Middle lane cruisers
Drivers who don't say thank you or indicate
People constantly checking their phones in the cinema
People on their phone whilst paying for stuff at a till
Walking 3 a breast, very slowly and then suddenly stopping
Opinionated people who think they're always right
Loud swearing in public
Cyclists

chipscheeseandcurrysauce · 06/08/2017 20:48

I understand if the person struggles with mobility, it's not their fault. But those who have no excuse to walk slowly.