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To ask who is the most annoying person in your life?

123 replies

Midge1978 · 10/09/2017 22:57

Mine is my sil. Yet again there are photos of her on Facebook getting pissed on a Saturday night. She's over forty and has two kids. Meanwhile her recently widowed mum has to look after her kids for her all day today yet again because she is hung over and partner has to work. Dh and I have not had a Saturday evening together since his dad (who is sil's dad) passed away because mil comes to stay with us every weekend. Sil hasn't offered to have her once.

Yet everyone thinks she's wonderful and that her partying is hilarious. I think it's pathetic and selfish and completely gets away with it. That's why she's the most annoying person in my life.

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TheTurnOfTheScrew · 11/09/2017 09:29

the mansplainer in my department at work.
management (male) love him, which compounds my irritation.

Mustang27 · 11/09/2017 09:32

Myself lol

rjay123 · 11/09/2017 10:02

It's got to be @BackieJerkhart - for not posting a juicy parking thread yet!!

Birdsgottafly · 11/09/2017 10:03

My Sister, in her 60's, who is childfree and a high earner (in North West terms). Got free University. She was housed by our Grandmother, until her 30's. Then sold a house cheap, by a family friend, in the days of 100% Mortgages and now lives Mortgage free.
She also doesn't socialise outside of her Middleclass, mostly childfree Church Group.

Yet she preaches to my DD on how she should Parent/Toilet train/Feed etc my Grandchildren. She also gives useless opinions on the property that tmy children want to buy/rent. Advising them about not living in certain areas/roads, but in areas that they couldn't afford etc.

She tries to dictate every meet up, that won't suit anyone but her and even manages to buy bad cake (which is the unforgivable bit).

TeacupsAndDaffodils · 11/09/2017 10:07

People who are on their phones when you are trying to have a chat. Rude and annoying.

tehmina23 · 11/09/2017 10:19

My abusive neighbour- he bullies his lovely wife & ruins her day when he gets home from work.

Skittlesandbeer · 11/09/2017 10:33

My mother. This thread has made me realise (thanks OP) that I've wasted much time and cash in therapy 'talking through my issues' with her. It's actually very very simple.

She just annoys the living fuck out of me. Everything about her, all the time, whatever the context.

There, that's said. Liberating. Not very solvable, but liberating!

daydreamnation · 11/09/2017 10:37

My ex h wife. Truly poisonous and unbelievably self righteous. I've suffered years of her and quite frankly wish she'd just vanish!
I'm a very easy going, kind person and she's my only source of angst in my otherwise uncomplicated peaceful life.
I'd love to tell her what I (everyone!) thinks of her but I never would Confused

fuckingroundabout · 11/09/2017 10:40

My 2 year old. Absolutely love her to death but oh my god she is a pain in the butt!

IEye · 11/09/2017 10:42

I love my mate but lately she is really getting on my nerves she's become very self obsessed if she sends me one more picture of herself in a bikini or a selfie i might scream.

I've been tempted to block her for a few days.

SuperBeagle · 11/09/2017 10:42

My paternal grandmother. She's a narcissist.

SpiderCid · 11/09/2017 10:45

I have a family member very similar to your SIL. She doesn't go out and get pissed but she has 2 kids and moved into the house next door to her elderly mother because she couldn't cope. The mother was then stuck doing all the cooking and looking after the kids. And at night till the kids were about the age of 12 one would always spend the night there so she didn't have to get 2 ready for bed/woken up in the morning.
My most annoying person is a woman at work. She doesn't shut up and shes a massive hypochondriac. To the point we have had to refuse to pay her unless she has a booked in doctors appointment. As she was at the doctors once a week, and could be sitting in the waiting room for half a day waiting for an appointment to open up. Everything also a big drama to her, she gets very emotional. She thinks everyone should be as passionate about her life as she is and gets upset if your not. But if anything ever happens to you she either pays no attention to you what so ever or starts telling you how the same thing happened to her but 10 times worse.

scampimom · 11/09/2017 10:46

My 4 year-old DD. No-one has ever been able to send me to such a pitch of intense irritation, ever. Lose my rag with her at least once a day, usually once tiredness kicks in and 4YO logic starts to come into play (you know, "I want that teddy", you give her the teddy, she screams and cries and throws herself on the floor). She's still the best thing since sliced bread though Smile

Other one is my SIL. She is the only adult in the family, you see. The rest of us are idiot children who need constant instruction and reminding. However, since starting to read "Water Off A Duck's Back", I find that she is "like death by drowning - a delightful sensation once you cease to struggle"

EvilDoctorBallerinaDuckKeidis · 11/09/2017 10:46

My aunt. She's a batshit crazy control freak narc.

ILoveMillhousesDad · 11/09/2017 10:48

A fella who rings my work every fucking day and chats absolute fucking bollocks. How the fuck he still has his job is beyond me.

When I see his number on the phone, my heart sinks.

5 times he has rang this morning. 5 FUCKING TIMES.

It makes me want to cry.

alpineway · 11/09/2017 10:49

The little jerk that used to be married to my dd. Never paid maintenance but preaches to my dgd about the value of money and how she should be saving. What from her weekly spends of a fiver that he gives her. (that's all he pays out and that is only from 6 months ago) She's 14, that fivers gone in the first day. First class idiot and the meanest man i've ever known.

alpineway · 11/09/2017 10:51

A very well paid mean man i should have added.

butterfly56 · 11/09/2017 10:53

Most of my family...I stay well away from all the drama!lol

AtlanticWaves · 11/09/2017 10:53

No-one really.

Occasionally the DSes are annoying (especially at bedtime and throughout the night) but no-one else really irritates me.

This might be because I'm not very sociable and hardly see anyone outside of work. I limit my interactions with the world....

yorkshire34 · 11/09/2017 10:55

My MIL, who after being violent towards me and my partner, has just been found guilty of possession with intent to supply, is on a suspended sentence and tag... and wonders why we don't want any contact with her and why we won't be allowing our daughter, when born, to spend time with her.

My so called "friends" who don't understand that while I'm 35 weeks pregnant with GD, SPD and painful braxton hicks, I really aren't in the mood to go to the pub. What am I gonna do, sit there in agony sipping water while they all get pissed?

I'm maybe a bit hormonal today.

HomeFree55 · 11/09/2017 10:57

SIL. Causes constant drama and upset within the family, uses DNiece as a weapon. DB needs to stand up to her but my god after being on the receiving end of her spiteful tongue I wouldn't be in a rush to upset her either!

maddiemookins16mum · 11/09/2017 11:00

A colleague. Younger than me (not hard) but she's still approaching 40, still lives at home, giggles like a 12 year old (and that's not fair on 12 year olds), her favourite tv show is "keeping up with The Kardashians' and stuff like TOWIE. She does nothing at home (parents do her washing and her mum cooks her tea every night).
It is like time has stood still since she was a child.
She's a bright girl (lady) but her childishness irrates the bejesus out of me.
She earns 24K a year. Gives her mum £200 a month for keep. That's it.
Luckily I only see her twice a week on my office days but I'm even annoyed at myself at how she annoys me.

MinorRSole · 11/09/2017 11:17

My Sil, oh how she makes non violent me want to punch her in the face.

She pretends to be perfect but I have seen her foul mouth in action as my dh is the one on the receiving end of her nastiness.
Pil think the sun shines out of her arse. Then they wonder why they barely see us and we don't bother with that side of the family. They've hurt my dh and ignored my dc's too many times for me to even make the effort any more.

MadisonAvenue · 11/09/2017 11:18

My mother in law. Thrives on attention, complains bitterly when people don't pander to her. She's also very manipulative. In one way it's good that she lives a distance away, in another way it isn't good as she stays here every few months (not necessarily to visit us but to use us as a stopover while she travels further on down the country to see a friend). I can predict that all conversations will get around to how poorly she's treated by family who are local to her, simply because they don't come running each time she clicks her fingers.

Sister in law. A younger but more devious version of her mother.

FairyDogMother11 · 11/09/2017 12:38

One of my colleagues. Same rank as me, very lazy. She is horribly rude to all the staff under the guise of being "managerial". She will use any excuse to not do something, for example we're both trained in the same things so if she doesn't want to do it she'll just ask me to do it instead and pretend she's busy. She's the first to start bitching if someone's standing about, but she never does anything apart from stand about. Bosses really like her and she managed to get a manager sacked by accusing him of something he didn't do when he dared to discipline her so no one dares to say anything to her. Bloody frustrating

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