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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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Sienna333 · 11/09/2017 12:41

Maddiemookins, I hope you aren't judging her for still living at home? It makes sense to at times if you are single and live in an expensive area. I have friends ranging from 26-35 who do and I certainly don't think any less of them. She does sound annoying but living at home and saying what her parents do for her is none of your business.

plantsitter · 11/09/2017 12:57

Sure Sienna333. But this is a pretty judgy thread isn't it... I'm judging my cats for sure.

EvilDoctorBallerinaDuckKeidis · 11/09/2017 13:02

I'm judging my aunt. But then I know I'm right! 😂

FannyTheFlamingo · 11/09/2017 13:08

DH's ex, because she's a twat! My MIL because she doesn't stop morning. Ever! Thank got DH is amazing to make the baggage worthwhile! 😂

FannyTheFlamingo · 11/09/2017 13:09

Moaning not morning!

Gwilt160981 · 11/09/2017 13:14

If anyone annoys me I stay away from them.

maddiemookins16mum · 11/09/2017 13:32

I certainly do judge her for living with her parents at 39 and not knowing how a washing machine works (she's proudly admitted it).
Money is nothing to do with living at home (in her case), she likes to be treated as a teenage girl and is incredibly annoying with her One Direction (so 2014) mug etc, it's like having a work experience in the office.
She irritates me horrendously.

IJustLostTheGame · 11/09/2017 13:39

MIL
She's truly the centre of her own universe. And a hypochondriac to boot, and I suspect she has munchausens.
She loves to list her many (fictional) conditions.
The only person she would consider other than herself is DH and he can do no wrong.
She is a nasty manipulating piece of work but DH thinks the sun shines out of her arse because she never says nasty things to me in his presence. I refuse to see her alone.
She's also jealous that her best frenemy gets on with her dil and they have days together.
I got told last week I can have a spa day for my birthday, I said thank you. She said it will be a nice time for us to bond.
Errrrrm hell no.

Mittens1969 · 11/09/2017 13:42

@maddiemookins16mum, I did have a colleague like her at one time. She lived with her DP, but couldn't do anything for herself; he used to pick her up from work, because she wouldn't use public transport (despite working in the city centre), she used to get call after call from her DP, her DB and her DF. She spent her time on the phone rather than working. And she was in her mid to late 30s.

It did use to affect me a lot, as I was the one taking the calls and putting them through to her.

But it's not worth getting annoyed over, it's not like you're the one doing her washing, is it??? It's her DM who's the one letting her get away with it. How does it impact on your life???

Mittens1969 · 11/09/2017 13:49

@IJustLostTheGame, she sounds worse than my MIL, but mine also thinks my DH can do no wrong as well. Oh, and apparently he knows everything, so she asks his advice on Every. Single. Thing! Actually it's probably an excuse to telephone him lol. Grin

maddiemookins16mum · 11/09/2017 14:06

Because I sit next to her for two days a week and have to endure her giggling, her Fakebook posting of childish comments, her comments like 'what's a TV licence?", her boasting that she has 52K in her current account but doesn't know what to do with it, her packed lunch (made by mum) which has one of those sucky yoghurt tubes in every day (a whole other thread).
On Friday she announced 'I'm hoping mum and dad throw me a surprise 40th next month' - I've left all your email addresses where they can find them'.
Oh and she think The Duke of Edinburgh and Prince Phillip are brothers.

Mittens1969 · 11/09/2017 14:18

Yes, she's obviously silly but it's still not worth getting upset about. I've never taken much notice of colleagues' private lives.

I expect she will have to face up to harsh reality when her DM is no longer able to look after her and needs care herself. She'll have to learn how to look after herself then, and fast. And then she'll find a use for the £52k then, it will go towards care home costs as I don't think she'll be looking after her parents herself.

But still, my point is, so what? It's her DM's problem not yours.

Sienna333 · 11/09/2017 14:41

Living at home at 39 isn't ideal but is for many a financial decision. If you judge her on that alone, shame on you. The other points? I agree, that sounds irritating

safariboot · 11/09/2017 14:57

My friend who texts about a million times a day, 99% of them just saying "lol" or "ffs". I've set my phone so it doesn't go ding when they text now (but still receives the text).

Mimsy123 · 11/09/2017 16:40

My mother in law. She passed away a while back and is now starting to smell Smile Not really, she's just annoying in every way humanly possible.

Raggedywitch · 11/09/2017 16:50

Friend who has a young baby and never stops going on about it! You'd think no one has ever had a baby before (I have thanks and am very much "done" so no jealousy here!). Endless pics on Facebook with all the usual suspects commenting on how gorgeous/squidgable etc said child is and rambles about her "breastfeeding journey". Yawn. Needless to say I've now unfollowed and avoid like the plague!

fluffydogs · 11/09/2017 17:25

My Ex husband, he winds me up so much. He doesn't even see DD unless he's having a " right now I'm going to be a proper Dad" then promptly forgets her birthday, to pay his CSA etc, by hey it's all my fault because I'm a " lying twisted slag" 🙄🙄 nice fella!! We've only been divorced for ten years for gods sake! Thank god for my normal sane DH!

NikiBarbie · 11/09/2017 17:27

My family.

It will take a thesis to explain why so I wont.

Nadinexo1 · 11/09/2017 17:34

my ex mother in law who pops round uninvited and starts moving my appliances and furniture around because the way I have it all "isn't right". I then spend the next hours after she's gone putting everything back to where it was.

NikiBarbie · 11/09/2017 18:25

Nadinexo1

How about telling her not to?

She's your ex mil not even yoir mil.

Tell her to leave your house alone.

Constantlurker · 11/09/2017 18:31

PEOPLE WHO POST INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES ON SOCIAL MEDIA!!!!!

Sorry was that all in caps? I couldn't tell through the red mist of totally unnecessary people can do what they like rage #inspired #livethelifeyoulove #killmenow

ethelfleda · 11/09/2017 18:45

At 7 months pregnant nearly everyone is irritating me apart from DH!

WorldWideWanderer · 11/09/2017 19:08

My assistant at work. Bloody woman annoys the hell out of me. Doesn't stop talking from dawn to dusk, I can't imagine how her husband stands living with her. She's always ill. Every day. Fed up with her telling me she has a bad leg, painful foot, sore throat, asthma, vomiting bug, another cold, must be 'flu, got backache...headache...ear ache....odd heart beats...swollen veins....cancerous lumps...... When she isn't working she's popping down to the doctors. Or the physio. Or the chiropractor... they must groan when they see her coming.

She makes mistakes at work which I have to sort out. Every week. Sometimes every day. She also tells people what to do and confuses them, even though she isn't their manager. Every new idea the staff team comes up with, she doesn't agree with and objects to. And when things go well she has a moan and a complain about that too.

I do not want to be friends with her, despite her hints and her comments about how she would like it. I am happy to be a kind and considerate manager but I am not her friend. We share no common interests. Her only other topic of conversation, apart from illness and complaints, is her relatives. And most of them are ill too. Or dying. And I do not care whether her neice's daughter who is friends with the lady up the road is dying, nor am I interetsed in the hospital visit of her uncle's cousin twice removed.....

SHUT THE FUCK UP WOMAN!!!!!!

Aaaah, that felt really good....I like this thread....!

dudsville · 11/09/2017 19:17

My fil. So damn judgemental and critical. Even told me how to use an umbrella, how to use cleaning products, etc., used to criticise and laugh at mil. When we'd return from a holiday he'd become competitive, "I've been all around the world". No, you've not even been to Scunthorpe. He's been dead several months and I still think of him on about a weekly basis and how much I disliked him. In a close second is a distant relative who's racist/prejudiced and includes me in emails spouting his crap.

Mittens1969 · 11/09/2017 19:36

@WorldWideWanderer, my MIL is another one who talks non stop about people I don't know and don't care about. She talks about her neighbours and their families and her long-deceased aunts.

I once told her that I wasn't interested and she was very hurt so I just excuse myself and let her talk all she wants to DH, or do craft activities with the DDs. It makes her stays here more bearable lol.

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