Petty random things that make you want to lose your shit

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Colleague buys 2 bananas every Monday. Has done so ever since I've worked there (1+ year). They sit on her desk until they go bad and then get thrown away on a Friday. EVERY week. I've never seen her eat one of the damn things yet come Monday another 2 take up residence on her desk.

Otherwise she's a lovely woman and a great pal. But those bananas... just looking at them makes me ragey.

Anyone else have totally petty, pointless things that you should ignore but instead feeds the inner rage demon?

Everything irritates me at the moment. I think I'm peri-menopausal.
My DD does the rug thing - sits on the sofa and pokes her toes under the rug, rucking it all up.
Duvets annoy me too when they won't go into the cover. Things on the draining rack that fall over when I put something else on there - they annoy me and tend to get subjected to a tirade of abuse.

@Minapaws I don't mind them being in the sink but when the pile in the sink is a large saucepan which fills it and then everything else on the top so I have to empty the sink before I can wash up then I see red.

Mind you, it's better than a teenager who leaves all his dirty stuff in the dining room and then doesn't bring it out. Last night he went in to have dinner to find three plates and two cups on his chair, I was sick of telling him to take them out.

DH claiming proudly that he's "tidied up the kitchen", but there are still dirty things in the sink, pans on the hob etc. He claims that they won't fit in the dishwasher, but he doesn't stack the dishwasher properly.

Also: people who park on the pavement so that if someone in a wheelchair or motability scooter came along, they couldn't get past.

People who park across dropped kerbs, making it harder to get on/ off pavements.

I don't use a scooter or wheelchair, but I often have a pram with Dd1 on a buggyboard - that's hard enough...

Bananas, and everyone else's insistence that they're the best thing on the planet. They make me want to vomit.

People that have to be asked to move their bags from spare seats on trains/buses when I want to sit down on an otherwise packed bus. Are you so thick you don't realise? I shouldn't have to ask.

Everyone wound up by ungrammatical lyrics, one that really annoys me isn't a song, it's from the Lego Ninjago cartoon series:

"You must have took it in the rush." IT'S TAKEN!!!!! 😠😠😠😠😠

Oh God yes to washing that is half inside out and half the right way. Especially if only noticed after it's been washed. It makes me so irrationally angry to have to put my hands into damp washing to turn it all the same way.

People giving me sympathetic looks when I’m out in public and my baby daughter is screaming. Sometimes they say “Aww, someone isn’t very happy!” And I always say politely with a fake smile “Yeah she’s hungry/tired” but really want to say “leave me the fuck alone to deal with her, just pretend you haven’t noticed!” I know they mean well but if I’m stressed it just really does my head in.

My partner putting dirty dishes in the sink, filling it with hot soapy water.... and then leaving it! So the water goes cold and I have to refill it to wash up .

I have a friend who pronounces some words wrong all the time, like she will say Convent Garden.

And loads of other things .

We have a roller blind in the bathroom. DH never closes it all the way down. Never. I've just gone in there now and there's a three inch gap between the bottom of the blind and the windowsill.

He also opens curtains by standing in the middle or the window with a curtain in each hand and opening them as wide as his arms will go. We have wide windows. You have to do each curtain individually or it looks stupid from the outside.

Oh and he opens one curtain in the kitchen so he can eat his cereal (argh!) while looking out at the garden with a dopey thoughtful expression on his face and then wanders off leaving it like that.

I'm sure I do many things that annoy him!

@Ikabod bananas are fucking disgusting. I struggle to touch them.

DP waking up in the middle of the night, eating chocolate and dribbling chocolate dribble on the pillow and not gaining an ounce.

People wearing odd socks.

Its a zebra, not a fecking 'zee-bra'.

My boyfriend bites his fork when he eats. Drives me mad. Also feel like slapping people who comment on social media posts correcting someone’s spelling or grammar. Yes, well done you patronising twat, you look sooo big and clever now! We should all bow down to your clearly superior intellect.

People who are happy to air their dirty laundry on social media, yet hate it when someone judges them for it.

People who don't pick their feet up when walking

DS 27 has cystic fibrosis and has to clear his throat phlegmily, there is no other way to do it. Sorry on his behalf to the pp it annoys though.

TossDaily - you think that's bad? My DF does the "arrrr jimlad" thing - followed up by...

"Arrrrr! Who put the sand in the Vaseline??"

No. Idea. Why.

Oh - toast crumbs in the butter.

This gives me the absolute rage.

People who let everyone else go first getting off the bus, blocking everyone behind them! I want to get off quickly, not stand still while people slowly gather up these bags/newspapers/have a little chat. My toddler goes wild with impatience and tries to squeeze past the annoying person waving everyone off first, then bolts off the bus without me. Just let the faster people exit first and stop trying to be so 'polite'!

DH going on and on about his phone charger and/or phone battery being crap and taking ages to charge up. Just buy a new fucking battery and/or charger then!

People being in shops or banks or Post Offices when I am on my 30 minute lunch break and have an errand to do, when they could do theirs at any time between 9am and 1pm, or 2pm and 5pm. I am talking about retired people, people on maternity/paternity leave, SAHP, and pretty much anyone else who doesn't work at least 16 hours per week.

We have a Velux window in our bedroom with a fitted blind. The blind is closed every night. Unless I get to it first in the morning, DH will open it, but only two thirds of the way up. I have asked him why he does this and apparently he "never knows whether I will want the blind up or not, so I only open it part way so you don't get as annoyed as you would if I put it up the whole way but you didn't want it open at all," as if my annoyance is relative to how open the blind is! No, just open the fucking thing the whole way! @user1andonly we should make our DHs live together for six months to see if it cures their blind weirdness

I used to have a boss that would phone me and ask me to ring someone, when he could have just rung them instead

I had one of those. I'm sure it was his way of validating his position of authority.

The clattering sound dropping stuff on our laminate floor makes. I jump and swear every time. Gives me an unholy rage.

Son smiling when I'm trying to tell him off

The length of time to leave the house

Mayonnaise - it's on bloody everything. Foul.

People who don't indicate and then turn into a side road that you could have come out of earlier if they'd have indicated

People who watch you struggle to open the door with a double buggy and saying "ooh, you've got your hands full there". Fucking help instead of commenting then you fuckwits is what I want to say, rather than the little smile I give

Missing my train by twenty seconds

People who tell me how slim I used to be as though that's gone unnoticed by me

Not being able to have a shower when the kids are awake

People who come on to a lighthearted jovial thread and post something that, although heartbreaking, serves no purpose other than to try and make others look bad.

People who respond to every thread about an interpersonal problem (usually where the other person is being unreasonable) with 'you're lucky to even have this problem, my mum/dad/friend/sibling/dog is dead'

... okay? Not sure how that helps OP.

@limonviola 😂😂😂

Reminded me of another. People who do the illness ‘one up’ game (mum I’m looking at you)

I have a headache - well I have had a migraine for a month.

I’ve hurt my foot - well I think mine is broken but I’ve been walking around on it for a month as I don’t want to trouble the doctor.

I’ve got a cold coming on - well I’ve got suspected pneumonia (self suspected) but I’ve still got to cook dinner for everyone on Sunday.

Arrggghh!

Anyone who says "simples".

You are a fucking grown adult with a (presumably) responsible life. not a fictional character on a bloody advert. It makes me cringe for you.