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?

Reading this thread feels as though I have found 'my people'.

DP eating with his mouth open.

Not turning the heating off.

Next time he does it, I will be calling him a fuckpuffin. That word is too good to go unused.

Shodan

God there are so so many

People walking around with their mouth hanging open, makes them look like gormless idiots

My mil chewing yoghurt with her mouth open. Doesn’t need to be bloody chewed but if you have to close your bloody mouth.
Same mil speaking with her mouth full of food.
Dh playing jenga with random boxes and packaging on top of the recycling bin that the House elf will break down for him

All the people who drive down local lanes which are marked with this sign, and then still have the bloody nerve to try and knock me off my bike to get past.

For fuck's sake, I went out at 6.30am and chose these lanes especially to avoid you bastards and still you harass and endanger me? Fuck off were you "accessing" the few working farms along it, you were just rat running to save 30 seconds.

Got another 1...
Stupid parents who after being told a child does not need a vest, shirt, jumper AND winter coat and gloves then sends their child in (the very next day) with thick jumper and coat on when they were also told it's going to be hotter today, all the while wearing shorts and a thin t-shirt themselves.

So many more things...
foot twitchers; when you're sitting watching TV and the person across from beside you is doing irritating little twitches with their foot in time to the background music or some tune in their head. STOP. IT.
public tooth-pickers. My old boss used to sit at his desk with the office door open, picking his teeth with an unbent paperclip.
Clingfilm. It clings to everything but the damned thing you want it to cover.
Hashtags like #soblessed or #makingmemories. Nobody cares!

YY to
coathangers
snorty snot dragger-backers (horrible gutteral sniffing noise)
noisy chewers
cereal bowl scrapers
people with no manners when you hold doors open
carton/package/empty shampoo bottles/toilet roll inner leavers

I could go on but it's making me get angry.

Mil eating! She smacks her lips together, crunches, munches and makes the most horrendous “mmmm” noises. Even dh tells her to stfu! Seriously woman stop orgasming over crisps!
Dhs way of saying “hello” on the phone to someone he doesn’t know. Winds me up like crazy as does the stupid face he pulls whenever he’s done a particularly impressive poo and the stench is eye watering. 😤
I massively get the rage when idiots don’t pay attention to the road signs. There is a reason arrows and road numbers are printed on the floor, you doink, so you don’t end up cutting me up. Rage!!
The builders next door having their radio up so loud it wakes the baby constantly. He doesn’t sleep anyway at least give me a chance. And they refused to turn it down when I ask! 😡

My MIL (who is lovely) commenting on my appearance. Very common in her culture, but it's so annoying. 'Ohhh what's that on your nose?' (A massive pimple, thanks for pointing it out.) 'Ohhh why is your face so red?' (Because I get red at the slightest hint of exertion.) 'Ohhh your hair got all frizzy.' (Yes, I know.)

She means nothing by it and it is totally acceptable here, but I really REALLY hate it.

Internet passwords. I never remember them. My patience threshold with them is incredibly low and I blow up at the first failed login.

I haven't RTFT so I'm sure this has already been mentioned but mine is "haitch" and "harrisment" Your pronunciation is fucking WRONG!

yes to clingfilm. who invented that?
children and adults without any manners. costs nothing to say please or thanks.

"Haitch" makes me want to run amok with a hammer. (Aitch-for hammer)
Can I add "seagull"? There is NO SUCH THING.

Internet passwords. I never remember them. My patience threshold with them is incredibly low and I blow up at the first failed login.

^agreed

user most Scottish people and a good number of NI people say 'haitch' so I really doubt whether you can just say it's 'wrong'. It's just different.

People who don’t know the difference between lend/borrow and teach/learn

People who dismantle and rebuild sandwiches

Eye make-up remover that declares that it even removes waterproof make-up then leaves you looking like a panda who’s been on a three-day bender.

I hate it when people use catchphrases and cliched language constantly. “You got this Mama!”, “it’s all good”, “Wow. Just...wow”. etc.

Also motivational quotes and memes seriously give me the shits. “It’s ok to be a glowstick. Sometimes you have to break before you can shine.”

Haitch is my petty thing that makes me want to lose it.

The letter H is spelled aitch. There is no H at the beginning of the word aitch. So anyone saying haitch is just plain wrong. I think it is becoming common to say haitch as when children are taught to read now, schools use phonics and children are told that 'aitch makes the H sound'. However, I've never heard anyone say wouble woo for W, so it is possible to teach children the sound H represents without making them say haitch.

I understand that in Ireland, although aitch is spelled aitch, it is always pronounced haitch. I went to primary school with lots of Irish children and the teacher explained this, saying that in England, we say aitch. She was quite kind about it, but also fairly firm, if I remember correctly. No idea about Scotland, but Scottish friends seem to pronounce H aitch.

Posted too early...

Baby on board car signs

People who ask why I don’t have children

People who don’t think those that don’t have children should be allowed on here

People who don’t read or watch the news because it depresses them.

This is going to hurt my eyes to type
"Going forwards"

Never used (dear god I hope) in normal conversation but batted around like nobody's business in pretentious wanky offices, particularly meetings, leaving me screaming inside my head.
Ever heard it used in everyday life, for example "I'm a loyal Aldi shopper but going forwards I might try Asda" ?
EXACTLY.
So much petty rage.

'The letter H is spelled aitch. There is no H at the beginning of the word aitch. So anyone saying haitch is just plain wrong. '

A little arrogant to say that entire communities are 'just plain wrong' in their pronunciation.

Are we to also say that the entire of the south of England are wrong because they don't bother pronouncing any of the 'r's that litter the English language? Last I saw 'teacher' and 'or' and 'pair' had an 'r' in them, so why don't southern people say the 'r'? It's just plain WRONG.

Different communities have different pronunciations. Going around saying it's 'wrong' is nonsense. Especially while acting like the fact that the ENGLISH do it that way means it must be right.

When I’m at a crossing and when it’s time to cross, someone walks in front of me at a diagonal to get to where they need to be. Why not just stand at the right part of the crossing in the first place so you can just walk across in a straight line?

If I don't hear what DH said, even if I specifically say which bit I didn't hear, he will start telling the whole thing from scratch again, drives me mad. Just noticed dd1 does it too, arghhh!!

@thenightsky I have a manager who will email me and ask me to email someone else about something (usually completely irrelevant to me). It drives me nuts - it makes 3 jobs out of one especially if the person im emailing on their behalf doesn't 'reply all'

Unnecessary slurping and chewing with mouth open. Noisy eating in general. Not sitting still on the sofa. Especially as ours are leather so it's really noisy.

I said pronouncing H haitch is a petty thing that irritates me. It is petty, probably no one will die because someone else pronounces a letter wrongly. Language changes, words change their meaning. In England, where I live, H was traditionally pronounced aitch. This is changing. What's wrong with noticing and finding it irritating? People in other countries pronounce H differently, that doesn't mean no one can find a mispronunciation irritating.