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Petty random things that make you want to lose your shit

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user1497787373 · 16/04/2018 22:26

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?

OP posts:
MargoLovebutter · 19/04/2018 14:21

ThisIsTheFirstStep - you may be missing the point of this thread slightly Grin It is about petty stuff, possibly even the kind of stuff that other people do all the time but that you happen to find irritating!

Why pick on the pronunciation of 'H' but not noisy chewers, or car key losers, pot scrapers, tooth pickers or anything else listed. None of them are crimes although clearly some should be they're just stuff that irritates the people that posted, but clearly not the people that do them!!!!

ThisIsTheFirstStep · 19/04/2018 14:22

margo

OK, my petty thing that annoys me is people proclaiming the way and my entire family speak to be 'wrong' because they presume the way they speak is correct.

jammiecat · 19/04/2018 14:33

The fact that I seem to be the only person in our house that can put dirty washing in the washing basket. (DH regularly leaves washing on top - Why, just Why?!!)

The use of "Hun". I'm not a fan of it anyway but if it is a shortened version of honey surely it should be "Hon". probably overthinking this one.

My 7 year old DS sniffing, he does it all the time even when he hasn't got a cold. It's become a habit. I can't bear it.

Electric sockets being left on when there is nothing plugged in.

UserInfinityplus1 · 19/04/2018 14:58

ThisIsTheFirstStep definitely pronounces the 'H' in aitch Grin. Jeez chill out! This was supposed to be a fun thread no?

Shampaincharly · 19/04/2018 15:08

I cannot stand snort hoovers either!
Just BLOW.
Leaving one sheet on the toilet roll
Leaving the foil thing on milk carton or coffee jar.
People paying with a card at M and S checkout, then paying that off in cash( at lunchtimes)

mydogmymate · 19/04/2018 15:55

That stupid woman on the Sun Life over '50's plan. "Ooo I've seen the adverts with Parky". Really gives me the rage. I bet she reads the daily fail too 🤬

I think I need to get out more.............

KeefBurtain · 19/04/2018 16:10

Seeing eyelashes on a car. Have to hold my own hands back to stop the urge to pick them off.

If dh has a packet of crisps he will fold the bag down into a ‘ball’ then flick it at me. Tempted to return the favour by flicking some balls of my own.

I have original wood floors downstairs, in one section there is a gap between 2 of the boards. Despite telling them for the past 3 years to sweep AROUND that part, When anyone but me sweeps the floor they ALWAYS sweep over the gap, ensuring whatever has been swept disappears between the floorboards.

LimonViola · 19/04/2018 16:23

People paying with a card at M and S checkout, then paying that off in cash( at lunchtimes)

I don't understand what you mean by this?

LimonViola · 19/04/2018 16:26

I know it's supposed to be 'aitch' but it was never taught to me like that at primary school, and so the 'official' pronunciation just seems stuffy and anachronistic to me. The phonetic sound of a H in a word like 'hall' is clearly 'haitch' related, not 'aitch' (or it would sound like 'all' instead of 'hall'. So it makes more sense for me to see it as 'haitch', even though I know it's wrong.

I suspect that within a couple generations it'll be one of those things that changes so far from the original that the new way just slowly becomes accepted and then correct. Like 'ye olde' becoming 'the old'.

DrFoxtrot · 19/04/2018 16:44

Not sure if it’s been mentioned already as I’ve not RTFT...

I can cope in a massive crisis with lots of difficult things. But something as simple as dropping an object then trying to pick it up while repeatedly dropping it is enough to make me lose the will to live Angry

And the sound of toys/ Xbox controllers/ phones being dropped by children and clattering across the wooden floor.

Shampaincharly · 19/04/2018 17:20

@LimonViola . In M and S at lunch in hurry, some people use the credit card to get points BUT they pay it off in cash right away . This requires pen , paper slips , signatures. ( usually retired people who do not like to owe money or have debt)
This takes ages.

UserInfinityplus1 · 19/04/2018 17:21

I can cope in a massive crisis with lots of difficult things. But something as simple as dropping an object then trying to pick it up while repeatedly dropping it is enough to make me lose the will to live

OMG this enrages me too! Argh! Especially in the morning for some reason

UserInfinityplus1 · 19/04/2018 17:23

In M and S at lunch in hurry, some people use the credit card to get points BUT they pay it off in cash right away . This requires pen , paper slips , signatures. ( usually retired people who do not like to owe money or have debt)
This takes ages.

I have honestly never heard of or seen this done but wow! What a fucking annoying thing to do in a queue of people! Just pay your credit card bill at the end of the month like normal people!

LimonViola · 19/04/2018 17:41

Oh wow! How bloody rude! Just get on your online banking and do it when you're not holding up a queue of people Confused genuinely can't believe people do this!

Also yes to the dropping and picking up over and over again, infuriating 😂

thismeansnothing · 19/04/2018 17:47

DH will wash up.....hell even wipe the sides down.
But every time. Without fail he'll leave the sponge and cloth in the dirty in the boll which he leaves full with the dirty cold washing up water.

Gives m e rage and makes my skin crawl in equal measure

mspeef · 19/04/2018 17:51

Should of

flowerslemonade · 19/04/2018 18:00

The flimsy strange top on Sanex Zero shower gel. Its off-set to one side and really annoying. Actually annoying enough to prevent me from buying it again tbh. Constantly feels like it's going to break.

Also, I've had a cut on my thumb for 2 weeks now and it hasn't healed. Whyyy?

Sophisticatedsarcasm · 19/04/2018 18:07

When people put empty cartons or packaging back in the fridge or cupboard. The men in our house are terrible for that 😖

Also when your walking in the street and someone walks right up your ass so you move out the way so they can pass and then they start walking slower than you were in the first place. And I’m a real fast walker by myself a bit slower when I have the kids.

Working in a shop one thing that really gets on my goat is when a customer picks up something to look at it and then puts it back at the front of the arm. Just put it back where you got it, will take maybe 5 seconds more.

DontDribbleOnTheCarpet · 19/04/2018 18:08

My husband uses my naice shampoo to wash his hands with. I've bought him Swarfega, liquid hand soap etc, but no, it has to be the fucking shampoo. Then when I tell him not to, he swears that he doesn't, while he is actually doing it!
On the days when he does this and also leaves a sprinkling of coffee on the worktop, where it absorbs water and welds itself to the surface, I am sure that I will end my days in prison for hideously murdering him.

YoniHuman · 19/04/2018 18:08

People who walk along smoking. Yes, you have a nice walk in the fresh air whilst every single person behind you for some distance gets your smoke wafting up their nose. Don't even get me started on smoking in outside seating areas.

Also DH empties the bathroom bin twice a week. Without fail he will never put the lid back on properly and leaves it a foot away from where it should be tucked in. I have tried not putting it back myself but it just stays there for days.

DontDribbleOnTheCarpet · 19/04/2018 18:19

Also, people who wear loads of strong perfume. I used to have a regular customer at work who left such a trail of perfume everywhere she went that it arrived slightly before her and didn't leave for 5 minutes after she did. Every time it made me wheeze and I had to take a break so I could use my inhaler.
Perhaps the rest of the world smells terrible to her, I don't know. I don't really care either.

Nousernamefound · 19/04/2018 18:29

Nom nom, just no!

Clairaloulou · 19/04/2018 18:31

Drivers pulling out on you on a fast road and making you have to really slow down, then they turn off again at the next street. Grrrr.

My son leaving empty wrappers on a table. We have a little bin under said table. Argh!

Oh and finding filthy, crispy socks in random places because he’s chucked them or tucked them somewhere. God I’m getting irate just thinking about it!

Teacher22 · 19/04/2018 18:35

Going out for a walk with my DH and he moans and grumps every step of the way. He's just done it in gorgeous sunshine with the birds singing and beautiful scents drifting off the plants and trees. Now he's sitting in the garden on the nicest evening for years reading the miserable bits in the paper to make himself angry.

toomuchtooold · 19/04/2018 18:42

The way my kid has not quite mastered the art of handing something to someone so when she tries to hand you e.g. a glass of water you have to be ready to catch it when she lets it go too early.