Things people you love do that drive you nuts

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Just that really... a chance to get things off your chest. Things you’d never say to the person because a) you wouldn’t want to upset them and b) you know it’s irrational that it drives you so mad, but can’t help wanting to throw a television out of the window every time they do it.

My best friend has to ‘pop’ everywhere, regardless of location or distance. ‘Popping to the shops’? Fine. But no, she also ‘pops’ somewhere that’s a two-hour round trip. She ‘pops back’ to see her parents, who live 200 miles away. If she went to Azerbai-sodding-jan she’d ‘pop’ there 🤬

Another good friend has to ask at least seventeen different questions in a restaurant before she can order. Is there any kind of special offer? If there is, can she swap one of the other items on the menu for the ones on offer? How big is the portion? Would they recommend it? (Like any waitress is going to say ‘no, it tastes like licking a dog’s arse’.) Just order your sodding dinner and eat it!!!!

Aaaaaand breathe

My darling sis is a hypochondriac. A brand new (potentially) deadly medical condition every time I call! Also imagines both kids have something new every week. Absolutely necessary to describe every little detail of the imaginary ailments. No call can last less than 1.5hrs.
Drives me demented!

My MIL says Primart instead of Primark. Every single time. I love her dearly but it drives me nuts.

Argghh. My Dad's second wife used to do that restaurant thing. She probably still does although, thankfully, I wouldn't know . Ask the poor waiting staff millions of questions about the menu. Huff and puff about the lack of choice on account of her being vegetarian. She wasn't . She was quite happy to eat meat when it suited her. It was just a way of causing fuss and getting attention.

My lovely DP does this thing when I ask him if he would like a cup of tea:

Me: Would you like a cup of tea?
DP: Ah go on then.

Unless he doesn't want one then he answers 'No' straight away. It drives me absolutely fucking nuts.

My mum insists on talking AT LENGTH about TV programmes she knows I have no interest in

My mother does the same with films. As soon as the words 'i watched this film and....' I have to stop my feet turning around and walking my body away with concentrated effort.

I don't care, stop telling the plot of things.

My DH does this weird woody the woodpecker laugh really loudly sometimes... it makes me cringe soo much!
He also is also incapable of putting anything away after he’s used it... it’s a good job he’s a nice, caring bloke who I love dearly.

The lid off the butter. Every time.

My husband had the theory do things differently to the way I would do then in ways that are almost not worth mentioning to him, yet usually just annoying enough that I feel compelled to point it out. Eg offering the children something for dinner without checking the fridge first to see if there's anything obviously waiting to be used so I'm left bring the one who says 'actually there's a packet of beef that needs using and some pasta left over from yesterday that probably won't last until tomorrow' and then everyone throws me sad looks that they are no longer having fishfingers and waffles and I have to be the meany that doesn't want us to live in poverty because we spend all our money on uneaten food.

*has the temerity, not had the theory!

When you're drunk you look like you've had a stroke. But you carry on like you're the sexiest thing ever. You don't see people rolling their eyes when you talk bollocks. How do I tell you to shut the fuck up?

My dad, despite having run a major business in the past, cannot show any initiative or practicality in his personal life. For example, ask him to do the food shopping - he’ll do that and nothing else unless told otherwise. It wouldn’t even occur to him to put the shopping away; even if he’d bought ice cream. It would just sit there melting because you hadn’t told him to put the food away as well as buying it.

Similarly, if you told him ‘Buy a thick sliced white loaf’ and the supermarket had sold out, he wouldn’t consider for a second buying medium sliced instead. He’d just sit there bewildered the next morning when there was no toast.

I think I might have to sit in a corner and say nothing and not move
But then if someone else did that I would get the rage
I can't even start about my irritations.
I spend a lot of time alone

My DH sniffs constantly and can sneeze about 8 times in a row (I think the record is actually 13) he has asthma and hay fever mind but it drives me bonkers.

DH polishes apples. Always has to give them a good rub on his jumper before he eats them.
I did ask him if shiny apples taste nicer and he just looked baffled.
My two children are the best kids in the world and are amazing and wonderful. However they're incredibly messy and my 4 year old still makes me wipe his bum.

My boyfriend mixes all his food together. That's fine, I'm probably weird because I like all the parts of my dinner separate. It's the squelching noise that it makes when he's mixing it all. Makes me sick. And enraged. I have to stop and breathe while he does it. Every time.

DH drinks a pint of squash in one go.
GULP, GULP, GULP, GULP
DEEEEEEEP BREATH
MASSIVE BURP
AAAAAAHHHHH.

And repeat hourly 😡

People who lick their fingers while serving food. It drives me insane and makes me feel 🤢 and to those of you who say "surely people don't do that", start paying closer attention! SO many people do it. Turns my stomach if I then have to eat the food!

Songsfrom - I have OCD I notice that and many more gross things!

Worst was local macdonald's staff member. Visiting loo same time as me, clearly not just a wee! Didn't even GLANCE at the sink as they went straight out to carry on prepping food for customers...

Not eaten there since!

DW is a massive procrastinator, she has the best intent in the world, but she always leaves any task big or small till the last minute and then gets in a flap when it’s overdue. I end up doing all the important stuff, booking the car in for a service, booking flights, sending birthday cards, booking dental appoints, doing the electoral register etc.....her phrase which really annoys me is “i’ll give them a call tomorrow, I promise” which invariably means task never gets done.

One of my friends only ever phones when I'm in or about to get into the bath, I now phone her before I have a bath.

My mum, now departed, used to say things that were patently untrue but she would keep saying them eg when asked if me and my brother were twins, "No there's 18 months between them" there's actually 23 months, most people would say 2 years, why she picked 18 months I have no idea.

Any one and everyone who went to uni had, "got their loan/grant and spent it already". I'm not aware of anyone getting a student loan on the day of their A Level results but according to my mother my cousins, friends, next door neighbour's dogs groomer not only got the entire loan in one payment they also spent it before going to uni.

Sorry I may be irrationally irritated by this, still, three years after she died.

My dh sulks, the sulks don't last long because I won't tolerate them and am forced to tell him off like he was a naughty toddler. I can't abide sulking.

Cooking meals for my ds 10. Food that he would eat last week but now won’t eat. Food he asked for and then changes his mind.

I have to walk away sometimes, I am sick of wasting my time and throwing food in the bin. I lost my rag a few weeks ago, dumped his food in the bin again and told him to cook his own.

My DH. "where is the book?"
Me: "it's in the blue bag in the lounge"
DH casts about half heartedly: "which blue bag in the lounge?"
Me: the only blue bag in the whole of the lounge. Which one do you think it might be?!?

Look man! use your eyes 👀 drives me spare.

Funilly enough it's more the whingey tone that irritates me more



My lovely dh doing domestic things “for me “ eg I’ve unloaded the dishwasher for you, I’ve changed the bin for you “
Makes me so stabby every time 🙄

Ah yes chickenchip we have a slightly different version of this that goes:

DH: Where are my shoes?
Me: Have you tried the show cupboard?

DH: Have you seen the car keys?
Me: Have you checked the drawer (we keep all the keys in)?

DH: I can't find my coat.
Me: It's hanging up in the cloakroom.

*shoe cupboard