What irrationally annoys you that has no effect on you whatsoever

[Squatternutbosh123]

I'm sitting reading a book in the front room watching the neighbour close just 1 of his double gates after driving off his drive. When he comes in layer he'll then have to stop the car, get out, open gate etc. He can be out anything from 5 minutes to all day but does this every time.

Other neighbour leaves his bins at the front of the house rather than putting them down the side of the house. Same neighbour has 4 people who drive living in the house, yet mum always comes and goes in taxis, sometimes with her grandkids, shopping etc. when they are home.

My mum drives her car right up to her back gate then has to walk around the car to go through gate. She then moans that she gets wet doing this when it's raining, but then won't leave a gap at the front of the car!

None of these things affect me so whyyyyyyyyy do they annoy me so much.

I should get a life

People going out in the middle of winter without a coat - often in short sleeves or a strappy dress. Are they insane?

Ooh, gym one. People wearing hats (usually baseball caps) in the gym - often whilst running hard on the treadmill.

Women who tie their tracksuit top-thingy round their waists before actually going into the gym and working out. WHY? And before anyone suggests it's to hide their fat arses, it's invariably the slimmest young things who do it.

The bare ankle look.

People who moan on my local town Facebook group about the cost of parking. It's a couple of quid for three hours, hardly bank breaking.

People saying gifted instead of gave

Yes I had used this as one of my pet hates too. Uncle Dave may gift you land, but he gives you cash.

I also hate pavement parking, but that does affect me if I have to squeeze past.

They wear the tops round their waists because they are outside in pea thin leggings so you can see their actually arses ! Oh it winds me up

The Duchess of Cambridge prefers to be called Catherine, and it is her name after all! I also think it's highly unlikely that she chooses to use her maiden name given that she's married into one of the most traditional (and prestigious) families in the country.

Hyphenating two names just combines them. They are still two proper names. The second one should be capitalised

I agree this should be the case and looks better. But if somebody's parents registered them on the BC with no second capital letter, than that is their name and it's not surprising if they use it on Facebook. They're not really the one to blame.

A few more suggestions from me:

People who let their very young children walk a long way in front of them next to a busy road

People who let their children (of any age but it's worse when they're younger) sit a long way away from them on the bus, when there is room to sit together. OK, that one does sometimes have an effect on me or others. If they've got 4 children who all decide to sit as far away from each other as possible, that's 4 double seats "split up" so couples, or other parents and their better-supervised children, can't sit together. Also, sometimes you get stuck with a toddler next to you doing something really annoying and other passengers assuming the toddler is yours!

People (especially adults) who hold knitting needles from above

Getting a knife instead of a fork with a sticky cake in a cafe

Getting a paper napkin underneath a sticky cake in a cafe

People who call a catalogue a "book"

And this one really is irrational: people who say "Billy No-Mates." The first version of that saying I ever heard was "Nigel No-Mates" and that just sounds more right to me.

The napkin under the cake is wrong..nothing irrational there.

My current pet hate is people who call their adult dogs puppies

Oops. This is me. Sorry. I even call "come here puppy" to my 8 year old dog when I take her out.

The other one is old boy though. He's 5.

Ooh, just thought of another annoyance...... Till workers asking if you have a loyalty card.. YES give me a sodding moment to get it out! And whoever above said the note first and all change on top...aaargh, let me put note away then give me the coins.

Yeah... I was never going to name my unborn child Johnny Batiatus, imagine the looks at baby yoga.
The only thing that irrationally annoys me is people making shallow judgements about strangers, they don't know them so why get so upset about their long roots/heavy makeup/leggings/gluten free lifestyle. Calm down mun.

l'm with greenlightredlight on calling baby boys "little man". lt creeps me out, for some reason. l've never heard a little girl referred to as "little woman." Thank god.

Dare I say it, this silly fashion for weird eyebrows.

Fruit squeezers at the supermarket
The mango you’ve just spent 5 minutes fondling and groping, is the same as the other 75 mangos in the box....JUST PICK ONE AND MOVE ON!

Mispronunciation on tv. l've been sat here shouting at Gregggg Wallace on lnside the Factory for saying "marshmEllow".
Oh, and Kirstie Allsopp. "DrawRing". and "Crationse" (creations)
Newsreaders. "Secketry".

KnittingOnEmpty I would have agreed with you 2 years ago....but I have been converted! It’s all about the eyebrows! They frame the face dontchaknow?!

(Disclaimer: my eyebrows are well shaped, groomed and tinted, but are in proportion with the rest of my face. I do not have giant black caterpillars setting up home on my forehead )

People who complain about parking and think it is unreasonable that they should ever walk anywhere or pay to park. It shouldn’t affect me at all, but drives me mad.

People who say ‘excited for’. People on the radio who start every sentence with ‘so’. I am glad I’m not alone in this.

People who never tidy/clean their front windows, so I keep noticing the old Christmas decorations behind the dusty nets, teddy bear shoved down the back of the sofa, etc, every time I walk past. I always tell myself it’s none of my business but I still judge. Same with shops that never seem to replace faded/out of date signs.

VickyEadie l'm from the north east. lt's the law in Newcastle that you have to go out in that, particularly when it's snowing.
Or an observer might think it was.

Incorrect apostrophes

Drivers who can't use roundabouts correctly

Christmas lights outside homes left up all year long!

We've just bought a place, if your given money towards the deposit it has to be registered as gifted some it's not assumed it's been given under assumption of being paid back at some point. If that helps explain where gifted comes from, in this context.

People who don't read the entire thread. Or people who do, but who blatantly can't read properly and think the OP or a PP has written the opposite of what they actually have. It wouldn't be so bad but no many people do this per post 😨

*so many
Fucking auto-correct
Sobs

When I’m about to cross the road, see a car coming, so I stop to wait for it to go past as there’s nothing behind it so I can go as soon as it passes.

But then, once I’ve alreadu decided to stop and wait, the driver stops the car and ‘lets me cross’ which I didn’t actually need as I had already stopped and would’ve just gone after the car passed.

And then I feel like I have to jog quickly across the road for them.

And then I have to thank them with a nod for something I didn’t want.

I suppose it does affect me in a sense I have to walk faster so not quite what you asked but I find it so annoying.

I think it's been mentioned but people saying 'text' when it should be 'texted ' as in 'I text him'. It's rife on here and it drives me potty.

Less when it should be fewer.

My next door neighbours don't use their food waste bin or recycling box and I silently judge them.

It also annoys me that all tv and radio presenters say ‘twenty eighteen’ when the whole of the general public say ‘two thousand and eighteen’.

I feel like they’re hoping it’ll catch on eventually.

Autocorrect annoys me although I've come to rely on it too..hypocrite aren't I?