What irrationally annoys you that has no effect on you whatsoever

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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

Recipe blogs where you have to scroll through 3 pages of detail on how they invented the recipe, why their family likes it, why they use a particular type of cheddar. I just want to see the ingredients list so i know whether its physically possible for me to make the recipe.

The same parent who everyday parks his car on double yellow lines on a corner. Then rushes his school aged child into school as they are always late.
While he’s doing this there’s a 2/3 yr old girl in the car not in a seat and normally bouncing about in the passenger seat. I’m convinced one day she’s going to knock the handbrake off.

MIL explaining the plot of programs I will never watch in real time.

Actually anyone doing this.

There’s a house down my street with a van in the driveway which hasn’t moved in the entire time I’ve lived here (7 years and counting) It’s clearly not road worthy but they’re not doing any work on it either. It takes up the entire driveway (I genuinely don’t think they’d be able to open the doors to get in or out - I have no idea how they got out when they parked it there) and just overhangs onto the pavement a small amount - it doesn’t affect me in any way but boy does it piss me off.

Similarly - NDN has an apple tree in his back garden and he doesn’t pick the apples - he just leaves them to fall off and then the birds get them. I think they are golden delicious (or something similar) so not a variety I would choose to eat anyway, but it’s such a waste and it annoys me.

BIL & SIL have a daughter (our niece) who is called an anglicised version of a name from my culture/country. It’s not uncommon and I know it’s none of my business but for the last 12 years I have wanted to scream at them that their DD’s name is made up!

People on the radio or TV who talk about history in the present tense.

Women who put make-up on in the train.

I judge.

Absolutely nothing. I think I have just been blessed with a sweet nature (-am to lazy to be bothered to be upset or to wrapped up in myself to notice much of what others do if I am not affected-)

People who post sentimental messages about their partner in FB. ‘Am so blessed to have such a loving and supportive husband. You’re my world.....etc etc’.

Do me a favour and tell him to his face (I know, I know, It’s very mean spirited but I can’t help it!)

@Chocolateismynemesis

Our NDN has a pear tree which they have allowed to grow enormous, so you can't reach the pears. They rot on the tree and then drop onto our lawn and rot some more. I just wish they would cut the damn thing down!

People who name their pets human names that you just KNOW would have been the name for their next child if they'd had one.

My coworkers coffee cup, left unwashed on his desk at the end of every day and I’ll get in just as the janitor is emptying the bin in his office and picking up the cup and taking it away to wash it, then she brings it back. Makes me mad every day. No one else does this, no one, the janitor is not our personal servant - she has enough to do, wash your own damned cup like the rest of us do.

And breathe.

• people wandering around with coffees in town
• people who post something cryptic on FB and replies are what's up hun/pm me
• people ignoring their kids to sit looking at their smartphones
• kids with iPad at the table in restaurants

Mine is when people eat and they’re enjoying something and they smack their lols together in appreciation.

...or say "nom nom nom"

Women who bleach their moustaches.

You've now got a blonde moustache. It's still visible you know.

Mars smash it! Seriously...knock it off and smash it when nobody's looking. Over and over again.

she has enough to do, wash your own damned cup like the rest of us do.

I blame the janitor. She should accidentally break every cup left for her to wash. Or lose it. But who knows, she may wash it in the toilet.

Haha. My director has a blonde moustache. It’s very distracting.

When two people have something in common and one says, "Are you me?"

Fuck off with that shit. I have no idea why it irrationally annoys me but it really does

People who over-dress for the weather. E.g yesterday we went on a walk and passed a family who were dressed as if they were going to the Artic rather than round a local nature reserve. It's been so mild, but you wouldn't think so the way people layer up.

Bloke who sits next to me at work, slurps and belches over his food all afternoon and licks the lid of his yogurt pot with this enormous pink tongue I can see out of the corner of my eye. He also takes off his shoes when he gets in and I can see his wriggling pink feet.

We have 5 apple trees and a pear tree. We let all of the fruit fall, apart from maybe 2 cooking apples.

I had no idea this was annoying 😂

The use of “super” instead of very. “I’m super excited to show you this review of my new camera” on YouTube. I know it’s an American thing but it grates enough for me to not watch any more of that person. That and the use of “I’ll just go ahead “ for everything they do.

I know what the answer here is - don’t watch the videos.

People at work who eat constantly. There's one woman who munches her way through a complete box of dry Shreddies every day. Just...why?

I don’t think this is that irrational actually but a lot of websites I used to visit have started using Buzzfeed-esque type language, like “Game of Thrones ended last night and we are SHOOK”. Even the BBC uses phrases like “Twitter storm” and you open the article and it has about three tweets with people either joking about whatever the subject is or mildly unimpressed at best but the way it’s described makes you think people in their thousands had complained

People who wilfully misread figures of speech to feel offended. Say, dunno, rat up a drainpipe. Oh, so you're calling me a rat. Nice. No, really.