To be mildly agitated by people who tell you what you should buy, what to see at the cinema and where to go on holiday....

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....they don’t say, I have bought, seen, done this and loved it ..... but instead say I use this face cream it’s great, you should use it, I know you use x but this is better.....

Or......went to see this film, you must see it but don’t go to your local cinema - go to this one it’s much better.

I find it a bit critical and intrusive and don’t know how to respond - not sure why I feel agitated!

I have one friend in particular who does this a lot. Recently I mentioned as part of a group conversations we were popping into Waitrose to buy something for Sunday lunch. She was sitting across the table and literally shouted across at me ‘you mustn’t go there, you must go to Lidl’s and buy the steak there, it is much better’.

When we were on a group holiday in Europe recently (in a country neither of us live in or originate from) she kept telling me what to order in restaurants saying ‘you won’t like that, Welsh people don’t eat food like that’. At one point she actually spoke to the waiter directly to change my order! I changed it back pronto (poor man). Sadly in that particular case she was quite right and I didn’t like what I had ordered but I forced it down anyway as I wasn’t going to admit she was right.

Found my people My SIL/BIL are awful for this and it's so annoying. They'll describe holidays they've been on/hotels they've stayed/food they've eaten and it's SO good and we MUST try it/do it.

We're always genuinely interested that they had a good time/enjoyed whatever and very very happy for them, but doesn't mean we want to do the same stuff, it's not us and they can't get their heads around that.

If we go somewhere else/eat elsewhere/watch something else they're very sneery that X was better, Y is a better restaurant, that our choice isn't very nice. Winds me right up.

And then my dad tells us all the TV programmes we MUST watch as they're fantastic, even when we've tried them and don't personally like them.

Aaarrghh! Took DC to a couple of uni open days when they were in Y12. Friend said "you're a year early, you're not supposed to do that til Y13, my other friend is only doing this now and HER child is in Y13 so she must be right.." etc etc
And "oh well if you will go on a winter sports holiday you should expect to hurt yourself, you should have gone to the Caribbean like us"

Reminds me of Harry Enfield