To ask what little everyday things irritate the hell out of you?

[Crumpetsforthequeen]

Inspired by the fact that once again I've gone to make myself a much needed cuppa, already poured the water in only to find some asshole (DH) has put the milk back in the fridge with about 10mm worth of milk left. Why not just drink the tiny bit??? Why put it back??

Obviously a light-hearted thread or shall I leave the monster?

My kids walking directly in front of me, in an apparent effort to trip me up. My kids walking slowly, stopping dead in the middle of the path when they come across another person, therefore blocking everyone's way (just keep moving!) They are 8 and 4 and I feel like I need to give instructions as to how to walk down the bloody road.

People who complain about money related things when they are really very comfortably off and they know I'm skint eg "ugh, we're only having the one foreign holiday this year because we can't stretch our annual leave after those 3 weeks in Argentina. I suppose we have got the mini break in Prague to look forward to" or "I told DH that until we get that third bathroom fitted he can't go skiing with his friends".

Totally agree with you there @Coffeerunner . If a close colleague says this I will say - oh, I didn’t realise they are under 18. But my boss (a woman in her 60s) also says it and doesn’t think it’s offensive.

My 12 year old also still randomly walks across my path!

Shop assistants who give you your change, and put the coins on top of the notes!

Posters that write “Errrr...” as though they are making an extra intelligent, insightful riposte.

It does NOT make you look intelligent or insightful. It makes you look like a patronising wanker.

HTH.

Tins that still require a tin opener.

People that can’t use roundabouts.
The burning rage I feel is just not proportionate to the ‘crime’.

People who take too long to move when I'm letting them out at a junction

People who are perennially surprised at traffic lights changing to green. Did you think it was a beauty spot to sit and admire the view all day long, bathed in the glow of a red light?

I don't expect a bullet out of a gun, but at least be ready to move for fuck's sake.

I get regularly irritated by cashiers telling me what to do with the card machine when I’m clearly already doing it.

Or when their system is always a bit faster than the customer terminal, so they're telling you to enter your PIN but your machine isn't ready. I'M LOOKING AT THE FUCKING THING!

People in shops who stand way back to look at a shelf so you can't get past without cutting in front of them.

People on Amazon who answer questions with "Sorry - I don't know." No-one asked you personally - if you don't know just shut up!

@sueelleker - I used to do this on the basis that the coins weighted the notes down and stopped them from falling off the customer's hand. I only realised how inconvenient it is when someone did it to me.

People who take the cubicle directly next to yours in public toilets when there are at least 10 empty cubicles in a row. I don’t want to be that close to a stranger when we are peeing!

For me it isn’t a little thing- it’s sheer fucking hatred towards the idle scavenging cunts in this country. I truly despise the leaching fucks.
I know so many who simply refuse to work - yet moan about their lives.
I honestly couldn’t care less if they dropped dead. They all seem to have a reason to justify themselves. Yet in comparison I know others who really shouldn’t work because of A) virtually blind B) almost paralysed- yet both are too proud and would rather work than be tarred with the same brush as the never ending benefit chests in this country - who are in my eyes pure fucking scum!!

People who don't lift their feet when they walk, and all you hear is a slow shuffle along the lino. Especially when it's early in the morning and all you can hear is shuffling, fridge opened, shuffling back to fridge. Putting the jug on, scuffing of the floor, stirring mug. Shuffle shuffle. FFS I am going to scream out LIFT YOUR FUCKING FEET!!! one of these days! It's like nails on a chalk board to me, and makes me stabby and irritable.

A few more: (1) People who accuse those who campaign for different policies (at the moment, it's usually about Brexit, but it could be anything) of 'Subverting the will of the people' as though there was a unified 'people': at least say 'will of the majority'. This isn't the Soviet Union, or Putin's successor to it, and it's allowed to be a dissident! (2)People who stand around in groups and block pavements, and especially if it's not just failure to think (bad enough), but an actual assumption that others should step off the kerb into the road with the traffic, to detour round them. (3) People who park on pavements. (4) Litterbugs; (5) People who try to find out when my birthday is, and won't take no for an answer: I DO NOT WANT TO HAVE MY BIRTHDAY ACKNOWLEDGED!!!

Neighbour driving too close to our garden and knocking planter with his car.

Shop assistants who give you your change, and put the coins on top of the notes!

This! Or when they hand you the receipt and then just plonk all the coins on top!

Doesn't rinse the bath out after a shower grr!