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?

Also the last bit of a cup of tea doesn't taste right and should be left. I think it harkens back to loose leaf tea- the last mouthful often has some escapee tea leaves in, so you leave it. That's when I picked up the habit. In the land of the tea bag, it's less of an issue unless you add sugar, the tea isn't hot enough to melt it all and you don't stir sufficiently.

PersephoneandHades "but what about the customers who have more than one issue they need to talk to the employee about?"

Do people really get to the very end of a call they made specifically to discuss x, y and z and only mention y and z if the operator asks them?

Calling call centres is soul-destroying and time-thieving enough, you bet I am going to be double and triple sure I have got through my whole list before they get round to closing me. Anything but having to call back. Especially if it is Halifax who I hate with a passion akin to the fires of Hades.

Anyone who doesn't do that too? Well, on their head be it

Dh leaves the last inch of tea or coffee in his mug
I tend to do this when I'm not thinking. It's a hangover from when my Mum used loose tea-you always got a few leaves at the bottom of the cup.

People who go pip pip pip in the middle of the night when they're driving away from neighbours.

When you order a sandwich and a coffee in a coffee shop and they give you your coffee first so it's either gone or stone cold by the time your food comes out

People who try to get on the train without letting you get off first.

People who hang dogs shit bags on bushes.

People who let their dogs walk off lead and let them run up to you/your child’s face.

People who speed around my 20mph road

People who eat crisps on trains.

People who watch videos on their phone in public with the sound on.

People who drive 4x4s

People who drive everywhere when they could walk instead.

People who talk about their vegan diet.

Vegan cakes.

People who put bows on their baby’s head to make them look like a girl.

People who cut down healthy trees ‘because it’s blocking their light’

Paved front gardens.

Decking.

Feature walls.

People who do loud DIY on a Sunday.

People who leave their Engines running.

People who moan about environmental concerns because the read the guardian but then talk about their next exotic holiday.

Vegan milk

People who stare at their phones in restaurants instead of having a conversation.

Unisex toilets.

Wee on the seat.

Brushing knots out of my hair

people who take ages buying weekly/season tickets for the train during rush hour thus making me miss my train to work.

People who build extensions on their house - just buy a bigger house and save your neighbour a year of hell.

People who park on yellow lines.

Barking dogs.

People sniffing

Hypocritical internet posters annoy me.

E.g. Posters on MN who are the first to offer sympathy in the wake of Caroline Flack and bang on about mental health, yet on other threads are posting vitriol about Meghan Markle, Philip Scoefield etc.

Tailgaters

People eating with their mouth open

People that call their children 'darling' using a baby voice, don't know why but fills me with rage.

• People chit chatting in the middle of streets / aisles / corridors, blocking the way for everyone that needs to pass. Even worse when they give you a dirty look as YOU are the one inconveniencing THEM.

• Parents that allow their children to behave antisocially in public.

• Aggressive people in general, and swearing (which I consider to be a form of aggression). It's so uncalled for and annoys me a lot.

• Rude people in general. You know, people that don't say "thanks", "please", don't acknowledge those addressing them and so on.

• We have an expression where I'm from that, in English, translates to "environmental swines". It's a term used for people that litter and generally have no regard for where they throw their trash. Can't stand it.

• Aggressive drivers. The other day some guy was blinking his lights at me because he wanted to drive 200 kms / h. During rush hour. Even if he was able to drive that fast, hello, we're not on Autobahn. The limit is 110 kms.

• When you go out to eat, and the card terminal asks you if you want to tip. Mind you, it's not AT ALL customary to tip in my country as waiters and waitresses already get paid well. It's not that I mind tipping, I always do in countries where I know there is a tipping culture. I just don't like it when restaurants try to suck as much money out of their customers as possible for the sake of it.

• I'm not sure why this bothers me so much, but I guess because I'm an avid cook and love cooking, I can't stand it when adults act childish in a kitchen. You know, refusing to handle raw meat, acting like chopping an onion is rocket science and so on. Come on.

• Entitlement in general. And people expecting you to behave according to their personal sensitivities.

• The promotion of veganism, and other New Age nonsense.

• Uncultured people that advertise for their ignorance as if it's a funny and cute thing. Just basic things like people not being able to differentiate between some of the most widely spoken languages on Earth, or not knowing basic geography.

• Taxi drivers that pick up or drop off customers in the middle of the road instead of finding somewhere appropriate to pull over.

• Street promoters that try to get you to commit to monthly donation subscriptions. Because even when you say you will think about it, they will tell you to just subscribe and then cancel if you decide against being committed to having a donation drawn out of your account monthly. How does that even make sense? That's more work on my part (because you have to call the charity and get them to manually cancel your subscription) than just signing up from my computer at home if I decide I want to commit. This way of running a charity is very off-putting and annoying to me.

people who have conversations in the walkways at work and then get annoyed when I actually need to get past. You are blocking the fucking way and I am not going to jump over desks to get past.

The bloody women who has to touch my desk every time she goes past. There is plenty of space, there is no reason to touch it and I know she knows this because when I catch her heading towards it with her hand out and glare at her she stops herself from doing it. I have considered putting out a row of pins to stop her. Have currently settled for a notebook and ruler which seems to work (until I forget to put them there)

The hair at the back of my neck mysteriously getting tangled up with my dress zip.

People who take too long to move when I'm letting them out at a junction ("Did you need it in writing?).

My DH keeps his work phone in 'his' drawer in the kitchen (read: crap drawer). He likes to open the drawer, leave it open, stand there and read/reply to work emails. Our kitchen is small and his drawer is next to the oven/hob, cereal cupboard and my favoured worktop. Get the fuck out of my way.

I've stopped picking his clothes up, he knows that they don't get washed unless they're in the basket. I ignore the pile on the floor next to his side of the bed. My side is closest to the door so I rarely go round that side anyway.

Yes to the PP who said about her DP sitting on the bed after she'd made it, messing up the duvet. We have a 3 seater sofa in our bedroom. Sit there!

DS1 who doesn't clean the toilet after pooing. Both DSs who piss on the wall. The previous owners thought it was an excellent idea to paper that one wall as a feature wall. We've had to pull the paper off as the pair of them made it stink and peel (we did come down hard on them and insisted that they sit to wee whilst we supervised if they insisted on being so lazy. Funnily enough, apparently they ARE capable of getting it in the toilet).

I am a middle of the toothpaste tube squeezer. I don't know why. I always have done. I know it drives DH mad, so now we have separate toothpastes.

Drawers and wardrobe doors left just slightly open........:(

1 biscuit left in packet...................:(

Shoes left on floor, in front of shelves for shoes..........:(

1 square of toilet roll left on roll..................:(

People standing chatting at entrance to shop............:(

People who watch as their shopping is beeped through, but don't ask for a bag until all shopping is through, so stand there for 5 mins waiting until they pack, and THEN they will get their purse out to pay...........:( :(

Buttering the toast on the worktop, THEN putting it on a plate........:(

Oh my, there are SO many more.............

People who start pushing to get in the lift whilst your trying to get out, especially if you have a pram, I get to a point that I just stop and growl will you wait for me to move before pushing your way on!

Also people who try to get into your parking space when you're trying to leave, blocking you and then glaring because you're not moving.

Just people in general really.

People eating with their mouth open
People talking with their mouth full
People steering shopping trolleys with their elbow
People not looking before they come out of a shop/doorway so when I am running I run right into them.
People not looking before they stick their arm out for a bus so when running I get clotheslined
DD can't seem to place her tootbrush on the sink after she uses it, she puts it on the counter next to the sink.
DH's farts

Part of the word "alcohol" being stolen to indicate an addiction, e.g. workaholic. No logic or consistency.

Its not just part of the word alcohol, it can be used to indicate something contains alcohol, or "aholic" or *holic" as a suffix, can be added to the end of a word to indicate when someone is addicted to something. It may be a relatively new thing, but Google says its a thing.

I get regularly irritated by cashiers telling me what to do with the card machine when I’m clearly already doing it. 😂 It REALLY winds me up!

At home.
DH’s inability to put ANYTHING where it belongs which always ends in him asking me where (insert object) is. I don’t bloody know! It is wherever he left it, if he doesn’t know then why should I?

Pretty much anything father in law says atm.

At work
That customer who has to come in with a complicated problem two minutes before closing.

That one colleague whose always cold and practically hugging the heater while I’m dying of heat stroke.

The customer whose answer to every question is ‘oh I’m a nurse’. That’s wonderful, good for you, but not what I asked. I don’t want to ask these questions every time but I have to and ‘I’m a nurse’ is not an acceptable answer.

My colleague often asks if she can “borrow a tissue” from the box I keep on my desk. When I need a tissue she has usually finished them. They cost about £1, so it’s not the money, but ARGGHH.

My colleague keeps using my balsam tissues to wipe up his coffee spills. I'm pretty sure his desk isn't going to get sore if he uses normal tissue

@lucked
My husband used to do the toilet roll thing. I stopped putting it back and would just put a new one on the holder. It took him A WEEK to realise that the bathroom was festooned with toilet rolls. He's much better now 🤦🏻‍♀️

Apparently I’m the only person in my house who can see the recycling bin. It must be invisible seeing as though all the recycling gets dumped on the kitchen side.

Also toilet rolls. DP will start a new toilet roll every single time he uses the toilet, and then leaves it somewhere like the windowsill/on the cistern/on top of the under sink cupboard. My poor toilet roll holder is pretty much redundant, or filled with half used toilet rolls.

Also the sink. If you’ve used every item in the kitchen cupboards to make hot dogs (you again DP), for example every single plate, knife, fork, bowl, then WASH THEM UP! Stop leaving them in the bloody sink!

Oh and the last one, I hate putting clothes away with a passion. I’ll do it, but I hate it. Apparently I also have to do that for everyone in the house because their clean washing is also invisible unless it’s in their wardrobes.

I sometimes wonder if I’d be better living in an annexe at the bottom of the garden 😂

Great thread OP. I'm irritated on all your behalves.

DH is the main source of my irritation:
Leaves clean clothes in piles in the bedroom.
Never moves the used loo roll tube
Will occasionally decide to empty the new packet of loo roll into the cupboard and then is confused when we can't fit the towels in there because wow 24 toilet rolls does take up a lot of space.
Endless asks if I know where things are
We spent a small fortune on lovely hall furniture. Still puts his coat on a dining chair, leaves his bag anywhere and puts his shoes in front of the cupboard.
Can't remember how long things take to cook so dinner is always ridiculously late on his nights
Never dresses warmly enough and then whinges.

I'm also excessively irritated by drivers who don't indicate, people who use p&c spaces without a small child in tow or a blue badge displayed and anyone at a coffee shop counter who doesn't know what they want before they get to the front of the queue so stands there reading the board making decisions. Come on Derek, you could have picked your coffee 5 minutes ago, you're having a latte so just fucking get on with it.

I feel better now

Separate toothpastes sounds like a cheap and easy solution @TeetotalKoala .

Loving these.