Why is everything so annoying?!

[MagentaDragon]

Anyone fancy a moan about trivial things that are irritating them?

A pigeon is driving me insane. WHHHHYYY do they have to make such a stupid noise, all day long? It sounds like the bird version of one of those unfortunate X-factor contestants whose family neglected to mention to them that they are tone deaf and have zero chance of becoming an owl. 🦉

Not really an AIBU I suppose, I mean I know I'm being a cantankerous witch - probably because I'm having to work on a sunny day - but I couldn't locate a topic dedicated to annoying pigeon noises.

Motorbikes with noisy air filters. Yes we can see you on your big shiny bike, well done! But you don't have to rev like an idiot especially as I just pushed this pram for 40 minutes to get my baby to sleep. Now she is awake, startled and cranky!

Aaargh @Rosewood017 I'd be fuming! Motorbikes are ridiculous and pointless. And far too loud. Hope your baby can get back to sleep.

Bureaucracy. Things are overly complicated. You sit down to fill an online form in - or on the phone - and they need the far end of a fart in information that you know you have, but then trying to remember where it is etc. is another story.

Yes that is so annoying. Something that should be a two minute email or conversation takes 30 mins+, and companies seem to deliberately hide their email addresses so you have to call! So inefficient.

Ooh, where to start!

OWLS - a pair of them roost in the tree by our bedroom window, and hoot to each other all bloody night, waking me out of a sound sleep the feathery little pricks.

Huggers - no, I do not care that we're all vaccinated, I do not wish to hug you and never have. My hugs are restricted to v close family. Back off.

Lying appliances - washing machine claiming that the cycle will be over in 10 mins, yet is somehow still going 20 mins later. Same with the dishwasher.

Barbecues/fires - stop stinking up my freshly-hung washing!

[grr]

Ah, that was nice to vent.

I couldn't open the drawer in the kitchen this morning that has the scissors in it and also my Vitamin C soluble tablets. It is wedged shut by something I can't get to.

DH hasn't yet ordered the light bulbs we need for the kitchen and one of them has blown.

I was on hold for the doctors for 45 minutes this morning as I need a new asthma inhaler but can't be prescribed one without a review appt - by the time I got through all the appts for the day were gone and I have to call again at 8am tomorrow for more of the same, which I can't do because I have a clash with a work meeting.

My fake tan that was very expensive doesn't really work.

All of these are 1st world problems I can live with and all of them are made just slightly worse by my mild Rose hangover.

Huggers - no, I do not care that we're all vaccinated, I do not wish to hug you and never have. My hugs are restricted to v close family. Back off.

The (personal) space invaders! 👽

Lying appliances - washing machine claiming that the cycle will be over in 10 mins, yet is somehow still going 20 mins later. Same with the dishwasher.

Inanimate object induced rage deserves a thread of its own! My tumble dryer does this. I'd prefer it not to say how long it'll take than make something up!

@Iamblossom

I couldn't open the drawer in the kitchen this morning that has the scissors in it and also my Vitamin C soluble tablets. It is wedged shut by something I can't get to.

DH hasn't yet ordered the light bulbs we need for the kitchen and one of them has blown.

I was on hold for the doctors for 45 minutes this morning as I need a new asthma inhaler but can't be prescribed one without a review appt - by the time I got through all the appts for the day were gone and I have to call again at 8am tomorrow for more of the same, which I can't do because I have a clash with a work meeting.

My fake tan that was very expensive doesn't really work.

All of these are 1st world problems I can live with and all of them are made just slightly worse by my mild Rose hangover.

Where to start? All individually infuriating but in combination?! 😵‍💫😡

Someone has delivered a package but not left a note where to? So I've had to contact the company I bought from blah blah they contact them SO ANNOYING

Oh yes to the pigeons hooting away shouting ‘my toe bleeds betty, my toe bleeds betty, my toe bleeds betty oooh’ and to my fecking DH for telling me that was what they say, i cannot unhear it now 😡

Ps apologies for passing this annoyance to others 😳

@StepAwayFromTheEcclesCakes

Oh yes to the pigeons hooting away shouting ‘my toe bleeds betty, my toe bleeds betty, my toe bleeds betty oooh’ and to my fecking DH for telling me that was what they say, i cannot unhear it now 😡

Ps apologies for passing this annoyance to others 😳

AAAARRRGHHHH what have you done???

My asthma review this morning was via an e consult form. Totally useless and extremely annoying. I could lie about any of the answers on that form and they would have no clue.

I hate this insistence on online diagnosis and review.

@niceupthedance

Someone has delivered a package but not left a note where to? So I've had to contact the company I bought from blah blah they contact them SO ANNOYING

Massively annoying. Especially when they randomly say it was delivered to "Tom" when no such person exists at the address and you were at home all day.

@Foxyloxy1plus1

My asthma review this morning was via an e consult form. Totally useless and extremely annoying. I could lie about any of the answers on that form and they would have no clue.

I hate this insistence on online diagnosis and review.

How can they possibly assess your condition via a form. I understand telephone consultations can work in many cases but that's absurd.

My fridge beeps when the door is left open for a few seconds. So when I am trying to empty the fridge, clean the fridge or shock horror put several bays of groceries away it keeps beeping at me. I get flustered, feel rushed and it always end with me swearing what stupid man designed this. Twice a week every week for 11 years.

Men being loud, like unnecessarily loud when yawning and things, screaming when sneezing ect. I genuinely don't understand it

@PioneerWoman

My fridge beeps when the door is left open for a few seconds. So when I am trying to empty the fridge, clean the fridge or shock horror put several bays of groceries away it keeps beeping at me. I get flustered, feel rushed and it always end with me swearing what stupid man designed this. Twice a week every week for 11 years.

There is more thank likely gonna be a little hidden switch/button somewhere in your fridge that would turn this off. I had the same with a fridge of mine till I googled the make and got advised off the off/on alert button haha!

There's a big stupid fly stuck in my study (where I am too) since lunch time.
The window is wide open, just LEAVE NOW.

I’m with you on the pigeons. Preening bastards.

Any neighbour who dares to make any noise that I can hear. I don’t care if it’s beautiful weather! You and your children and your dogs and your power tools need to go inside and shut the doors so I can sit out in peace

Oh, do I have one.

I was trying to call to cancel a follow-up specialist’s consult. I tried phoning about 10 times (actually more) because after three rings or less, it would just cut off and say, “We’re busy, thanks for trying, try again later.” Of course you’re busy; you’re a hospital department! They might not even REACH the phone in three rings, which only lasted 10 seconds or less, if they were in the back bit of their reception area photocopying something. All the other departments have a system that picks up and puts you on hold, if necessary. So I try and try, as you’re meant to cancel at least 24 hours before your consult.

FINALLY, I reach them when someone decided to pick up the phone at 10am the morning of the day of my consult (the consult is at 4pm). When the receptionist picks up the phone, he’s laughing with his colleagues (so NOT insanely busy??) and then he says to me, snottily, “You’ve left it PRETTY late....”

AAAAAAAAAAH! Maybe if you’d actually picked up the phone earlier, you judgmental shitecanoe!

A pigeon is driving me insane. WHHHHYYY do they have to make such a stupid noise, all day long?

I visited my parents at the weekend and they mentioned that there is a gang of collared doves near the house driving them mad. I put some washing on the line for my mum later, and OH MY GOD. That repetitive, coo coo coo coming from several directions at once. I'd have to move house if I were them!

@PioneerWoman

My fridge beeps when the door is left open for a few seconds. So when I am trying to empty the fridge, clean the fridge or shock horror put several bays of groceries away it keeps beeping at me. I get flustered, feel rushed and it always end with me swearing what stupid man designed this. Twice a week every week for 11 years.

This annoys my husband so he just pushed the bit that goes in when you shut the door and tricks it into thinking he's gone 😂

The guy over the back who uses his leaf blower at 8am EVERY TUESDAY MORNING WITHOUT FAIL.

I know he’s the on-site maintenance guy for the sheltered housing there. I know it’s his job. BUT THERE AREN’T EVEN ANY FUCKING LEAVES TO BLOW!!

He just does it every week without fail regardless to tick the box on his sheet of ‘things to be done’ - and it’s not even a constant drone, like a lawnmower - it’s off and on, so he blast it, then walk a few steps with it off, then blast again. AT NOTHING!!!