To ask: what irrationally annoys you?

[PlasticineMeg]

DD (9) went to a sleepover last weekend (as in 8 days ago) and took her iPad and bike as they went on a bike ride. When I went to pick her up I checked her bag and said “Have you got your charger?”. She didn’t, so I asked her to go and check friends room. Her friend and her family are lovely people but if you remember that TV show “how clean is your house” - that’s what their home is like. Which is fine, I’m not judging, but in that kind of chaos she couldn’t find her phone charger, it wasn’t where she left it. Her friend is one of five and they couldn’t figure out who’d taken it. She also couldn’t find her bike helmet, it wasn’t with her bike. I had to go pick DS up from football so left and the friend’s mum said when she found them she’d bring them over. Which she never did.

I’ve messaged the mum a number of times over the last few days asking if she’s found them, and she hasn’t. It’s now pointless asking, I’ve done all I can and I’m not getting the stuff back.

Yes DD is old enough not to lose stuff, but I’ve had to spend £35 on a replacement charger from the Apple Store (the knock off ones are shit and I refuse to buy them) and £30 on a replacement bike helmet. If a child came over to my house I’d be mortified if they left with expensive items not having been found and wolf do all I could to track the items down. On the day I felt like Carrie from SATC when she loses her shoes in her friends house and her friend couldn’t give fewer shits this other mum acted like I was making a big deal out of nothing.

I’m not asking for advice as like I say literally nothing more can be done, I’ve asked and asked and they haven’t been found. But I’m irrationally angry about this. I once got punched in the face on a night out in a case of mistaken identity and I got over that more quickly than I have this. An exBF also cheated on me and I wasn’t this angry. Its stupid as I’ve had a solution but for some reason I’m a weirdo who’s still seething So help make me feel better and tell me what makes you irrationally angry. Please help me feel normal

I am irrationally annoyed at the thought of a nine year old having her own iPad .

That's not really irrational though! Mine is when the person in front of me at the checkout doesn't put the divider after their shopping. Peasants

@hangrylady ooh that bugs me too, and must only ever be met with a passive aggressive sigh and over reaching for the divider to make a point

@Ragwort it’s mainly because she bloody kept nicking mine!

People that stop at traffic lights miles away from the car in front of them then spend the whole time the lights are on red creeping slowly forwards. Just bloomin well stop in the right place in the first place because now I either have to also do the pointless creeping or sit here like a lemon with a massive gap in front of me like I'm the idiot who can't stop properly rather than you. I am a calm driver and generally not liable to road rage but I feel like I could do physical harm to people who do this. Just why?!

Everything annoys me. The Internet isn't big enough to list it all.

Elaine Paige. I don’t know why, but she does.

And people who walk along and then stop dead so you’re practically on top of them

Having to feed my children every single day.

@Trudij123 can I offer up the suggestion that it’s Elaine Page’s laugh?

I am so greedy but, if I see someone I know (not bothered by strangers) being greedy it sends me crazy. Entirely hypocritical but it sends me over the edge!

I actually don't think your annoyance is irrational at all!!

I'd feel embarrassed to return a child not in the state she/he arrived in.

Yanbu or irrational.

But irrational hate are people that look in your face when you're walking or on public transport. Please look fucking elsewhere!!!

Cyclists
Curtains
People who cant say sixth
Sniffers
The bastard cat
DH
Pretty much everything really

People who's ddogs bark repeatedly and they don't seem to notice or care..

Elaine Pages' laugh makes me want to kill 😬

Slow drivers!

So much… but my latest one: the fact that most people can barely see over their steering wheel. I started noticing it and now I can’t stop

Splashes of water left on the kitchen and/or bathroom counter make me really quite irrationally furious I am clearly deranged...

@Vodkaandgingerale

Elaine Pages' laugh makes me want to kill 😬

Ditto

People who write 'draws' on selling adverts instead of 'drawers'.

Not being able to get white shower gel in a hanging pack, but can get every other colour (why is that?)

Coathangers where the hook is rigid and doesn't spin round

People who drive too slow or can't park properly - painful to watch

People who sniff (🤮)

People who think cats and dogs are children

People who shout when there is no emergency

You know those people, my ex mil is one, when you tell them your foot is a little sore and they reply with theirs is so painful and swollen they're unable to walk. Any injury or illness you have they have the same but much worse.
When your walking in a shop and the person in front stops suddenly and begins a reunion with someone they know and you're stuck behind them waiting for the chance to get past.
When my DS kicks off (terrible twos) and people comment oh he's loud/angry/upset/really going for it isn't he? No shit sherlock. Glad you told me or I wouldn't of known.
When I was pregnant and people TOLD me I had a preference for gender, despite me denying.
Now when I say I don't want any more children, I only have one, they don't believe me. Oh I've heard that before, course you will etc. Then I need to explain the awful pregnancy and troublesome labour to defend my OWN DECISION.

So much… but my latest one: the fact that most people can barely see over their steering wheel. I started noticing it and now I can’t stop

Can't most car seats elevate now?

My MIL pronounces her own surname incorrectly! It ends in ‘fe’ and she pronounces it ‘th’ instead, drives me potty!!!!

[quote PlasticineMeg]@Trudij123 can I offer up the suggestion that it’s Elaine Page’s laugh?[/quote]
That’s definitely part of it - someone somewhere must have told her that laugh ( you obviously know which one!) is good, hence she makes a point of doing it - she laughs normally sometimes though, so I can’t accept that it’s a usual thing. It’s the constant “me me me” and name dropping as well I think - and her face. I watch that Marple in the hope that if I watch it enough she’ll be got

Whistling

My Mother. Everything she does! 😬

People who sell things on FB which "just needs a clean". Clean it yourself you lazy cow.

People who can't reverse into a passing place on a single track road. Don't drive here if you can't go backwards.

@StoneofDestiny

So much… but my latest one: the fact that most people can barely see over their steering wheel. I started noticing it and now I can’t stop

Can't most car seats elevate now?

Yes. Yes they can.