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

Couples sending messages to each other on Facebook where everyone can see the message.

Makes me want to SCREAM!

Having an email sent to me every time someone delivers something asking “how well” they did and what kind of tip I’d like to give them for delivering my parcel.

Lorraine Kelly.

I sit that close to the steering wheel, which I can barely see over. I'm 5' tall, it's the only way I can reach the pedals.

People who waste time. I have a friend who can't go anywhere without spending ten minutes going to the toilet and redoing her hair and makeup, stopping to chat inanely to everyone she vaguely knows.

People who have to make a big production of sneezing

People sticking their tongues out in photos makes me want to rage

Cold shoulder tops

@Wannabegreenfingers

People who join the motorway at 40mph. The speed limit is 70, the rest of the traffic is doing 70. Do bl**dy 70!! If you can't please surrender your driving licence.....

100%. It’s incredibly unsafe to try and join a motorway well below the prevailing speed yet you see people pootle down at 40mph and struggle to join, causing issues for everyone already on the motorway and those attempting to join behind them.

It’s actually much, much safer to accelerate to just slightly ahead of the prevailing speed to facilitate slowing down to slot into place. Spot your gap at the top of the ramp and accelerate accordingly to find it (or merge like a zip as the Kiwis say).

I’m hoping electric cars will solve this problem eventually!

Whatever his name who presents lingo, he chats too much for my liking, we know how play the game crack on with it .

People who post status on fb such as , I am soooooooooooooo sooooooooo proud of my little cherub , what do the extra o's make you more proud ? , get a life and fuck off .

People at work who send arsey emails to everyone about their annoyance instead of being brave enough to speak to the one person who actually committed the annoyance directly:

'Hi everyone, just a reminder about how to speak to customers. It is unacceptable to say things such as 'wind your neck in' when dealing with customer complaints. From now on, all complaints need to be handled with professionalism. If you have any questions or concerns, please come and see me.'

This is even more irritating when littered with spelling, grammar or sentence structure errors.

Erm, you know exactly who the culprit is so grow a backbone, get off your high horse and talk to that person directly instead of wasting the time of everyone else in the company. People who do this should never get a promotion.

When the stupid “powerful” and expensive vacuum cleaners I buy to make life just a tiny bit easier start to fail after just over one year. There is nothing more infuriating than pushing about a bit of dirt that you may as well just pick up with your hand. Or seeing a bit that you thought you’d hoovered up making a reappearance a few minutes later.

People who stop dead in front of you - my son told a man off rather dramatically at the top of an escalator - "we nearly died because of you" 😂😂😂

People in a group who take up the whole pavement and don't move for you coming the other way

People who don't have their money/card ready at the till - are they surprised they have to pay?!

People who spit 🤢

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

Either it's an easy job (so do it yourself before selling) OR it can't be cleaned easily (yuck, nobody wants that!)

Ticks me off so much especially when they are selling rather than giving. You're not doing anyone a favour by advertising smelly/dirty junk!

What annoys me is the ads which are now popping up in Mumsnet, which cover the posts I'm trying to read. I can't easily find a way to get rid of them.

However, I don't think I'm being irrational here.

People using CAPITAL LETTERS to make a point

People questioning my comment about aitch being annoying because they don't know that there's more than one version of the English language also annoy me.

Whistling and people who don't lift their feet when they walk.

When people say 'it's a limit, not a target', in relation to road speeds

@JaneJeffer

People questioning my comment about aitch being annoying because they don't know that there's more than one version of the English language also annoy me.

I think you need to explain because there’s never a time when Haitch is ever correct.

@SookieHouseboat not everyone is English/British on this site.
So me saying Haitch is correct where I'm from.

[quote BorderlineHappy]@SookieHouseboat not everyone is English/British on this site.
So me saying Haitch is correct where I'm from.[/quote]
Okay you didn’t explain that so no wonder nobody agrees!

@Justateweetabix

People who abandon their shopping trolley in the middle of the aisle to look at something on the shelf, gives me the rage

May I also add people at the checkout paying for their stuff, and then suddenly remembering something, and fucking off back into the store for it and holding up the queue?!

The checkout operators REALLY need to start saying 'sorry but you need to just process this transaction and then go back in for the other item.' That's what I do.

Why do people think it's acceptable to hold up the queue for 3 or 4 minutes whilst they fuck off back into the store for their 'forgotten' item?

I don't know that this is so irrational, but drivers and cyclists who are inconsiderate of pedestrians; especially those who go through green pedestrian lights and expect pedestrians to maneouvre around them.

Pavement-blockers without a good reason. I'll make an exception for parents with toddlers, or people accompanying elderly or disabled relatives, but not people who just think that the pavement is the ideal place to stop for a chat with their 5 friends.

Those FB posts that end, 'I think only 5 of my friends will take the time to copy and share this. I think I know who they are.'

Anyone who tries to press me to tell them when my birthday is, or won't believe that I HAAAATE MY BIRTHDAY AND DON'T WANT IT EVER TO BE ACKNOWLEDGEDI N ANY WAY!!! (OK, ddl1, time to take a nice deep breath and count to 10.)

@MrsAvocet

The Lark Ascending. I hate it. Really hate it. It is one of very few pieces of music that I switch the radio off for. And it's top of Classic FM's Hall of Fame again this year. It would be vastly improved by the addition of the sound of a shotgun about 10 bars in. Then silence. I appreciate this is irrational but it makes me feel physically violent. I don't much like Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis either.

That really made me laugh, @MrsAvocet! Brilliant.

Where do they say 'haitch'?

@Momicrone we say haitch in Ireland because we speak Hiberno-English.

@AtwilightRebellion

DH saying Danke Schon instead of thank you. We aren't German

This made me laugh, but I can understand how it would induce a red mist after the first few times.

Also, people saying SANS in the middle of a sentence, in place of the word 'without.' Eg, 'I went out shopping SANS the kids.' Why are you sticking a French word in the middle of an ENGLISH sentence you pretentious fucking twonk!