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

When babies have such bad cradle cap that it’s visible in photos! Do something about it!!!!

If I am stressed some household noise irritates me such as the extractor fan in bathroom and kitchen (especially when people leave them on after they need them!)

Stupid people.
Entitled people
Selfish people
Unfortunately most of the general population seem to fall into at least one or more of these categories.

Steve Wright, to dislike him is entirely rational, but what I'd do to get rid of him is an entirely different matter.

When the Sainsbo delivery chap doesn't stack the boxes so I have to bend all the way down.

The thing that really lights my fuse though is the misuse of GDPR.

Me: your website is down, I am the account administrator, can you confirm this member of staff has been correctly added

Then: sorry, no due to GDPR

Me: I'd like to have a skip removed

Them: was it you that ordered it, no?, sorry due to GDPR

DH when he tries to occupy the same space as me. I'll be cooking and he'll decide that is the moment he'll load the dishwasher and then he'll just stand in front of cupboards I need to open until I tell him to fuck off.

People who drive in the middle Lane of a three lane motorway at a slow speed no actually over taking anyone.

People who feed cats that aren’t theirs. Just because they will eat the food doesn’t mean they are homeless or being under fed by their owners.

Also men, it's always men, that flash their lights to "allow" you to turn right. Then flash them over and over if you don't obey their command.

Yeah mate, first move your arms round your beer gut and shift your car so I can see if there's something coming up your near side that, if I hit it, will be my fault. I'll choose whether to go, not you in your cuntmobile.

@StoneofDestiny

I was intrigued re the no hooks on white shower gel.
I had a good browse of shower gels and hardly any have hooks now!
Wonder when/why it changed?

@ssd

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

Same here 😂

Filtered photos on social media that bear absolutely no resemblance to the face they actually belong to!!

Fiend: “I’m not sure what to do about…….”
Me: “maybe this….?”
Friend: “yes, that’s what I was thinking” NO YOU FUCKING WERE NOT

all this ddog, dcat, dfish. I can barely put up with DH, DD etc, but not in front of animals

Also, and I'm turning into @ssd more by the post, my neighbours who know I have a puppy I'm training not to bark and think it's just darling to let their stupid yappy little cuntwits to bark at him.

People standing at the exact item I'm looking for in the supermarket. As if they should clear the aisles for my arrival. Feels like no matter what I go there for, someone is dithering in front of what I want to look at.

Tailgating!! I get so angry when someone is tailgating that my anger and distraction caused by the tailgating is probably more dangerous than the tailgating itself. But also I would be annoyed in your position too OP!

People who take their coat off on a 15 minute commuter train ride.

People who say "haitch" for "H", instead of "aitch"! Grrrr.....

Last one, when there is a monumental cock up like at stations and airports today and the announcement is "sorry for any inconvenience". It's not "any" it IS an inconvenience so bloody say "the" inconvenience.

• Mamil cyclists, especially when they're in packs
• When my family do not put the towels straight after drying their hands, it looks do untidy it gives me the rage
• Photos of groups of girls ready for a night out - they all look lovely standing in a single line with their near identical hair & outfits; but why do they all stand in a row half crouching as if they're about to do a poo? Just stand normally!!

Was in a really busy cafe earlier and was irrationally annoyed by the dithering family in front of me. There were no tables, but lots of picnic tables and everything available as take away. An obvious solution, you would think? No. The DW was fannying about with a stream of consciousness about tables and the availability or otherwise. Interspersed with random suggestions to the DH of food available in a sort of 'performance cafe-ing' tone of voice. But what really really annoyed me was the DH non committally standing in the entrance to the sectioned off queueing area, as the DW moved further and further along it stopping anyone else being able to get into the queuing area so several families were stuck in the lobby.

It was irrational because I had to get to the far end to order, and him being in the way wasn't actually delaying me, as once he finally shifted we all just rapidly formed a sensible queue and all was well. But dear God i was getting teasy!

Also Elaine Paige. In fact, reading her name has just irritated me

I used to work somewhere on Sundays where the only radio station that would get picked up was R2. She did an awful 'interview' with someone (poss Brian May?) where all she did was tell the person all about the one time she met Freddie Mercury. Like that's more interesting than an actual member of Queen telling stories?! She's a fucking prat.

My neighbour who has a laugh like a constipated hyena and can't talk but screeches loudly .
Its every bloody day .no matter who she is talking to either in person or on phone, it takes place in the garden .

@jugglerofballs

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

Yes! How do they see well enough to drive? Old women and young men are particularly guilty of this round my place.

People walking slowly in front of me.
Drivers not indicating on a roundabout.

And Tess Daly

@Trudij123

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

It's got to be her laugh, surely? 😉

People who hold knives like pens.

People who don't pronounce the H at the start of words, eg 'enry'

People who don't turn their wheelie bins around so the bin truck folk have to go round and turn them to take them. It's not beneath you people to turn them round and make ithe easier for them to be emptied!

People who don't put a new loo roll on after using the last of the old one.