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 get annoyed by different things every day. No reason. I just find myself annoyed. But it's so random, that I guess it must just be me.
For instance, today:
Dd sitting next to me on the sofa, a fraction too close.
Dh looking old.
A motorbike down the road.
My hair.
Ds walking so close to me in the supermarket that every time I turned he was just... there.

@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

Or people with arms at a 60-90 degree angle to the wheel. How do they drive so close to the wheel? Was always told your arms should be relaxed and stretched, not almost bent onto the wheel.

People wearing coats inside
People talking whilst cleaning their teeth
Cereal

People who hold knives like pens.

Yes! Can’t believe I forgot HKLP.

@Davros

Whistling

Ooh I hate whistling

I’m irrationally annoyed by:

Having to plan meals every week. One day, I’m finally going to get cross enough to have a week where we just live on ready meals.

Adverts with twee poems - Scottish Water are particularly guilty of this.

I've just turned 50 and echo @ssd 's sentiment that pretty much everything annoys me... However, here are a few recent irrational ones:

• The way one of our gerbils looks at me. Thinks it's better than me.
• How DH 'throws' the tops off a bottle of milk, squash etc onto the counter instead of just placing it down like a normal human.
• Anything involving toddlers. I hate admitting this but I'm really short on oxytocin me finks? Hopefully I will get over this if I ever have grandchildren.

I am a terrible person.

PS OP you're not irrational. I would have gone nuclear in your shoes and would have gone through that house room by room and dug out the missing items.

@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

Hahaha. Can’t stand Elaine Paige for no rational reason . Immediately find myself shouting aggressively at Alexa to turn her off.

Elaine Bloody Paige and her awful radio torture show.

Make. It. Stop.

Sniffing 🤢

My children unplugging things. I don’t like my plugs being moved about.

Amanda Holden (bloody everywhere so I must be the only one who feels irrationally annoyed by her)

When plans change or there is no plan in place. I get so pissed off about it.
For instance, my partner was humming and hawing all week of “maybe going camping”. Gets to the weekend and he says “I’m not sure if I’ll go or not” then at half 7 decided he was going. It didn’t affect me in the slightest but it really bugged me.
Same with friends. Last min plans or cha he’s to plans even if the plans aren’t that a big deal I get so anxious and annoyed lol

People who drive at 40mph everywhere. 20mph village? Speed through at 40! 60mph main A road? Hold everyone up at 40! Bet they congratulate themselves on how "safe" they are as well.

People who wear hats whilst driving everywhere at 40mph.

People who drive high end sports cars (that I could only dream of affording) whilst wearing hats and doing 40mph everywhere.

Cheese.

People who say things "make them ill" irrationally annoy me, it sounds so dramatic and OTT.

The phrase "say it louder for the people at the back"

People who don't respect others personal space and hover behind you in the supermarket

People that point out the flipping obvious. I busted my finger and had a splint on it (which I had to buyou myself from amazon as they didn't have any left that were the right size at the minor injuries clinic, thank you NHS), loads of people were like 'hurt your finger?'

Fecken clearly.

My DP not letting me read Mumsnet in bed in peace and Interrupting my reverie to ask me whether I'm reading anything interesting. Shut up, read your own boring shit stuff and leave me alone will you.

@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

You'd hate me! So short I've never driven a car where the steering wheel didn't partially block my view.

Lowering steering wheel or raising seat doesn't work - gap between seat and wheel too small for my (chubby) legs

People that say stupid shit, eg im an insomniac and people often say when they find out ' I sleep like a baby'. Do the walk up to people who can't see very well and say 'I see clearly'? F right off.

Autocorrect on mumsnet.

God this thread is cathartic!

People who don’t dress properly for the weather annoy me. Like when you see people in vest tops the second the sun comes out, yet if the next day it’s cloudy but barely a degree colder the jumpers and big coats are back out. I went to Scotland last weekend, it was ten degrees, and there were dozens of men in shorts!

It’s irrational because it has absolutely no impact on me if someone else is too hot or too cold - but it still makes me want to scream!

DH changing his mind all the bloody time about stuff he wants to eat and drink, always going off things after I've stocked up on them. And where he wants to go. Decide already. Preferably before I've made plans to do x as we're going to y, and we end up in z.

People who block aisles in supermarkets, or who are talking to people they know and blocking the aisle, or blocking something by just looking at it for ten fucking hours!! Or by walking at the pace of a snail in a supermarket.

Canned laughter on TV. Not an issue at this time of year, but around Christmas: people wishing me a white Christmas: I'd very much prefer if it wasn't white!

@WomanStanleyWoman

People who don’t dress properly for the weather annoy me. Like when you see people in vest tops the second the sun comes out, yet if the next day it’s cloudy but barely a degree colder the jumpers and big coats are back out. I went to Scotland last weekend, it was ten degrees, and there were dozens of men in shorts!

It’s irrational because it has absolutely no impact on me if someone else is too hot or too cold - but it still makes me want to scream!

Ten degrees is warm in Scotland!

@FluffyFluffMonster

People who block aisles in supermarkets, or who are talking to people they know and blocking the aisle, or blocking something by just looking at it for ten fucking hours!! Or by walking at the pace of a snail in a supermarket.

OMG i was about to type this!

How long do you need to stare at the bloody milk before picking one up??