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

Rainbows that are not rainbow coloured. Why put a rainbow on something if you're going to make it monochrome or various shades of beige

@excelledyourself

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.

Add to that people who stop to gaze gormlessly at the shelf with their trolley perpendicular behind them totally blocking the aisle. Sometimes they will have their arm at full extension holding on to the handle to maximise the obstruction

People who say ELLICK-tricity instead of eLECtricity. They presumably don't say ELLICK-tric or ELLICK-trician!

Also the term "face mask." "Face covering" makes sense, because you could have a covering for something else, but isn't a mask worn on the face by definition?

People, especially husbands, who tell you every single thought that goes through their head.

Really badly dubbed adverts (often about products that clean limescale out of the washer for some reason), if you can't help arsed with spending money on an advert then I can't be arsed buying your product.

@Kirstos1

I have never even thought of the wheelie bin thing like that - I suppose the default
Is to put them the way round that we use them as it’s the way we see them as going. Not intentional, but I will change it going forward as I totally see your point!

@soulinablackberrypie

People who say ELLICK-tricity instead of eLECtricity. They presumably don't say ELLICK-tric or ELLICK-trician!

Also the term "face mask." "Face covering" makes sense, because you could have a covering for something else, but isn't a mask worn on the face by definition?

People, especially husbands, who tell you every single thought that goes through their head.

Totally, along with 'onvelope' and 'ingine' instead of engine.

Elaine Paige is alright - it's Susanna I Love Me Reid who needs stranding on a desert island taking off the telly.

I have a dear friend who sends me a lot of opinion pieces on parenting ND DC, usually they are self-proclaimed experts. We both have ND DC. I just find increasingly the essays offer no actual help, just a bleak look at their adult future which will be a life of crime and/or severe mental health issues, but with no actual practical help of how to avoid this. Or unachievable for most (home education and/or stuff requiring ££££).

I say no practical help, there's usually some link to signing up for a course or monthly subscription somewhere!

@giraffesandbottoms I think what annoys me is that I am on a very small Street and everyone else's bins have the handles facing the road aside from one couple who clearly are too important to turn their own bins round.

My husband clattering cutlery off his teeth when eating. Arghhhhh

@nervousgiggler

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

I don't mind so much if they hover in the supermarket; but I do mind if they're in my home and hover over me when I'm doing something in the kitchen, or as they would call it Keep Me Company in the Kitchen. I have co-ordination difficulties, and doing these sorts of little domestic tasks takes all my concentration and I have a lot of performance anxiety about them. So other people's hovering and chatting is at best very distracting and disturbing, and at worst makes me feel as though I'm taking and failing an exam.

@onepieceoflollipop

On line it looks like they still stock them, but visited Boots, Waitrose and some other store and found some coloured hanging radox and some Waitrose Essential coloured shower gels - but no hanging ones in white. Been like that for a long time.

Cyclists who don't say thank you when I get off the path for them on my floodplain nature reserve walk. Twice today 2 geezers failed to acknowledge the biddy who moved right off the path for the. Ahhh souls.

@Oysterbabe

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.

Oh god, THIS! 🤣🤣🤣

Men in skinny jeans with no socks and their ankles showing. They look ridiculous...like parsnips!

And people in general. Especially cliquey fuckers. Nosy neighbours and snobs who think they're better than others (when they're not!) argh!

My neighbours

@Chocolatecomaday

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

Oh god! Yeah! I have a dog and I can't stand it. Thankfully she isn't a barker and will get a row if she goes off in the garden.

Taking the time and effort to fold a towel and hang it on the bathroom rail after using it. And then watch it slip to the floor. Sometimes more than once.

@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?

Yeah, but that takes your feet off the pedals. Short arse leg lady here! Thankfully my torso is normal size so I don't have to peek over the wheel. Just need to scoot up right beside it

@100problems people who say “sainsbo”

My biggest source of rage at the moment is, I have to say MIDDLE LANE HOGGERS! Jeez I want to kill them all. Sitting doing 60mph on lane 3 of a 4 lane motorway with fuck all inside them in lanes 1 and 2. The RAGE does not do justice to describing my feeling of anger.

The school run... I have no idea why

People who walk slowly down the street at snail pace with a baby toddling along holding their hand, assuming that everyone is looking thinking their child is adorable. No, just fucking let me past, you're blocking the pavement.

When Im walking along in a shopping centre and people cut me off to go into a shop. Why can’t they wait until I have passed and go in?

PlasticineMeg
YES YES YES !!!! I used to work on a Sunday and Radio2 was my only companion but I had to turn off when she was on

Must be a pfb thing. After that buggy as long as possible. Makes for a faster rate of life!!