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

@JaneJeffer

People saying aitch instead of haitch

Well it is aitch. I'm sick of people saying haitch.

Drivers who automatically assume it's their right of way because they are driving a big car.

Coat hangers getting tangled.

Getting the plastic wrapping off a cucumber.

The private school system.

Also the never ending battle with crumbs on work surfaces.

I believe this is outing if you know me in real life because I can’t imagine many people feel this was so I’ve name changed!
Leonardo di Caprios face, irrationally makes me annoyed, angry and a bit sick, I recoil in disgust when I see his image and just want to punch that horrid little face. He makes me feel the most irrational rage for absolutely no reason.

People who turn their steering wheel with the heel of their hand. Wankers.

And people who walk slowly in front of you and just stop for no reason and stare.

@rosebud5678

Drivers who automatically assume it's their right of way because they are driving a big car.

Coat hangers getting tangled.

Getting the plastic wrapping off a cucumber.

The private school system.

Taking the plastic off a new Max Factor mascara!

@Cauliflowersqueeze

People who turn their steering wheel with the heel of their hand. Wankers.

And people who walk slowly in front of you and just stop for no reason and stare.

Drivers who acknowledge you with one grudgingly raised finger instead of a whole hand.

Never bothered me until I read it on here

Some of these have made me giggle!

People who write 'need gone' on things for sale on marketplace...or even worse 'needs gone'. Also any incorrect version of Chester drawers, chest of draws etc. Anyone thst writes 'no time wasters please' as if the fucking time wasters are going to read that and give a shit.

People that won't merge in turn. When people park wonkily so that you swing into a parking space and then realise it's too narrow at the end for your car. People that leave trollies in parking spaces, you've pushed it all around the supermarket I'm sure you can manage a few more steps.

People who dither at roundabouts for bloody ages all stationary and staring at each other wondering who should go first.

People who put the milk in before the water when making a cup of tea. People making weak tea.

Bing and all his wet blanket friends and carers.

Websites asking me constantly to accept the cookies.

My dishwasher with its ridiculous beeping at the end of the cycle.

When you think you've ordered a bag of potatoes on your online shop and just one turns up, or you get substituted something totally inadequate like normal bread instead of gluten free.

I could go on all night but I can feel the irrational anger rising and must step away

People that keep their phone in their back pocket. I want to slap them!

@Cauliflowersqueeze

People who turn their steering wheel with the heel of their hand. Wankers.

And people who walk slowly in front of you and just stop for no reason and stare.

Ha...this and men who drive with their window down and one elbow dangling out of it like a total poser.

Cling film and sellotape.
DH saying Danke Schon instead of thank you. We aren't German.
Not being able to find umlauts on my phone keyboard.
The wasp that woke me up early this morning by angrily buzzing up and down the curtains.

Hairs on dark clothing; long, wet hairs on towels or stuck in bath or shower; people talking to you when you're doing something like running a tap or cleaning your teeth do you can't hear them so you have to stop to shout, I can't hear you!' Absolutely infuriating! My stupid fucking cutlery which is weirdly rounded and so slides off plates as you take them through to the kitchen so they fell on the floor!

@TheMiMit

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

Even looking at a picture of Amanda Holden gets me into a rage. During covid she dressed up in a wedding dress and "mowed her lawn" thinking it was hilarious. I mean people were dying and she thought she could lighten the mood.

www.google.com/amp/s/www.hellomagazine.com/brides/2020041588071/amanda-holden-wears-wedding-dress-mow-lawn/%3fviewas=amp

DH’s thoat clearing

DH humming and encouraging DC to join in

Being asked where something is when I have literally NOTHING to do with it. Keep track of your own things please!

DH scheduling big / inconvenient deliveries for a day I am WFH and he is not.

The school email system - 2 children in different years and the email headers give zero indication of 1. Which year group it relates to and 2.urgency. I guess we wont get a place at ballet / gym/ science club since i didnt reply within your 2 minute deadline on a working day.

Volume of emails from school - CONSOLIDATE please!

MAMIL - my DH is one 🙈🙄🙄

People hinting for stuff instead of just asking. My oldest dd does it all the time and it drives me crazy.

When you’re driving behind something slow waiting to overtake but when you finally get a chance some dickhead appears from behind and overtakes both of you. Also cutting up on roundabouts. Basically any dick ish driving.

Chester draws.

Oh and those people on Facebook that put a picture of their damaged car on the community page alongside ‘we have clear cctv of who did this and 18 witnesses. Will report if we don’t hear back from you by this evening’.

No you fucking don’t or you would have reported it already

People who talk to their dog as if it can understand complex sentences instead of training it properly to understand commands.

Example: I’m walking on a field. Dog charges over and jumps up at me, pawing mud and slobber all over my clothes. Dog owner wanders over and says to the dog “Oh Dear Pedro you silly boy, the lady won’t like that will she, I’ve told you before jumping up is very naughty.”

Why can’t the dog owner just shout “Down!” Or even better “Heel!” Then the poor dog might have a chance at understanding her.

Happens all. The. Time.

Trainer socks. A quarter of a sock looks stupid & is always visible no matter what the packet promised. Wear a proper sock or don’t bother.

People who pride themselves on being nice. They never are & all the pretence is pointless.

Passive aggression. Find the balls to say what you mean or keep it to yourself entirely.

Nosiness. If I am living a full & enjoyable life without knowing everyone’s business then it’s obviously doable.

@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.

This. My DH is like this. He doesn't come in the kitchen to do anything constructive or useful though. I will be cooking or washing up, and he just comes in to 'chat.' I will be be flitting from one side of the kitchen to the other, from the sink to the cooker to the fridge to the cupboard, and EVERYWHERE^ he stands, he is in my way.

And he just CHATS SHIT. Waffles on about fuck all. I huff and puff and sigh, and he says 'OK I can take a hint, you don't want me here.' I just look like . Like, why WOULD I want him in here when I am working/busy?

I have TOLD him he gets on my nerves/gets in my way when I am busy and he says 'OK I'll go then! And then the next day, he perches his fucking carcus in my way in the kitchen again whilst being totally wide eyed and baffled as to how he is 'in the way' coz our kitchen is 'big enough.' (It's 10 X 12 feet!)

I have said 'but you are ALWAYS in the way when am working in here, and I cannot function with you in here.' He trots off in a sulk. Next day, it's the same drama over again. Him coming in and pestering me like an attention-seeking toddler. I wish he would fuck off!

ALSO, when he is watching one of HIS programmes on TV, he constantly gives me a running commentary of what he is watching. I am trying to read or do something on the laptop or internet, and I am like and he STILL keeps waffling on. I say (EVERY TIME) 'For God's sake, I am NOT interested in this! Stop giving me a fucking running commentary!' He says (with a sulky pout) 'well I am interested in it.'

SO I have to drop everything I am doing and listen to you fucking boring me to death with some shit that I don't give a fuck about then?!

Cue a sulky fucking husband! (AGAIN!)

Oh and the overuse of the word journey. Everything is a journey now. Pregnancy, weight loss, getting over being dumped, growing your hair...
Social media has made everyone the star of their own show & now lots of people are convinced their documenting of every mundane detail of their existence makes them a superstar. Like The Truman Show over & over again. It’s getting stranger by the day.

@Blone

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!

hahaha! I love this.

'Your username / password aren't recognised'

AARRRGGGHHH!

@ssd

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

😂 Same!!!! I was going to start listing things then realized everything annoys the piss outta me these days.

I'll wait until I have enough clothes to put a wash on
I'll cheerfully load the machine,put the powder in and press 'start'
And then I'll go upstairs to see dp has put half a laundry basket worth of clothes in the basket even though I ask him if he has any dirty clothes to which he'll swear blind he doesn't
I've even tried to out fox him and double check but he'll just appear after I've started the wash
My kids do it too when they come to stay-drives me bonkers
(I do the washing in our house after dp once put my 'new' vintage cashmere jumper in the dryer-it came out the size of a crisp packet-he's normally very good at housework)

People pissing about in the bathroom when I really need a wee
I've had 6 kids and when I need to go,I reeeaaalllllly need to go
Doesn't stop people messing about in there while I do the 'wee dance' outside the door

People that are nose down in their dinner and shovelling the food in without looking up until they've finished.
Unpriced goods in shops.
Sniffing followed by throat clearing.
Spitting.
Eating loudly. I esp hate the advert for Magnums where they bite loudly through the chocolate layer pisses me right off! 😂 Is that last one weird?