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

People mainly my kids, waiting for me to take my hearing aids out to ask me something.
I'm Irish I say Haitch.

Easy opening packets that are anything but.
Ham,cheese I'm looking at you especially.

People who cross the road 2 feet away from the lights.

Women and it usually is, pushing the pram on the road to try and get the cars to stop.

@electrocautery

Yes but people who say haitch never say N Haitch S (NHS) so it doesn't make sense

They do in Northern Ireland and parts of Scotland.

It doesn't have to make sense to you, but please be mindful that it is a bit offensive criticising regional variations

I have a regional accent. It is just an observation of my haitch saying friends.

People on social media who document every part of their mundane day and then follow it up with hashtags like #summerfun #sunvibes (when in reality they are trying to make sitting in their back garden with a Magnum akin to being at Coachella)

@QuestionableMouse

I remember when I used to join the motorway in my first car - 1.2L VW. My foot would be flat on the pedal and it would still take an embarrassing amount of time to get to 70 😃

Currently: DP coming through the door, walking right past the key box and coat hooks, and putting his jacket over the back of a dining chair and keys on the table. GRRRRRRR

Elevenerife people. Always done one better than you. You’ve been to Tenerife… they’ve been to Elevenerife.

Pp mentioned this, the “that’s what I was thinking” or “I knew that already” crew who definitely weren’t thinking that and definitely didn’t know that.

People who hold knives like pens.

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

and

Yes! Can’t believe I forgot HKLP.

I was wondering how soon we’d see the snobbery. Answer: top of the third page.

I don’t know why the people who hold these views attempt to pass them off as ‘irrational’. Quite the opposite. They know exactly why these things irritate them. It’s because people exist in the world who aren’t as refined as they think that they themselves are. They just want to have a dig at the commoners, and the OP’s thread provided a convenient excuse.

Nevertheless I’m sure that they all have a wonderful time fuming about the plebs not holding their knives and forks like the aristocracy, or having regional accents, and yet still somehow being happier and more successful than the cutlery and dropped H objectors. Who I always envisage as being like modern Hyacinth Buckets.

People who mow their lawn with noisy petrol things every 2 days, usually in the evenings

Why?

My dh answering What have we got in? When asked what he would like for a meal. He orders the food he puts it away he knows fine well what we have got in arhhhh

People not using contactless at the till so I have to WAIT FOR THEM TO PUT IN THEIR PIN/RUMMAGE FOR CHANGE.

See also: when you randomly have to put your pin in after so many taps

People who have no control over their dogs because they are on leads that spool in and out, and the length control button is not in use. Trip hazards for people and potentially dangerous for the dog.

@TheMiMit

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

I resent this deeply.

Why can't you share one ipad?

@ssd

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

Haha this is me. The older I get the more annoying I find everything and everyone! I am irrationally irritated by noise I consider intrusive, the slightest sound of a tv or music that is not from my own house can send me silently raging. Bliss for me is total silence outside my house except for nature sounds. Luckily I live in a usually very quiet spot.

@JaneJeffer

People saying aitch instead of haitch

Well this one definitely belongs in the irrational pile 🤔

@100problems

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.

Bravo! Well put.

I HATE it when I’m waiting with my baby to cross at the zebra crossing, and a car is driving up to it flashing me to cross or doing that stupid “Go! Go!” hand gesture.
No I will not be wheeling my newborn in front of a moving car, just stop properly so I can tell you’ve seen me and aren’t just having a fit.

@NETSRIK

People on social media who document every part of their mundane day and then follow it up with hashtags like #summerfun #sunvibes (when in reality they are trying to make sitting in their back garden with a Magnum akin to being at Coachella)

The people who engage, and thus enable them, annoy me more.

@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.

Love it!!

I resent this deeply

@AmandaHoldensLips

Did you name change specifically for this reply or is this the moment you've been waiting for?

Drivers who never indicate.
People who walk down the ‘road’ part of a car park instead of the footpath a couple of feet away, then look annoyed/surprised when you have the nerve to drive up to them.
Cyclists who don’t use the very expensive-to-install cycle lane on the dual carriageway.
My husband eating.
My friend who can never, ever be wrong. Me; ‘It’s raining’. Her; ‘No, it’s not. The app on my phone says no rain for three hours’. It was raining.
Ritchie Anderson on Radio 2.
Quiz shows where the contestants have absolutely no general knowledge, have never read a book, but love their sport.
Parents who are glued to their phones while their children are completely ignored.
Cold shoulder jumpers.
Reaching out.
Gifting.
Any TV programme about celebrities ‘pushing themselves to their limit’.
The same ‘personalities’ on every so-called comedy panel show.

Urgh. I just googled Elaine Paige’s laugh.

Erm, I tried everything and NOTHING worked. Wasn't that bad though, especially when hair started growing

When you’re watching something on TV, and the sound of the next scene starts before the end of the previous one. Why do they do that?

Oh no, reply to post fail

When you’re browsing in a shop and someone walks in front of you and the products without saying excuse me. I feel like I’m the only person to still apologise if I do it. It’s so rude not to.