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Things that make you irrationally mad

168 replies

DontGetIt1 · 13/05/2022 20:26

I'll go first... Why is herbal essences shampoo is so flipping hard to get out of the bottle!

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newnamethanks · 13/05/2022 21:06

The nerves in my right hand are deteriorating. My fingers are losing sensation. I drop things constantly then scrabble to try to pick them up. I can't cook, can't do housework properly or even make my bloody bed.It drives me mad and I'm in a near perpetual state of irritation and bad temper.😡

TeaBug · 13/05/2022 21:06

Anybody listening to anything through their phone. The sound quality is awful and it pierces my eardrums even at low volume

LiveintheNow · 13/05/2022 21:07

Men in their twenties wearing shorts in the supermarket on days that are neither warm nor sunny

fedup078 · 13/05/2022 21:09

Catching my headphone wire on something and having them wrenched out of my ears

fedup078 · 13/05/2022 21:09

Corned beef tins

Riverlee · 13/05/2022 21:09

Remote controls - they’re all different. So the buttons on my tv in the lounge are different to the buttons on my bedroom tv, and I’m always pressing the wrong thing. It’s irrational but it gets my wick.

AMBE123 · 13/05/2022 21:12

XenoBitch · 13/05/2022 20:44

People who pour out their life story to the Tesco pharmacist, knowing there is a massive queue behind them.

And why is Tesco pharmacy always the slowest pharmacy in the world?

AMBE123 · 13/05/2022 21:13

LiveintheNow · 13/05/2022 21:07

Men in their twenties wearing shorts in the supermarket on days that are neither warm nor sunny

It's irritatingly optimistic, isn't it?

What is much worse though is men not wearing shirts in the supermarket 🤮

AMBE123 · 13/05/2022 21:15

newnamethanks · 13/05/2022 21:06

The nerves in my right hand are deteriorating. My fingers are losing sensation. I drop things constantly then scrabble to try to pick them up. I can't cook, can't do housework properly or even make my bloody bed.It drives me mad and I'm in a near perpetual state of irritation and bad temper.😡

I'm sorry, that sounds so frustrating

Okaaaay · 13/05/2022 21:17

Vacuum packed fish with teeny tiny little tabs to open them. Which break. Every time and result in my clawing the fish out with a knife

lop32 · 13/05/2022 21:18

People having loud calls on speakerphone on the tube. Or watching loud videos. Unless you have a genuine hearing issue, it's obnoxiously rude.

The use of the word 'hun'

mycatisannoying · 13/05/2022 21:20

DysmalRadius · 13/05/2022 20:29

When I catch my sleeve on a door handle I want to burn all the doors in the world in retribution.

Exactly this. But the wire of my earphones catching in them makes me particularly murderous.

Thepossibility · 13/05/2022 21:22

Box on cereal/washing powder/bloody anything that doesn't open easily where it's designed supposedly to open easily. So then rips and tears and reminds me to be annoyed everytime I see it afterwards.

MintyGreenDream · 13/05/2022 21:22

When the fucking stupid film that's under the lid of the milk doesn't come off in one go.I actively try not to be the first to open a new bottle due to this.

BoredatHome321 · 13/05/2022 21:23

MintyGreenDream · 13/05/2022 21:22

When the fucking stupid film that's under the lid of the milk doesn't come off in one go.I actively try not to be the first to open a new bottle due to this.

This really made me laugh because I know exactly what you're talking about!

Nevergoingtobemrsjones · 13/05/2022 21:24

My partner snoring
it makes me want to stab him

oxo cubes-I cannot open them no matter which hack I try

my coffee table-I bought it
i put it together
it sits in the middle of my lounge
so why do I stub my toe every single time I try to walk past it?

TheCanyon · 13/05/2022 21:24

DontGetIt1 · 13/05/2022 20:26

I'll go first... Why is herbal essences shampoo is so flipping hard to get out of the bottle!

Do NOT buy OGX if you think herbals bad.

What irrationally annoys me. My mother. Fucking LOVE her, I really do. But dad took himself to a&e on Monday and has remained in hospital since, he's been awaiting an angiogram for months. Her absolute lack of information is so frustrating, I don't think she quite gets what's going on either so just skips that part. I've had some braw gossip about my cousins child being pregnant though.

Bin day. Holy fuck, bin day. I shall not change house numbers to protect identities. No 24 couple in their mid 70s, 26 us (both hopefully temporarily having flares of lifelong disabilities), 28 couple in mid 80s, 30, couple 40&50. We all bring each others bins in (our houses are terraced with the wee lanes shared between them so 24/us and 28/30 share) or indeed put them out if someone's on holiday, often times it's a great chance for a good chat. Number 30 has brought theirs in once in our 8 years here, that was the day I fainted outside and the female household member came to help and I insisted we had to get the bin before old guy no 28 came. No 28 only put our their general bin once every 4 weeks so last time theirs wasn't there I left no 30s. It sat there two days until the grandpa 81/82yo brought it back, they both park right next to and walk by it. Does my tits in, midwife and funeral director but hands are too precious to get dirty.

carefullycourageous · 13/05/2022 21:25

When my scarf and my bag strap get tangled so I can't get either off and feel like I am going to strangle myself, I have to tip myself upside down to get both to fall off over my head AngryAngryAngry

Feckingfeck · 13/05/2022 21:27

People without children parking in the parent and baby/child spaces!! Equally the ones with teenagers piss me off too... i would park in a normal space if i could get the car seat out. So fecking inconsiderate!

ModerationInEverything · 13/05/2022 21:27

Those speed limit signs which flash of you're driving over the limit. Fair enough. But the one that flashes at me every time when the cruise control is set at 39 in a 40 ?? If I'm being reprimanded for speeding I might as well do it!

Feckingfeck · 13/05/2022 21:31

TeaBug · 13/05/2022 21:06

Anybody listening to anything through their phone. The sound quality is awful and it pierces my eardrums even at low volume

Especially when they do it on public transport without headphones ... aaaaaaagh 😡😡🤬🤬🤬😡😡

medicmummm · 13/05/2022 21:32

Okaaaay · 13/05/2022 21:17

Vacuum packed fish with teeny tiny little tabs to open them. Which break. Every time and result in my clawing the fish out with a knife

I mean its so true... but just, why?? The most irritating, stinking design ever!!

OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow · 13/05/2022 21:34

Fucking parking meters in car parks. Not only have they stopped people doing one of the rehanging kindnesses by being able to pass your ticket to some one else, the machines are fucking annoyingly difficult. And, if they are out of order and you have to pay by phone you have to install yet another app because they are all bloody different.
and knobheads that don’t give way to people on the narrow pavements round here to people who can’t get out of the way easily.

OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow · 13/05/2022 21:36

ModerationInEverything · 13/05/2022 21:27

Those speed limit signs which flash of you're driving over the limit. Fair enough. But the one that flashes at me every time when the cruise control is set at 39 in a 40 ?? If I'm being reprimanded for speeding I might as well do it!

And the ones with the patronising smiley faces. They can get to fuck. Smug little gits.

Soubriquet · 13/05/2022 21:36

I know I’m not irrational with this hate but those bloody loud exhausts on cars that make the ground shake when they go zooming by.

You look stupid. It’s not cool