Things other people do that irrationally annoy you

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What do other people do that makes you really mad even though it really doesn't matter. My mum has made me so cross this morning over something that is meaningless. Logically I know it doesn't matter but I'm fuming. 🤣

The crime? She said that my youngest brother has been with his fiancé longer than I've been with my husband. I started dating my husband before he started school and got married just as he started secondary school so it isn't like she's slightly out. See, doesn't matter and yet grrrr.

Also middle brother announced his engagement at oldest brothers engagement party. Oldest brother and his wife are the most chilled people you have ever met (unlike me clearly) so didn't seem to mind but I was furious as it's such bad form.

Also the cat is a dick. She has several water bowls and fountains but won't use them. Put a mug of water down someone and her head is straight in there. We've taken to leaving water mugs in various places (which inevitable end up getting spilled) and drinking out of lidded travels cups.

People without children who park in parent & child spaces or people with two adults and a child in car, but only one adult gets out the car and the other stays in the parked car with the child. You didn't need the bigger space then did you?!

DH tries to do this when I'm in the car and he's just popping in for something. If he ignores me when I tell him not to do it and pulls into the space, I make us all get out and then will disappear in the shop to 'look for something', leaving him with both DC and waiting for me at the self checkout.
Funnily enough, the last time we 'popped' to Morrisons, he listened when I told him to find a normal space. In and out in less than five minutes.

When you are in a shop looking at something on a shelf and someone walks in front of you, or reaches over you without saying excuse me,or acknowledging you in anyway.
Office tea banter, thankfully don't have to endure it anymore 'oh Debra what letter comes after S, 'T' two sugars please' GROAN..
People that park up by a petrol pump and do their shopping in the mini mart, while a queue of motorists wait for them to move their car.
Not sure of they are irrational dislikes really, I think they are perfectly reasonable reasons to despise people.

People that park up by a petrol pump and do their shopping in the mini mart, while a queue of motorists wait for them to move their car.

I raise you people that don't use pay at pump and go into the kiosk only to pay. Yes, I know some people pay in cash and not everyone can work out the machine, but, for the other 90%, stick your card in the slot and reduces the queue for the rest of us.

I've done my part and taught my 80 year old mother to use it, so little by little. I realise my irrational dislikes has increased exponentially now I've hit middle age. I may need to take corrective action.

Talking of which, the phrase 'worked on myself'. I was making idle chit chat to a 20 something who told me she wasn't going away this summer so she could 'spend time working on myself'. Eugh. I'd bore myself in 5 minutes' flat.

Talking of which, the phrase 'worked on myself'. I was making idle chit chat to a 20 something who told me she wasn't going away this summer so she could 'spend time working on myself'. Eugh. I'd bore myself in 5 minutes' flat.

@red4321 we don’t need working on ourselves, it’s everyone else that’s the problem 😉

we don’t need working on ourselves, it’s everyone else that’s the problem 😉

Good point. It's a fine line between rational and irrational dislikes after all...

people that always comment on the weather yes it’s British way but some are bloody obsessed .
a colleague of mine always commenting is it going to rain Is it raining ?especially just before going home . She has a 5 second walk to the car and a 10 minute drive home . I run in all weathers if I mentioned that I ran in the rain she looks all horrified like I’ve said I’ve just run in acid.
also queuing gives me the rage what is this obsession with queuing especially at bars , we stand at the bar we don’t queue like we are at the bloody post office . If you must queue don’t stand half a mile away from the bar so you have no idea if you are queuing of not , then people stand behind because we are too polite ( except me ) to say you queuing ?.

"can I get?"

Instead of

"Please may I have?"

A staycation is whatever you want it to be. A holiday spent day tripping near your home or domestic tourism.

Yes @phishy a staycation is when you stay at home but do things around your area/using your home as a base.

It's not going to stay in another part of your own country. That's a vacation.

It's not going to stay in another part of your own country. That's a vacation.

It does increasingly mean this for a lot of people. You can’t dictate what it means. The dictionary accepts both meanings.

It's only a little thing but...

People who fixate on their food when there's any in front of them. As in, can hardly take their eyes off their plate for more than a millisecond to engage in the conversation at the table. My ex partner was like this too - watching movies with him at home was agony if he had food on the go because he'd be unable to look at the screen or tune in to the dialogue and would keep asking what he'd "missed". Aaaargh!

Both my parents are like this. They have miserable, sad little lives and project onto everyone around them, convinced that they're the only people who've "got it right" and everyone different is stupid.

Worse, there's this narcissistic implication on their part that anyone even slightly unusual is "seeking attention" but specifically THEIR attention in particular.

At the start of term there's always a fad on DS's schools social media of people posting photos of their DCs in new uniforms etc. That's not really a problem for me, but there's a few people who always post about a week later and says 'we are a bit late to the party but here is xxxx ready for new term!' The phrase grates on me because she says it every time. There was no party! If you feel so bad about posting late don't bother posting at all.

People who post on Instagram but have their posts automatically get posted on Facebook. So you like or comment and they never see it - because they are broadcasting but not receiving.

People who don’t send Christmas cards but post something like “We aren’t sending Christmas cards because of the environmental impact. Instead we are donating to Charity”. I am so glad I made the effort to send you a card.

Realistically if they’d said that they couldn’t be arsed or had run out of time, that would annoy me far less.

Surely that's a just off of though and you can stop sending them cards forevermore?

Agree. Or "we're giving to charity instead".
Along with "we're giving you this wonderful charity gift".

@MargaretThursday the Christmas card thing annoys me too. Every year my friend makes a lofty statement about how she's not sending cards but giving to such and such charity instead. It's like saying 'I'm taking the money I'd normally spend on you and giving it to something more worthwhile'.

Totally.
It's basically saying the "sender" is going to put a lot less effort in while trying to look virtuous by doing so.
Plus having spoken with a group of charities they say that they've noticed no increase in revenue at Christmas since people started doing that. So I'd suspect that a fair number don't put any extra money to charities after the first year anyway.

I raise you people that don't use pay at pump and go into the kiosk only to pay

Even better - my local garage did have pay at pump but when another retailer took over, they got all the pumps converted back to old school, so you have to go inside to pay. Presumably in the hope that you'll buy something in there. It's very annoying.

It annoys me like mad when minor celebrities or major celebrities for that matter, post pics of themselves crying on SM. Just fuck off already!

I have a Christmas card address book with sent/received boxes. With a few exceptions, if I haven't received a card for 3 years running, I cross them off the list.

People who cross the road at random points when there is a perfectly good and safe crossing a couple of feet away. I told somebody off the other day and they looked at me gone out, but honestly, walk a couple of feet and the cars will magically stop to let you past!

My DH will, shortly after saying goodbye and closing the front door, come back into the house because he's forgotten something/needs to nip to the loo/needs a quick drink.
Every. Single. Day.

Getting the rage just thinking about it.

I fear it might be a long list:

When people ask you a question, but can't be arsed to listen to your answer and either ask you something else or start another conversation (with you or someone else). I think this is so rude.

People interrupting me when I'm talking and not acknowledging it (there's a theme here, isn't there?) - I get that sometimes we all do it - it can be part of a conversation, but usually a 'sorry, I interrupted, what were you saying?' helps, but when the person interrupting doesn't even acknowledge that you were talking in the first place makes me silently fume.

When people post something on social media asking for advice for their child when they could have asked their husband (if the child is male) who lives in the same house or any member of their family. Or googled like the rest of us. But they use it as a stealth boast.

When people are snooty and judgy about you not being environmentally friendly enough WHEN THEY HAVE A DOG! I'd love a dog, but one of the reasons I don't have one is because of this.

People hurrying me up. Especially if I'm on holiday or its the weekend. Or people commenting on my punctuality. When I'm not late. When I've been waiting for someone else to do something.

People feeling the need to comment to me on whether I've hoovered/tidied whatever. I work full time. I have many children. I would never comment on someone else's house if I thought it was untidy. Stop it.

Bob Dylan.