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.

Yes! The traffic light one. It's so obvious. It drives me INSANE!

Surely some of you will know you are guilty of dawdling away at traffic lights, so could you stop doing that please?

I get very unreasonably angry about people who spoil Secret Santas. Even people who just try to guess. I mean like SEETHING angry, storming out of rooms because I'm so angry I don't trust myself not to start throwing punches. It just really really makes me fuming angry. I know my reaction is way disproportional and TOTALLY over the top but I really can't stop getting angry about it.

When you collide with someone in, say, a supermarket and it’s both your faults and you say ‘oops, sorry’ and except an ‘ooooh, ha, sorry’ back and you get a ‘ no problem’ as they waft past with total superiority like they think it was just you at fault! Oh that makes me burn! I want to take my ‘sorry’ back, scrunch it into a ball and throw it at them.

Organising Secret Santa.
I hate Secret Santa. I thought I’d killed him, but he came back a few years later.

I despise Secret Santa. Still remember the pressure I was under in my first job to participate but I never did. I stood my ground.

A pointless, wasteful tradition that should have died out decades ago.

My friend types tmw instead of tomorrow. It makes me want to reach through my phone and throttle her.

I do love her though.

Well done @LikeAStar1994 ! Yes, he should have been strangled at birth!

"Hoover" is not a phrase.

People who correct others on MN.

Everybody should be wrong as often as possible and never, ever be told ... apparently

Hoover is a brand. I was raised by parents who hoovered instead of said vacuumed.

You’ve lost me there!

Mine too. And Hoover are also a shit company with shit customer service so I actively choose to say ‘vacuum’ instead of hoover.

Yes, THIS

And the woman who gets there first and sets up her station right in front of the equipment cupboard so you can't get in or out of it to get your benches and mats. She does the whole class in the cupboard doorway even if the class is empty.

Super.
Super hard, super strong, super annoying !!

My dh when he leaving all planning of holidays etc to me and then decides to have sn opinion at the last minute!!

When people criticise you but make out it's a joke.

If it's the soup mugs with the recipes on I loved those. Can't remember what happened to mine!

People (family) constantly asking where things are I am not the fountain of all knowledge!!

If it's the soup mugs with the recipes on I loved those. Can't remember what happened to mine!

My mother still has hers. They're quite the visual statement but a good shape tor soup,

I relate to all yours. Also people asking where I am.

My mother addressing me and DC in text messages as "Y'all", as in "Hi, Y'all!" 😡 We're not American; I have no idea why she does this but it infuriates me.

The soup bowls rock up in my local charity shops every few months. They could be the same set that gets bought and brought back for eternity?
I still have a family size pasta bowl with a helpful sauce recipe 😁

Also the cat is a dick 😂
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Breathe x

When you post something and there's always someone who informs you they have no idea what you're talking about

That's reminded me of another. Both sets of parents calling us to ask us to Google (sorry I know it's not a verb) something simple for them. For example, the address of a sports club or what time a Six Nations game kicks off.

We then have to either call them back or text them the answer.

I love my parents dearly and have spent a lot of time helping them improve their IT skills but how can that be a good use of my time or theirs?! Strangely, they're ninjas when it comes to pulling up the weather forecast though.

That's got to be a 'handy' habit they have gotten into. Lol at 'Ninjas at bringing up the weather forecast btw'

Reminds me a but of my uncle in his 80's who used to ring me and start with "I'm sorry to bother you, but" it was never important. Yes, perhaps he was lonely, but more likely just didn't think about how much time he was taking out of my busy day.

It's also made me think about my own parents. Both are late 70's, both great with tech. Except my mother sits scrolling through her tablet on the Sainsburys website. She then writes a list and WhatsApps it to me. I then put the actual order in. When I go on holiday, I put two orders in before I go. It's mad as she's entirely capable. I think it's just a lazy habit she's gotten into. Orders everything else herself - Argos, Currys, QVC.. It's funny.

It's also made me think about my own parents. Both are late 70's, both great with tech. Except my mother sits scrolling through her tablet on the Sainsburys website. She then writes a list and WhatsApps it to me. I then put the actual order in.

That's hilarious!

I think it's a mental block with my parents - they think I've sat a course in computer skills rather than just learning by doing. I have made this point numerous times, along with the daily receipt of random snippets of conversation and deep breathing voice notes my mother keeps sending on WhatsApp.

But I also know that they'd do anything to help me and one day I'll miss their calls asking me to Google what time the Co-op opens.