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.

Quiet sneezers. It just seems so apologetic and meek and unsatisfying. It drives me nuts.

I should have married you! My husband doesn’t share your taste.
I don’t really care how others sneeze.

I am a loud sneezer and it drives my Dh mad.
He really hates it !

What pisses me off, is when somebody is sitting at the computer or in front of the television, and starts kind of giggling to themselves and going 'hahaha,' or 'oh dear,' and 'well I dunno!' in the hope you'll turn around and say, what is it? What's the matter? It's so attention seeking and irritating.

People that boast about their wonderful lives.
We get it !! 😂

Absolutely yes!

I counter with performance sneezers! My husband is one. I can hear him from 2 floors away! One of the cats particularly hates it.

Yep, I agree with performance sneezing, and it's almost exclusively MEN who do this. Don't usually do it in public or in Church/at funerals/weddings etc... So whyyyyy?

People who often make assumptions. They are so wrong but think they are so right. Is it arrogance? Is it fear of admitting that you just don’t know? Too lazy to get the actual facts?

I remember a teacher once writing this on the board:
Ass-u-me To assume makes an ass out of u and me.

True.

People that use the phrases "last minute.com" and "confused.com" as adjectives. Aargh.

Colleagues at work constantly walking up to my desk to ask me questions then nattering on afterwards.

Colleagues yakking to each other about crap while sitting next to me. Really hard to hear people in the phone in the noisy office and hard to concentrate generally while they witter on about holidays and botox. Crack on with your work please and save the chat till your break.

I cleared 4 cases in the office yesterday due to constant interruptions. I cleared 16 the previous day at home. Gah!

People who don’t realise that that assume joke has been doing the rounds for decades

People who try to get into a lift or on the tube before letting other people off.

People who stop at the top of escaltors.

My mother's 'lies; that she would trot out every time something happened

Eg a relative going to uni, "X has got his/her grant/loan and spent it already" - nope they got their A Level results yesterday, they need to enroll to get their money.

When people asked my mother if my brother and I were twins, "No, there's 18 months between them", there isn't, their is 23 months - it doesn't matter but I found it so annoying.

"No one can change their first name by deed poll"

I do a few of things on this thread :(

There’s a thread where you can confess if you’d like to.

I work in an office with a woman who sings along to the radio

Badly

I had a female colleague who was a performance sneezer. But it is usually men, I agree.

I love my mum but she is constantly repeating herself. She's been doing some washing for me over the last 3 weeks as my machine packed up. I can't count the amount of times she's told me her machine has a 9kg drum and that it spins on 1400rpm. Normally it's 900 but if she wants to hang it out at this time of year she gives it an extra spin and that's when it does 1400.
Shut. UP!

No it isn't almost exclusively men that do this. What a strange thing to say.

This is the absolute irrational irritant.

when people sigh. And you ask them are you ok and they say fine. I fucking hate sighing. Passive aggressive bastards.

@jiggleypuff I know, it was decades ago I was at school 😉Maybe one day it will sink in.

Parents who do that loud parenting that's actually all about bystanders and not at all about their kids.
People who think it's "upmost", or who say, "I text her" rather than "I texted her" etc. Is it turning into "texed"? A tex. You texed me. I texed her. Anyway it winds me up. I don't even care, but also I do.
Plastic bags of dog poo festooned all over bushes. Jesus H Christ.

Talcum X and Billy Bragg.

People who make repetitive movements irritate me. I was out with friends for coffee last week and my friends kept slowly stroking her baby's forehead with her index finger. Something about the slow predictability of it made me irrationally mad. I'm actually suspecting I have misokinesia.

I’m female & a so called performance sneezer, made my rescue dog jump when she first heard me, she’s not bothered now.😂
I can’t sneeze quietly, and I have sneezed in church, sorry but I can’t help it. I’ve tried to suppress the sneeze in the past & hurt my ears.🙄

“If you block the release of this pressure by trying to hold in the sneeze it can cause a rupture of your eardrums, irritation of the throat and, even in severe cases, rupture blood vessels in your eyes or brain.”

“Why are some sneezers louder than others? Mainly, individual differences in anatomy, such as lung volume, abdominal strength and trachea size. "Some people may be recruiting more muscles into the violent sneeze response.”