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.

My boss - knocking seven shades of shite out of his keyboard. Yum yum yum yumming when he's eating. Narrating every single email to the point I ask him not to copy me in as I know the content. Not shutting his gob for the entire 8 hour day. If I ignore him he steps up a gear! Ooooooooo he drives me nuts

I might be able to walk properly once I have my 3rd joint replacement....

Contrarians drive me round the bend - when they disagree with literally everything you/anyone else says, to the point where they probably don't believe themselves at all, they just need to have the opportunity to reject what you've said because it makes them feel...good, clever?

People who miss spell etc as ect. I want to hurt them for that, it’s three letters, how difficult is it to spell it correctly.

sniffers. Again I want to hurt them, just blow your nose, I was on a night flight from Miami to Heathrow, woman behind me sniffing every few seconds for over 8 hours, I dozed off and dreamed I was holding a pillow over her face.

people who slurp when drinking.

Oh and sneezing while driving. Terrifying! Why does no one else talk about this? I always do about three sneezes in a row. That's a significant amount of time driving with my eyes closed! It makes me really angry!

I agree with most of the PPs!
I'm a keen, very amateur photographer and belong to a few photography based Facebook groups. There are many things that irritate me but here are the top two.
Posting a photo and saying "Best viewed full screen". Invariably it isn't any better full screen....and I'll decide if I want to view it full screen so sod off!
One Poster Seems To Have Every Word Beginning With A Capital Letter And Always Says "Taken With My Camera". Well it wasn't taken with your dishwasher,was it!
Makes me seethe!

Dh having hiccups. I know he can't help it but it makes me so irrationally angry having to listen to them, especially when we're having a conversation and it keeps being interrupted by his hiccups. No one else's hiccups bother me

People I meet on the narrow country lanes where we live who are oblivious to passing places. No I will not reverse 50 yards because you weren't paying attention and drove straight past a passing place when you could clearly see I was coming. On a related note, what is this stuff about people beeping their horns on narrow lanes?! I live rurally and have never come across this. To the poster who does this, are you saying you just drive down the road merrily beeping your horn?! What weird behaviour. Not to mention completely against the highway code

Similarly people who live rurally, drive massive cars but are apparently completely incapable of reversing them or working out how wide they are and what gaps they can fit through.

People who insist on walking three abreast on the pavement and won't move to single file but expect me to walk in the road. This especially annoys me when I'm pushing the pram or holding hands with one of my young children. I'm not walking my pram/toddler into the road so you twats can continue your conversation. Nowadays I refuse to move and just keep walking at them until they have to move

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?!

Our local Tesco who removed the pavement leading from the p&c spaces to the shop door so I now have to walk across the car park with my kids with no pavement/walkway

My mil who insists on comparing my children to bil in the weirdest way. Everything they do is "oh bil was exactly like that". That's great, but they're not bils children so it's a bit odd. Maybe compare them to your other son, their actual biological father? I get on very well with mil and this is the one thing she does that annoys me

Son always opens a new milk when he visits even though the old one is fresh.He also takes out different plates and mugs from the ones I have set out.
Friend asks me should she ring doctor to look at this mole. I can't even see it.Every time she comes round she has another thing to phone doc for.

Dear God..I've got one of these too...it almost came to blows at the beginning of lockdown.

Omg this annoys me soooo much!

It was lockdown that caused us to agree to shop separately
somehow we’ve drifted back to shopping together again-I’ve put my foot down and we won’t set foot in any shop together again
the rest of the time,we get on great (it’s our 7th anniversary tomorrow) but shopping,diy and flat pack furniture can do one

Another friend who phones me every week to check if I am going to an activity the next day.I may or may not go. Why not just go anyway and if I am there you will see me!

A couple of things my OH does. I KNOW that it's just his way of speaking (he's from the South East very working class, I'm from the South West fairly middle class. He says, for instance when I'm trying to put the wrong lid on something, 'it doesn't want to go on there' how does he know??? Has he asked it? The second - far worse - thing is that he will tell me what I want or what I'm thinking, how I'm feeling. Like telling me I'm cold. Telling me I don't like jelly babies. Telling me I don't want toast for breakfast. What he actually means is that he thinks I'm cold, he thought I didn't like jelly babies, he thought I didn't want toast for breakfast. It's sort of his way of querying something, but it doesn't come out that way AND IT DRIVES ME ROUND THE BEND!!!!!!!

Yes - it's also really wasteful and not exactly eco friendly!
The other one that gets me is - 'Unwanted gift'. It sounds so materialistic and gross. Ok if you someone you hate (i.e the uncle who abused you or something equally heinous) buys you a gift and you don't want it, I get it. I have a sneaking suspicion it's not that at all though, I think it's driven by people who are so materialistic that they don't value anything and always think they are owed more and are never happy or able to appreciate anything. Bleurgh!

People - men! - who stand at airport security and restock their pockets/put their belt back on rather than picking up their tray and taking it elsewhere out of the way.

People who ask questions I couldn’t possibly know the answer to. Example last weekend, standing outside the salon at 0901, a woman says ‘why aren’t they open yet?’. How tf would I know? GRRRRRRR.

Picking something up off a supermarket shelf and reading the thing like it's a best selling novel whilst blocking any access to the shelf. It's fucking ham Barbara stick it in your trolley and move!

This has made me laugh.

However, Barbara's meaty produce aside, pandemic supermarket one way systems did not. You had to go up to the entrance of our Tesco to get your trolley, then bank a sharp left (don't even think of trying to ram-raid your way the one metre to actually enter the shop at this point).

Through the car park in the road (the pavement was the other side of the barrier), past the end of the railings which also corresponded with a blind turn on the road (at a point in the car park where every driver had to exit), sharp bank right into the safety of the railings and you could enter the store entrance you'd passed 5 minutes earlier.

This was months after queuing ended but for some reason, better to risk life and limb in car park frogger than let people simply collect their trolley and walk into the store.

When I’ve pressed the button for the lift and someone else comes along and presses it. Or the button at the pedestrian crossing.

Or if someone is stood at a pedestrian crossing which I know is not one with a placebo button and they haven’t pressed the button.
ohmygod I guess I have button rage.

But being annoyed by this isn't irrational.

My pet hate is people who answer threads on Mumsnet without really reading or understanding the op.

DH's ridiculous earthquake-inducing sneezes followed by an exclamation like he's shocked it happened. AaaaaaaaahhhhhccchhoooooooOHMYGOD!

I can't even explain how mad it makes me, especially tonight when he's tired.

@CoffeeLover90 Oh christ, there's two of us!! Everything you said I 100% agree. I've got such a resting bitch face so I can't even hide my disdain.

Oh God, my mother did this. 'Just trying to start a debate.' No you aren't, you're arguing from a totally opposed position from me just to be difficult. Invariably a topic she knew nothing about.

My DS is LOUD. Everything he does has to be loud. Today his scream coughing and scream sneezing are particularly giving me the shits.

You're all going to think I'm horrible but:

When somebody (usually a woman) comments underneath another woman's photo with "Beautiful inside and out"

Why? Why not just say "You look beautiful"

Yes, I'm an arsehole.

People who vocalise/narrate the mundane shite that is going through their head.

My Mother has always done this and it drives me mad. For example, when you are with her all you hear is a constant, and I mean constant, verbal monolog outl;oud to herself (not you or anyone else present) of whatever boring thing is whizzing through her head. Like 'Just going downstairs to make a cup of tea, ohhh must remember to go shopping, oh yes the milks still fresh, lovely day' if it's not words, she will just make noises or mutter shite like ' Oh dear, oh dear' or 'Oh yes' or 'Ummm, argghh, oohh' she also makes 'mmmm' noises after most mouthfuls of a meal, when most people might make one appreciative noise then stop. It actually makes me feel murderous as you can't escape it when in her company.

I know it sounds minor but when you live it it's like torture.