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to ask if you get disproportionately angry about anything, or do i have an anger problem... (lighthearted, I hope!)

163 replies

huyryipp · 13/04/2023 19:35

I honestly can’t bear it when plastic food packaging doesn’t open with ease. I have been known to bin the item in rage… not proud of this! anyone else have minor things that make them mad?!

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baconisgoodforme · 13/04/2023 19:37

Trying to get one baby wipe out of a packet. You either can't get any or get 500 at once..literally gives me the rage 😅 I just end up flapping the packet about in the air getting all mad about it and looking ridiculous.

Florissante · 13/04/2023 19:38

No, I can't thing of anything that makes me disproportionately angry. I get angry at stupidity but that's a proportional response.

Can you keep a pair of scissors at hand, OP?

Havanawinter · 13/04/2023 19:40

I get disproportionally angry at very loud repetitive noises. Think someone repeatedly blowing a whistle, banging a fork on a table, alarms going off. I physically can’t stand it and have to leave if the noise can’t stop. I work very hard at letting my kids be noisy kids but sometimes I find it overwhelming. I wish I could change it as in every other way I’m not quick to anger at all.

Yellowrosesmakemehappy · 13/04/2023 19:40

People who don’t neuter their cats and let them outside.

People who buy/ sell animals to strangers on gumtree/ Facebook.

I literally hate them 😂 and judge hard.

Yellowrosesmakemehappy · 13/04/2023 19:41

Also being woken up in the middle of the night or people being loud when I’m trying to sleep.

And people who drive those fucking shitty off road motorbikes down the roads in the summer.

red78hot · 13/04/2023 19:44

Yes, easy peel packs, biggest lie ever 😅
Cling film also either tearing near the end so you don't know and get a tight bit at the end, or just the cutter part glcant go the lifetime of the roll and ends up flapping about.

Carerer · 13/04/2023 19:47

On a similar theme Schweppes have changed their bottle tops on mixers like tonic water and soda water to have these stupid little things attached with a plastic stem that says something like attached so I don't get lost for recycling.

They are very difficult for disabled people or those with arthritis to remove and re-close and they hurt your hand.

I end up cutting off the attachment.

They annoy the hell out of me - it's change for change sake and without proper regard for those with hand or dexterity issues.

RichardHeed · 13/04/2023 19:48

Dropping things or knocking things over. Always met with an angry for fucks saaaaaaaake and I feel rage at myself.

Oysterbabe · 13/04/2023 19:50

Being unable to find something, I get in a proper rage. Half the time I won't be able to find it because DH has tidied it away somewhere ridiculous. I could kill him when that happens.

Circleoffifths · 13/04/2023 19:50

Carerer · 13/04/2023 19:47

On a similar theme Schweppes have changed their bottle tops on mixers like tonic water and soda water to have these stupid little things attached with a plastic stem that says something like attached so I don't get lost for recycling.

They are very difficult for disabled people or those with arthritis to remove and re-close and they hurt your hand.

I end up cutting off the attachment.

They annoy the hell out of me - it's change for change sake and without proper regard for those with hand or dexterity issues.

Absolutely agree with this. It’s so frustrating.

Morningcoffeeview · 13/04/2023 19:51

Yup I definitely get the rage sometimes. Other times I’m exceptionally zen. I am sensitive to loud and repetitive noises too. Like the lawn mower and my DH seemed to spend the whole
of the bank holiday mowing the lawn!

Circleoffifths · 13/04/2023 19:52

Oysterbabe · 13/04/2023 19:50

Being unable to find something, I get in a proper rage. Half the time I won't be able to find it because DH has tidied it away somewhere ridiculous. I could kill him when that happens.

God, I agree with this too. Maybe I need to work on my temper.

MargotEdithAgnes · 13/04/2023 19:53

When I'm walking past a door handle and it gets caught in my jumper. Irrational rage. As if it's a living person grabbing my arm aggressively 😂

I think it's fine as long as it passes almost immediately

Oysterbabe · 15/04/2023 11:09

Passwords. Now they need 70 billion types of characters I can basically never remember them. My phone remembers them but if I need to log on a different device I need to reset it every single time.

TheGuv1982 · 15/04/2023 11:12

When I bite the inside of my mouth. Instant rage.

VegetablesFightingToReclaimTheAubergieneEmoji · 15/04/2023 11:14

People who don’t say thank you when I’ve let them go, who don’t indicate of who pull out on me.

OoooohMatron · 15/04/2023 11:17

When drivers don't thank you for waiting, even if it's their right of way!

Morningcoffeeview · 15/04/2023 19:18

I have one that’s driven me mad for aslong as I can remember - people eating on the phone. Especially when it’s a boiled sweet you can hear rolling around their mouths!

mnisannoyingAF · 15/04/2023 19:31

Losing my phone or keys even tho it happens every day (not exaggerating) I annoy myself so much

mnisannoyingAF · 15/04/2023 19:32

Oysterbabe · 15/04/2023 11:09

Passwords. Now they need 70 billion types of characters I can basically never remember them. My phone remembers them but if I need to log on a different device I need to reset it every single time.

and this 10000000%

PrettyMaybug · 15/04/2023 19:35

Oysterbabe · 15/04/2023 11:09

Passwords. Now they need 70 billion types of characters I can basically never remember them. My phone remembers them but if I need to log on a different device I need to reset it every single time.

Urgh yeah. SO annoying. Some sites let you use the same password forever, but others make you change it every 3-6 months. So awkward to find a 'good' one. Reminds me of this....... Grin

to ask if you get disproportionately angry about anything, or do i have an anger problem... (lighthearted, I hope!)
Lostmyself3 · 15/04/2023 19:45

The plastic wrapping of cucumber! The cucumber doesn’t need it and I can never get it off easily!

MargotEdithAgnes · 15/04/2023 20:02

One from this evening - setting up Kerplunk. I hate it with the fire of a thousand suns

Scout2016 · 15/04/2023 20:07

When a recipe online has good reviews, then you read them and they all say things like "This was really wonderful, we loved it. I just added bacon and chillies, swapped the nutmeg for paprika, the peppers for turnips, potatoes for fish, took out the milk and rice, cooked it for twice the time stated...." and so on.... You aren't really reviewing THIS recipe then are you!
Really winds me up.

Shintyhappypeople · 15/04/2023 20:13

Yanbu, I have stopped buying bacon because the packs never unpeeled properly.
Quite niche but only having one set of keys between 3 housekeepers at work always makes for chasing each other around Angry it's only a small place but still.

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