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

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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?!

Motorway roadworks with absolutely nobody there at all - what is with them? Why do they reduce the limit to 50 to 'protect the workforce' when nobody is ever there working, whatever time or day you travel? Are the miles of cones that precious to them?

I can only assume that they retain a reliable, efficient workforce whose job it is to put out all of the cones, and only then do they start thinking about contemplating maybe evaluating planning theoretical procedures to possibly consider perhaps first-drafting job adverts (at some stage within the next three financial years) to get people to come and do the actual roadworks.

And even if they are ever planning on DOING some roadworks, why do they section off 20-mile sections with cones and reduced speed limits in one go, rather than focusing on a mile at a time, finishing it and then moving on to the next mile? It's almost as if they hate drivers and deliberately want to induce rage in them for no reason whatsoever....

Saw a meme ….”Your call is important to us. Please hold the line until it is no longer important to you”.

So true!!!

Sitting around at home all day doing nothing. It makes me so stressed and panicky I start to hyperventilate.

If my partner and my DD are still dossing around watching tv/playing on their phones/reading by mid day Sunday I have to take myself out and go for a calm down walk. I loathe people wasting time.

When shelf stackers in the supermarket block the whole isle with their trolleys. When they loudly slam down boxes (deliberately) as you are walking past. Stock the bloody shelves at night ffs. When supermarket workers are reducing items but blocking them with their body so you feel bad leaning over to pick them up.

I loathe people wasting time.

But different people have different definitions of what constitutes wasting their time. I personally would think sport and gaming to be a huge waste of time, but loads of people actively choose to spend THEIR time in enjoying these pursuits, as is their absolute right.

We're on MN now, which a lot of people would dismiss as just wasting time!!

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I agree and it’s completely irrational it’s my Protestant work ethic and the voice of my mother from beyond the grave. It’s my absolute pet hate.

when my earphones get caught on a cabinet handle and rip out of my ears 😡

When you have an irrational rage trigger and some Pollyanna type says "oh, but why don't you just do this?". Of course I could just do that, but I haven't, and that's why I'm irrationally raging.

Mine is cutlery. This one is the sort that triggers warfare. I cannot look at people eating when they hold their cutlery like a dagger or threaded between their fingers. I fully appreciate people can eat as they please. It does not stop me wanting to stick a fork in the back of their hand.

Lids that don't fit properly on hot drink cups and the hot drink spills on my hand.

Getting my sleeve caught on a door handle.
Wet sleeves.
When the cutlery drawer won't shut because of a ladle, and instead of just moving the ladle I fight with the drawer instead.

Our road is on street parallel parking without marked bays and space is at a premium.

I get SO ragey when cars pull into a space easily big enough for two but dont pull all the way forward or back and just leave half a cars length on both sides of them so no one else can fit.

Equally when people park in the last spot before the junction and don't pull up to the line, leaving half a cars worth of wasted space.

GRRRRRRR!

(P.s. obviously with the comings and goings of cars, some can end up looking like they've done this when they Haven't, but I've lived here long enough and spent enough time breastfeeding by my front window to know it happens aaallll the time. Sad I know 😂)

This sounds like the thread for me, if you have an anger issue I do too. List of things that drive me up the wall

Unnecessary mouth sounds, tongue clicking, lip smacking, whistling etc, fuck right off

People who bimble down main roads under 20mph, we all have places to go Sadie. If you're not prepared to drive at or around the speed limit, get the fucking bus

Brought rather than bought, draw instead of drawer, I seen...

Reverse bleeps on mobility scooters, my workplace has a couple free to use for those who need them and every week there is a woman who comes in spends 80% of her time reversing the fucking thing... I've mentally pictured pushing her off the thing to shut it up (I never would even though she's rude as hell and entitled as fuck)

People who deliberately use the wrong word when talking to children... Do you want some crippies (crisps) etc... Similar vein, people who talk to both young children and the elderly like they haven't got a clue what they're saying, they're people don't dumb shit down or use a condescending tone, just once I'd love to see an OAP hit a condescending fool talking down to them a smack

People with loud, fart can exhausts on their cars.

Drive around thinking people are impressed with their "fast" car. Fuck off, it's a shagged out 1.2 Corsa. It was a heap of shit when new and still is!!!

Totally agree, I feel the same.

People who bimble down main roads under 20mph, we all have places to go Sadie. If you're not prepared to drive at or around the speed limit, get the fucking bus

Thank your lucky stars you don’t live round here. 20mph IS the speed limit along the main roads unless they are dual carriageway.

We have our own radio station at work and there is one particular DJ who says every Friday without fail "hi I'm xx your quizmaster for today and yes I am wearing my gold sparkly jacket" I have been known to shout at the speaker "yes we fucking know and we don't fucking care".
Fortunately I work on my own away from other staff and customers.
Me shouting at the radio could be why 😂😂

Same here, does my head in.

What overpaid knob came up with the slogan "twenty is plenty". That grips my shit too.

People who give their kids phone / iPad in a public place without headphones.

I see your kerplunk and I raise you mousetrap

I see your kerplunk and I raise you mousetrap

And I take YOU back to the 80s and declare unto you: Domino Rally!

Getting a hang nail caught on fabric makes me insanely angry.

Opening milk too. The plastic lid hurts my hand and the tab on the foil bit always comes off so I have to do it with my teeth and it never comes off in one and it's just really annoying.
I sometimes forgo a cup of tea until DH has opened a new bottle.

Usually on the road when driving one of the wagons at work.

Pet hate is people who make no attempt to merge when joining the motorway/dual carriageway via the sliproad.

I'll move over if I can, but if I can't and it's clear behind me they should adjust their speed accordingly. However, many just continue along at the same speed as me rather than use their increased manoeuvrability to either speed up or brake. They then start to run out of sliproad and either panic and cut me up or cause me to slow down out of pity to let them on before whizzing off into the horizon leaving me struggling to get back up to speed for the next half mile.

I often feel like just carrying on and forcing them to brake, but it's dangerous for them to almost stop and then have to merge from a near standstill, so I usually grit my teeth and brake, although they had loads of time to speed up or slow down accordingly.

i can’t explain it fully- I think that when I have a cold coming, or get run down my mouth swells ever so slightly… it’s that or one of my wisdom teeth being slightly off set.

Yes! Or busting a gut to get in front of you approaching a junction and slam on the brakes.

People drumming their nails on a hard surface. Makes me want to bang my fist down on their hand. Otherwise I’m extremely good natured 😉

People who dawdle walk on busy pavements while scrolling their phones, causing them to have zero awareness of their environment and the people around them, and end up blocking the way and getting underfoot. Enraging.

People who take phone calls on the train on the speaker setting so that everyone has to listen to not just one, but both sides of their conversation.

People who dither about and don't have their phones/tickets ready for the exit gates at railway stations and get in the way while they faff about finding their phones, opening the app etc. I feel absolutely infuriated by these people and sometimes close to violence.