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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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StepAwayFromTheBiscuitJar · 17/04/2023 23:39

VegetablesFightingToReclaimTheAubergieneEmoji · 17/04/2023 11:28

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

Oh yes. I had somebody do this recently and had to brake hard, causing the concrete to swill forwards and then backwards out of the drum and all over the road.

StepAwayFromTheBiscuitJar · 17/04/2023 23:43

On the plus side there won't be any potholes there anytime soon. 😂

Deadringer · 17/04/2023 23:45

I get ridiculously annoyed when the contestants on Who Wants to be a Millionaire use their phone a friend lifeline early on for an easy question, then ask the dopey audience a really difficult one later on. Play the game people!

Agii · 17/04/2023 23:47

My partner sitting in the bath and watching loud videos and laughing loudly. It makes me so annoyed, well angry!

Agii · 17/04/2023 23:50

GoodnightJude1 · 15/04/2023 20:14

Yes to the recipe one!!! Also when you google a recipe and have to scroll through 56 pages of the chefs’ life history before you get to said recipe 😡

Oh yes! It puts me off from even going ahead with cooking the recipe. Even worse - all of it in cups/not grams or ounces! 😫

WitcheryDivine · 17/04/2023 23:58

People who phone a large group of people where everyone both ends is on speakerphone, in a crowded public place like the train. Some dozy person or couple addressing an entire family the other end including small children etc, everyone shouting, for hours - presumably to wile away the time. It genuinely makes me want to push them over, steal their fucking phone and sling it from the window.

WitcheryDivine · 18/04/2023 00:00

Oh and when you buy tea or coffee out the cafes ALWAYS overfill it, so that some of the boiling hot liquid spills over my hands/coat/feet. Doubly bad if you use a reusable cup and they fill it to top so at least an inch of coffee ends up on me. (I do ask them to put less in but they don’t.)

Maraudingmarauders · 18/04/2023 00:24

I definitely understand the packet rage. I get that with anything that doesn't work as described because all I can think is don't they quality check them in design and factory?? Gives me proper indignant rage.

My red rag to a bull is when you ask for advice or say you have a problem and people suggest the most basic and obvious solution. Do you actually think I'm a brainless moron? Because apparently you do!

VegetablesFightingToReclaimTheAubergieneEmoji · 18/04/2023 07:40

StepAwayFromTheBiscuitJar · 17/04/2023 23:43

On the plus side there won't be any potholes there anytime soon. 😂

If you could just do that on some of the roads round me, that would be great. Grin

what a dick. I bet that person just skipped off into oblivion

SunshineAndFizz · 18/04/2023 08:01

Getting my handbag caught on the gear stick (or some other lever in the car) when I'm trying to grab my bag and get out the car.

TheHoover · 18/04/2023 08:08

Gov.uk website

swayingpalmtree · 18/04/2023 08:11

TheHoover · 18/04/2023 08:08

Gov.uk website

Yeah, its shit and completely unusuable. Their "advisors" are rubbish too. I have phoned them and HMRC a few times for advice about various things and each time they told me they didnt know the answer. So why are you manning an advice line then?

StepAwayFromTheBiscuitJar · 18/04/2023 13:11

HMRC is up there atm after spending pretty much my whole lunchbreak on hold and about to have to give up. 😡

Male101 · 18/04/2023 13:17

Hard Drug users, cant stand them, them make their families lives a misery , they make shop workers lives a misery , they go through life blaming every one for their own mistakes .

Scum, the lot of them

stayathomer · 18/04/2023 16:42

Weetabix packets -they’re so difficult to open when you’re in a hurry!

CanadianJohn · 18/04/2023 16:47

I get irrationally annoyed at ... well, to give an example, I can read a book about the Roman empire and get annoyed with Julius Caesar.

Absurd.

Oysterbabe · 18/04/2023 18:03

When you're asked if you want butter and get some kind of spread. It's the lies I can't stand.

Neededanewuserhandle · 18/04/2023 18:11

I get extreme rage over all the things listed and many more - perhaps I do need some kind of anger therapy.

justanothermummma · 19/04/2023 07:13

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justanothermummma · 19/04/2023 07:21
  • Standing in something wet/or gritty with socks on
  • Wet sleeves
  • Getting clothes caught on a door handle
  • Stubbing my toe
  • Baby wipes that either don't come out or all come out at once
  • Drivers who pull out in front of you in an apparent rush and then drive really bloody slowly!
  • People who take up the entire pavement and walk at a snails pace
  • Unprepared people at tills or in queues and faff looking for their purse wallet or count out change, you've been in the queue 10 minutes, you had ample time!!
  • People who are patronising and that kind of 'smug rude'
AngeloMysterioso · 19/04/2023 07:45

People who decide to do their fucking weekly food shop in the petrol station, leaving their car at the pump… then shuffle on back to their car, put their shopping in, send a few text messages, maybe watch a YouTube video… all while you’re sitting behind them waiting to pull forward and get some fucking petrol. Move!!!!!

Bridgingthefeckingmassivegap · 19/04/2023 07:50

People parking in disabled or parent &child spaces when they shouldn't (no blue badge or child in sight!), And people who take up multiple spaces when it's busy.

On the way out of the supermarket, worked up with a tantruming toddler in tow, I have been known to say "oh my, you seem to have lost your kid! Do you want me to help look for them?" When I see them parking up in the parent &child spaces and walking away by themselves 😡😤

Karwomannghia · 19/04/2023 07:53

Paper straws for drink cartons. They just go floppy and you’re basically jabbing a limp appendage into a tiny hole and juice is spilling everywhere. Yes better than plastic in theory but maybe rethink the whole carton design?

Also my work laptop- half the time it won’t connect to the work system and the mouse pad is erratic so drops my documents into a random folder or just refuses to acknowledge my clicks at all.

bamboonights · 19/04/2023 08:06

Customer 'services'. When was it ever ok do to need to take a fucking day off work to get one simple query sorted.

VincentVaguer · 19/04/2023 08:14

Bridgingthefeckingmassivegap · 19/04/2023 07:50

People parking in disabled or parent &child spaces when they shouldn't (no blue badge or child in sight!), And people who take up multiple spaces when it's busy.

On the way out of the supermarket, worked up with a tantruming toddler in tow, I have been known to say "oh my, you seem to have lost your kid! Do you want me to help look for them?" When I see them parking up in the parent &child spaces and walking away by themselves 😡😤

Parking in a disabled space, yes I agree.

I'm totally on the fence about parent and child spaces as when they don't exist parents still manage to shop 🤷‍♀️ I mean, they are handy but not essential imo.