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

[huyryipp]

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?!

Oh god, when you have to listen to eleventy billion options on the phone, you keep pressing one or two to fit the category, it gets to your situation and then it refers you to the website (which doesn't address your issue) and rings off, so you have to start again and lie on the 'press one for x, two for y' scenarios so you actually get to speak to someone. Arrrrgggghhhh.

People who try to figure out who got who in Secret Santas, especially work ones. It absolutely makes me rage. Honestly, when I'm king of the world it'll be classed as gross misconduct.

I raise you the “press two” option with the
“say the department you want”
option

inevitably
”did you mean x”

no. No I didn’t

People who post on Twitter, 'it's my birthday today........' Obviously attention seeking, and wanting lots of likes and 'happy birthday hun' messages.

The worst kind though, are women - usually around 40 to mid 50s, who post a photo that is filtered to fuckery, and say 'Happy birthday to meeee. THIS is what 44 looks like. How am I doin' guys?' Just to get the 'omg U don't look it babe,' 'hun, U look amazinnnn,' 'you don't look a day over 29,' and 'omg ur gawjusssss' type comments.

My eyes roll into the back of my head when I see these tweets. And no I DON'T follow these women, I see their tweets when someone I follow responds to, or likes their tweets, and sometimes they pop up even when no-one has liked or responded who I follow... which confuses me!

So true!

Middle lane hoggers. I'm usually a very serene driver but I properly scared my mum with my rage the last time I drove her on a motorway.

Music/videos on phones with no headphones makes me soooooo stressed.

Those two aren't that irrational I suppose.

BUT if I've pressed the button for a pedestrian crossing and waited ages and someone turns up and crosses just as the green man comes on WITHOUT HAVING PUT THE WORK IN I resent them with the fire of a thousand suns. Which may be slightly irrational.

The new roll of kitchen towel is badly perforated and not tearing as it should 😡

I don't get the rage about middle lane hoggers. Yes they are irritating but it's normally perfectly possible to go around them.

I didn’t really consider myself an angry type till I read this thread and found myself nodding away.

Other people in swimming pools, the ones who stand at the end and chat or the ones who swim/ walk three in a row.

Odd socks, literally have 1,000s of them. They clearly turn into Tupperware lids in the night and there goes my next pet peeve when you cannot find the right container/lid.

People who dither when you let them out at junctions.

People who stand at the top of escalators having a chat instead of moving out of the fucking way.

When children do that screeching noise when they're playing (I know they're just being kids!!!! It's still really really annoying!).

The way my kitchen cupboards open (I tell them to fuck off about 6 times a day).

😂

The ‘better’ website and app for booking anything municipal across the whole of the UK.

It is so bad. You have no recourse, no accountability for its shitness - real ‘computer says no’ territory. I have stopped taking my kids swimming because I can’t stand the fact that I have to I put all our bloody emails in separately, but it keeps defaulting back to the last account entered, and I can’t just pay when I arrive any more. Covid lockdowns and measures were a gift to those bastards.

OMG. You should be able to bill HMRC for time wasted trying to get answers out of them.

HMRC sent me a letter saying I owed them £100 penalty for not telling them about our property sale (which had no tax owing on it) in the middle of the year.

We live overseas and there is no damn way to pay this thing. It's not on any of their online payment websites. None of the three HMRC helplines I spoke to could tell me anything about it.

I finally (weeks later) got a reply to my online enquiry form telling me how to pay by overseas bank transfer and also that I now owe them £2.69 interest. Thanks...