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Ridiculously petty things that you can’t even say out loud

591 replies

TheSlowRush · 14/07/2023 17:45

I’ll start.

This has been bugging me all day but I can’t say it out loud to anyone as it’s really not that bigger deal.

Parking is a huge issue where I live, not many people have ORP.

My elderly neighbour got rid of her car a few years ago, we are quite close and she has a driveway, so it was agreed that I could now park over her driveway meaning I am pretty much guaranteed a space right outside my house, rather than having to park halfway down the street.

My lodger has now begun using this space, she works from home a lot too so it’s there for days now sometimes. WAAAaa 🙈🙈.

I can say anything as I will sound like a selfish loon.

OP posts:
lieselotte · 16/07/2023 13:06

tanstaafl · 16/07/2023 09:00

Anyone who asks the person behind the counter
’Can I get…’.

Grrr.

Yes and "reaching out". Everyone is "reaching out".

If I do that much reaching out, my arms will come out of their sockets.

lieselotte · 16/07/2023 13:07

Almahart · 15/07/2023 21:18

I've just remembered 'I'm excited for' instead of 'I'm excited about'. We're losing the battle on that one

Oh my goodness yes I hate that one too.

And the latest work one - I am talking "to" the developments in AI.

Another example of losing the word "from". Why? You are talking ABOUT AI, not to it! Well, not in this context, anyway.

lieselotte · 16/07/2023 13:08

losing the word "about" not "from".

My hands type without input from my brain at times!

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 16/07/2023 13:09

cruisebaba1 · 15/07/2023 22:50

🤣🤣l thought it was just me!!

Either of you are alone, @cruisebaba1 and @Allwelcone - my dh breathes on purpose, in bed too. I put the duvet (lightly) over his face - though I am often tempted to make it a pillow, and firmly!

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 16/07/2023 13:11

I forgot - I have another petty annoyance - the packaging on my sheets of tablets is ridiculously sharp, and I keep slicing my finger open on it. You’d that, after the first couple of times, I’d be aware of the sharpness and I’d be more careful, but no.

I blame the manufacturer, though, not my carelessness.

SpicedPumpkinLatte · 16/07/2023 13:12

Madamecholetsbonnet · 14/07/2023 18:20

Where should you put them if they’re too big for overhead space (which is tiny on Southern trains) and there’s no room available in luggage area?

Stand in the vestibule but with them

AppleCinnamonBagel · 16/07/2023 13:16

Hedjwitch · 15/07/2023 11:15

Supermarket pickers for home deliveries. Why are you ALWAYS in my fucking way? Do it at night when the shop isnt full of customers who actually shop in person and who cant get past your trolly load of orders!

They have to pick the orders in a short window of time before they go for delivery. Deliveries are generally available from early morning to late at night. 🙄

marshmallowfinder · 16/07/2023 15:19

AppleCinnamonBagel · 16/07/2023 13:16

They have to pick the orders in a short window of time before they go for delivery. Deliveries are generally available from early morning to late at night. 🙄

@hedjwitch I'm a supermarket picker. I start at 5am and we aim to have everything for the entire day's deliveries picked by 9am. We chilled items and fruit/veg items pickers can't start earlier as the deliveries are being unloaded from 3atchm and put on the shelves. The frozen and ambient items for all orders are picked from midnight as they don't rely on the night deliveries. The trolleys we use are very heavy to push about, to suddenly stop, manoeuvre or move quickly. We'll have moved on in a moment if we're in front of what you want, so be patient. We are on minimum wage and each pick is timed and our stats discussed at 3 monthly review. If we are too slow, it's a problem. The chilled picks are particularly time pressured as the items cannot be out of the fridge for longer than 25 minutes max. So we're not fucking about trying to bend over backwards and apologise to every entitled wanker rolling their eyes because they want to get to the smoked salmon. We are doing our best.

marshmallowfinder · 16/07/2023 15:23

Trez1510 · 16/07/2023 06:22

Super as in 'super excited' or 'super nervous' why the feck can't people just be very instead of exaggerating themselves into super?

Also I'm hearing more people using the word floor instead of ground when referring to an outside space e.g. he fell to the floor on Main Street. No he didn't, he fell to the GROUND!

And the bloody 'obsessed with.' No, you mean very fond of. An obsession is a serious thing and does NOT describe your child's fondness for lego.

Mangogogogo · 16/07/2023 15:34

CableTidy · 14/07/2023 18:13

Work one - no one is ever going to look at the emails you print off and file. No one.

No wayyyy you have one of these too? I bin the ones my ‘one of those’ prints off and she’s never noticed.. or she’s never said anything but she would definitely say something!

Hedjwitch · 16/07/2023 16:19

I don't even like smoked salmon.....😆

Liverpool52 · 16/07/2023 17:20

vdbfamily · 15/07/2023 08:15

This is one of my pet hates. It is the same with blood pressure. " I' ve got blood pressure" !

My usual reply is "well I hope so, otherwise you'd be dead".

WickedSerious · 16/07/2023 17:22

Liverpool52 · 16/07/2023 17:20

My usual reply is "well I hope so, otherwise you'd be dead".

I tell them I've got bones absolutely everywhere.

nopuppiesallowed · 16/07/2023 17:25

There is a notice at the entrance to our local Waste Recycling site - 'Do not leave bags of rubbish outside OF this site'. Why the 'of'?

Lincslady53 · 16/07/2023 17:49

CC4712 · 14/07/2023 18:19

I get irrationally annoyed by people using a shopping trolley as some sort of walker and lean their boobs and body all over it. They are also inching it down the centre of the aisle- so you cannot pass either side! 😡

I am glad I'm not the only one. I want to tell them to stand up straight, but I know that some may need the extra support if they have mobility issues, and it is nothing to do with me, but it does irritate me.

MrsPositivity1 · 16/07/2023 17:49

Male work colleague jingles the coins on his pocket constantly when comes in to ask a question - just stop please

BalloonKnotWhistle · 16/07/2023 18:32

That when you sign off all your emails "with joy and strength" it makes you look unprofessional and dim-witted.

Answersonapostit · 16/07/2023 18:35

Slow walkers that stop suddenly in the middle of the pathway , people that say ‘ like ‘ every third word , people who have loud conversations on mobiles using speaker phone on public transport , adults that call each other baby 🤮, ffs people shut up , stop doing that , you’re 35 not 1 , get out of my bloody way. ..

Oldnproud · 16/07/2023 18:35

Other people's pettiness and pedantry can really irritate me, even though I can be both petty and pedantic myself.🤔 I'm definitely irrational - or just a bloody-minded, contrary bugger.

Whatiswrongwithm · 16/07/2023 18:37

People who get on the bus and ask the bus driver if it goes ‘this way, that way, well what bus do I get’.

It says the way on the fucking bus stop, you can look it up on your phone and now you’re holding me up getting to where I need to be. Arghhh

Onlyhereforthebatshitneighbours · 16/07/2023 18:39

STOP MOVING MY STUFF!!

Shallistayorshalligo · 16/07/2023 18:40

Could you start parking outside his house?

cassiatwenty · 16/07/2023 18:45

I know things haven't been easy but I'm blooooody FED UP of you moaning every single day. OOOOOOO LOOK AT THEM LOT PLAYING TRASHY MUSIC, CF having a bath, look at her body who does she thinks she is. Moaning moaning and moaning.

This is horribly rude to those closest to you as you share your grim view of the wirld as just being □♤<○●♤□●}■realistic■●}♤■

But you're not realistic, you're a CF😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡 I don't know if you ever noticed that the moon doesn't revolve around you.

Save that for your buddy SATAN, hope you get your rendezvous vous with him already

REGARDS ☠☠☠☠☠☠☠

Pliudev · 16/07/2023 19:00

Why do you drive a massive four wheel juggernaut if you are unable to park it/ keep to your own side of the road on our twisty country lane?
Why do tennis players grunt with every shot and why can I hear them from two rooms away?

WotsitsMadeIn1927 · 16/07/2023 19:07

When people inconsiderately walk over my freshly (still wet) mopped floor.
Jesus Christ that gives me the rage.

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