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

[TheSlowRush]

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.

I saw a photo of a new baby just yesterday with a bow and thought it looked ridiculous - glad I'm not the only one :)

I am really impatient, but I've never experienced this. Also, how are you meant to get your purse out if your bag if you have a basket in the other hand?

If you are working from a coffee shop and there is two of you - sit at a table for two not four. My 3 friends and I want to sit there instead of being squished around a tiny table.

When you're at airport security, please move out of the way before you slowly put your belt, shoes, earrings, jacket, hat and watch back on. If you don't I may explode, which would delay us all and nobody wants that.

While families in supermarkets... why is your partner not at home/the car/soft play with the kids. Makes me angry just typing it

Teaching life skills 🤷🏽‍♀️

She wants him to get out and have a life and give her some space, and this is the only way it will happen. I have several friends who basically set up playdates for their husbands for this reason.

The Amazon driver, why do use the doorbell 3-4 times and then the letter box 2-3 times USE one or the other! I am coming to the door no need to use both!!!!

Bandanas on dogs

People who arrive in the entrance to a building, then come to an immediate and dead stop. Okay, I get that maybe you haven't been in here before, but if you want a moment to get your bearings/fiddle with your bag, then for gods sake, step to the side!

I don't actually think this is petty but fuck me, if you are going to listen to a podcast/watch a video on your phone/play a game with the sound up and you are in a public space, use your fucking headphones!
I don't want to sit on a train for ages listening to the tinny dinging of the game on your phone.

How arrogant to think anyone else wants to listen the noise you are making on your devices.

This is me! Couldn’t have put it better 🤣🤣

(many) line mangers I’ve had, who forward on emails which have already been sent to everyone by their line manager.

why?
is it lazyness, is it cya?

I felt like shooting myself after reading the first one ( car park safety, National something or other day, a takeover or buyout that doesn’t affect me in the slightest or (yet another) update to change control ) only to receive your forward to all which has no added value from you.

Life is a rollercoaster, just gotta ride it? 🤷🏽‍♀️

Did you not read this properly?

It's to make it look like they're doing something.

Stupid, because if they forward it after you've seen it, that's a neon sign that they're actually not as present and attentive as you are.

My husband seems to think I can't choose the food I like at a hotel breakfast buffet. We're just back from a weekend away. As usual I choose a selection of my favourite breakfast items. He comes back with a full plate, saying I brought you some sausages or mushrooms or whatever. I say I didn't want them. He's offended! Why oh why does he think I can't pick these things up if I want them?

I totally know an Ian. I don't think he's "engaged" or whatever, he just likes the sound of his own voice. I don't know why speakers bother asking if there's any questions when they finish, they should just say, "Right and now Ian will give us his opinion and then we can do questions from everyone else".

Ice-cream vans irrationally annoy me. Those bloody chimes are incredibly jarring as well as completely deafening - they drown out every conversation, the radio, you name it. Just bugger off.

And, in a similar vein to people who seem mystified by the concept of paying for their shopping once it's been rung through the till and packed, people who don't know where their ticket is when they get to the station barrier and then just stand there, searching though every pocket, while everyone else has to divert around them. HAVE IT IN YOUR HAND BEFORE YOU GET TO THE GATE.

And self-service tills, particularly people who pile up their shopping, pay and THEN start packing it. Weigh your fucking bags before you start and pack as you go, muppets.

Some people have no fecking choice!

Sorry, kids. I know you're only 3 months, 1, 3 and 4 but you need to fend for yourselves for a little while as I need to get the food shopping and have nobody to rely on for childcare and the miserable boomers on Mumsnet have decided that children cannot go to supermarkets anymore because it slightly irritates them for a few minutes.
Whilst we are at it, maybe don't go anywhere ever again because God forbid any of you make the slightest bit of noise when we go anywhere/sit in a seat at a cafe that Is apparently for older people only/look at a tablet (ironically to stop any noise that older people don't seem to be able to handle anymore)/get on a bus or take up any space in general whilst walking/being pushed in a pram.
Maybe let's not breathe around anyone, and just stay in the house until you are all 18, and then we will be allowed some sort of life, if it doesn't inconvenience anyone else, of course.

No wonder I'm crippled with social anxiety, bordering on agoraphobia, when we are made to feel so unwelcome/a huge inconvenience whenever we go anywhere.

An no, I can't and won't "Just shop online".

This world isn't only for miserable adults.
Maybe I don't want my kids around passive aggressive, tutting whenever we go shopping, anyone think of that?

Probably best I leave this thread and don't come back, for the sake of my mental health, and the fact I can't be arsed to read any responses to what I've written, I've said my piece.

Read the room

everyone but you wants the pointless meeting to end so just stfu

Report them to the council. You've gone to all that effort to get a disabled spot put in & they're using it even though they haven't got a blue badge. Either that or leave a polite note on their car (unless you feel that won't work)

@GrannyWeatherwaxsHatpin our local tescos don't allow you to pack before you have paid. due to their stupid machines not able to cope with it. signs are up saying don't pack till your finished

When people talk about "having the flu" but are up and on their feet, albeit a bit snuffly and fragile, but walking around and doing tasks. THAT'S NOT FLU!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok I feel better

Well fair enough if that's the case, but it doesn't seem to be for most self-service tills. The vast majority have the option to weigh your bags so if that's applicable, PACK AS YOU GO.

I think the people grumbling about families shopping for groceries are referring to two parent shopping trips.

Can't say it irritates me but I do wonder why anyone would drag their kids around the supermarket with another adult perfectly capable of caring for them elsewhere