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.

These are actually both rules in my house.. 😂

Families that walk in a long line taking up the whole pavement, looking indulgently at their toddler walking 1 meter an hour. Absolutely no self awareness.

I went to an open house viewing the other day and there was a couple who did not let go of each other's hands during the whole viewing, meaning everyone else had to squeeze past them to navigate the rest of the house. They would stand blocking doorways umming an awwing and talking amongst themselves whilst being unaware that other people were waiting to get in the room. We get it, you're a couple. Stop being so bloody codependent and just walk around the house in order everybody else.

Women who feel threatened by single people because they think they're after their fat, bald, boring husband.

The Mumsnet families who earn £150k each, have 'strappy athletic DSs' and 'intelligent top set DDs' and 'attractive, hard working DHs with a massive commute, big important job and a secret hobby'

Yeah. Why can’t it be the strapping athletic DDs and intelligent top set sensitive DSs? Stereotypes are alive and well.

People who let their whacking great big dogs jump up and you and scratch your legs with their sharp nails and just head tilt and feebly tell them to get down. No colleague, I don't want to have to stand and drink my tea at your house because if I try and sit down, your bloody big daft dog tries to knock it out my hand. He's too big now to be cute. Just take him out the room for god's sake and let him chill out.

@CountingMareep

@CountingMareep Exactly!

People who have sex without contraception and act like it's a miraculous conception when they fall pregnant. No, it wasn't an "accident" or a "slip up" or you thought "one time would be fine". You had unprotected sex. You fell pregnant. I don't know what the head scratching and gawping act is all about

Stop wearing so much perfume/aftershave. I don’t need to smell you coming and be left asphyxiated by you for half an hour after you’ve left. When you think about it wearing a really strong scent is a weird thing to do…

Seriously?

No it only counts if there are at least 2 adults and one of them is a Dad who gets in the way.

Also the same in Northern Ireland. It’s a regional difference due to the grammar of Scots/Ulster Scots.

Me too. Completely unreasonable, but it enrages me mildly.
Why do they do it? It looks very uncomfortable.

Yes apparently unless you take your kids to the supermarket every week they will never learn how to use a shop. I am sure that is only a MN thing.

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

I have managed to do this precisely once in all the years I've been using self-serve tills. Fortunately in Waitrose they have some where you can pack as you go because they don't have scales. In Sainsburys it's a pain. Don't blame the people, blame the type of scale. If I put my bag on there I'll have to call someone over when it has a meltdown, so it's just easier to put everything through and then pack. I don't like it either, it's a ridiculous set-up/

Elderly and frail? They may not have anyone to help. May be using a trolley instead of a walking frame. I had to use an elbow crutch last year, found it very difficult to use whilst pushing a trolley. Although I wasn’t bent right over, I used the trolley as support.

Interesting, I've not heard it in either place, only in the south of England.

along with the very irritating laaaahhhhhtay for latte.

Other things to add to the list although I don't think any of these are petty:

pavement parking
garden bonfires (especially when it hasn't rained for weeks and everything is tinder dry)
loud fireworks
out of control dogs

Oh and loud people in pubs who swear all the time

News on TV with text underneath, like Sky at a restaurant. I would like to enjoy my meal without explaining the word paedophile or rapist to my children thank you very much.

To clarify; obviously I didn't mean elderly, frail, injured or incapacitated people.

I should have realised. Can't say I've seen others. But there must be, I can't imagine why either.

Grow up and tell the lodger you have a personal agreement for your car,not theirs.it's not that difficult.why are people such walk over wimps?

'Oh dear, not another random accident, illness, disease!!!'
'And once again, you need to take 'sick leave' either the days leading to your annual leave, or the days after- what a co-incidence that it happens every time!'

Do you honestly think we believe you? You are a crap liar and no one likes you.

From work today:

"it is ok to be on time for a meeting, it doesn't mean you are not busy enough if you arrive on time instead of being late". That one is petty because their previous meeting might have overrun and they might have needed a loo break in-between. But it still annoys me when people feel they have to be late for, and cancel meetings, to "prove" how busy they are.

To add, people who turn up late and continue to type on their laptops clearly doing other work.