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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:
SweetAsIcedChocolate · 14/07/2023 23:33

Clymene · 14/07/2023 19:30

Going to the supermarket doesn't need to be a family outing.

Yes!

I would like to add you don’t have to take your dog everywhere with you, and putting them in the car to drive them to a retail park so you can walk them around pets r us is ridiculous.

TeenLifeMum · 14/07/2023 23:34

Fil stop whistling whenever there’s music on. You don’t even whistle the same tune just a random, differently timed tune that makes me rage with irrational fury while dh, knowing it annoys me, gives me sympathetic looks. 8 hours I drove through France with music on louder and louder trying to drown out your high pitched whistle. But you’re nice so I can’t shout “shut the fuck up!”. One day my inside voice may come out.

ASGIRC · 14/07/2023 23:40

OldTinHat · 14/07/2023 19:12

That allocated disabled bay outside my house is registered to me, my house, my car, my blue badge. It is not for you, cunting ignorant neighbour with three cars, to park in and leave one of your fucking cars in for weeks at a time. Oh, and you may wear a nurse's uniform so I assume you work for the NHS, but neither you nor any of your other householders have a blue badge. So you should know better!

So I'll continue to drive around and either park 20mins away (I can't walk anywhere near that far) or pay £££ for a parking permit in a car park half a mile away which is also too far away for me to walk to. Or park and have to pay for a fucking taxi to pick me up and drop me home (also in reverse to get my car). Or just not go out and miss medical appointments of which I have three a week.

AAARRRGGHHHHH!!!

Why are you not calling the traffic police/tow truck every single time that happens?!?!

My dad has an allocated spot outside his house and hes had quite a few neighbours cars towed over the years.

QS90 · 14/07/2023 23:45

When people park on double yellows by a traffic light, inconveniencing everyone, then think they can just pull out when the lights go green, into the queue of us decent and respectable motorists! No! Wait until everyone else has gone! You are not in the queue - I wish you would be stuck there gorever and I'll risk you ploughing into the side of my car if it stops you from pulling out in front of me like you're bloody emperor of the road.

QS90 · 14/07/2023 23:47

More unreasonably it annoys the heck out of me if another motorist let's them in - even if it's a car behind.

Stickybackplasticbear · 14/07/2023 23:50

Almahart · 14/07/2023 20:27

My next door neighbour does this big cartoon ATCHOOOO sneeze. Really gets on my nerves

Do we have the same neighbour?!! 🤣 It's not the noise so much as the completely over exaggerated nature of it that gets me.

Ihateslugs · 14/07/2023 23:53

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! 😡

Oh no, I do that on the rare occasions I go into a supermarket! I have really bad arthritis in knees, neck and hands so walking even with a walking stick is very painful and I usually order groceries online for delivery. But if I forget something or need a top up, I pop out to a local store, park in a disable space and grab a trolly to lean on. It’s really hard to walk round pushing a trolly and use a walking stick at the same time.

Luckily I am well endowed so my boobs tuck nicely on the handle! I do step aside if someone wants to pass and try to keep out of the way of people who are in a hurry.

Gizmostar · 15/07/2023 00:10

People using the atm - just get out the money and go. Don't check the balance onall your cards while I'm standing behind you in the rain.

chrystlha · 15/07/2023 00:10

Cats cleaning themselves (butt etc) for hours at a time. It makes me want to headbutt the wall. Dogs are fine.

chrystlha · 15/07/2023 00:12

Don't jog close behind me and buzz me if you're a big bloke or I shall be forced to kidnap you and kill you slowly.

TolkienLover · 15/07/2023 00:23

Eudaimonia5 · 14/07/2023 18:14

I get irrationally annoyed by that one person on every course that always has something to say. Whenever the tutor asks a question, they're in there sharing their thoughts and always asking questions.

"Ok, we'll end things there for today, unless anyone has any questions or anything they'd like to share?"

"Well actually, I'd just like to share my reflection on today's topic and ask a question about the assignment that's due at the end of next year"

Course you do, Ian. We all knew you'd have something to say. Just fucking shut up for once in your life! Let someone else speak, you don't have to talk in every single bloody class. You're a pain in the arse!

Except he's not a pain in the arse, he's merely being an active and engaged learner. He's contributing to lectures and sharing his experiences. He's making the most of the course and trying to get as much out of it as possible to benefit his personal and professional development.

But by god, it pisses me off!

😂

BatheInTheLight · 15/07/2023 00:30

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.

We don't print to a paper file anymore since Covid and WFH. I don't even file electronically either though unless I think it might actually be of use to someone, somehow, someday. I don't see how anyone will bother checking.

viques · 15/07/2023 00:43

notanotherclairebear · 14/07/2023 20:16

I'm older than you so no, I won't move out of the way of your enormous group as you take up the whole footpath. In fact, I may even drift into the centre of the footpath, because watching you all part as I walk towards you gives me a sense of petty pleasure I can't really explain

I do this. It feels good, I imagine Moses got the same sort of buzz when the Red Sea parted…….

GarlicGrace · 15/07/2023 00:45

I fully respect anybody's right to go no contact with a family member (me), but it's extremely frustrating that you've told everyone (except me) your reason, which is complete bollocks. Either your insane husband made it up and you've come to believe him or, more likely, it's just part of your elaborate self-fantasy that has never made any sense. I probably shouldn't care this much.

Everybody in this small town, especially my neighbours: why do you shout all the time? It's like you all grew up on the wide-open steppe and had to make your voices carry across vast plains, in the wind.

Also everybody in this small town: No, London is not a crime-filled cesspit of rude people and deafening traffic. (I'm surprised you noticed any noise, anyway, what with your shouting to each other!) When I say I miss the old place, you don't have to lecture me on what you hated about it the only time you visited.

.... oh, god, now I've started I could carry on all night! Very cathartic. Thanks, OP.

Iamnotalemming · 15/07/2023 00:52

People going through airport security who don't know the 500ml liquid rule. And then try to argue the toss about it. With a massive queue of people waiting behind them.

thespy · 15/07/2023 01:00

Someone chains their bike to the lamppost outside my house every Wednesday. It really gets on my nerves. I just want to know why? Why that bloody lamppost? Where do they go? Even more petty I have a security camera, so I wonder if they think their bike is safer there. And then I think I'd deny it was working if the bike got stolen. Petty AF.

LuluBlakey1 · 15/07/2023 01:03

People who use the word 'butt'. I am so irritated by it, I want to punch them. My best friend says it all the time. It's a horrible Americanism for the word 'bottom' or 'backside, 'bum' or even 'arse', all of which are perfectly reasonable English language words and not affected the way 'butt' is. She said today her cat has a 'fat butt' because she is so lazy. I was so irritated I just ignored her and spoke to the cat instead.

RestingMurderousFace · 15/07/2023 01:21

Bins are collected every Monday morning. Stop leaving your fucking bin out on a Friday afternoon. Ever notice how it ends up on the next street sometimes? Yeah it’s me, I’m a petty bitch.

2021x · 15/07/2023 01:30

I am Ian…😀, it helps me remember what I have learned ha ha!

for me it “aks” instead of “ask”. Most other words as long as I know what they are trying to say , I don’t care, but as soon as someone says “aks” I get irrationally angry!

GarlicGrace · 15/07/2023 01:35

Ever notice how it ends up on the next street sometimes? Yeah it’s me

🤣🤣🤣

ReliantRobyn · 15/07/2023 01:51

EddieMunsen · 14/07/2023 20:00

When people say they have been gaslighted instead of gaslit.

I think you are imagining they are saying "gaslighted", no one says that.

Trez1510 · 15/07/2023 02:02

Double parking on a main road i.e. reducing two usable lanes to one at rush hour.

Fuck off, and then fuck off some more you selfish, arrogant cunty wankstain of a person.

Btw, I curse you as I pass. So, yeah .....

That STD you caught? Me!
That failed job application? Me!
Those neighbours from hell moving in? Me!
Your arch enemy winning big on the lottery? Me!
That guy you fancy asking your sister out? Me!
Water outage just as you've shampooed your hair? Me!
Falling on your arse in the pub? Me!
The people in front of you receiving a massive flight upgrade? Me!

Grrrrrrrrrr.

LaMaG · 15/07/2023 02:14

R - whistling is never OK. Everyone knows this. And stop spending so much time on your phone in the toilet.
C - just go to the F*ing dentist. Lots of people are afraid and get over it, you are a grown woman now, cop on and start looking after yourself.
D - clean up your shit. Stop procrastinating about everything. No one cares about your excuses, just clean up ffs.
M - I know you are my superior but stop referring to yourself as my "boss". I'm not even sure if you are and it's only embarrassing you.
K - sitting silently smiling but never saying anything is not being nice, it's being wierd. Learn to make conversation.

latenightpartyrings · 15/07/2023 03:31

I can hear that you are cycling very slowly behind me as you can't get past, but I'm not going to move aside as you should be on the bloody road.

cleanasawhistle · 15/07/2023 03:43

My elderly neighbour next door but one went into a care home.
As all her family live away as I was given a key to keep an eye on things.
Also told feel free to use the bins.

So every fortnight another neighbour who had nothing to do with this elderly neighbour tries to beat me to it and uses the bins.

....maybe I should collect all the bins and store them in my garden.