Things that give you the absolute RAGE!!

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DH has just put the dishwasher on a long cycle in the middle of the day 😡 I have all of his family coming shortly for a meal to celebrate his birthday.

surely everyone knows that during the day it’s a short cycle and overnight it’s a long cycle.

now I have to wait 3 bastard hours for it to finish with the pots building up.

of course slightly lighthearted but what does give you the rage?

Tomasinabombadil Thank you for the info. Obviously,none of the offenders that I've witnessed have never been given a penalty charge!

'Ever',not 'never' ^

Omg tell me about it! And has anyone experienced what happens to me quite regularly? I'm walking along a stretch of pavement,and someone is approaching me,maybe 50 yards away. They're walking on the opposite side of the pavement to me,but on spotting me,move onto the same side that I'm on. If I move across to the opposite side,they promptly do the same! I might add that the vast majority of the time it's men who do this. Some sort of way of 'exerting their authority' perhaps?!

Amen

@ALongHardWinter Also with men, if you go to the kerb side of the road and they do the same. I've stepped into the road before now to pass them. If I wanted to go on the inside, I would have done that.
Staring at people's waists usually makes them get out of the way. This works with almost everyone.

I don't get that happen (and the one time it did happen, during covid, it was a woman- I did wonder what the heck she was up to). But yesterday and today I have crossed the road to avoid people on the same side pavement as me, and they've also crossed - after I have done, so it wasn't that they moved at the same time. So annoying - so I have to cross back over again.

I keep rigidly left. If they keep rigidly right, they have to go round me because I stop. The only time I don't is if it's an elderly person.

UK pedestrians need lessons in pavement discipline. In the Netherlands and Germany, people tend to stick to the right. Here, they are all over the place.

@thepeopleversuswork I'm with you on that one. We're not terrible parents because we have to work. It also gives me the rage when people park their cars completely on the pavement.

Staring at people's waists? That's a strange one! I'll have to try it!

My local council does this. If I ever get a letter from them saying 'Please phone us ASAP regarding an important matter' I can guarantee it ARRIVES on a Saturday so I spend the entire weekend stressing about what the problem is!

Bit late to the party… but one that always crops us (and indeed cropped up early on this thread) is the rage people feel if someone waits until they’ve packed their shopping before getting out their purse.

I don’t get it! Surely it takes two hands to pack all your shopping? Where should you put your purse during that time?! Should you get it out and hold it with one hand and pack all your bags single-handed? Or balance the purse on your head? Or… just leave it safely where it is and just retrieve it from your bag when you’re about to pay? Can someone explain?

It's not so much that they leave the purse/wallet/cash/store card/coupons til last, it's the sheer faffiness of watching them rummage around for the purse/wallet/coin bag because they've buried it under the shopping and everything else in the bags, slowly go through the cards (I can guarantee there won't be enough funds on at least one of them), try to find a coupon that hasn't expired, quibble over the price of something they could have confirmed themselves before they had joined the queue and then, having unpacked a small fist sized bundle of old receipts and dumped it in the packing area, pack it all in again.

Well, yes - that might be annoying!

I guess people are ok with shoppers not having three hands though - phew!

Must admit I take my card out and hold it while queuing and put it down by the till as I pack.

If I use cash, just put my purse at the top of my bag in easy reach.

It's men who faff about usually, groping in their pocket for wallet to get card and if it's cash then get out notes and then grope about a bit more for their purse to pay the exact amount in assorted coins. 🙄

People who get annoyed when other people do supermarket shops in their lunch hour. News flash, I will not organise my life around other people's lunch hour.

@chaosmaker , not for while walking, but my DM used to say that if anyone seated near you was making you feel uncomfortable (for whatever reason) lifting your steady gaze to the top of their head would pretty soon make them wonder why you were looking at it - was there something amiss? - they’d have to have a feel to check - in other words, make them feel uncomfortable in return.

DM was not at all an assertive type, so I was always surprised that she ever came out with something like this.

Hoodie hoods up in the summer.
Petrol prices taking weeks , sometimes months to fall when the ‘market price’ has fallen considerably. Yet somehow they shot up overnight and that’s ok.

On the supermarket theme, shoppers not using the packing bench in Aldi and Lidl.

Finding a tissue in the washing machine that has gone over everything when I checked all the pockets in everything beforehand. HOW did it get in there? Grrrrrr.

I don’t get it! Surely it takes two hands to pack all your shopping? Where should you put your purse during that time?! Should you get it out and hold it with one hand and pack all your bags single-handed? Or balance the purse on your head? Or… just leave it safely where it is and just retrieve it from your bag when you’re about to pay? Can someone explain

I made the same point earlier in the thread. I am a pretty impatient person, but even I realise that people only have two hands!

I don't actually see people faffing to get their purse, although they spend ages chatting and take ages to put it away and move away afterwards.

It's men who faff about usually, groping in their pocket for wallet to get card and if it's cash then get out notes and then grope about a bit more for their purse to pay the exact amount in assorted coins

It's interesting you say that because I always think its easier for men as they have their wallets in their pockets and don't have to look for purses in bags.

I always used to think that ticket barriers were sexist because men had breast pockets in their work jackets and could get their tickets out easily whereas women had to faff about with handbags

People who talk at gigs, during the songs. I was at a fixed seating venue a few months back, to see a singer, who was solo with just a mike and acoustic guitar with amp, so not a full band with fuck off big PA set up.

Two twats next to me rabbited all the way through every fucking song. I eventually flipped and snapped, any chance you pair could fucking zip it? Of course I was met with a gobful as they carried on. Arseholes.

Then to top it, the couple immediately in front of me started gabbing too. The woman uttered loudly, right in the middle of a song, "HOW URLD IS <SINGER'S NAME>?" I thought, you have got to be fucking shitting me.😡

Why the fuck do these dickheads bother going to gigs if they're just going to fucking gas through the music. Fucking do us a favour and stay the fuck home. 😡

That was incredibly rude of them!

Probably what gives me the BIGGEST rage is people campaigning against modern medicine in general and vaccinations in particular, and extolling Natural Living as a contrast. Natural Living without modern medicine would in my case have meant Natural Dying , probably at birth, certainly in childhood, so just fuck off with your self-righteousness!

@GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER very nice, have you tried it?

I also hate being rushed at a checkout and when I did work on one I really disliked rushing some people whose only conversation that day may be with someone on the checkout.
Saying that when I'm short of time, I'd rather rush through a self service with a self scan thingie.

I had this today. Lady on till started scanning my items before I’d even got everything out of the trolley! Then proceeded to ask for payment before I’d even bagged my first item! Needless to say I made her wait until I’d packed everything in bags first before paying. I just find it extremely rude if I’m honest! This wasn’t Aldi either!