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?

Printers

Oh god yes
Printer is not connected
Yes! It! Is!
Printer has no paper
Yes! It! Does!

Yes! Printers and photocopiers. There's the old joke that the band 'Rage Against the Machine' must have been named after the musicians' fury with a printer!

Paper jams are the absolute worst-GRRRR.

Askholes.

People who want a solution to a problem, there is only one solution to the problem, they do not want that solution, they want another one, there isn't another one.

So they they verge on ridiculing me for the offered solution and trying to find issues with it in a very 'but what about this bit, HA i bet you don't have an answer for THIS issue'... (I do.)

And I can't tell 'em to fuck off because they've paid to ask me this question and I have to be bloody nice.

I’ve another
I can’t do zoom it has to be in person I need to see you and other in situ or I can dx the problem telling me helps some but I still need to see you and other in situ no this isn’t negotiable and round and round we go.

Smug colleagues with unhealthy work ethics making out I’m not committed because I often leave on time and take all my annual leave whereas they’re far too busy to do that. They seem to live for work and that’s fine but don’t put your ridiculous rules on me!

Much prefer to have a paper version of tickets paperclip to my passport. My boss once dropped and smashed his phone in the check-in queue. Caused all sorts of problems.

Bagels that are pre cut but not all the way through.
Either cut them all the way through or leave them alone.

People who brush past and jostle me when I am seated on a stationary non-crowded bus or train. How hard is it for you to walk in a straight line?

People who leave their bikes, buggies or shopping trolleys - or just stand around - on the pavement, making it hard for others to get by.

People who stop dead at the top of an escalator. You are off the escalator fgs, you can stop walking again now.

People at the supermarket who rummage around for ages for their wallets and selecting their payment method, as though it has taken them by surprise that they are expected to pay.

(This is a rather irrational one - but I can find annoyance in a wide spectrum of things!) People on the escalator ahead of me wearing a coat or jacket with the back slit stitched shut. Don't they realise the stitch is temporary and they need to remove it? Something is really enraging about being greeted by those giant cross stitches though I really don't know how to start unpicking (sorry) the reason why.

People with pushchairs who walk side by side and expect me to walk in the gutter to pass them. Same with people with a dog on a long lead.

I no longer yield to people on the pavement (ok there are some exceptions, mainly for people less mobile than me).

As a power wheelchair user I often find people blocking the way and expecting me to go around them, and this is often unsafe as they're expecting me to get close to the kerb or not taking into account pavement furniture etc that I can't get past...

I don't do it any more, I look 'em in the eye and drive straight at them. They move.

Tis a dramatic solution to the problem if you don't use a wheelchair, granted...

That's the only reason I'm not still using Windows 98 SE which was so much better and less controlling.

People who lack basic reading comprehension. Just emailed a hotel to ask when they're taking payment for my stay, as it says three days beforehand. Asked if that's three working days or three normal days, as Sunday is three days before, so is it going out on the Friday, Sunday or Monday? They've just emailed back and said it's going out three days before my stay...
I FUCKING KNOW THAT! That's why I emailed them to ask what day it's going out. Banks usually ignore the weekend, so I assume it's going to be either Friday or Monday, but I need to know so I can move the money into that account. I just replied, repeating what I'd already said in my previous email. Fuck's sake. I hate repeating myself.
It's like threads on here when people don't read the OP, or subsequent posts by the OP, and just blather on about something completely irrelevant to the OP's situation.

People not reading emails are so annoying. My customers do this all. the. time.
I am constantly answering questions I already answered and I really want to say "as per my last email....." but I have to be polite because I am trying to sell them something 😆
Enraging though that they can't take the time to read but I have to take the time to repeat myself!!

To be fair birds, foxes, badgers, horses, hedgehogs, ducks all shit outside.

Don't seem to shit on the footpath though do they? Where dog walkers always let THEIR mutts shit!

They do though... as thats usually where my mutt is eating fox shit, duck shit, goose shit, occasionally rolling in it instead... You just don't notice it.

Todays rage is brought to you by the person who had to remove a dirty filled nappy from a dogs face, he brought it back to me from where he found it in the fucking woods (path runs through it, picnic benches near the middle, but no bins, big signs telling you to take it home or to the bins marked on the map but this apparently is too hard for some people).

Unfortunately as I no longer use nappy bags for poo bags (not needing bags that big now I only walk the one that makes tiny poos) I had to hold dog lead, existing poobag AND a used nappy until I found a bin. Ew.

I really can't get worked up about dog owners leaving behind a small amount of poo after they have picked it up when cat owners happily let THEIR cats roam about, coming onto my property, digging up my flowers, and shitting on my patio.

Ringing the drs surgery this morning and I wasn't finished and she just hung up on me.

Chin hair and how fast it keeps growing back

Travel rant incoming.

People on airport moving walkways. Yes, it’s niche but I’ve just had my fill yesterday in the USA.

I’m taking about those that get on and STAND STILL. It’s slower than actual walking. And when they do it, and despite the signs all along staying ‘walk left, stand right’ they block the entire bloody thing so you can’t get past.

Passengers in planes that recline their seat as soon as they board. I hate this. Wait until after the meal service, you selfish fuckers. The cabin crew had to repeatedly ask the woman in front to put her seat up when meals were served.

Passengers that clap when the plan lands. Not exactly rage inducing but, grow up.

Indiviudal serving packs of mayo, sauce etc in pubs which are w=seemingly impossible to open.

w+seemingly - seemingly. Hit return before I read through. Maybe it was the anyonce level? Sorry good people.

I 100% agree with this. Things like this have happened to me a number of times too. The worst was when the person interrupting the conversation I was having, leaned over and whispered something in the ear of the person I had been talking to. There was nobody else in earshot but me. I just walked away then, and left them glaring at me as if I was the one being rude.