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?

DH messing up my uber complicated childcare-over-eleventy-billion-weeks school holidays by trying to book his car in for a service/dodging holiday club pick up

DH trying to tell me he needed to drive 15 miles to the garage to book said car in "to explain the issues" and looking dejected when I question why he can't discuss this over the phone?

DH using the cream and eggs I bought to bake a birthday card so he can make custard from scratch!

Sorry DH I am definitely menopausal and you breathing is giving me the rage today!

Cyclists (nearly always gentlemen of an older generation) on bikes, ringing their little bell incessantly to get you to move (or even if you have moved to one side) of the path. No thank you, no acknowledgement as they go past.

A cheery good morning/afternoon would be much more civil.

We live on the end of a cul-de-sac and most mornings a woman on a very determined marchy walk comes down the road, round the end and straight back again, clearly part of her morning routine - all good, well done her.

BUT also part of this morning routine is to have a really loud and ranting phone conversation on loudspeaker (holding the phone in front of her face so maybe FaceTime, who knows) she wakes everyone up, DC call her 'shouty woman' I have called her many other names 🤣

I've tried to get up and out the front door to let her know how bloody load she is (and how we all now know the ins and outs of her friend group) but she's gone by the time up dressed and down the stairs 🤬🤬🤬

When you're leaving or going into a shop and the people in front of you go through the door and then just STOP. Bloody well MOVE!!!

People who park in passing spaces (rural single lane road).
Walkers who walk on the inside of blind bends on tight corners (rural, single lane roads).
Cyclists who don’t move over to allow you past at passing spaces (rural, single lane road) and keep you behind them for miles and miles.

Never any different,

Mine did this and my ds still does it at 25 grrrr

This - so bloody frustrating!

Someone with a very short attention span is blasting out 10s bursts of something that sounds like a kids show, on a phone speaker, on the train.

Normally I can fade that kinda noise out but there's something about this kids random switching that's making it impossible

People who buy & drive cars without indicators.

People who let their dogs run up to you barking/jump up at you/shove their noses in your groin/steal food from your picnic or out of your hands.
People who leave their dog’s poo in a grass field “because it’s just grass”. That grass is actually a crop. It will be stored for winter silage and fed to cows and calves. The dog poo can cause illness or miscarriage in the cows.
People who let their dogs off lead near livestock.

Going through a doorway wearing something with pockets and the door handle catches the pocket and literally stops you in your tracks.

People (DH) who come and rummage through things near where you're working instead of just saying "have you seen the xyz" because if they'd asked I could have asked why they would think it would be in the clean laundry that's just come off the line? 😳

O2 customer ‘services’.

I did this once in the theatre, only to be taken to task at the end by the mother of the offending child. Apparently I needed to be "more patient"... 🙄

People who have no sense of personal space and insist on standing RIGHT behind you in a queue, so you can almost feel the breathing. Gives me the creeps. Fuck off!

Some people need to process everything they do these days 🙄

Would some of those dryer balls help? They certainly seem to reduce the drying time needed for sheets.

People who stand right in front of the lift and seem shocked that they need to move to let people out. Same with trains .

People who block the pavement with their cars.

People who think parking rules don't apply outside schools.

People standing too close behind me in a queue, especially during nursery feedback. Just fuck off.

People who pretend not to see their dog has done a shit on the path and quickly walk on.

Gender disappointment, aka 'I don't want a son' threads.

Fancy folding camping chairs.
It doesn't matter what I do I can't get them to collapse.
It can't be that hard, they're just 2 arms and some legs with a limited number of moves, but the arseholes never fold up for me. Especially if I have an audience.
And I'm aware how stupid I look having a massive grunting benny at a chair for the millionth summer in a row.
I hate them so much I'd happily kick them out of a moving vehicle (if it wasn't fly-tipping and so environmentally reckless and we didn't actually need them).

Stupidly, petty vandalism and antisocial behaviour - think broken windows in bus stops, multiple smash marks on the electric billboards, littering inside a bus, scraping the paint off railings, peeling decorative or informational decals off pillars and windows

There is absolutely no need for it, it's expensive and tedious to fix and makes the place/bus stop/bus look unsightly

This is why we can't have nice things.

People

People who type the term "me thinks", it gives me the rage!

People who end their post with ....Reader, I.......
Insert conclusion.

God yes. So annoying when you're holding a drink and it flies everywhere.
And also yes to the annoying mute rummaging-in-the-most-unlikely-place DH.
Mine's just come into the workroom looking for the washing airers that have never ever been in here and are quite easy to spot elsewhere in the house because they are massive!

People who bring a suitcase load of noisy packeted crunchy snacks to the cinema. Currently sitting in a cinema hoping that I will be able to hear the soundtrack above the incessant crinkling of packets.