Silly things than annoy you

[Nottodaythanku]

just a light hearted one..little things that annoy you.

I will go first…

going out for a meal with a friend tonight and still having to cook for kids before you go

your turn.😛

People that say "be kind"

Basically middle class for STFU.

'There is an unexpected item in the bagging area' 😡

This is why I don't use self-serve! It's packaged groceries, how can it be unexpected?

I hate the expression "cross"..."you've made me very cross", "I'm getting cross now" etc

It makes me turn into a 14 year old, eye rolling, "ugh, you're so pathetic" Mean Girl.

See also, "give over".

Also, people that have children with speech impediments and fail to help them get speech therapy because it's so adorable and cute that they can't speak properly I'm looking at you Amy of RileyandMummy Fame.

And upmost instead of utmost.

The word ‘HACK’ / it’s not a bloody ‘hack’ it’s a ‘TIP’ as designated by my mum’s CHAT magazine - circa 1980’s - love a ‘tip’ - ‘use kitchen scissors to effortlessly cut up pizza’ but can’t abide the word ‘hack’

people letting their off lead dog bother my onlead dog. Keep your dog away from mine and under control.

people who watch tic tic / Facebook videos / pepper pig etc on public transport or public places with volume in - USE BLOODY HEADPHONES - no one else wants to be ‘amused’ by your ‘entertainment’

people who respond to the request ‘to you have any gluten free menu choices’ with ‘we have vegan’ - it is like answering’do you speak French’ with ‘I speak German’ has no bloody relevance at all… gluten free is not interchangeable with vegan - totally different dietary needs.

performance parenting (eye rollingly boring and utterly cringeworthy)

Anyone saying ‘my child IS asd / adhd’
No no no - your child may have asd or adhd but don’t say they ‘ARE ADHD / ARE ASD’ - it is totally cringeworthy. To clarify as a proud autistic adult - I am autistic. I have autism . I am not autism . I am not ASD . I do have ASD. I do not have ADHD. I am also diabetic. I have diabetes. I am not ‘diabetes’ - language matters . Fine with person first language but not with making myself or anyone else just a condition.

And "adverse" instead of "averse"! E.g. "risk-adverse".

obverse FFS!

😀

How do you know? 😁

The very elaborate hand gestures my MIL uses when she’s talking. Lots of arm swishing and weird finger movements. It constant and I find it so irritating.

People who stand for ages in front of the ONE thing I want to buy in the supermarket. 😀

Flies in the house. Especially ones that make a buzzing noise. It is a disproportionate annoyance.

Very posh women who post endlessly on Instagram about their children and ponies.

Oh look! The pony is in the dining room again! This time with a hen! What a surprise!

And very posh women who bleat on Instagram about moving from one gorgeous old house with exquisite garden to another equally gorgeous old house with exquisite garden.

Call me old-fashioned but I am also irritated by anyone who drones on endlessly, in public or private, to third parties, about how very special and gorgeous their dc are. Do they not think the rest of us feel that way? Just because we don’t shout about it constantly from the roof tops?

In my day, all of this was called “showing off”.

Harrumph.

Leaving the house key on the inside of the door when I’m rushing to leave, then putting my key in the outside and not being able to turn it. Infuriating and I do it almost every day!

'And then he TURNS ROUND and says'

'And she TURNED ROUND and goes'

Ggrrrrrr

Why are these people literally spinning on their base before doing or saying something?

Regarding ratings for online purchases, I sometimes haven't even received the product before I'm emailed to ask how they did and what did I think of whatever I bought.

I've just taken home insurance out with a new company, they haven't taken the money yet as it won't start for another couple of days but already I've been asked to rate them with stars and then to tell them why I rated them. They haven't done anything, I've done it all online, what sort of rating do they expect for doing absolutely nothing?

Sometimes I wish we could go back to just nipping into town and going into a broker or shop and just buying a product without all the cobblers you get from doing it online and constant reminders to rate them. Bloody annoying!

I hate that too!

I'm like: give me a fucking chance! 😠

I had that on Sunday. I bought cinema tickets and the machine wasn't working, so I needed a human.

So far, so good.

I reached the front of the queue and he says 'you're in the wrong place'.
I quickly check my phone to see if I've actually booked the wrong cinema. I showed him my phone and said: it says Bluewater.

A few seconds pass in silence, and he says you need to check in right at the back.
Now, I'm guessing that he has to have that conversation 100 times a day, but it wasn't very neighbourly of him to phrase it quite like that.

Have you got my cat's twin? What makes it worse is that he makes such a production out of it. It's like he's digging for treasure.

That the top of the dishwasher always gets filled up much sooner than the bottom of the dishwasher 🙄 because of mugs, cups and water glasses.

So I'm always trying to juggle stuff so I can justify turning the dishwasher on despite it not being full at the bottom.

Minimili · 22/07/2024 02:51
This is very specific but the 4 men who stand 4 abreast across the shallow end of the swimming pool in the gym and chat for over an hour most evenings.

It drives me mad when anyone does it, after aqua aerobics the 30 or so women stay in the pool chatting for ages as well but these 4 men just make my blood boil.

The pool used to be almost empty when I went in the evening but now they are there every time I go and no one can swim a full length because they stand right across, they stand with their arms spread out and elbows on the side.

There is a steam room they could sit in or loungers around the pool but instead they choose to take up the whole pool.
I pay almost £50 a month and I know they are paying members as well but it just seems a waste as I’ve never seen them swim a length. They can see people struggling to swim round them but just ignore it.

Other things pool related that are annoying are:

People who stand talking blocking the lockers when they are dressed,

People who act like they are at home and stand in full view shaving their pubes in the showers, shake talc everywhere and the woman who sits on the bench naked with no towel and rubs in body lotion all over giving us all an eyeful, when she bends over her bum hole is winking at us!
I’m not a prude and get undressed myself, I just don’t flash my growler at all and sundry.

People who ignore the MANY signs saying boys over 8 are not allowed in the ladies changing room, last week a woman had a boy with her who had facial hair! At least staff act on it if it’s brought to their attention.

And finally people doing backstroke in a busy pool and crash into other swimmers. If the lanes are out then fair enough.

i feel better now for having a moan!

Me too There are ladies at my gym that do aqua and they get in the pool about
15 minutes before their class starts and all stand dotted about chatting in groups making it impossible to keep swimming. i have to go earlier and earlier to get enough time to swim. Grrr 😡

@Aliceberrypie people who respond to the request ‘to you have any gluten free menu choices’ with ‘we have vegan’ - it is like answering’do you speak French’ with ‘I speak German’ has no bloody relevance at all…

Yes! This annoys me too, it's like categorising 'awkward' orders together nonsensically.

I asked recently 'do you serve scones' and got 'we have roast beef carvery' or another one I get a lot is 'I'll have a diet 7up please' and get 'we have diet coke'.

I go to a swimming session for the 'elderly'. What annoys me most are the men who decide to start swimming right next to me doing really overly splashy crawl, the men who decide to swim in exactly the same 'lane' as me despite the fact that I deliberately chose the one furthest away and had been swimming in it for ten minutes before they turned up, and the one particular man who not only does both of those things but who also decided to rest right in the middle of the pool by floating on his back starfish-style. He does this regularly.

This should be outlawed, for old people especially. I'm not old quite yet and have spent half an hour trying to sort parking out and work out what to do with these bloody systems. And your stuffed if it won't load.

This actually really distressed me. I can't stand them and their mind blowing annoying buzzing. I think I have some sort of extreme reaction compared to the average person, but I simply can't stay in the room and settle until the fly has gone.