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.😛

I absolutely HATE whistling, it puts my nerves over the edge and it always sounds like the person is dodgy.

When my husband takes tablets out of the packet from anywhere and not in line so I can keep an eye on when we’re running out

When I accidentally hit my thumb or finger on a cabinet handle and it soddin' HURTS! It feels like someone has actually pushed my hand!

Just about to go through a doorway and scream the place down as I see a huge spid dangling on a single web and it almost hits my face!

I had this yesterday! Entering the dining room, I reached round to turn the light on and felt a cobweb. I hate the clinginess of them anyway, and when I looked, there was a garden-type spider hanging off it. I had to put kitchen gloves on, and squash it with some paper towel before depositing it in the bin.

People saying mental health when what they mean is poor mental health, mental health issues/problems or mental illness.

e.g I get angry easily because I have mental health.

conversations on social media - why would a teenager stab little girls? or attempt to assassinate Trump? answer - mental health.

Incredibly annoying.

When I used to work on hospital wards, this annoyed the hell out of me.

I'm a lecturer, my students often email me or raise the fact that they can't complete their assignments because, "I have mental health".

"Sorry I missed the lecture. I have mental health and overslept."

"I will not be attending the last week before Christmas as my Mum has mental health and needs my help with my little siblings."

"My mental health means I can't do the essay as it's stressing me."

Oddly, none of them can provide any evidence when it comes to filling out the necessary paperwork for extensions, re-submissions etc.

And it's always pronounced "Men-ul elf".

The ones with genuine mental ill health use their actual diagnoses when communicating (and tend to go out of their way to not get behind, not want to be found to be struggling etc).

It's become meaningless.

Like 'I have anxiety so can't do x, y or z' or seen often on MN ' please be kind/gentle, I have anxiety'.

It's designed to shut people down and make them back off. Literally everyone has anxiety. Anxiety is a really normal thing.

Anxiety disorders however are different, and having had 2 for decades and ADHD and also working in mental health services, there's a huge difference.

It's normal to be anxious about meeting new people, or to be anxious about any other new life situation. or to be anxious about an essay or an exam.

As a supervisor now i'm the one like you, pissing people off by asking for evidence or at least an explanation and a discussion about what can be put in place to improve things or make reasonable adjustments - the emphasis being on reasonable.

A lot of people seem to think they can just say mental health/anxiety/ADHD/ND and their employers or supervisors have to say 'oh sorry, won't bother you again' because so many employers and supervisors are scared by the terms and worried about being accused of discrimination.

If you can't get meet all the requirements of a course or a job and won't even discuss reasonable adjustments or make requests that are unreasonable then you can't finish that course or work in that job. And it isn't discriminatory.

And you couldn't have put the poor thing outside once you had your gloves on?! I'm still a little scared of spiders, after years of crippling arachnophobia, but there's absolutely no way I'd kill one! No excuse for that and if it was a garden spider, that's where it needed to be put. 🙄

People I know that are driven everywhere by their partners (they don't drive) and say 'we drove to' or 'we had a long drive'. They didn't drive, they were driven.
That really annoys me!

Similarly, people saying “we fell pregnant” as though the male was also gestating and it happened entirely out of the blue without his conscious involvement!

My son has a severe cashew allergy. We went to a works event with a buffet and my husband had forewarned them of it so they interpreted "cashews" as "nuts" and made him a special platter. There were no cashews in any of the other food so he ate loads of stuff and my husband was annoyed because they went to trouble to provide him with nut free (we have same thing with family, they all think he can't have ANY nuts. He eats peanuts ffs)

Liza Tarbuck and Elaine Paige's giggles on their radio shows

My friend constantly moaning her kidney stones have 'come back' even though she was told to stop eating fast food.. and again gets takeaways literally every night. She once had an infection that nearly killed her. (ok not silly.. but worrying and frustrating..)

Friends who tell me they couldn't possibly learn to drive. Ever. EVER. Reasons given.. 'what if there's a sheep in the road?' 'What if a lorry comes towards me?' (hopefully you'd be on the other side??) Boast about how green they are..
THEN ASK FOR LIFTS EVERYWHERE. Boils my piss.
Also..women who do drive but .. can't (won't) drive at night. Can't drive in the rain. Can't drive on a motorway. Can't drive to somewhere they don't know. You'd never hear a man say these things.

I'll add to the medications topic the amount of wasted paper involved in putting unnecessary leaflets in my repeat prescription for thyroxin for 30 years. I wish I could opt out.

The VERY sticky labels on all TK Maxx home ware items that peel off in tiny fragments - so annoying when you want to give the items as presents.

The men on gym machines who sit and text when other people want to get on the machines.

One of my friends who insists on sending 15 texts in quick succession rather than sending a long one.

People who post a one liner on social media and then wait for responses to roll in (eg “well - that was some day!!”) FFS just cut to the chase.

I shd probably go and lie down 😆

Yoghurts that ‘spit’ at you when you take the lid off - so annoying!

This is something I would mention to staff. Very annoying but could be easily sorted.

Sliding door toilet doors with those round locks you turn. They rarely lock properly so have had numerous awkward visits during knickers round ankles and when they do i get the fear of being locked in.

This every time 😩

My dh used to do this, one of his favourite tv programmes is Goldrush so I used a sharpie to write on the butter container "You are not Parker, stop fucking digging". He stopped.....

I'm lefthanded, total citòg and on lots of meds, every damn box I open has the leaflet in the way but because of the dosage I'm on most boxes have been opened and resealed by the pharmacist so maybe they move the leaflet to annoy me....

Tetra packs of small milk , I can never get them open without losing some of the contents.

If someone asks me why I don't drive, I tell the unvarnished truth. I'm too thick. I tried, but couldn't get anything close to the hang of it, and it was decided, not just by me, that it was better for the safety of the nation if I didn't. That said, I don't ask for lifts everywhere.

Oh gosh Yes !