To want to know the pettiest things that annoys you.

[IseeNarcPeople]

Just for fun to take our minds off the huge, horrible stuff in our lives.
Me :
Tiny, tiny cloves of garlic
"Pull tab here"

I see all the singing washing machines and beeping fridges and raise you my new dishwasher that puts a message on the TV to tell me that the cycle has finished.

Dh chose it - I think it is the advance guard, and one by one, as our old ones die, all our appliances will be online, talking to each other, and plotting to take over the world.

We used to have a kettle that screamed when it boiled - honestly, shrieked. It was a KitchenAid, and I was very glad when it died and we could get a nice, ordinary voiceless one.

I can't stand it when people write Spag bowl instead of spag bol.
I know it doesn't matter and it's not hurting anyone but it really annoys me!

People on our street can never mow lawns, strim hedges etc. on a dry but dull day, oh no. They must wait until the sky is blue, not a cloud in sight, sun shining brightly, and I'm sitting out with a book, before they drag out the tools and start whirring, grinding and whining etc. 🙄

Why are you unrolling them? I used to put them in the washing machine rolled up and even hung them on the line still rolled up.

No, I won’t actually. The till always thinks my bags are an unexpected item and so I then have to wait for the harried staff to authorise my bags. Much quicker to scan it all and then bag it.

@SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius
See and raise😂😂

I have a few, that get mentioned regularly on her. Should of, could of, would of, to start. A couple of days ago, I was listening to a programme on BBC Sounds about mad cow disease, a fairly serious subject. The presenter kept pronouncing twenty as 'twenny' it got to the point where I couldn't listen to it, especially when she got to twenny twenny.

Looking at you Sheila Fogarty heavy nose breather my (LBC)

But you have to get someone to come and approve your bag. And one time the chap in Aldi said don't pack in a bag, because the bag still confuses the till, even after approval.

My petty thing is how shit self service tills are and supermarkets who won't actually employ the necessary staff.

Why?

The lifts at work. They are the sort where you select your floor on a panel and it tells you which number lift to take. The idea being that all the people for floor 4 get in the same lift and don't have to stop in between. But no, you get in the lift and we are stopping at all floors. And you can't call more that one when loads of people are waiting.

This made me laugh. I mourn the day household appliances became 'smart', like i'm incapable of working on/off switches, and often feel got at by my washing machine that beeps with increasing shirtiness if i don't dash to attend straight away. And the mental picture of a screaming kettle is priceless.

I've not read the entire thread so this might well have been mentioned already, but my peeve is the 'remove film' on food packaging that comes away in a thousand tiny pieces rather than in one go.

@KreedKafer agreed. Teachers do this at parents evening "Hi Mummy" (vom - learn the parents' name especially worse if you're older than the parent).

If DH gets ds ready for bed and he’s wearing a zip hoodie, he re-zips the dirty jumper up before putting it in the washing. It makes me so irrationally angry

When Americans...it anyone else really... says.' can I fix you some eggs '
What the hell does that mean...??
Scrambled..? Omelette..? Painted hard boiled ones ?

I've had that... Although mine says 1 min... Usually at least 20 😒😒

Travel reporters informing you of a nasty accident....as if there is any other sort of accident.
Oh there was quite a pleasant accident on the A62 this afternoon that only caused 2 miles of tail backs! 🙄

And my new car parking sensors. I've parked perfectly fine in my drive for 17 years using my mirrors and observational skills. aggressive peeping when the wall is about a metre away. I know! I can clearly see it! See also attention seeking washing machine that makes a noise every 20 seconds once the wash is finished

The new peel off tabs on wrapping paper.
Not only are there 4 of the fuckers, they don't peel off properly and so it takes 10 minutes to take them all off before you can even wrap the last minute present you need to give to your friend in 20 minutes time.

DH breathing on me while we're in bed/he's asleep. He can be some distance away, but if I feel the breeze of his exhalations on my face, I get the absolute red mist.

It's happening right now, in fact.

Maybe they’d been dropped by a bird who’d picked up more than it could cope with.

Any social media post that starts with "POV". Immediately scrolling past that .

I only use Facebook any more for a craft group, but every time I log on it asks me, ‘What’s on your mind, Gettinglikemymother?

I know it’s daft but it really pisses me off! I want to reply MIND YOUR OWN BLOODY BUSINESS!!

A new one that seems to have crept in -
I was BALLING my eyes out.

Maybe they think the phrase comes from eyeballs but it's BAWLING as in crying

When people use your name a lot when speaking to you. It can come across as really patronising.

MargaretThursday
We’ve the same washing machine so! It’s definitely grown on me but we had visitors at the start of the year and you could tell they HATED it!!! Our drier also sings😅