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Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

To want to know the pettiest things that annoys you.

488 replies

IseeNarcPeople · 16/08/2023 21:30

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

OP posts:
SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 03/02/2024 13:12

moggerhanger · 03/02/2024 08:42

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.

My dh does this too. And he doesn’t brush his teeth before bed (scummy bastard) so I get rank, garlic breath in my face. I put the duvet over his face and tuck it in snugly - I don’t push down on it. Yet.

Xatz63 · 03/02/2024 15:11

Going to add more
You are in a queue and the person in front had their food scanned and then decide they want a scratch card and spend forever choosing.
My partner might say after shopping and say I've got some nice bread and bring it to me and show me ,funnily enough he's not that happy when I say yes I've seen bread before.
Having to repeat over and over again to different people yes I've had a great xmas after a work break.
When people say with surprise in the winter months oh it's cold today
When It is cold and I'm being told oh wrap up warm it's cold outside, I'm so glad you said I was going to wear shorts and t shirt

Okbyethen · 03/02/2024 15:43

When people say 'can I get..' when ordering/asking for something 🤬

Yeah mate, come and 'get' it yourself then!!

ToWhitToWhoo · 03/02/2024 15:52

When people say with surprise in the winter months oh it's cold today
When It is cold and I'm being told oh wrap up warm it's cold outside, I'm so glad you said I was going to wear shorts and t shirt

These don't bother me at all, but it really annoys me when people rhapsodize about snow, or wish me a 'white Christmas'. As someone with co-ordination disabilities, I hate the horrible slippery stuff. I know I'm U, as people can't make it snow just by saying that they want it to!

ToWhitToWhoo · 03/02/2024 15:56

The whole concept of 'big' ' significant' 'milestone birthdays', especially when they are not the birthday-person's idea, but inflicted on them by others. Especially in the workplace. What happened to the old idea that it's rude to comment on an adult's age?

RaraRachael · 03/02/2024 16:02

Okbyethen · 03/02/2024 15:43

When people say 'can I get..' when ordering/asking for something 🤬

Yeah mate, come and 'get' it yourself then!!

Perfectly normal in some areas 🙄

enchantedsquirrelwood · 03/02/2024 16:19

HussellRobbs · 03/02/2024 00:25

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.

This comes up all the time. You can't. In all the years self-serve tills have been around, I've got it to accept my bag once. ONCE.

Blame the supermarkets who insist on scales. At M&S and Waitrose, I can bag as I go. Elsewhere I have to scan, pay and then bag.

enchantedsquirrelwood · 03/02/2024 16:20

Okbyethen · 03/02/2024 15:43

When people say 'can I get..' when ordering/asking for something 🤬

Yeah mate, come and 'get' it yourself then!!

I don't like it either, and there's no need to use the "pretentious" "may I have".

I usually just say "Could I have a Flat White please" and nobody frowns or laughs.

AnneAnon · 03/02/2024 16:20

People on these sorts of threads who query and criticise others’ answers tbh. The whole point is that it’s petty or whatever. It doesn’t need reasons.

lyingonthebeach · 03/02/2024 16:25

People who can't use me, myself and I correctly.

People who don't say plase and thank you - in every appropriate situation.

lyingonthebeach · 03/02/2024 17:01

*please -- I don't seem able to edit

HussellRobbs · 03/02/2024 17:14

AnneAnon · 03/02/2024 16:20

People on these sorts of threads who query and criticise others’ answers tbh. The whole point is that it’s petty or whatever. It doesn’t need reasons.

It does when you give orders to people in capital letters.

UnctuousUnicorns · 03/02/2024 20:04

Mammma91 · 03/02/2024 08:24

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

But you should always close zips before washing garments...? 😕

UnctuousUnicorns · 03/02/2024 20:06

People who use "whom" because they think it makes them sound a bit learned and posh - but do so incorrectly. Just don't.

HRTQueen · 03/02/2024 20:10

Drivers using the palm of their hand to move the steering wheel

Especially when reverse parking

I instantly decide the person is annoying I see this done and it’s usually a man

Mookie81 · 03/02/2024 20:39

HRTQueen · 03/02/2024 20:10

Drivers using the palm of their hand to move the steering wheel

Especially when reverse parking

I instantly decide the person is annoying I see this done and it’s usually a man

I call it cunt steering 😂.

HRTQueen · 03/02/2024 20:41

Mookie81 · 03/02/2024 20:39

I call it cunt steering 😂.

😆😆
why mess with words Mookie81

Mookie81 · 03/02/2024 20:43

HRTQueen · 03/02/2024 20:41

😆😆
why mess with words Mookie81

Ha, yep!

LyndaSnellsSniff · 03/02/2024 20:48

People who write 'thankyou'. It's TWO words FFS!
People misspelling my name.
Vocal fry.
Kissing on a radio programme. Urgh.
Tom from The Archers.

SunflowerSeeds123 · 03/02/2024 22:53

I work on the Tube. People who leave their papers/fast food packets/coffee cups on a bench....next to the fucking bin. The cleaner on my station also eye-rolls at this stupidity. It's right there!

Talking of washing machines 😮 people who eat with their mouths Wide Open. Get away from me.

Trying to convince my teenager to wash her clothes.

Clutter & untidiness.

RaraRachael · 03/02/2024 22:59

Going to use a locker in the gym that still has a key on the outside, opening it only to find somebody's bloody clothes inside despite there being numerous signs telling you not to do this😡

GCAcademic · 04/02/2024 10:51

People who start their replies to social media posts with "I mean . . .". You just know the rest of the post is going to be vacuous drivel.

And, yes, to vocal fry. Sets my teeth on edge. Though those actresses who play Beatrice and Eugenie in The Windsors are hilarious.

TigerRag · 04/02/2024 10:56

People who drive who can't grasp why as a non driver I can't just jump on public transport and get everywhere.

I had someone recently telling me that it's not that far yo Scotland from the south west - apart from the 3 hour coach journey to the airport and all the waiting around.

Chanhedforthis · 04/02/2024 10:58

People who are beyond shocked that actors appear in different films. It is literally their job.

DidYouSeeTheKey · 04/02/2024 11:58

People who scan everything at a self scan, pay, then proceed to pack items at the till. DO IT WHILE SCANNING!

It’s way quicker to scan it all first and then pack it up. I find it painful to watch as people scan and pack at the same time. I say this as a trained checkout girl in my past life 😂