What irritates you about other people?

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I get really irritated when someone won’t accept “I don’t know” as my answer. Something along the lines of:

”Sarah is having a baby! Do you know when it’s due?”
”No, I didn’t know she was pregnant”
”Her oldest is four and she didn’t want a big age gap so it’s probably soon” <Looks at me expectantly>
”I didn’t know she was pregnant so no idea I’m afraid”
”But when do you think it would be?” <Looks at me expectantly>
”Still no idea. Between now and six months?!?”

Or

”I need to hire a nanny. How do you recruit a nanny?”
”I don’t have a nanny so couldn’t say. Have you talked to Sarah, she will probably know?”
”I should probably talk to a nanny agency, which one should I call?”
”I’ve never hired a nanny through an agency so no idea I’m afraid”
”But you must have some idea!”

It has to be okay to sometimes just say “I dunno”.

People who drop litter.
Drivers who don’t indicate.
Loud parenting.

People who make a huge deal about not caring about their appearance to the point of actively putting other women down for buying eyelashes/hair/make-up because they "just do it for men" yet cannot stop waxing lyrical about how amazing men find every body part of theirs ad-nauseam. "Oh but Achange, my toes have ALWAYS been lovely, I'm so happy with my beautiful toes, they're not like yours and men always comment on them...My hair is just one of my best features Achange, I mean you can say it's lucky but I don't ever cut it and I always get men wolf-whistling me in broad daylight...". Talk abut projection!

Nosy people. Especially materialistic nosiness, asking for every detail of my life, new purchase my work, promotion or there lack of, salary to compare themselves with me.

I haven’t read through the thread but in all honesty I don’t really like many people in life.

I loathe insincerity, envy, greed and meanness.

Oh and selfish people. As in totally and completely utterly self absorbed.

Not much really. 🙃

Yep. Forgot that one .

Yes nosy people. I have an old friend that I don’t see so often now and this is part of the reason. She wants to know the ins and outs of everything and loves to drop in anything new she has bought. I’m not materialistic and find it very superficial.

Rudeness, no thoughtfulness and loud eating.

Oh and not doing what they say they will

Nosey people are very annoying.

I also dread having any encounter with that angry type middle aged man. The sort that hate women and glare at you and bang into you if you pass them. They're particularly aggressive whilst driving and have a very entitled attitude. They try to engage you in conversation sometimes with their 1950s attitudes on full display. They're invariably divorced, bitter, desperate for a shag and hate all women - because the women won't shag them - and often drink too much. They're also very bossy and waste no time in telling you you're fat/ugly/parked in the wrong place/a karen/a crap parent etc.

-Men who walk around with their tops off in summer not on a beach/swimming pool.
-childless people who freely give out their opinions on parenting to parents

People playing music in their own cars?

And yet here you are....

I've thought of two more lol, people who get at their ex's by posting about their kids being there for them on social media😷I've had to block a girl I went to school with like this because I feel so sorry for her kids, every.single.post is something like 'my ride or die since day one, my support system' and a picture of her small child. Poor kids when they get older will have been her emotional crutch for years. My other one is people who critique any profession, especially stuff like the ambulance service but have never and will never do the job themselves and have no idea how any of it works.

Office politics. ‘Oh I’m sure you’ll ace that presentation, it’s only really gone wrong for Brenda that one time….’
People in restaurants at bigger gatherings who simply can’t remember what they’ve ordered only half an hour previously. Usually accompanied by a hovering waiter with a spare carbonara while others wait to be served or watch their meal going cold infront of them.
People who simply have to remind you how well off they are: ‘the cockapoo nearly destroyed £15k of parquet, ha ha’, ‘The kids hid Steve’s keys in the outdoor wood fired pizza oven’, ‘the underfloor heating in the granny annexe is playing up again’.

In came on to say this . I have one friend in particular who is pretty extreme in this way. She said she has a particular illnsss and said maybe I had it too so it should
Google it. I did. Wikipedia and gazillions of other authoritative web sites says the illness is pseudo science and doctors do not accept it as a diagnosis. When I told her this she started yelling at me saying her doctor agrees with her etc.

Fathers that don’t pay their child maintenance

Anyone who starts feeling like an energy vampire, sometimes I find myself edging away from people and I think it’s because on a subtle level they’re annoying

that they exist?

When people take too long to do something simple!

Or in my line of work. An exchange similar to this....

Me: Have you got the results for x, y and z?
Them: yes

Me:..... can I have them then?
Them: yes

6 hours later
Them: do you want all the results or just one of them?

Argh!!!

People on their phones in the theatre and people who drop litter, have you seen the verges along side the road recently 🙄

This week's gripe is people who circulate details of the latest " scam" to everyone they know, thus freaking out my old Mum, who really should have the wit to know better. If they stopped to think for a moment they would know that saying " yes" in a conversation with a random could not possibly mean that they are agreeing to have their bank account emptied.
Or that copying and pasting some blurb on Facebook is not going to change its algorithms nor will it give FB permission to use anything it does not already have the right and ability to do.
And if you've copied and pasted something ( like " be kind")and asked all your friends to do the same, it doesn't mean they are bad friends for not complying.
Actually maybe I should give up SM. Shouting at it is like folks used to shout at the TV in the old days. Not a good look.

Either;

1. Non parents talking to me about how they believe other children should behave, or doing the ‘if I ever have child I wouldn’t XYZ’
2. Mothers at a different stage of life telling other mothers (usually with young children) that “it gets worse” or “just you wait till XYZ” as if that’s helpful.
3. Unsolicited advice in general

This

People.

People who let their children constantly interrupt when you are trying to enjoy an adult conversation.

Too many to mention but here are a few of mine:-
Middle lane drivers on motorways.
Manspreaders.
Loud, braying people in restaurants when you are out for a nice quiet meal.
People who stop dead as they come off the escalator so you bump into them.
Queue jumpers - just what are they thinking??
People who try and save a seat for their bag on the train, even if other people are standing up.
People who talk about themselves endlessly but they know nothing about you as they never ask you anything.
Rude people in any service industry, eg shop assistants, doctor's receptionists etc. Just try and be nicer!
People in the cinema who just want to chat all through the film, also sweet rustlers who eat sweets with the loudest, crackliest wrappers. Shhh!