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”.

This has unlocked something in my brain lol:

• people who talk about weight or diets, just fuck off, I'm skinny so if I respond they think I'm a bitch but if I barely say anything they also think I'm an unsupportive bitch
• people who claim to be stressed about a situation they could help themselves out of but won't because it requires a bit of effort
• jealous people who just can't hide their jealousy in their face when you have good news
• people who treat their pets like pets not part of the family
• people who think they're special because they've had some sort of trauma occur in their lives not realising so many people have shit in their lives that they don't talk about
• people who are arrogant about their atheist beliefs
• sahm's who think everyone cares that they're a sahm when actually nobody cares what they do they just make it their whole personality
• people who think others care about work and want them to live, eat and breathe it like they do

People who talk on the phone really loudly on public transport. And it's always about the most mundane topics, like what they had for lunch, like why are you having a full blown conversation about that?

People who pity you for doing something alone as if the only way anything can be enjoyable is if it is done with other people. Some of us enjoy our own company!

People who take up the whole pavement while walking. Ughhh

This one is normally with the DC.
DC- I have this problem what can I do about it?
Mum- offers reasonable and effective solution #1
DC- but that won't work.
Mum - offers reasonable and effective solution #2
DC- I don't want to do that.
Repeat at least twice more
Mum - screams into pillow.

Men who try to ‘chat’ to me when I’m running.

People who thrive on drama.

People who try to insist that we remove dogs from our cafe even after seeing signs, and us explaining, that we welcome dogs.

People who take advantage of others.

Know it alls
Faffers
People not returning trolleys to where they need to be
Bratty kids / poor parenting
"Influencers" and how people are slavishly devoted to them - don't get me wrong I love social media but it's not realistic
No sense of individuality in people - I'm not in the UK but when I see stuff from home everyone seems to look the same. I know this isn't true across the board but I feel like everyone's just herding together.

How miserable, selfish and rude everyone seems to have become in public

Nobody is friendly anymore

Self centred people who try to take up your time talking about themselves and don’t take a hint that you’re bored.

I’ve decided that the best way to deal with people like this is to suddenly announce I have to go now.
Rudeness deserves rudeness.

Bad sound on interviews. Everyone gets interviewed remotely now and the connection drops or you can't hear them or they have that awful echoey lockdown sound or they don't position their mic/headset so you can hear them breathing so loud it's like gasping for air, and smacking their lips. And no one seems to care!

Also, range rovers. Cunts.

After 15 years working in call centres? Everything
Just leave me alone with a cat if I'm not working thanks

I will smile and be polite in public but I might look miserable as that's my face
By the time it's the weekend and I'm out in public food shopping or whatever I am all peopled out. Wouldn't be deliberately rude though

People who can’t adapt or are completely floored if things don’t go as expected; even the tiniest little things. For instance, the steam room at my gym was out of order today. There was a sign on the door saying as much, and it should have been pretty obvious to anyone who missed the sign somehow that there was no steam or heat. But no - in the ten minutes I spent in the jacuzzi opposite, I saw at least four people walk straight past the sign, open the door and then stand there staring with utter bewilderment until they (eventually) realised it wasn’t working. Okay, so you wanted a steam. You can’t have one. Tough titty. Standing staring with complete incomprehension will not fix it!

People claiming they have to or need to do/have something or go somewhere, when they actually just WANT to.

At the moment being menopausal everything is irritating the feck out of me 😂. I despise queue jumping, bad hygiene, cancelling on me at last minute without a valid reason, being late, rude manners on holding a door for someone to not say thanks, people talking blocking an aisle, being lied to, rude customer service, being fucked around thinking I'm some kinda walkover, narcissists & oh it goes on & I could be typing for hours on this topic 😂

People who are stupid

People who are passive aggressive
People who have just black and white 🤔 thinking

People who are hypocritical

People who are back stabbing arseholes

People who think you must be weird if you think differently

People who judge you before get to know you properly

People who have to turn everything into an episode of EastEnders

Oh god yes people who instigate and thrive on drama
I've forgotten about those types

People who make up nasty lies about people and believe their own lies and gossip about people..

People who gaslight your reality of your personal experinces as it doesn't fit into what they have experinxed or it doesn't fit into what they think 🤔 your experinces should be like

People who make assumptions

What weirdos some people are

People just annoy me, I'm not a fan of other people at all and mostly keep away.

This is so true and irritating. Meetings where people don't know when to shut up. You've made your point but continue for next 19 minutes saying exactly the same thing. Local Authority meetings seem particularly bad for this. Possibly people trying to justify their random jobs

Literally these days, almost everything. The way people talk utter bollocks and form opinions on things they have very little to no knowledge of and talk about them as if they are facts, the selfishness, the constant need for validation, the egotism, gossip, vanity, commitment issues etc etc. I think humans are inherently selfish anyway, we all are, but the modern day culture and social media etc has made most people really unpleasant. I don’t use much SM anymore for that reason. I’ve turned into a misanthropist as I’ve aged!

Lately?

People who won’t. Stop. Fucking. Talking. Usually about themselves.

And people who seemingly have no concept that anyone is around them, so they’ll sit on a plane watching videos on their phone without earbuds, or sit texting in the theatre, or talk through a film.

And people who lug giant bottles of water everywhere. It’s getting ridiculous. They’re going to start having humps grafted on, like camels, next.

People, basically.

People (and there's a lot of them) who abbreviate, in writing, the word etcetera to ect. I mean FFS, you only need the first 3 letters, in order. It's etc.......please!!!! Makes me irrationally (menopausal) angry!!

Well that’s because they say and spell it ectcetera.

Oh the giant water bottle thing in offices where there are taps! 🤨

Ooh I have a list too, some things already said but worth repeating...

People who say 'can I get' instead 'can I have'.
Drivers who don't indicate.
Drivers who cut the corner when turning right into a side road so that if you are waiting to pull out they almost hit you every time.
People speaking to your children when they want to comment on your parenting. For example my MIL to my 1 year old DS 'oh gosh where's your vest?'
People at work who, seeing a long line for a coffee, see someone they know ahead of you in the queue and go and join them.
People not stopping at zebra crossings when you're waiting to cross.
The fact that it's becoming almost impossible to buy a top that isn't a crop top.
Flesh coloured leggings.

People who don’t obey the social contract when you meet them one on one (I.e. both should speak for a third the time and the remaining third is up for grabs). They know something important has happened to you but they just talk AT you about a load of nonsense until you run away. Or, when you try to speak, they talk LOUDER and FASTER so you can’t.