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Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

What annoys you?

199 replies

YesIknowIcare · 23/02/2024 18:59

What annoys you in everyday life.

Selfish drivers parking their car halfway up the sidewalk - forcing prams/wheelchairs out to road.
Tomatoes.
Smokers.

OP posts:
Dreamer2027 · 23/02/2024 22:36

People who don't indicate and the toilet seat should never be left up just put the toilet seat down.

crumbledog · 23/02/2024 22:39

People that leave a wide gap in a queue, move along so someone doesn’t sneak in and take the space.

People that do a weekly shop while parked at the fuel pump, in local mini mart petrol station.

People that then faff around in car before moving away from petrol pump, usually same thoughtless fuckwits that have spent 20 mins looking at cornflakes in shop.

People in general really, would probably be easier to list what doesn’t annoy me.

thelengthspeoplegoto · 23/02/2024 22:41

People who put posts on any form of social media without full stops. Whole paragraphs and no full stops at all!

saltrock123 · 23/02/2024 22:42

People in general. Give me animals any day.

Mikki77 · 23/02/2024 22:43

Mums on the schools parents committee
Lack of manners
Self entitled people
Dog poo on the pavements

emmetgirl · 23/02/2024 22:44

Pretty much everything

YourThighness · 23/02/2024 22:50

Middle lane hogging.

People that drop hints. Just say what you fucking mean and stop being passive aggressive!

kitsuneghost · 23/02/2024 22:51

Dogs
Road rage
Mobile phones at gigs
Parking on pavements

FunnysInLaJardin · 23/02/2024 22:53

none of the above, but then I dont live in the UK so...

Lots of gripes above about slowness and other folk. Tell tale signs that where you live has too many other people!

LauderSyme · 23/02/2024 22:56

The two households on my short street who have so many cars between them they use up half the parking spaces 😡

I don't even have a car! Their entitlement still annoys me though, and makes it difficult for neighbours and visitors. One of them bought yet another new mahoosive SUV last month.

Untilitisnt · 23/02/2024 22:57

Meowandthen · 23/02/2024 20:27

So many things including:

People asking for advice or assistance who can’t be bother to add a please or thank you
Parents who allow their children to be feral
Anyone who holds their phone like a crisp bread
Anyone who plays music, videos etc in public without headphones

Chewing with your mouth open
Mumbling
General entitlement
Hyperbole. Someone having a different opinion is not attacking you
Everything to do with Starbucks and their shit coffee
People who treat shop or wait staff badly
The amount of wastage with fresh artichokes
My inability to use superglue without making a mess

Calling waiting staff 'wait staff'

spicedlemonpie · 23/02/2024 22:59

Mumsnet but i stay.

Linlithgow · 23/02/2024 23:00

When I'm late night shopping online and it asks me to enter my card details!!!!

Untilitisnt · 23/02/2024 23:02

Nappy-clad/pullup pant clad children sitting in trollies (not in the actual designated seat).
OPs who don't come back when responses don't echo their point
OPs who don't answer when a pp asks a challenging question
Pubs with a flat roof
Cut flowers

Untilitisnt · 23/02/2024 23:03

Cuppachuchu · 23/02/2024 20:45

That said, I did have an almighty stand up shouty argument with a bloke who lit up a stinking cigarette right beside me near a pool on holiday. To this day I regret not shoving his arse in the pool.

Why? Was it a designated no-smoking area?

Untilitisnt · 23/02/2024 23:06

PrueRamsay · 23/02/2024 20:45

People in general but especially other peoples DC.

Cyclists

Another one here who cannot cope with glottal stops or “haitch”

People who don’t indicate

Couples who hold hands in public (totally irrational)

Tories

Cheese

Was with you until cheese...
I mean, who is annoyed by cheese?
And why?
Are any particulr varieties more annoying than others? Is French cheese more
agacé than wensleydale?
Answers, I need answers!!

BaroqueInterlude · 23/02/2024 23:07

Auto-correct 'correcting' things that are not incorrect.

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 23/02/2024 23:09

People who walk along staring at their screen , expecting everyone else to move for them. Extra WankerPoints if they are pushing a baby in a pram.buggy or holding a takeaway coffee .

People who are continually late . Once or twice meh it happens . But continually bugs me . What they are saying is My time is more important than everyone elses .

LeftyLou · 23/02/2024 23:14

The Royal mail and their complete inability to post letters to correct addresses. We have had other people's far too often.

People who don't put their trolley back

When I bang my head

When people are walking two abreast and don't move over when you're walking in the opposite direction. I am sure someone on mumsnet said she started stopping dead in front of them. Think I might start doing the same.

When I write a message on WhatsApp and hours later realised I haven't even sent it

Somepeoplearesnippy · 23/02/2024 23:45

Katemax82 · 23/02/2024 19:06

A lot of things...
People who pronounce the letter H as "hayche"

I would have agreed with you once but then I married a man from Belfast who says " hayche' and he told me why

Back in the day the biggest and best paid employers in Belfast were the shipyards. Officially jobs there were open to anyone but IRL they only employed Protestants, Catholics were not welcome. This was all under the table so they didn't ask you upfront what your religion was when you applied. They'd normally ascertain it from your address (Falls Rd area =Catholic, Shankhill Rd area =,Protestant) or your name (John Paul Murphy = Catholic , William Smith = Protestant).

if these two tests didn't work they'd ask an applicant to spell something. Hayce/Haitch = Catholic. Aitch = Protestant. Say it the 'wrong' way and you were not going to get a job.

For those of us who live in non-sectarian areas this seems unbelievable but for many people it was their world and it went on for many decades. For Catholics from an Ulster background pronouncing their H's in this way is a non aggressive way of showing their cultural identity. Their being free to do it without fear of persecution shows how far we have moved on. I completely respect my husband's choice to teach our Brit born children to do this.

Rosestulips · 23/02/2024 23:49

BaroqueInterlude · 23/02/2024 23:07

Auto-correct 'correcting' things that are not incorrect.

I ducking agree

LadyEloise1 · 24/02/2024 00:17

Letting someone out in traffic and they don't indicate a thanks.

UnctuousUnicorns · 24/02/2024 00:22

"People walking along a pavement who just stop for no apparent reason"

Substitute "people who just stop at the bottom of a lift....reason" Now I'm murderous.

UnctuousUnicorns · 24/02/2024 00:24

Rosestulips · 23/02/2024 23:49

I ducking agree

I'm a but annoyed by that, admittedly.

FourLeggedBuckers · 24/02/2024 00:31

Rain. Mud. Floods.

Grim.

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