Little things people do that are irritating....

[TooTiredAndFedUp]

Just for fun.

I'll begin...

Taking the toilet roll of the toilet roll holder and not putting it back on...why take it off to begin with.

Walk around whilst brushing their teeth.
GO TO THE SINK.

Auburngal · Yesterday 12:49

Also coning off lanes when no work has started. Only cone off lanes/parts of roads when work has started.

There's actually a reason for that. There will be several sets of surveyors measuring and assessing various aspects of the road, before the plans are finalised for the road engineers. Their reports and plans take time as well and it's not really worthwhile to put cones in, remove them put them back, remove them, put them back etc.

I agree that it's frustrating, but I found it helpful, when I learned about it.

A few - when I am out & about:

When I am walking down the street & somebody else catches up and then walks directly behind me rather than drop back or overtake - like they are stalking me, it's so unnerving;

When I am in eg a shop where background music is being played, and a song comes on that I forgot how much I loved/haven't heard for ages. And some tone deaf, whiny-voiced fellow shopper starts singing along;

(this one is v irrational and entirely my issue): When I am climbing the Tube escalator and the person in front of/above me has a new coat and hasn't unstitched the vent of the back maybe because they don't know it is meant to be unstitched. Something about that giant cross stitch at my eye level really annoys me, I don't know why

People who don't know how to reply privately to messages in WhatsApp groups, thereby subjecting the rest of the group to their banal arrangements as to what time they can pick up the toys someone is giving away on our street WhatsApp group. We don't all want to know!

People who dont queue "properly", and because they are stood adjacent to the queue, other people follow them and the queue ends up snaking through the middle of the shop/walkway rather than neatly along a wall or shelving.

I love Christmas music (at Christmas) and I was actually really sad to not hear any last Christmas when I was doing my shopping in town. I think it was about 12th December? Absolutely none in any of the shops and I hated it. I really wanted to hear a Christmas tune to get me in the mood.

@Livingtothefull When I am in eg a shop where background music is being played, and a song comes on that I forgot how much I loved/haven't heard for ages. And some tone deaf, whiny-voiced fellow shopper starts singing along;

I had a colleauge that used to do this in the office with every song and sometimes she would humm along which was even worse as it was completly tuneless. Drove me insane

@hourstokill are you married to my husband too? Infuriating isn't it?!

Telling you how you will be feeling. "You'll be glad that X has happened." A relative used to do that and I'd suddenly feel the opposite of what they were telling me I must feel, even if it was illogical.

Acting like it's really weird/sad/scary to take a bus.

This one’s definitely a ‘me’ thing, but I really hate watching adult relatives drifting off to sleep in front of me, especially if it’s DH and it’s a Sunday afternoon. It triggers some very deep frustration/annoyance for reasons I’m not clear about. Maybe it goes back to endless deadly dull grandparent visits as a child when I had nothing to do except disappear elsewhere and read.

When there’s breaking news, the presenter asks the correspondent questions which the correspondent doesn’t know the answer as the event just happened. Then rephrases the question. Still don’t know.

Its so unprofessional imo

I sorta get that, actually. I can sympathise.

I organised a surprise party for my husband's 50th birthday last year, and the amount of traffic on the WhatsApp group was unbelievable.

I had to mute it for 8 hours at a time, cos it was a constant stream of messages.

Then people were complaining to my brother in law that i wasn't responding to texts.
I said (in the group chat): if you kept the talking shit to a minimum, we wouldn't have this.

I was so glad when the party was over.

Saying “s/he’s ADHD” or “s/he’s ASD” instead of “s/he has ADHD” or “s/he has ASD” or “s/he’s autistic.”

Referring to the person they’re dating as “my partner” when it’s a relatively new relationship and they don’t live together.

The following situation: pedestrian needs to cross the street, car has stopped at stop sign. Car driver gestures to indicate that pedestrian can go first. Pedestrian would actually prefer not to go first, and gestures that car should go. Driver indicates again that pedestrian should go first, so pedestrian feels obligated to go even if s/he is unable to walk fast and would prefer to cross when there are no cars, so s/he doesn’t feel like she needs to walk fast so as not to keep people waiting.

In social settings, people beginning a new conversation with you when you’ve just said that you’re going to leave.

Insisting on calling a child a name-based nickname no one else uses. Like, everyone calls the child Andrew, but always referring to Andrew as Drew.

Singing at karaoke when you’re a gifted singer. You have a world full of opportunities to sing, so can you just let the bad singers have one place, please?!

Adverts for films released in cinemas. Why do they say May 9 (May Nine).Not 9th of May or May the 9th

It's an American thing, I assume.

Saying “s/he’s ADHD” or “s/he’s ASD” instead of “s/he has ADHD” or “s/he has ASD” or “s/he’s autistic.”

I hate this. To me it isn't even a 'little' thing. It's pretty much condensing the entire essence of an individual into their neurodivergence. I bite my tongue though.

Because the US makes most of the films and that’s how we write dates in the US.

I get it aswell, my dad used to put the tv on and fall asleep and if we changed the channel he'd wake up and go mad, maybe that's why.

Seriously. “She’s ADHD” - no, I’m a human being, thanks.

The other one that bugs me is when people go to the other extreme and insist, “No, you have to say ‘person with autism,’ not ‘autistic person.’” Accurate adjectives aren’t offensive, and the insistence that we have to use contorted language to talk about a group of people is just othering toward that group, IMO. Like, no one says, “Don’t say ‘French person,’ say ‘person of Frenchness’! Person-first language is important because we need to emphasize that people from France are people!”

”The spectrum” for “the autism spectrum” annoys me too, unless the conversation was already about autism. “He’s on the spectrum” - which spectrum? The electromagnetic one? (I have the same complaint with “the pill.”) Plus, “on the spectrum” is usually a work-around for people who don’t want to say “autistic,” like “autistic” is a bad word.

Sticking out their tongues on photos. It's so childish and disgusting.

Supermarket checkout operators have an infuriating habit of scanning anything but the one item in their current customer's shopping that is keeping the belt stopped, while I stand there wondering if they are doing it deliberately how long I have to hold a bag of apples and a loaf of bread like a muppet 😠

Customers who put shopping on the belt. Then decide could they have the bag of potatoes or something heavy they put at the end.

Where is that? You give way to traffic from the right.

Using the expression lol.

I confess to judging people who put this at the end of texts, emails and MN posts.