People who you don't know, but you find them irritating!

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There a guy who lives near me, who I cannot stand, and I don't even know him. He's late 60's and has a Head Teacher vibe. He walks his dog at 7am with a neighbour, and the pair of them chat in BOOMING voices, as they stroll along the path. Tough luck if you are still in bed.

He had a lovely little dog, but it was never on the lead and was always miles behind or ahead of him, so much so, that I almost thought it was a lost dog and almost took it home. I presume he's not picking up the poo.

HIs wife took to Facebook the other day, with a long ranting post about how someone had deliberately put down poison and now the dog is dead. I obviously didn't comment, but I'm thinking Nah mate, you just don't watch your dog. I can't believe that anyone would have done that on purpose, but of course there were loads of comments supporting this version of events.

Silly me thought he wouldn't be out early in the morning anymore, but no, there he was this morning, at the crack of dawn, laughing at the top of his BOOMING voice with another local lady who HAS TO SHOUT ALL OF HER WORDS even when the person is stood right next to her. Don't people think they should keep at down when it's so early?

To top it off, a neighbour had a cherry picker delivered this morning. For some reason it has to emit an ear splitting BEEP when it's turned on, even if it's not moving. It started at 740am. Is this not really antisocial? I was walking the dogs, and as I went past the driveway, there was a MAMIL getting ready to go on an early bike ride, and I actually said to him that he'd probably woken up the whole neighbourhood. He mumbled sorry.

I don't know whether IABU, or just the older I get, the less tolerant I am of these types of people, who seem to have no regard to anyone else's peace.

Has anyone else felt similar irritation (not necessarily about noise)?

I think we've found the dog murderer......

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I don't think 7.40 is that early on a week day. Surely most people are up and about.

Have you considered a move to a very remote location?

Mine is a local childminder. If you get stuck behind her on a narrow street on the way home from school it will take ages to go home as she has about 10 children with her and they all walk so slowly with no care that's they're taking up the pavement. She seems to be everywhere I go as well.

My friend had a housemate years ago who was the most annoying woman I’ve ever met, I remember her to this day. She was in her early 30s but had the carry on of a 95 year old.

Her laugh shrieked down the whole road and she was obsessed with routine and controlling things (home at X time, plain potatoes and meat for dinner, TV on to watch the same 3 things, bed at X). When she was sick she’d still go to work as she needed her routine. She remarked on everything and anything that everyone did - I would collect my friend to go for a walk after work and this woman would comment ‘oh you were only gone 40 mins yesterday, feeling lazy eh!!!!’ and wanted to sync to my friends FitBit so she could see how many steps she was doing. She’d go through others presses and comment on how much chocolate they’d bought, if they had a ‘big’ takeaway at the weekend, what they were wearing, ‘oh another date… with ANOTHER bloke’.

She constantly commented on how much money she had, how she was prepping her statements for mortgage approval, she was starting her own business and had gotten funding from a millionaire… she was paycheck to paycheck as we all were living in house shares!

I only spoke to her 4 or 5 times in passing so wouldn’t say I ‘knew’ her, I’d just hear her reverb down the road all the time.

We had a shouty family that lived in their garden in the Summer and drove everyone mad. Weirdly they all spoke really loud the couple, their young child even their dog was loud. Although they were several gardens away (thankfully) we could hear every word they said, when we couldn't clearly hear our NDN's conversations. Everyone was mightily glad when they moved.

OP some people don't think 7am is that early. There have been MN threads about getting up with many posters saying things like "7am that's practically the middle of the day!".I exaggerate but that is the gist. Personally I think even if you do believe that, you should know that not everyone thinks like you and should be considerate of them.

Someone who happened to go lane swimming at the same time as me a while back who called Rude Lady in my head. She would barge past and kick people out of the way when the rest of us would be pretty aware of lane etiquette and would have let her go first without the pushing. Don't know why she didn't just go in the fast lane. I never spoke to her or even knew what she looked like as I only ever saw her with goggles and swimming cap on.

A man at school pickup who always gets a parking spot right out front (must get there early. This is not my gripe). He goes to the effort of strapping his baby into the baby wearing carrier device with lots of visible effort, then walks 15m to collect his other kid and then back to the car. Why can’t he just hold the baby in his arms for the 3 minutes or less it takes to get the other child.

Woman at work whose entire personality is being gluten free. WE KNOW!! Every time there's a cake or a packet of biscuits or anything remotely connected to food she'll bemoan the fact she can't eat it because of the gluten.

I was irritated by a very annoying neighbour we inherited. The previous owners said "MrX is a bit of a pain but he's harmless" (my heart sank) - but no he was an out and out pain in the bum. I immediately got a bad vibe off of him when I met him (later found out from other neighbours that this was justified). Very soon after we moved in he came round and pressurised me into going round to his garden for some spinach - obviously with hindsight I should have said "no thanks" and shut the door, I did say no but he went on and on and I stupidly caved thinking "I'll just do this to get him off my back" and not wanting to be rude - especially to a new neighbour. From then on he came round on a daily basis either trying to get me to go back or bringing me a bag of spinach. I was a young woman and he was an older man in his 70s I guess and it was an uncomfortable dynamic, but he was very much giving the impression of just being helpful and neighbourly. Incidentally the spinach in his garden was covered in slime and dead slugs sitting amongst big piles of slug pellets . MrX came round every day ringing the bell and banging on the door, not giving up until I answered. I was bf and trying to get ds back into a routine after the move so this annoyance wasn't helpful. OH and I decided that he'd go round to talk to him at the weekend as nothing I said was getting through to him and I was being quite clear by this point. The end came when I ignored him so he came around the back and even tried our back door (!) which thankfully was locked. Giving up he then left our side gate wide open - we always kept it shut because of dc. ds was quite young and could have easily gone out to the garden and out onto the road. I was furious and went round and tore him off a strip and he never came around again.

HIs wife took to Facebook the other day, with a long ranting post about how someone had deliberately put down poison and now the dog is dead. I obviously didn't comment, but I'm thinking Nah mate, you just don't watch your dog. I can't believe that anyone would have done that on purpose, but of course there were loads of comments supporting this version of events.

If it was actually poisoned, it probably got into some rat poison or ate their droppings or maybe bit of dead rat/mouse which it would have plenty of opportunity to do if he wasn't paying attention.

I had one of those! 'Sylvia'. She was a complete pain in the hole. Granted, she landed into a gaff that was very comfortable and established, but she was really hard to deal with. The joys of renting!

Our bedroom window is opposite neighbours back door.
DH is having chemo and so feels quite shitty most of the time.. After tea we like to lie on the bed and watch the early news etc.
Out comes next doors dog,,a spaniel cross thingy,,,whining,,squeeling,,,screeching..,,,no actual barking.
Even with the window closed,,,,,aaarrrgghhhh.

Work in a supermarket and you will find many people you see regularly, don't know them and annoy you.

There's a couple - guessing late 70s who shop on Sundays. He keeps hitting her over trivial things "we don't need any more baked beans, we have about 4 cans at home" (hit). We only see them for 20-30 mins a week - no idea if he's controlling like that at home.

We have a regular customer who works at a competitor store 2-3 miles away. She told me about this woman. When there's a clothes sale, a woman buys a girls dress and buys every size available in the sale 2-13 years and does that with ladies clothes again every size available from 8-24. Buys about 80-90 items of clothing like that. Then a week or so later, returns every single item. WHY? She is going to be banned as she's a nuisance - esp when the refund is mid hundreds of pounds. I have been on the CSD and have served customers returning 5-8 items of clothing. Its so time consuming. Imagine doing 10-15 times as many.

I'm irrationally annoyed by people at the gym who do very show-y off-y stuff in a very performative way.
Why does anyone need to throw huge heavy weighted ball things down from over their heads, making the floor shake?
Why do two guys have 'jumping on and off big boxes' competitions, grunting loudly and cheering one another on?
I had a PT session recently and when the trainer asked me if there was anything I'd like to focus on I told them nothing attention-seeking. They knew exactly what I meant and asked me if I'd encountered 'hand-stand guy' or 'use all the floor mats width-ways to do planks for ages' guy.
For some reason it is usually blokes. Except for 'walk very slowly on the treadmill, but backwards' lady.

The ' beige' family that life near us.

They all dress in beige/pale colours ALL the time. The guy always wears a beige cap. Beige jeans, beige jacket. The children are all dressed in either beige or pale pink all the time. The mother wears beige leggings all the time, even running in the snow, in the winter!

It drives me mad

Work in a supermarket and you will find many people you see regularly, don't know them and annoy you

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This reminds me of when I worked in Boots and the 3 for 2 deals were really good, I think you used to get a No 7 voucher too.

There was a customer who would buy the 3 for 2, then a day later would just return one item, without reciept. She was doing it constantly. No comeuppance, ever. Kept the gift vouchers etc etc.

We had a woman who lived at the back of me and she kept on saying how proud she of her 6 children. This is the woman whose eldest son aged 21/22 broke into a flat in the small hours and raped an elderly lady in her mid 80s He's in prison serving 15 years. Then one of her daughters is also in prison for assaulting a woman who left her blind in one eye and unable to walk unaided. Can't remember her sentence.

Proud of your kids when 2 are banged up? Plus her other 4 are vile.

We have been told on 3 for 2, that all 3 items need to be returned, unless faulty and if faulty product out of stock, swap it for same price or cheaper and if more expensive than the other two, must pay the difference.

A woman in my gym who attends the same yoga class as me, and then spends some time on the gym floor afterwards. She is always carrying a massive jute shopping bag with her things in it, and in the winter she had her coat, scarf etc. She lugs in round with her from machine to machine, and takes up loads of space in the small area outside the studio to put your shoes with her frigging massive bag.

I was quietly anoyed about it until just after Christmas when she and I finished at the same time and we went into the changing room where she locked her bag away so she could shower. Why she could not do that the whole time is beyond me.

So its petty but it annoys the heck out of me.

This reminds me of 'running at full pelt up and down the gym walkway guy', who annoys the shite out of me, mainly because he gets annoyed if people get in his way, but its a passage to get to the gym floor and rooms, so people are supposed to walk up and down there.

They are not supposed to run up and down at top speed, making a heck of a racket and weirdly showing off. If you want to do that, go to a park.

On our local facebook page organisations frequently advertise charity events and ask for volunteers to help with things. There is a man who is ALWAYs the first to reply, to explain how incredibly experienced he is in whatever they are asking for and how he could run the whole thing single handed, except that on that date he's not available for some very minor reason. He then tags in, or names, other people that he thinks should help instead. These people are usually women with jobs, children etc and more than enough on already. Eg. Asking for people to help cook and serve food at an over-60s Xmas party. Man will answer 'Having been head chef at a huge hotel for many years I could run this without needing any help but I'm having my hair cut that morning. Jenny who runs the PTA will do it.' He sometimes volunteers local businesses to do work for free too.

I'm sure he is a bit of a Walter Mitty, as he claims to have had so many careers etc (and got to the top in all of them), including serving in just about every part of the armed forces.

I haven't even met him but he annoys me

Several of the parents on the school run who decide they must have a chat on different parts of the path leading to the school gate including the middle where it is quite narrow next to the pavement where people are coming from all directions to drop off their children as well as the ones who see you walking towards them at a pace obviously faster than they are walking on a junction and take up the entire narrow pavement with their child/children so no one can get past them, and forcing you to ask them to let you past.

I go into the street, looking around and listening for cars instead until I get to a part of the pavement where it is clear.

Funny enough, some of these parents I pass after dropping off end up running towards the school gate before it shuts so they don’t have to walk around and check their children in as late.

Yes! Not quite the same, but we have tonnes of posts of 'anyone know who can make me a 1000 tier cake for tomorrow, must not charge an arm and a leg (read - must not charge a fair price).

Then you have lots of people tagging their favourite cake maker who invariably has to politely say no thanks.

There's a parent in my son's class who just does not take any notice of the queue in the morning or afternoon, no idea of her name but she infuriates me.

Yesss with Facebook people.

I regularly run a local activity which relies on certain people/locations being available. I fit in around them because their time & space is kind of donated and there is ONE woman who comments with chapter & verse about how it's such a shame it's not on whatever date because that day clashes with her Zumba/cake making/walking/crafting group/dishwasher delivery and she's been wanting to come ever since her neighbour moved away, yadda yadda yadda. I mean, just don't reply it wasn't a personal invitation.

Bugs me so much that I have to respond so sweetly to these messages every time when what I want to say is 'The world doesn't bloody revolve around you Barbara!!'