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)?

It was his house that was about to get painted. So he had arranged the BEEPING cherry picker for a 730am delivery. Honestly, I am about 10 houses down, and I can hear it from inside my house. BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, BEEP. It's not even moving, so I have no idea why it has to beep. WTF!

Oh yes, that sounds painful! Why do people do this? You know liquids have to be separate, so why pack them?

I've thought of another few :

People who are turning right at a T junction, who don't position their car at the top right hand corner of the lane. Means that every person behind who is turning left, cannot go, because there is no room to slip past them on the left hand side. Drives me INSANE.

People who get to the top of an escalator, get off, and then stand still. MOVE!

My local petrol station has an M&S food shop within it - woman fills her tank, then goes inside and does a weekly food shop, leaving her car at the pumps. WTF! Why wouldn't you move your car first? Same place, a man came back from paying for his fuel, then whilst his car was still at the pumps, started to give food to his baby and read a map for his onward journey. I had to get out of my car and ask him to move.

And yes, our local Facebook page is filled with middle aged men who think they are funny, when in reality they just love to take a sarcastic pop at anything a woman posts. They are not funny. It's quite insidious. They are bullies.

The stoners who park up their car with 2 doors open outside my aunts house, they smoke for hours and I wonder how the driver can see straight. What bothers me really though is that my lovely aunt knows the driver and tells me that he's a lovely boy who really struggles with life and can't work because he can't get on with anyone, apparently he needs to smoke the weed for his health otherwise he gets in to fights and the police give him bother. No judgement about drug use but wake up aunt ffs.

You’ve taken an instant dislike to this man for no reason and don’t give a shit that an innocent animal has been harmed? You prioritise the picking up of shit over animal cruelty? Just for reference the police have put out a warning in my town this morning about three cases of dog poisoning- so I doubt he’s making it up poor man.

It’s an obligatory safety feature on most of these vehicles that they beep, they won’t have been making that sound just to spite you. You sound like you have a bit of a persecution complex.

What a load of old rubbish. I have taken an instant dislike to him because :

He constantly takes a 7am walk with his friend, and shouts his conversation with a big BOOMING voice, whilst other people are asleep (including my DH who works nights).

He allowed his dog off the lead, and it would often be so far ahead or behind, that you would not think it was his dog. I almost took it home one day, thinking it was a lost dog (I love dogs).

He will have no clue what his dog ate, because he doesn't watch it properly. Maybe you should be saying "poor dog" instead of "poor man".

Yes, I am bothered about people who don't pick up dog poo - how entitled is that?

This man has a complete disregard for others around him. Wakes people up, doesn't watch his dog properly, leaves dog shit for others to stand in. But for some reason you think he sound lovely. Aye okay then.

Any idea why a stationary cherry picker has to beep, but a lorry doing 70mph doesn't have to beep? Genuine question, because I find that baffling.

Lorries reversing will beep. Most of these vehicles do when in reverse gear. It is a setting that can’t be turned off and is there for the safety of pedestrians. Surely you’ve noticed that most trucks do this?

Lorries beep in reverse, a lot of building equipment will beep when moving in any direction. It’s pretty standard as a safety feature, you can’t turn it off.

The three annoying women at an outdoor swimming pool that I go to who insist on swimming (very slowly) three abreast while talking loudly about really boring things - they will not move or deviate and expect me to get out of their way!

Whatever day or time I go they are always there - very annoying!

There's a woman up the school who always parks so close to my car on the road whether it be front or back, so if another car does the same I can't get out. She always arrives after me. One time when she did it, I moved slightly forward in my car to leave room because I needed to get into the boot, and before I could even get out the car she had started up her car and moved further towards mine. I couldn't even open the boot and I had to ask her to reverse. She's also part of the PTO and when I was part of it she used to bombard me with messages. If I didn't reply within an hour or two I'd get another with question marks.

The term MAMIL was undoubtedly coined by a fat, unfit person in a 4X4.

And OP you know, you sound pretty intolerant if I'm being honest. Maybe yesterday was a bad day for you, maybe you were keyed up and letting it out. I have days like that too. Everything annoys me.

But really...people are allowed to start their day at 7am.

You sound like you have a bit of a persecution complex

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Op how very dare you be annoyed at all the annoying things!!

The women who repeatedly steal from our local coop, ive literally watched them fill their huge bags with meat, cleaning products etc and brazenly walk out without paying the staff are powerless to do much. Sometimes they sit in their big expensive cars outside and send their kids in to steal these kids look under the age of ten, they come running out with armfuls of stuff and jump in the car.

A cat breeder registered at the veterinary practice I work at, who thinks she can swan in and expect to be seen instantly, and without an appointment.

Her cats are unhealthy and too old to be bred from, the kittens are often sickly but she thinks they're the best.

She also gets a discount, unlike our genuine pet owners who would be massively grateful for a discount.

A lot of posters i find irritating.
They must be right never wrong and pile on you for having an opinion.
It gets funny and they dont half sound bat crazy.😆

Mums at the school gate

This has really made me laugh as it’s entirely the sort of thing that would make me take against someone 😂

Yes to working in retail and discovering a whole new level of annoying.

When I worked on a deli in a supermarket, we would pre cut the large pies into 4x8ths 2x12ths and 2x6ths to give 3 available slice sizes iyswim. Every day, without fail, 'pie woman' would come in, straight to the deli, and ask us to cut a new pie - even if she saw you actually cutting the one on the counter, it wasn't a freshness thing. She'd say the slices weren't what she wanted - absolutely fine. So you put the knife on the pie - here? Bit bigger. Bit smaller. Bit bigger. There! Every time. 1/6th. And then, she wanted you to wrap it up and put it in the stock fridge until she'd done the rest of her shop, then she'd come back and collect it before paying. Why?! Why not take the pre cut slice?! Why not come to the deli at the end of your shop?! Just why, pie woman, why?! 😂

There's a school mum with 4 DC from Yr 6 to nursery age. They all walk down the pavement and round the narrow path round the school, holding hands, across the path in a long side by side line, at the speed of a 3 yr old and the 6th 'person' in the row is a doll in a bloody pushchair. Every single morning. While everyone else unfortunate enough to arrive after them gets caught in a pile up behind them, and no one coming the other way can get past the complete logjam they've caused.

I feel better now. Thanks.

Why do people speaking in a foreign language on their phones have to shout all the time?

Those customers who don’t get off the phone when being served. Rude

The same reason as when people who speak in a native language need to shout, surely.

How old are you and when do you get up?! I mean this isn’t early! My son wakes at 6am so anything after that to me is fine!! You just seem really intolerant!
You’d hate my neighbour.. she yawns and sings it… like really loudly and I can hear it through the walls plus has dramatic sneezes 😆