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

[ADHDposs]

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)?

YANBU @ADHDposs And I am SO sick of the bloody '7am isn't even that early' brigade! With their 'most of the world is wake at that time' blatherings. You don't get to dictate what is a 'reasonable' time to be awake. Most people in MY world aren't up and about at bloody 7am. So just stop with that generalisation!

I don't wake til 8 to 8.30am. Some days I start work around 9.30am - flexible hours WFH - and some days I work from 5pm (or 6pm) til midnight, and I don't wake til 9 to 9.30am. But I am NEVER up before 8am. And that is my right. To lie in til 8am. It's still bloody early FFS!

ALSO, my DH works shifts, and sometimes works til midnight, and doesn't get to bed til 2am. (And he lies in til 10am then.) We would lose our fucking SHIT if someone kept waking us at 7am with their loud booming voice outside the window! DH would squirt them with the hosepipe!

This is the second thread today where inconsiderate individuals make life miserable for others! (There's one currently running where a poster's next door neighbour smokes outside - next to the OP's window!) Why are some people SO selfish?

I think this might be me 🤣🤣🤣

YANBU @ADHDposs And I am SO sick of the bloody '7am isn't even that early' brigade! With their 'most of the world is wake at that time' blatherings. You don't get to dictate what is a 'reasonable' time to be awake. Most people in MY world aren't up and about at bloody 7am. So just stop with that generalisation!

Agree. I used to take the 6:40 train towards London to work on purpose because there were much less people and I was guaranteed a seat in an empty car when I got on and wouldn’t see anyone until 7 and by that time I was 5 minutes from getting off the train while the 7:40 train would be crowded and you would be lucky to get a seat.

Thank goodness for you. Personally I’m up at 630am seven days a week. I take the dogs out and I literally creep around the block because I know not everyone is up. I cannot stand these selfish pricks! I think a lot of mums on here are up at the crack of dawn and they’ve forgotten how long they slept before children came along.

Men when grocery shopping using a list written by their OH, ring their OH and ask what you do you mean by rice? White rice, basmati, microwave rice pouches…..

Then a few minutes later, down biscuits section what biscuits do they want.

If your OH keeps ringing you when they are food shopping, either write down the type of rice, biscuits you want, buy groceries online or do the shopping yourself!

I work a couple of mornings in a local shop of a well known chain. Every week a smartly dressed woman with a very patronising tone comes to the counter and makes a real song and dance about handing over a £20 note as if she is holding up the Magna Carta. 'Right' she says whilst slowly teasing it out of her purse and wafting it in front of whichever cashier is unlucky enough be serving her. 'Are you ok with a TWENTY POUND NOTE '
God l hate her so much can barely give a civil answer.and manage to mutter a curt yes at best.
I know one day the voices will make me say 'Yes l've fucking seen one before'
A much braver colleague who's known for taking no prisoners once suggested to her that maybe she should consider paying by card as she seemed so worried about handing over a note. I thought she was going self combust and complained about colleague but it went nowhere as the manager can't stand this customer either.

I do 7am starts 3 times a week and one 8am a week. On later shifts and days off, I’m up and about at 6:30am latest.

Hate it during hot summer days people at the back of me play their crap music til 2am. No consideration for those who need to be up early, the elderly or the sick.

There’s a customer who keeps asking myself and colleagues “is this vegetarian?” When he shows something in the reduced section or is a clearance line.

i know he has asked about - pork pate, fish pie mix, burgers made with plant protein and beef.

Then he asks what to do with (product) and the latest one was papaya. If you are unsure what to do with a papaya, you buy just one to see if you like it, NOT all of them (6-10) in the reduced section!

And what if someone else comes along and says, "My son wakes at 5am so anything after that to me is fine!!"?

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Those fucking Octopus Energy adverts with various customers banging on about their customer service. I swear one gets played every advert break on the two radio channels I listen to. I must be up about ten times a day switching the channel over so I do not have to listen to it again.

FUCK OFF!

The woman who takes her dog to parkrun every week, despite it barking continually right outside my bedroom window for a solid half hour. Every Saturday. At 8:30. And if anyone would like to tell me that’s not early, it is on a Saturday when it’s the one day a week you don’t have to set you alarm at 6am. Even if I’m already awake, even if I’m doing parkrun myself, I can feel the rage rising. Just leave the dog at home!

Ah, @StarbucksQueen1 you’re one of those - I’m up so everyone else should be up too! That’s a big fat “no thank you” from me.

Not as bad but 2 girls in front if me in security started going through their cases at the actual conveyor. They didn't seem to know or pretending to not know the rules on liquids and aerosols. And were most annoyed when their cans of spray tan were taken away. Really felt like telling them to move along as they were holding everyone up. I had gotbup a 4.30am so was in no mood for their antics. Can you tell I'm not a morning person. But that's par for the course for me as I always pick the wrong queue

If I knew where you worked I would love to be behind her and butt in and ask do you take 50 pound notes. How would she cope in Ireland where 50 euro notes are used all the time and that's all you get out of some of the atm's . I used to working a bank where a certain customer used to take any £50 or £100 notes we had that day. Someone with a £100 note would make her apoplectic. Plus £20 doesn't really buy much now even compared with only 2 to 3 years ago.

There's a woman at my gardening club who always asks a question just as we're about to wrap up and I want to get off for my chippy tea. I want to punch her.

Good point, l used live in Ireland and yes l remember even years ago €50 notes being 'normal' tender.
Thing that riles me most about it is how insulting it is when it is obvious why she does it - to make sure some lowly shopgirl is either too stupid to count or doesn't get overcome with temptation at the sight of that huge sum and short change her😬.

Those customers who always give notes. If the total is, for example, £7.02. Customer gives me £20 note. From angle of they hold purse, can see loads of coins. “Do you have 2p?” Customer says no (when you can see coppers in purse). Then when give £12.98 with many coins. They give you that how dare you give me all those coins look. Well if actually gave me 2p you I would have given you just two coins in your change. Because you CBA, you have 7-8 coins extra.

I remember serving one of these “always gives notes” old dears and she dropped her purse at the packing area of the checkout. She could have paid her £14 shopping twice over and had £5 left with the coins. How did she not notice how heavy her purse is with £33 of coins in there?

There is a woman at my fitness class whose ponytail annoys me. It's so shiny and flicky I wish they would both fuck off.

How will him shouting help if he is hard of hearing? He’s not listening to himself it’s the other person that would need to raise their voice.

Really? Why do you do that?

@Auburngal many older people get confused / flustered when they come to pay and have to count coins out. I know my Nan did and my Mom used to have to “cash up” her purse every Saturday to replace all the coins with the equivalent notes so she could start all over again paying with notes.

it’s one reason why my mom pays with a card now.

so try and be a bit patient. I’m sure you are outwardly anyway but I hope that helps to make you seethe less inwardly 😉

When you're deaf or hard of hearing it isn't always easy to judge your own speaking volume, because you can't hear yourself. I often have no idea whether I'm speaking too loudly or quietly so I just have to wing it.

Also raising your voice at deaf people doesn't generally help much if clarity is the problem rather than volume. I do think talking loudly outdoors at 7am is twattish behaviour though.

My neighbour, she talks 'at' you. Can't get a word in edgeways, and she's constantly telling me about her roses she got from London, her dd who is studying to be a lawyer in London, her horse that no one can ride apart from her dd because it's so difficult to ride (poor thing never goes out and is on its own in a field day in, day out). Heard her telling someone on the phone this weekend that she 'had to go, to tend to the horses' she only has the one! I also found out that for all her bragging and posh accent she grew up in a really rough area in the city closest to us.

I know the ins and outs of her life but I bet she doesn't even know my name as she's never bothered to ask a single question or even give me chance to say anything about us.

Bloke a few doors down who we have lived near for over twenty years and he still cannot bring himself to say hello when he walks past us. He even refused to answer the bloody door when we took a parcel for him and went to drop it off (must be a mumsnetter) and he's got a shit haircut.

Your post made me laugh, thanks 😂