Silly things that give you the rage

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Maybe its cos I'm peri but we were out for a meal and someone was eating chicken wings and being very meticulous about using a knife and fork to eat them and very slowly. It was holding up the next course for everyone.

Do you have any examples of getting the rage over something silly 🤣

Asking you for a photo is weird.

Them sending you a photo of the item on the shelf is much more acceptable. As in "are these the ones you want?" I do this often with my DH as his crisp preferences change regularly! But I would never expect a pre-photo

Ancestry rage is rife..
People who argue that the date of death is correct because so-and-so told them so..Ah yes dearie but I have the actual death certificate.
People who add several children of the same Christian name to a family .. obviously showing that they were all still alive at the same time.
I could go on...maybe it's a subject for another time.

I’m a face painter and parents actually put food in their kids’ mouths WHILE I AM PAINTING THEM! They won’t starve in the 5 minutes they’re in my chair!!! 😡

Exercise classes that don't start on time, then finish a few minutes early too. I feel short changed! Especially when the instructor walks into the room at the time it's due to start and walks round the room saying hello to his/her mates, then asks if anyone has any injuries (and there are usually one or two) then decides to tell us a funny story about what happened to them today. Just bloody get on with it!

Next it'll be pre-peri. I feel it's so self patronising. I've got a relative who has labelled every cunty thing she has done her whole life almost. PMT, PND then peri and now menopause.

@SquashedSquidI live in a country in the UK where almost the entire population (5 million) say draw-er.

I am not sure if this is silly or not but gigs where the main artist is really late (an hour or more) starting. If the people going are young then there is a good chance they have school or university the next day. If they are middle aged then they may need to get back for the babysitter or have meetings the next day. I’ve missed the end of gigs because they started late and I just couldn’t be later for the babysitter. I know it’s meant to be rock n roll but this is their job and people have paid them for it.

I remember reading about Lana Del Rey being an hour late for her set at Glastonbury then being upset because it was a hard end at 12:30pm.

Lauren Hill was about three hours late at Boomtown a few years back. I did actually want to see her as I liked her a lot as a teen. But at that point I was so pissed off I just stayed in the punk tent (my friend is - or was - a massive fan so stayed waiting for the whole three hours and texted me when she finally appeared. She said her set was shit in the end anyway and Lauren clearly didn't want to be there...)

@CruCru Not at all silly. I had to leave a concert (Lady GaGa) after she was over an hour late coming on and we had to make the last train. She was rubbish as well, high on something by her own admission and was £££. I’d seen her on a previous tour and she was amazing, really put on a show, I was absolutely gutted

@CruCru Whoops! I forgot the thread title was “silly things” what I meant was ‘your complaint is valid” !!

You've never been to Scotland?

Whenever people try to recreate the Abbey road crossing picture from the beatles album. On the album cover theyre just crossing the road, paying no heed to the camera. People recreating it stop and pose in a walking position and look at the camera. Really annoys me for some reason!! A perfect example was when Prince Harry and bon Jovi did it a few years in the daily mail.

And photos of people holding up the leaning tower of Pisa.

People that have silly over the top parties for their babies and young kids. I’m talking multiple entertainers / face painters/ balloon sculptures /huge tiered cakes and personalised attire for the guests that say things like ‘Madison’s 5th Birthday’ on the chest so they can’t be reworn. It’s just so much more about the parents need to instagram everything than celebrating the anniversary of their child’s birth.

People who say, "Should of.." instead of "Should have.."

Seriously winds me up.

This better not happen with Billie Eilish. My daughter and her cousin have paid a fortune to see her in Manchester in a month 😳

People calling every school holiday half term.

My 18 year old son ate a sandwich he bought in Sainsbury's when collecting his glasses from the specsavers in there despite me pointing out he won't starve to death if he wants 5 minutes

@HelenaWaiting Very similar to people referring to a PIN number. No. It’s just a PIN.

People driving well below the speed limit.
A road near my house just happens to be on one of the main "loops" that the driving instructors use, and is on quite a few of the test routes, and so attracts a lot of learner drivers at all hours of the day.
I'm just trying to get home. Probably need a wee or a poo, or just like my feet are about to burst out of my shoes, and you're doing 20mph in a 40. Oh, and then there's the 3 sets of traffic lights in quite quick succession, and people stop for an age after they've gone green, or pause for a millennia to let every Tom, Dick and Harry in or out of the side roads.
JUST FUCKING MOVE.

Ugh I'm applying for jobs and have another.

Where you can upload your CV to prefill the company application form, it never correctly fills it and I always have to go back and add things in, amend things... I have a really clearly set out CV, just use that FFS (obviously I know not everyone has and that's why they do the application forms but my god it's tedious)

And she came out and said something like "sorry I'm.late....I just couldn't get my hair to go right!" At least she was honest...!

Supermarkets / DIY stores that decide to sell plants but nobody bothers watering them. It makes me feel very sad / gives me the rage when I have to walk past a load of dead plants by the front doors. Such a waste.

When I was a kid my Mum would haggle for raggy looking plants at B&Q. I found it incredibly embarrassing, obviously, because I was nine.

I hate this, really hate people standing way too close to me in a queue. Just why?!