Silly things that give you the rage

[Ontobetterthings]

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 🤣

Cold callers of all varieties thinking that my very prominent 'No Cold Callers' sign doesn't apply to them for whatever reason 😡

Just remembered that I get furious for NO good reason when people comment ‘how to buy?’ Under a sponsored ad on Facebook for e.g a dress that has a very obvious ‘shop now’ button. Or ‘price please’. Or does this come in size 12? Or ‘do you deliver to Basildon?’
Just CLICK ON IT FFS!

To be honest, when I joined, I honestly thought that's all it was. I had never heard of MN until the Daisy May Cooper thing, however many years ago, so when I searched for it, I searched for AIBU. It's only fairly recently that I've discovered all the other bits to explore! I think MN should give a guided tour when you sign up.

I'm on holiday at the moment. If I try to speak to a taxi driver/shop worker/waiter etc, OH will say the same thing but a bit louder & with gestures

Example: me: "can we just look at a menu please?"
OH : "CAN WE LOOK AT A MENU PLEASE?" Then gestures with his hands as if he's opening a book.

Drives me mad! Just let me have a conversation!!

My husband does an annoying accent, vaguely related to the poor bastard he’s speaking to.
I hate it!

The English accent that converts Ts to soft Ds. E.g. “a liddle bit”.

The fact that a fast train that would
get me to work in perfectly good time does not stop at our local station.

Instead I have to get a much earlier stopping train and then change to get to work on time.

Nobody’s fault- it’s just the timetable.

When I think about all the extra hours I could have in bed over the course of a year if only the train stopped here… 😭

The fact that a fast train that would
get me to work in perfectly good time does not stop at our local station.

Instead I have to get a much earlier stopping train and then change to get to work on time.

Nobody’s fault- it’s just the timetable.

When I think about all the extra hours I could have in bed over the course of a year if only the train stopped here… 😭

Voicemails that are mumbled yet have important details.
Not network issues, but just mumbling, whispering or phone too far from the mouth, so you have to play it numerous times doing that bending over thing as if it makes me hear better.

I’ve moved house recently and made an appointment to go to a new dentist. I asked for a checkup and teeth cleaning (I desperately need a cleaning). Get there this morning, loads of faffing about with X-rays and a quick check up, but they can’t do cleaning on the first appointment. Why didnt they say that when I called. I took time off work and spent 2 hours there, and my teeth are no cleaner!

I left raging, probably disproportionately mad, but OMG what a waste of time.

@Treesandsheepeverywhere 💯 with you re voicemails.

i can't stand it when people gabble so quickly and slur all their words together.

it may sound a bit weird when I do it but i deliberately talk and say my phone number slowly, because I do actually want the person to call me back otherwise I wouldn't bother leaving them a message !

I do too, and always repeat my number so they have a chance to grab a pen.

Other bad ones are when you think you've been pocket dialled when they take their time to finally talk.

The line of dust that WILL NOT GET IN TO THE DUSTPAN!

My pet hate (well, one of them!) is people who say 'Legos' - usually pronounced Lee-goes.

It's LEGO - singular. No 's'.

You do not play with Legos. You play with Lego.

People (teens) who answer your call, but don’t say “hello” or even “yeah?” Just silence, so the person who is making the call has to say “hello? Hello?”

Also the teen/young person slight pause before replying.

OK if it’s a difficult philosophical question, but for everyday life the “flow” of conversation has changed

Me getting lemons out of those bloody net bags! Why do I always try and rip the bag open and get cross before getting scissors out of the drawer? Idiot 😂
Most people in the supermarket.

People who answer their phone with "hello?" when I know damned well I'm in their contacts, making me say "hi, it's Naptime".

Interior magazines that never show the tv.

ANY thread that has 'HAND HOLD' in the title! 😠 They get instantly hidden by me.

I just feel such rage when I see HAND HOLD.

Why do you need a hand hold? Are you 3? !!!!!!

It's convention / shorthand for "please can someone support me".

not something to get enraged by, that someone out there is having a tough time.

See also people who say “Chester draws”, “macvities”, and “yummy”

Oh I’m SO bad for doing this - except, I wait for the person to say “hello” first - this is for 2 reasons - my DF, who worked in fraud prevention said you should never speak first on an unknown call, because 90% of the time they’re trying to scrape your voice for voice recognition, 2) - my work phone is directed to my personal phone a lot of the time, so I’m never sure who I’m speaking to!

What’s wrong with macvities?

I would guess it is that you don’t put an ‘a’ in, when it’s written McDonalds/McVities, @Winegumsandbullseyes - I don’t know how to express it, but it’s a very short uh sound - shorter than the ‘u’ in muck. Does that make sense?

Yes, I know the spelling is actually McVities, but pp said ‘say’, not spell.
Mac and Mc are said the same way where I am at least (Ireland, where the word originates).
Mc is just an abbreviation of Mac.