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 🤣

I've been seeing that. I couldn't work out what they meant! Thought it was from Urban Dictionary 😂.

The current concert ticket situation- so difficult to get tickets and so unfair on teenagers and young adults!

people commenting on how great it is you got a lie in after you stayed in bed past eight when you generally get out of bed at 6.30, an extra one and a half hours does not mean I’m all rested!! (Yes I got a ‘lie in’ this morning, but am heading into work soon so am grumpy!!!)

People saying how great the weather is- I can’t sleep, I stink even more in the morning, sun cream on kids before school doesn’t fix them for the day and the dog can’t be walked!! (God I’m cranky!!!)

My NDN has her desk positioned so it overlooks my garden. I have a home office in the garden.

Not sure why it really pisses me off.

I had something similar when paying for an item in a shop. The person instead of queueing a bit behind me actually stood beside me as if they were with me. Extremely rude. I had to put my hand over while putting in my pin. This was way before contactless.

People who say generally for genuinely "I generally mean it" or pacific instead of specific.
Used to work with someone who said the latter and it was so annoying!

I pronounce draw and drawer the same. How would you suggest I change my accent?

Please? I'd love to hear some of the stories as I recently overheard a conversation in our library where a woman was helping people with their family trees, one woman found a John Williams in a village where her family was from and just assumed he was a relative as she was also a Williams. She couldn't accept that there had to be proof that he was.

As a grumpy guy it's bungee cord and how they just hook to everything else other than what you want to hook to...the bastards

People who have such little linguistic imagination they use clichés like "grinds my gears."

People using the acronym AITA on Mumsnet. It’s not Reddit.
And people yawning ‘out loud’ so to speak.

That sounds very hard, sending big hugs as a fellow wife of a very similar DH, I hope today is better, maybe go out.. grab yourself a book and a cold glass of wine somewhere.

Or averse and adverse.

Am I allowed 2 posts!!

We have friends who say “literally” the same way everyone started saying “like” in one conversation it’s will be about 5-6 times “literally” and it’s both of them.

Cyclists

coat hangers getting tangled in my wardrobe give me the absolute rage!!!!! Why do they do this to me, the more I tug the more tangled they become. It annoys me even more that I have to try and calm down to stand any chance of success in retrieving my garment.

Groups of people who walk abreast on the pavement and don’t attempt to move as you approach them.

People who have their calls on speaker phones when out in public - no one needs to know that they’re waiting on the chlamydia test!

There's a whole bunch of them (e.g. foundering and floundering) but the stationery/ary is the absolute worst for me.
I see it too much where I work.

People who say ATM machine and pin number.
I hate this too. The "m" meaning machine is totally redundant when people say "ATM machine". Likewise the "N" in "PIN number".

I never pre-book seats.
This is a perfect example of when words are redundant. To book is, by nature, something which happens before an event. To "pre-book" would only be correct if a booking had to be done before the actual booking was made. This is borne out by you then saying I immediately get a big urgent pop up warning me I haven't booked a seat, which is correct. You haven't "booked". Not you haven't "pre-booked".

As you've proven, it is so easily done. But as you also say, language evolves. It doesn't mean we have to like it.

Dumb people- get to the front of the queue and jam the queue with dumb stupid questions, then take out their phone to try call someone.

For absolutely no real reason, winds me up a treat when you're waiting to pull out of a junction and the very last car, with nobody at all behind them, slows down and let's you out. Just keep going because I can go after you!

Yeah no reason for it. They're being kind and it doesn't affect me it just irritates me

Thankyou so much. Sending solidarity to you ❤️

How can you tell the difference between draw and drawer?

People who refer to Elsa as a princess. She is for the first what 7 minutes of the film and thereafter IS A FUCKING QUEEN!

Also (this is very specific to Danes) Danish people saying they re going to sejle (sail) a canoe. If you're sailing it's not a canoe. You paddle (padle) a canoe.

You wouldn't believable how many times I have said "draw" and "drawer" today. I can't say the two words differently.

In a world of people who "ain't got no", "didn't have nothing", and say they "seen" something, "draw and drawer" seems to pale into insignificance.

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I do not know why coat hangers give me the rage. Or anything that gets tangled. I could cheerfully throw the lot through a window.