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To ask what gives you the rage that probably shouldn't

424 replies

Tearsinheavens · 09/07/2025 10:19

For me it's when I'm sleeping in, maybe at the weekend or if I've worked a late shift and I hear cars going past in the morning around 8am and they are blasting music. It gives me a desire to want to slap them. I know they are well within their rights to do so, and therefore I am being unreasonable but I am just convinced they are annoying people inside 🤣 I'm not a morning person. Obviously.

OP posts:
WhereIsMyJumper · 09/07/2025 10:21

When I go somewhere and it’s really crowded. Totally unreasonable as I am obviously contributing to the crowding

KaleidoscopeFortune · 09/07/2025 10:23

Litter

K0OLA1D · 09/07/2025 10:23

KaleidoscopeFortune · 09/07/2025 10:23

Litter

Well that's totally reasonable isnt it. That's not what the op asked at all

MzHz · 09/07/2025 10:26

People walking slowly in front of me.

people chomping anything loud/crunchy within 15 miles earshot of me

This dickhead plague of idiots saying myself instead of ME, ffs.

<and breathe>

i feel a bit better for that, thanks 😆

MeringueOutang · 09/07/2025 10:26

Other people's bad driving. Especially when they don't have right of way around parked cars but just barge through anyway and I have to stop for them even though it was my right of way and they should have stopped and had time and space to do so. It incenses me far more than it should and I know I should just get over it because clearly some people are too stupid/selfish to be on the road and it's nothing I can control so I shouldn't let it bother me. But arrrrrrrgh.

bunnibee · 09/07/2025 10:29

Men with no shirts on in the street when its hot!

people who put kids in supermarket trollies when they are about 10.

Nothing to do with me, but it still gives me the rage

ShortColdandGrey · 09/07/2025 10:29

People talking first thing in the morning. It gives me the rage when I am sitting on the bus at 6:30 and someone is having a full blown conversation. There should be a rule that there is no talking until at least 08:30.

mediummumma · 09/07/2025 10:36

Empty restaurants when I want to experience a good atmosphere along with my food. It really pisses me off how other people don’t align their meal times to mine.

Slow walkers and slow drivers, and actually any other pedestrians or vehicles being out and about at the same time as me and getting in my way…move!!!

Headphones on in public. Rude!

People talking and dithering with staff when at the front of the queue. Come on, there’s other people waiting behind you, move along now!

I rage when my DH talks with his mouth full. He purposely waits to speak after he has loaded up his gob just to annoy me.

rileyy · 09/07/2025 10:44

I work in a job with shift work and someone is renovating their kitchen in my apartment building. Or at least that’s what I’ve been told..I feel like they’re drilling into steel every 10 minutes just to piss me off when I have to sleep during the day for night shift. It’s like the drill is going into my very soul. They’re not doing anything wrong and are well within the hours to do that work and I KNOW this but they are on my shit list anyway!

Noseylittlemoo · 09/07/2025 10:53

Jamie Redknapp doing the sketchers slip in adverts. He is only 52, was a professional sportsman and now has a young family. And Myleene Klass is even younger!
Of course you can bend down and do your shoes up 🤣

Milker · 09/07/2025 10:57

Most of my annoyances are deeply reasonable (manspreading, litter), but I have to say that DH giving me a spoon to eat a dish I would use a fork for is one of my more unreasonable minor irritations. I mean, he is the one who cooked it, and it's perfectly eatable with a spoon, but it drives me mad.

Confusedmermaid1 · 09/07/2025 11:01

The kid across the road who plays basketball ball on the drive from the minute he gets home until 10pm. The repetitive bouncing ball noise gives me white hot rage 😅 of course he technically isn’t doing anything wrong but it’s sooooo annoying.

HurdyGurdy19 · 09/07/2025 11:01

The way my husband hangs washing on the line, to the point where I have forbidden him to touch any of my clothes.

He hangs his boxers along the leg seam, for example, instead of from the waistband. He hangs t shirts without straightening them first. He doesn't straighten socks before pegging them out. We don't iron, so these things are important.

And probably worst of all, doesn't colour co-ordinate the pegs with the item, or even use the same coloured pegs on each item.

I really have to restrain myself from going out and re-hanging his stuff correctly 😂

Jasmin71 · 09/07/2025 11:02

People who think portable BBQ's can be used up on the moors

Total Morons.

When it's heatwave weather and people light their fire pit. Selfish bastards.

Noshadowsinthedark · 09/07/2025 11:03

People sneezing.

I know it’s not rational but it really pisses me off.

AmIthatSpringy · 09/07/2025 11:15

KaleidoscopeFortune · 09/07/2025 10:23

Litter

That absolutely SHOULD give you the rage

VaddaABeetch · 09/07/2025 11:15

People cycling on the footpath who ring their bell to tell me to get out of their way. So I should step in the road? I will yeah

I don’t care if you have kids on bikes. I’m not stepping out of your way.

SnowFrogJelly · 09/07/2025 11:16

Driving

SnowFrogJelly · 09/07/2025 11:17

VaddaABeetch · 09/07/2025 11:15

People cycling on the footpath who ring their bell to tell me to get out of their way. So I should step in the road? I will yeah

I don’t care if you have kids on bikes. I’m not stepping out of your way.

And this with bells on! 😁

FairyCakesAndSprinklez · 09/07/2025 11:17

Dacia Dusters.

Belladog1 · 09/07/2025 11:18

People walking their dogs at the same time as me. I have a reactive dog and I feel I want the ground to swallow me up. I believe a rota should be put in place and every house gets a staggered start.

takealettermsjones · 09/07/2025 11:20

When meetings descend into long discussions of issues that only affect a few of the attendees. Yes I know you need to discuss your issue while you're all in a room together but the rest of us are sat here wasting our time. Organise your own meeting!!

CalliopePlantain · 09/07/2025 11:21

Going to a public place, and there being other members of the public there.

takealettermsjones · 09/07/2025 11:22

OH and people who take a billion years to get to the point of a (usually boring) story because they tell you every little detail along the way. Excruciating.

BerolDryWipe · 09/07/2025 11:23

People who sneeze again, after I've blessed them 🙄

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