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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.

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looselegs · 09/07/2025 18:55

People who don't build their speed up as they come down sliproads to join motorway traffic and end up virtually driving level with you and expecting you to pull over and let them join the motorway.
Put your bloody foot down for God's sake so that your at a fast enough speed to join safely!

ShamblesNumber5 · 09/07/2025 19:19

When I wash my hands and then realise there is no towel / dryer, or the towel is dirty or it is a crappy hand dryer that doesn't work. Something about being stuck with wet hands gives me instant rage!

Jackiepumpkinhead · 09/07/2025 19:27

eqpi4t2hbsnktd · 09/07/2025 11:43

Women getting the train into London with their curlers in. We know that train comes straight from Essex.

Have lived in and around Essex my entire life. Have never seen anyone on a train with curlers in their hair.

Jackiepumpkinhead · 09/07/2025 19:28

looselegs · 09/07/2025 18:55

People who don't build their speed up as they come down sliproads to join motorway traffic and end up virtually driving level with you and expecting you to pull over and let them join the motorway.
Put your bloody foot down for God's sake so that your at a fast enough speed to join safely!

I absolutely hate this too. Trying to join a road where the cars are racing past at 70mph, doing 37mph!

Jackiepumpkinhead · 09/07/2025 19:30

I’ll probably get piled on for this but people who call children ‘littlies’ or ‘smallies’ eugh.

Pineapples123 · 09/07/2025 19:39

people who hog the middle lane going 50 or 60 for no apparent reason 🤬🤬🤬 move over!!!!

Roxy75 · 09/07/2025 20:06

I’m prepared to get flamed but my irritation comes from pensioners being in supermarkets during peak times. You are retired, stop contributing to busy times for those of us who work and are scarce for time.

R0setheHat · 09/07/2025 21:49

The term “picky bits”, it’s everywhere including on ads at the moment. It’s just so pathetic and pretentious - it also makes me think of the crusty contents of nasal cavities. The term “Picky tea” is even worse.

Women who say thank you in that awful slightly squeaky, nasal tone trying to be cutesy: “thankyowwww” …I will slap you!

Kellph83 · 09/07/2025 22:43

When people don’t reply to all in an email chain!! They’re cc’d for a reason you fool lol

Nikki75 · 10/07/2025 08:06

Slow walking people browsing every single item on the shelves with their massive trolley in the way... how dare they 🤣 when im on a mission just to get to the garden aisle 😤🤬

CheeseDreamsTonight · 10/07/2025 08:13

Queuing in traffic and the car infront doesn’t move with the flow but waits for ages and then crawls the 20m gap they’re created. You see all the cars ahead moving, and I know it doesn’t really matter, but you then don’t know when the car infront is going to go. There is no predictability.

Nikki75 · 10/07/2025 08:13

Verv · 09/07/2025 11:27

Alexa.

I love telling alexa to shut up 🤬 🤣

Lincslady53 · 10/07/2025 08:24

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 😂

Edited

Part of the plan. Do a job badly and you will soon never have to do it again.

Belladog1 · 10/07/2025 10:04

Nikki75 · 10/07/2025 08:13

I love telling alexa to shut up 🤬 🤣

Does she? I am new to this Alexa malarkey having just bought an Amazon TV. I mainly use her to turn off the telly and find the correct app at the moment.

Overwhelmed124 · 10/07/2025 11:21

Being told to shush

mambojambodothetango · 10/07/2025 11:35

Noises that are loud and unexpected or cut through in an annoying way. I have slight hearing loss and one of the unexpected symptoms is that certain noises are unbearable for me. Last night I was at my hobby where someone was addressing a large group of people. We were all silent, listening, and someone behind me started opening a flask of coffee and pouring it out, trickle trickle, clicking the lid on and off, rustling in his bag to get another cup etc and I just glared at him like he'd kicked my dog or similar. No-one else seemed bothered at all and I suspect I was very unreasonable to be so irritated but to me it seemed so loud it cut right across what the person talking was saying.

WaitedBlankey · 10/07/2025 12:31

Belladog1 · 10/07/2025 10:04

Does she? I am new to this Alexa malarkey having just bought an Amazon TV. I mainly use her to turn off the telly and find the correct app at the moment.

Alexa responds to Be Quiet and Shut Up but not Shut The Fuck Up.
Ask me how I know…

Solocup · 10/07/2025 12:47

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.

There isn’t actually such a thing as right of way around parked cars.

Verv · 10/07/2025 12:49

Nikki75 · 10/07/2025 08:13

I love telling alexa to shut up 🤬 🤣

My elderly father insists on asking her shit while im in the room. I'm sitting there with a phone, a watch, and a clock on the wall and get "ALEXA WHAT TIME IS IT"

I want to launch them both into the sea.

MrsKJones · 10/07/2025 12:57

Breadcat24 · 09/07/2025 11:56

People who put the empty toilet roll cardboard tube on the top of the toilet or on the sink when there is a perfectly good bin by the toilet

The people who plonk (balance) a new roll on top of the empty cardboard tube. Just change the fucking roll - it's not difficult. hasn't happened since I changed role but this used to regularly give me the absolute rage

lovemycbf · 10/07/2025 13:04

People using self service checkouts that don’t actually know what they’re doing drives me insane.
controversial opinion but elderly in the bank or post office holding up the queue when I’m on my lunch break and not much time. they are so slow and I know they’ve just as much right to be there but seriously they’ve got all day so why come to the bank at that time!
lastly people that sniff constantly I could scream 😱 just blow your nose ffs

DaffodilHead · 10/07/2025 13:06

People who say 'myself' and 'yourself' instead of you and me.

I spoke to yourself....

That was myself that called you...

STOP IT.

strugglingwithlife · 10/07/2025 15:57

Overwhelmed124 · 10/07/2025 11:21

Being told to shush

My partner does this to me all the time 😠

strugglingwithlife · 10/07/2025 15:58

This fucking heat! Bring on the autumn

Sophiehoney · 10/07/2025 17:24

People who have the same last name as me but are no relation.

Like how dare you. That is my family name. I inherited it from my late father. How bloody intrusive and presumptive.

Even worse if I don't like them. How dare you besmirch my house.