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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:
DrowningInSyrup · 09/07/2025 14:49

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 😆

Edited

People walking slowly in front of you on the pavement is so enraging.

Also cyclists who don't ride in single file. I don't care that you legally can, you are a bloody pain in the arse and it's a stupid law.

Cyclists that do ride in single file. Still bloody annoying, tailbacks for days.

GrandHighPoohbah · 09/07/2025 14:59

Petsgalore · 09/07/2025 13:49

People who park next to me in an empty car park, people who come and sit next to me in an empty cinema or similar, gives me irrational rage.

I am right with you on the parking. Why, just why? There are loads of spaces, absolutely no need to park right next to me, especially as I often park further from the shop to avoid this!

Sunshineandblueskysalltheway · 09/07/2025 15:04

People who stand in front of the meal deal sections in M&S while on the phone to their partner, reading out all of the options.

Just ugh.

comeandhaveteawithme · 09/07/2025 15:27

Entitled car drivers that rage at cyclists. They have just as much right to be on the road as you do, and no YOU DON'T PAY ROAD TAX!! it was abolished in 1937. You pay vehicle tax, on your big dangerous fume-emitting vehicle. And so you should.

Everyone, including cyclists, pay for the road through council tax. So piss off.

Yes, I know it's supposed to be irrational rage, but there's already several cyclists haters here and cars who think they own the road piss me off. Sorry I'm slowing down your abuse of the ozone layer.

blobby10 · 09/07/2025 15:30

@comeandhaveteawithme Oops! Sorry about that - I'm usually very pedantic about grammar and have no idea why I put the apostrophes in today. Grin It doesn't even look right!

Shetlands · 09/07/2025 15:41

Helping out at something where the organiser is an unassertive drip so everyone is just doing their own thing and the event is shite.

School concerts that are boring. Add some humour and fun FFS!

Imported flowers. Just stop it.

Flat-faced dogs. No Pauline, he isn't adorable. He's monstrously ugly.

Men in red trousers. Get away from me and take your foul breath with you.

Animal print clothes or shoes - common as muck.

Children with pierced ears.

EliosBackPack · 09/07/2025 15:42

Pretty much everything at the moment.

ForOliveSnake · 09/07/2025 15:52

People who say ‘my truth’ or ‘your truth’.
‘I’m speaking my truth’ - no you’re not, you overgrown idiot. It’s either the truth or your point of view/opinion. Shut up and climb down from the giant pedestal you’ve arrogantly erected yourself.

Daleksatemyshed · 09/07/2025 15:54

People eating packets of crisps, it's no so much the crunching it's the noise the packets make, it winds me up so badly.
Also people who need to change their DC nappy but say I need to change their bum, no you don't, spare bums are not available 😂

Fancycheese · 09/07/2025 15:54

Mumsnet AIBU.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 09/07/2025 15:57

@Anonnanon - I would suggest that ‘go potty’ is even worse than ‘go toilet’. Anyone who uses either phrase should be cursed with torrential diarrhoea.

stayathomer · 09/07/2025 15:57

Hot weather (there I said it!!!)

Teenagequeenwithaloadedgun · 09/07/2025 16:00

Dacia Dusters, absolutely as a PP said. Add mokkas, berlingos and Hyundai Getzs to that.

Toarrie · 09/07/2025 16:01

MYSELF when someone is trying to sound posh but they are actually just wrong
DRAW instead of drawer
BOUGHT instead of brought
SEEN instead of saw
DONE instead of did

IsabelleLeduc · 09/07/2025 16:05

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 09/07/2025 13:58

Brits saying ‘math’ and ‘ass’ when they mean ARSE!

And 'poop' instead of poo

Alphabet1spaghetti2 · 09/07/2025 16:05

Volunteering to do something agreed upon, then being informed that’s not the ‘vision’ of the chairperson. - diy then is my go to response.
organising something with a friend (adult activity) who then proceeds to bring along her (perfectly nice) 12 year old. Not originally agreed on or catered for…..

annoyed only at myself because I’m old enough to know this would happen and shouldn’t have fallen into the trap.

WomanInTheBoat · 09/07/2025 16:05

People who walk along talking into the end of their mobiles i.e they have them flat, not against their ear. Is there a reason for this that I’m not aware of ? Or am i just too old and harking back to the days when you held ( old style) phone up to your ear.

OlympicProcrastinator · 09/07/2025 16:08

My air fryer when the food is ready. It beeps FIVE times. FIVE!!! And then, just to be even more demanding, if I don’t get my food out within a minute, it beeps at me again!

I’m sorry, did you buy the food? No. So just get on with cooking, beep once then STFU stupid machine.

IsabelleLeduc · 09/07/2025 16:08

Public burping and farting

OlympicProcrastinator · 09/07/2025 16:09

ForOliveSnake · 09/07/2025 15:52

People who say ‘my truth’ or ‘your truth’.
‘I’m speaking my truth’ - no you’re not, you overgrown idiot. It’s either the truth or your point of view/opinion. Shut up and climb down from the giant pedestal you’ve arrogantly erected yourself.

This. Absolutely this.

NotrialNodeal · 09/07/2025 16:10

Crap drivers

OlympicProcrastinator · 09/07/2025 16:10

ForOliveSnake · 09/07/2025 15:52

People who say ‘my truth’ or ‘your truth’.
‘I’m speaking my truth’ - no you’re not, you overgrown idiot. It’s either the truth or your point of view/opinion. Shut up and climb down from the giant pedestal you’ve arrogantly erected yourself.

Sorry to double quote but also “my lived experience”

Idontjetwashthefucker · 09/07/2025 16:12

comeandhaveteawithme · 09/07/2025 14:29

Yes, that is really meticulous and annoying. The bastards. I bet they shop at the same time every week, have the same dinner every Wednesday and have perfectly organised sock drawers 😡

Bastards!

user1497787065 · 09/07/2025 16:19

My DH listens to local radio which I can’t stand. The traffic announcer says ‘three’ as ‘free’. Nearly all the road numbers in our area seem to be made up of multiple 3s. It drives me mad!

ForOliveSnake · 09/07/2025 16:19

Another from me - people who call themselves or others ‘thought leaders’ or ‘content creators’.

Absolutely fucking not.