To be annoyed for silly reasons?

[MerryChristmasFilthyAnimals]

As I’ve got older I seem to feel irrational rage for the smallest reasons.
Some of the most recent ones are:

My friend looking at a takeaway menu when I’m starving and repeating “ohhh what shall I have? What shall I have… It all looks so yummy!”
It took her 20 minutes to decide then she had what she always has and she has had enough Chinese takeaways to know what’s on the menu without looking.
I had nail marks in my palms - especially over the use of “yummy”

My cousin who constantly stops to take photos of a tree or the sky or of nature in general. She has thousand of similar photos she probably never looks at again and it takes forever to get anywhere.

Another friend who finds it hilarious to mispronounce words deliberately and uses words her kids said when they were toddlers.
Some examples are “pear pods” instead of AirPods, “Sparks & Mencer” “Cisps” “Chish & fips” and she constantly says “Sqodswallops”
She also mixes up bought and brought but has been corrected so many times I suspect it’s on purpose now.
I do suspect this would get on a lot of people’s tits - especially when she laughs hysterically if someone else accidentally mispronounces a word or mixes up a phrase.

I get really wound up and wondered if anyone else feels that rage over such small annoyances or if they can just shrug it off and move on?

Do you happen to be perimenopausal OP? I am and am feeling the same these days. The taking ages to make a decision is why I’ve distanced myself from some people in my life. I don’t know if people always behaved like it’s their first day on planet Earth and I just never noticed or wether it’s a new phenomena

Yep peri
lots of thing bother me severely that are irrational that I can’t even explain

It's not completely you, I find the majority of people are idiots

Ah god that deliberate mispronunciation thing does my head in! I have a friend like this.
Tommy-ato.
Beebeequeue sauce.

She has another word (that seriously annoyingly I can't remember) that I honestly want to slap her for, whenever she mispronounces it, thinking it's cute/clever.

Really, really they are.

Welcome to the "I'm too old for this sh*t" era of your life. It's quite liberating.

I am and I wondered if it was due to that.

I have lost all patience and felt close to tears stuck behind a group walking slowly taking up the whole pavement.
It was next to a busy road and they ignored me saying “excuse me” 3 times so I barged through them in the end.

My Dsis gets the words wrong in most songs or makes up her own then sings the same few lines over and over like she’s stuck on repeat. I used to just tune her out but after 40 minutes of “dancing bean, dancing bean, you love butter more then margarine” in the car the other day I told her if she didn’t stop then I was getting out and walking.

I do think that people are getting more inconsiderate and the world is getting louder though. I had to tell a work colleague off the other day for watching loud instagram videos sat in a cafe. He looked really bewildered when I said he would be annoying people and pointed out he’d be the first person to complain if someone else was doing it!

I don’t know if I’m just getting more impatient or if it’s other people or I suspect it’s a mix of both!

I think it’s the fact she thinks she’s being so cute and amusing that winds me up the most.
She used to sometimes put on a baby voice as well but her adult children said they wouldn’t go out with her in public anymore unless she stopped 😂.
There just isn’t a way of calling fingers “fingees” or referring to dogs as “bowwowwows” that doesn’t make most people cringe.

Another annoying habit is her niece can’t pronounce her name so calls her something that sounds similar (something like Sarshar for Sarah as an example)
She refers to herself with that name as though she is wanting it to catch on as a nickname.
She will do things like call her WiFi or Bluetooth “Sarshar’s Bluetooth” and signs birthday and Christmas cards that way or uses it on invitations.

It’s really getting on my nerves but then I feel guilty for getting so pissed off when she’s a good friend in every other way, I feel a bit better now I’ve had a rant on here!

Its niche and not very seasonal right now but I really can't bear it when grown women (it's women 99% of the time) over react to the presence of a wasp or a bee. I find it so irritating.

You're sitting in a beer garden or at a BBQ with your friend, having a nice conversation when suddenly she starts making irritating squeaky-squealy noises and flapping her hands about because a wasp or a bee entered the vague area of where she was sitting. And you're just sitting there awkwardly like, OK... Have you finished being hysterical yet? Because I thought we were in the middle of a normal social interaction.

GROW the fuck up! It's summer! It's an insect! It will not kill you.

(I am of course not talking about people with allergies where a wasp or bee could in fact kill them)

(And even then, please try not to be so annoying about it)

I'm 67, OP and hit menopause 15 years ago. The rage began when I was 45 and hasn't dissipated in the SLIGHTEST! In fact, it's got worse...

I'm not sure I could be friends with her.

All those examples would piss me off at any age. They all sound like idiots, sorry OP.

I know it shouldn’t but most of these examples made me laugh. I totally get the rage thing mind you!

YABU apart from the miscommunication of words (that would give me the rage).

I think you definitely need to work on your issues.

Do you do enough exercise?
I go to the gym to literally sweat out my frustration.

At least once a week I will put my headphones on and do a fast pace walk of at least 5km. If I still feel uptight then I will do the walk again until I can barely walk anymore.

I am not peri menopausal but I am 99% always in a good, patient mood and I think that’s because I get rid of my frustration through exercise.

YANBU, people who think they are funny saying the wrong words are usually bores! I know someone who calls M&S Markus Expensivus and I cringe when he says it