What tiny things make you irrationally annoyed?

[Bikergran]

Just that, really. I'll start with a few.

The way discount pop-ups scream at you on a shopping page as soon as you click on it. Excuse me, I haven't had a chance to look at the product yet, I don't KNOW if I want a 15% discount!!

Daytime TV adverts. Either they are for funeral plans, featuring perky older couples chatting gaily about "lovely send-offs" or overpriced tat that requires them to repeat the same information repeatedly for several minutes in the hope you'll be hypnotised into ordering it.

Supermarket layouts. Always moving stuff about, completely random grouping of items. For instance, my local Morrisons has just moved half its meat products on an aisle away from the butchery department.

I have dozens more, nothing major, but niggling.

I hated people who handed me a wad of cards - mix of winners and non winners. If you don’t understand how a scratchcard works, don’t buy them! People who understand how to play them deserve the money more!

Did he go to public/other posh school? They tend to lop off the ends of words and replace them with 'er' a lot.

Unfortunately this is capitalism. Geared to buy, buy, buy.

Fireworks (don't get me started!)
Parking that demonstrates driver thinks people are less important than cars.
Slurping tea.
Dog walkers on phones who conveniently can't see their dog has just shat and therefore can't see to pick up said turd.
"I'm not racist but ...."
Reform.

Possibly not little things......

Surely the whole point of scratchcards is the thrill of seeing if it's a winner or not - and, if so, how much? Even if they don't care about that, it's not on for them to effectively make you their scratchcard servant. Why wouldn't you throw a losing card away immediately - or don't they even bother to scratch them off in the first place, so they really don't know?!

Do these people not realise how much they're leaving themselves open to a potentially dishonest shop assistant ripping them off? It would be the easiest thing in the world to declare a winning card a non-winner; or tell them that one that won £100 only won a fiver.

Surely it's the fact that these retired people are then complaining that the supermarket is really busy on a Saturday morning that annoyed OP. If they just did their shopping without comment, no-one would care.

I’m retirement age but definitely not retired so if I’m shopping on a Saturday how would anyone know if I’m ’entitled’ to be there anyway? What is annoying is people of any age and working status going into a crazy busy shop in the lead up to Christmas and standing about in groups chatting to various people they’ve bumped into, or even worse, allowing their children to have control of a trolley of any size. Insanely annoying, utterly stupid and dangerous.

You be surprised how many people don’t scratch the bonus game panel. Some of the £3 bingo cards have one to the right side of the playing numbers. Scan card and enter the 4 digit PIN “you won £10” I said. “I thought it was only a fiver” said customer. Me after scratching off the unscratched bonus game “you forgot to scratch off the bonus game which is £5 win.” Then show the bonus game to customer.

I have paid out £100 to people who just won that on the bonus game! Nothing on the bingo cards.

...people who spell cuppasoup cupasoup...

... but that is how you spell it:

https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/SearchResults/cup%20a%20soup

The word cuppa

Doorbells that don’t work. HATE IT. Standing on doorstep for ages, when they can’t hear the knocker, aren’t answering their phone, waste of time.

Staff fulfilling click and collect grocery orders during opening times so customers who are physically in the shop can’t actually get to anything they need. I know it’s not the staffs fault but those orders really should be done out of hours so customers can actually shop.

The group of gossiping parents at the school pick up and drop off who think it’s acceptable to stand and gossip on the drop curb of the only safe crossing outside the school. (they stand on the yellow bumpy pavers blocking the whole drop curb and pavement so no one can get past). Always say sorry when dozens of people ask them to move every single morning but are too thick or ignorant to not stand there in the first place.

Self service check outs in the supermarket. My local supermarket is fairly big but nearly all the tills are self service. I get so frustrated because there’s hardly ever a time when I don’t have to wait for a member of staff to come and approve something.

People who cough and make no effort at all to cover their face, and then do another little cough with their face covered to pretend they had manners all along. 🍘🍘🍘

People wearing backpacks on public transport. I want them to suffer. 🍘🍘🍘

Spitters are so horrible I shout at them. People who don't pick up dog poo.....again I shout at them.

This!
it doesn’t exactly take a great deal of effort does it. Especially people who change lanes on the motorway without indicating. WTF!

The incorrect use of "may" is on the rise. As in "may you give me this information?" It's the superior bastard cousin of "myself". I'm an internal legal auditor and I see it lots in emails. Sadly grammar is not on our checklist.

The noise on the hour that's on the BBC News channel. It's a full minute of a horrible aggressive banging "music".

Families going en masse to the food shops on a weekend. Two adults and various kids. Why?
Men spitting. So gross.
People in parking lots waiting for someone to pull out but sit in the middle of the lanes so everyone behind has to wait too rather than pass while the parked driver sorts themselves out.
And people who park in the click and collect bays but are doing a self shop.
People who let their dogs bound up to you and meekly shout ‘they’re friendly’. Well your dog may be but what about mine (leashed and now trembling/growling).

I would be irritated at this (backpacks are so practical! Would you rather they had a trolley or a suitcase?), but using rice cracker emojis 🍘 when presumably you meant to use a sweary emoji 🤬 has made the whole thing rather comical.

Aggressive rice crackers 😂 it's like a grumpy version of the jellycat amuseables, I love it 😍😂

There are courier deliveries such as Just Eat which we got pinged from 7am to 7pm

My friend who did order picks for home delivery said the problem is that doing picks at 5am you more to get missing items/subs as not all the delivery has arrived and on the shelves etc.

As often customers had a delivery at 9am came in 3pm saying “I got this as a sub for (item picked up from shelf) and there are loads on the shelf”. Obviously my friend didn’t serve the customer at 3pm. But once a fortnight she did a 10-6 shift

What are you talking about, you maniac?

Cutting in places where plasters don’t sit well. Then if cut yourself at my previous job, wore those blue food hygiene plasters which fell off if you bend your finger 5 times after putting it on. Which was 30 seconds

I assumed they meant people who don't take their backpack off when the train/bus is very busy and who therefore take up more space/bash people with their bag as they turn round etc. That is pretty annoying.