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.

Mine does most of those too actually. He also:

Asks 'who' s had my screwdriver/hat?' in an accusatory fashion when he's left it lying around somewhere. See also, 'who's moved such and such'.

Not realising that looking for something effectively involves using his hands and eyes and not just staring gormlessly into a cupboard.

Doing the 'man attending to a BBQ' thing whist cooking by standing in front of the hob stirring or poking something once every few minutes instead of multitasking and tidying up, cleaning, preparing crockery etc as he goes.

Usually in supermarkets, people who don’t pick their feet up, but slop along, scraping the soles of whatever is on their feet along the floor, and often leaning on the trolley at the same time.

I'm a picker and this is how it works. The ambient and frozen items for customers are all picked starting around 11pm. Then, we work the massive overnight delivery which comes in around 2am, replenishing chilled and fresh produce like fruit, veg, bread etc on the shelves. (On many of these lines there's very little left from the previous day.)

Then when that's done it's around 5am and so we can now pick the chilled and produce lines because they're actually available now. We aim to have it completed by 7.30am when the shop opens, but on some days there are so many orders, it's not humanly possible. So everything possible is already being done. It's very hard picking when customers are in, so it's not done then unless there is no choice. So please don't be so scathing. Each of the trollies we have holds 12 crates, so it's potentially saving 12 people from clogging up the store further.

(Also it's *kerb not curb.)

People who talk in cinemas and theatres. If you want to have a conversation, stay at home or go to the pub. Don’t disrupt everyone else with your inane chatter/ commentary on what you’re watching!

Well if you could tell that to my local Tescos it would be appreciated because they do it all through the day and it makes it impossible to shop.

Yes aware of how to spell it, my phone must have autocorrected but thanks for trying to belittle me 👍🏼

People saying "Happy New Year" or asking "Did you have a good weekend?"

Especially the HNY when there's more of January gone than is still left!

I wasn't trying to belittle you. It was just a spelling correction.

Funny, you can spell, but you can't read the room.

Parked in a (c60 spaces) car park. Only one bay vacant. Yet two couples were in bay having a chin wag. Asked them nicely could they move as only empty bay is this one. They got bloody shirty with me!

Sweet rustlers in theatres
people standing on the wrong side on escalators
people holding hands three abreast on pavements
how long my DD takes to pack up after body pump
the way no one else on my house ever bins the inside cardboard tube from toilet roll but leaves is next to the toilet

At a retail park with about 24 shops and a massive supermarket. Shoppers who push trolleys around these other shops. Despite most of the shops having signs or staff in the other shops asking customers not to push their trolleys inside, they ignore. It clogs up aisles

Why not if go by car - put shopping in car from supermarket. Then shop in the other shops? If went by bus or taxi, other shops first then supermarket

On the subject of spelling mistakes, there is a special place in hell for those who use 'wheet\wheatabix' (excluding dyslexia etc.).

The correct spelling of Weetabix is in bloody big letters on the front and top of the box!

Just thought of another one!!

When "clean" Insta influencers blather on about UPFs or skincare with "ingredients you can't even pronounce". Are you fecking serious lads. Pronounce-ability is NOT a reliable indicator of how toxic something is.

I bet they're against anything containing dihydrogen monoxide

“…just some slag from Portsmouth” 😆

Had to Google that one😁❤️

People who ‘dig’ at the butter. I mean WHY can’t you just do it in a nice, clean, sweeping way?! My kids are the worse for this.

People who say “9 am in the morning”!

Ooh, and to add to that, also the people who say 'pronounciation' - ironically when they're telling somebody else off for their pronunciation of a word!

Performance parenting 🙄

I really love the Mike Oldfield & Maggie Reilly song Moonlight Shadow, but that line spoils it for me.

I realise that 'four o'clock in the morning' or 'half past four in the morning' don't sound as smoothly fluid, but there must have been a tweak that was both accurate and smooth-sounding.

I find the same with the last verse of Amazing Grace - with TWO grammatical errors in it!

Ordering something online, and instead of receiving a factual email confirmation, an asinine auto response like, ‘Yay, DKPeanuts, you’ve got great taste, amazing haul’ etc. in my head, I say F off when I read it.

‘Gentle’ reminders at work 🤢

And could ‘of’ etc every time.

To add to the “gentle” reminder (no different from any other reminder), I’d be glad not to get any more people “reaching out” to me. Sounds so dramatic, when they’re just asking something. Have they all been listening to The Four Tops?

"A women". 😬