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What tiny things make you irrationally annoyed?

357 replies

Bikergran · 07/01/2026 06:28

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.

OP posts:
crazeekat · 07/01/2026 08:07

grinchmcgrinchface · 07/01/2026 07:32

Kids school is supposed to open at 8.35 yet I stand outside till 8.45 in the freezing cold while the teachers stand in the classroom ignoring all the parents & kids. Angry And when they finish at 3.15 Im stood till 3.25-3.30 waiting for my child!
pisses me off to no end. 😂

This has pissed me off for over ten years. No matter what class my kids were in their group were always last out. Literally count on one hand when we weren’t last. Even in pouring rain and winter. I would be bloody storming home. Now my child does herself I’m like a new woman not having to do the school run. 😂

Myblueclematis · 07/01/2026 08:08

Doing my bra up this week. I have arthritic thumbs and they are getting quite painful again and trying to do up my bra has been excruciating at times. Swearing has been off the scale.

Theeyeballsinthesky · 07/01/2026 08:08

People who have access to the shared calendar at work who never bother to look at it before booking a meeting with you and then getting the arse when you decline because you're already in another meeting

it's a small thing but arghhhhhghhhhhhh

Icantfindanewname · 07/01/2026 08:08

When I'm carrying the carefully sorted washing to the machine downstairs, and a sock drops, then a pair of pants, then another sock (not from the same pair) as I walk, after rolling it all up together to prevent this. Judging by my reaction this morning, perhaps I need a coffee before I try this again 🤔😡

DoAWheelie · 07/01/2026 08:08

People that come up with the worst possible interpretation of anything you post and then complain at you for an insult that only exists in their mind.

Morningmooner · 07/01/2026 08:09

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Nonbio46 · 07/01/2026 08:12

People who wear rucksacks in shops and block the aisles make me irrationally angry.

cornbunting · 07/01/2026 08:12

BeQuirkyMintScroller · 07/01/2026 07:13

When people say things such as "please contact myself with any questions" and "this report has been prepared by myself and Linda".

I know it's irrational irritation because not everyone has the same grip on correct grammar usage as some of us do.

Also cake served on top of the bloody napkin.

Oh my god, CAKE SERVED ON TOP OF THE NAPKIN 🤬

Why do they do it? You get cake all over the napkin so it's barely usable, you might as well not bother having one at all. Maybe it's because the napkin won't stay on the plate otherwise, and customers waste them if they're freely available, but spending money for the sole purpose of serving soiled napkins to customers is batshit.

Ooof that feels better 😂

60sbird · 07/01/2026 08:13

When my husband gets my tablets for me and intentionally takes one from the middle of the strip, drives me mad

IngridBurger · 07/01/2026 08:15

Accidentally clicking on an ad when I'm trying to scroll.

Jamaicaningmecrazy · 07/01/2026 08:17

BeQuirkyMintScroller · 07/01/2026 07:13

When people say things such as "please contact myself with any questions" and "this report has been prepared by myself and Linda".

I know it's irrational irritation because not everyone has the same grip on correct grammar usage as some of us do.

Also cake served on top of the bloody napkin.

Yes this is in Traitors annoying.

Mine is smelly bus people. Specifically garlic cavity breath. There seems to be a lot of people almost every other bus. Some of them it’s breath others it’s like it comes out of their pores. I look at them and they completely unaware.

Jamaicaningmecrazy · 07/01/2026 08:18

60sbird · 07/01/2026 08:13

When my husband gets my tablets for me and intentionally takes one from the middle of the strip, drives me mad

Yes and when they’re ill they only take one paracetamol and complain. Take the full dose!

Thepeopleversuswork · 07/01/2026 08:22

People being needy and OTT about needing to confirm arrangements for things which are happening months away. (I don’t mean when numbers are needed for example at a wedding, just people chivvying about routine meetings because they “like to plan”). Sorry but your need to micromanage a pub meeting in April isn’t my priority in January.

People walking hand in hand on pavements so no one else can get past.

Passwords to access things on the internet.

Thepeopleversuswork · 07/01/2026 08:23

Theeyeballsinthesky · 07/01/2026 08:08

People who have access to the shared calendar at work who never bother to look at it before booking a meeting with you and then getting the arse when you decline because you're already in another meeting

it's a small thing but arghhhhhghhhhhhh

God yes I hate this.

FlyingUnicornWings · 07/01/2026 08:24

PersephoneParlormaid · 07/01/2026 06:31

My DH breathing.

My DH eating.

Keepsmiling2948 · 07/01/2026 08:25

grinchmcgrinchface · 07/01/2026 07:32

Kids school is supposed to open at 8.35 yet I stand outside till 8.45 in the freezing cold while the teachers stand in the classroom ignoring all the parents & kids. Angry And when they finish at 3.15 Im stood till 3.25-3.30 waiting for my child!
pisses me off to no end. 😂

This has made me chuckle, my DC started preschool this week and I’ve very quickly learnt that approx 30 mins of my weekdays for the next 8 years are now going to be spent loitering outside school gates. Too scared to turn up later because that will 100% be the one day his class is out first….

Conniebygaslight · 07/01/2026 08:29

The 'yourself/myself' thing
People who refuse to indicate at roundabouts
Everywhere and everyone trying to upsell

dailyconniptions · 07/01/2026 08:29

Smelly, filthy unwashed coats. Wash it FFS.
Inanimate objects falling off and/or falling over. Absolute rage.
Being asked 'how are you' 8 million times a day, when just a hi or hello would be fine.
Incorrect usage of your/you're.
Incorrect usage of bought/brought.
Incorrect usage of breath/breathe.
Counter assistants asking 'are you ok' instead of 'good morning, how may I help?'
Elderly people's walking sticks that constantly fall over whilst they're propped up at the counter/by the table. Can't they invent ones with a sucker or something?

MelaniesLaugh · 07/01/2026 08:35

People who park in turning places on residential roads

Clairey1986 · 07/01/2026 08:35

grinchmcgrinchface · 07/01/2026 07:32

Kids school is supposed to open at 8.35 yet I stand outside till 8.45 in the freezing cold while the teachers stand in the classroom ignoring all the parents & kids. Angry And when they finish at 3.15 Im stood till 3.25-3.30 waiting for my child!
pisses me off to no end. 😂

So in the morning the bell rings at 8.35 and no teachers come out for a full 10 mins?

KitWyn · 07/01/2026 08:36
  • Colleagues who slowly eat crunchy items (carrot/celery sticks, bag of crisps) at their desk. The noise enrages me
  • It's and its being confused
  • Body Odour on public transport. Bus is so much worse than train/tube as you're trapped
  • Accidental builder's cleavage. I'm very happy about the high waist jean becoming trendier than super low-rise
  • Roasted parsnips that pretend to be a perfectly crisped potato. Disgusting

I am an awful person.

Charlottian · 07/01/2026 08:37

People pronouncing schedule as ‘skedule’.
My kids saying ‘ew!’ instead of ‘ugh!’.
No problem if you are American, but we aren’t and it (irrationally) annoys me so much.

Member869894 · 07/01/2026 08:38

Oh so many...
My teenage dd saying 'literally' every thirty seconds
People sneezing theatrically
Men in women clothes shops trailing around after their partners like gormless goats
Grown women who pout in photos- WTAF?
Passive aggressive work emails copying in the world and his wife for extra effect.
'Making memories'

I could go on and on...

TroysMammy · 07/01/2026 08:39

Asking for a review for every purchase. It's effing double sided tape. It sticks things together.

Nibblerscribbler · 07/01/2026 08:40

RideTheGoat · 07/01/2026 06:41

There's one thing that really gets my goat - PEOPLE NOT INDICATING when driving.

Oh, and my alarm clock.

this 100%!!!! It costs nothing!! What the HELL are these people thinking!!!

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