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.

Yes, I find this with the tip as well. I work flexibly from home, so I can go at most times. Although I'm fully entitled and very welcome to go at the weekend, I know I'd be adding to the busyness with all the folk who can't get there at all in the week and not helping them or myself, so I avoid weekends wherever possible... but if I can't avoid it, I don't get surprised and complain on discovering that a Sunday afternoon will have a far longer queue than a Tuesday morning.

People talking on the morning train
Not wearing headphones
Not getting out the way of the door

The sound of lettuce in a sandwich being eaten by my ex husband (who I love dearly, in an "annoying sibling" kind of way)

Ditto him eating a banana

Ditto the noise his throat makes when he swallows.

Poor man.

Getting my clothing caught on door handles, especially when I'm in a rush. It's completely irrational, but really gives me the rage.

Also anything not working as it should, tripping over things or something being in the way. Seems I'm actually quite an angry person.

New packaging for mince

Oh and I second this. Who tests these things, and why do they make it so difficult?

This is quite niche, but when I'm wearing tights or leggings, any tight clothing in fact, and a MINISCULE but of something gets caught in them (e.g a tiny bit of something a bit itchy) and it makes me want to tear the skin of my leg off. It comes in kind of waves.

I don't expect anyone to know what I'm on about!

My husband slurping his tea which he drinks boiling hot!

People who say 'can I get' in cafes and pubs - sounds so rude!
Shops assistants who say 'enjoy the rest of your day' - I'm sure they are told to say it, but can't honestly mean it!
Servers who say 'Enjoy' when bringing your food - why can't they say 'I hope you enjoy your xxxx' or even 'Bon Appetit'!

Wet dressing gown sleeve(s). People who cough/sneeze and make no effort at all to cover their face 😡

The website thing, ugh! Not only also the discount pop up, but the cookie pop up, followed by 'you look like you're in Europe, would you like me to redirect you to the EU site?' when I'm in the UK, AND THEN the pop up asking if I'd like to sign up to their mailing list for 10% off.

By the time I get to the actual home page I am already fed up and don't bother looking at anything

not being able to find the YouTube sleep video I want to fall asleep to immediately and my projector making a whirring noise why can't it be silent. The post office just not bothering to deliver for two days on my street and that's all mail not just parcels. Being asked the same question about 30 times in one day. My partner not using critical thinking and walking up to me and then sneezing or coughing or blowing his nose like a fog horn. Having a problem any kind of problem and my partner just sort of stands there and waits for me to sort it out immediately every single time any problem it's my problem not his. People talking in the street directly outside my front door. People complaining about noise and I can hear them every single day. people on the phone without speaker and it sounds like they are right next to me. Not getting signal in the one place I'm comfortable in the whole house I swear phone call quality has gotten a lot worse. People pissing on your parade or just never happy for you it makes me really depressed.

People saying ‘brought’ instead of ‘bought’
people leaving their trolley in the middle of the aisle while they look at something on the shelf
incorrect use of apostrophes (as in ‘mum’s of the world’)
noises when people eat with their mouth open
people that don’t indicate
pop up ads where you can’t find the ‘x’ to close them
pop up ads in general
when the loo roll holder is positioned behind you and you have to perform a contortion to wipe your bum

many other things. I’m menopausal.

Men standing in women's clothes shops blocking your access to them!

And when you've arrived at something via a search engine that happens to end up on their site for a different country or territory, they never send you to the equivalent page on the right country's website - i.e. the same product/range but in pounds rather than dollars - it's always just the generic front page, and the item you wanted might not be easily findable/available there.

But the UK is in Europe

Shops should provide a crèche for husbands.

My Irrrational annoyances - ring pull tins - the ring always comes off in my hand. Also shampoo and conditioner bottles that look identical, so I always go up to the till with two conditioners.

Putting teens empty bin/laundry basket at the bottom of the stairs blocking their way for them to take back into their bedtoom and they literally just move it to the side to pass them 🤬

And the dropping things! Carrying a (I know) far too big pile of things, drop one thing, bend to pick it up and just get upright when another thing drops, and you bend to pick that up when the first thing drops again...

Closely linked, unsurprisingly, to the 'loading up the washing machine with all the bedding from your bed and turning it on, going back upstairs to find that one of the pillow cases fell off the pile onto the stairs and is now going to need to go in a different load'. Well, bugger.

There is/there’s with a plural. Ditto here is/here’s…
I want to slap all offenders, hard.

Oh, and some radio ad for a private healthcare provider which ends with ‘Healthcare done different!’ 🤯

This 👆
Plus people who use the train as their office, especially first thing in the morning. Sitting there typing at 6.30 - I swear it sounds louder on a quiet train than anywhere else. Then we have the ones trying to type in a cramped seat on a packed train so they elbow you every 30 seconds. I would have separate carriages where they can all type noisily and bump elbows together so the rest of us can commute in peace!

I'm surprised anyone has a work's call in earshot of strangers. So much confidential information - business and personal information. I'm often amazed at the stuff I hear on trains - actual client names etc. Sackable offence surely?

People suddenly infront of me on the pavement or in supermarkets.
There are a lot of socially inept people about.

Banging my legs on the open dishwasher - i opened it, how do I not know it is there?

I used to work at Lush and honestly we hate having to pounce as much as the customers do! I could write a whole post on the ridiculous things management say. I've been told to not ask consent before rubbing product on customers because it gives them the chance to say no, and gotten in trouble when I've refused to do so.

My niggle is when I wake up having fallen asleep with my glasses on so they've fallen on the floor, and can't find them without patting everywhere because I can't see. Also my husband's alarms. He uses them a lot for reminders throughout the day and it's useful for his ADHD but the ringing gives me rage

Mud. On Christmas eve I took my kids to the park to try and tire them out. All I achieved was getting everyone's shoes and the pram wheels caked in mud and leaves which gave to an irrational rage when I got home (and no one got tired)
Same thing happened trick or treating