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’ve also see people moaning about retired people having the temerity to be in the shops at lunchtime on weekdays. Why that doesn’t also apply to SAHMs, shift workers, part time workers on their non working days or people just on a day off I’m not sure.

People who write 'ect' when they mean etc. Also people who don't know the difference between i.e and e.g.

I’m surprised that I haven’t seen corned beef tin openers mentioned yet!

For me, it would be:
Clocks that tick are SO distracting that I can’t turn my ears off from them. I will hear them above everything else (along with any other repetitive noises)

Advertisements… I have an ad-blocker, and pay to be ad-free on some sites, so why am I still seeing advertisements?

The self-checkout machines at the Co-Op, which have distracting screens that show you how wild your hair has gone, and which insist that EVERYONE needs assistance. I go to the self-checkout machines because the tills usually aren’t manned.

Please just email me, and let me sort things out online, because your working hours (9-5, Monday-Friday) are not compatible with mine (14 hour days, including every other weekend), and phone signal can be an interesting concept in the countryside!

The assumption that I do not work on a farm because I am a female.

The assumption that farm workers are stupid. Actually, we’re quite a philosophical bunch, and if it wasn’t for us, you wouldn’t have food on your plates, or milk for your endless cups of tea and coffee!

Incorrect use of myself and yourself
People not using schedule asisst before booking a meeting
Neighbours who don't collect parcels on the same day
Women who say they prefer the company of men as other women are too bitchy

Posh parents and children braying at each other at top volume at NT properties.

When I have to sign up to a website just to make one small purchase. Actually I probably don't need a full subscription to Toilets Monthly, I just want to buy 1 toilet seat!

Someone sitting and constantly clicking the top of a pen ‘on and off’.

’Click, click, click’ - I want to scream.

People sticking their tongue out and doing the V sign in photos. Mainly influencers. I don’t know why this annoys me so much 🤣

Eurghh agreed!

although it would be "please reach out to myself or Linda" 🤢

When you shopping online and click to view an item and you are inundated with pop ups saying

• this item is popular
• 50 people are looking at this right now
• last ordered so many minutes ago
• in demand!

And you have to close them all to actually view the item. I do not care how many people are looking at it! I just want to see if it suits me.

Going for a wee in our en-suite at night and getting my pyjama bottoms soaked via my water puddles left from my husband’s pre-bed shower.

hopefully won’t happen again as I went red rage mad last time - the shower mat exists for a reason!

Lattes often being served in glass cups with NO HANDLE - how the fuck are you meant to drink it without burning your fingers!!!!!!

i ALWAYS send them back now and ask for it to be decanted into a mug or cup i can use - and breathe!

When people buy you a ‘gift’ that requires you to do something. Like my aunt buying me a picture that needs me to buy a frame (still sat under the stairs 5 years later) or when people buy you something that needs to be planted in the garden. I have no free time whatsoever. You think I want extra jobs???

Queuing for ages at supermarket checkout behind someone with a huge shop....who then starts fumbling around for their purse/wallet only after everything has been rung up. As if it comes as a huge surprise to them that they are actually expected to pay.

My DH sneezes. I say 'Bless you'. 5 seconds later he sneezes again. Dilemma: what to do? Say 'Bless you' again and feel silly/pedantic, or ignore the 2nd sneeze and risk him feeling I don't care? I am irritated out of all proportion by this.

People who don't get out of our way when I am pushing DS down the street in his wheelchair and insist on walking or standing right in our path. It is fairly easy to walk in a straight line but really hard to stop/start or turn with the combined weight of an adult in a wheelchair. Part of me wants to just keep going and run them over.

(This one is really irrational) People wearing new coats with slits at the back which haven't had the stitches taken out which keep them closed. Something about that giant cross stitch I find so irritating.

The things I overhear on the commute…
I work somewhere with very tight security so I’m extra aware of it.

Mostly other peoples poor driving skills. The non indicators, people who reverse out of a parking space, instead of reversing in. The lazy arsed parents who park right outside the school gate, endangering all our kids (you know who you are😤)

Why doesn't he dry himself whilst standing in the shower after?

Half mast trousers.
Slow walkers.
Slow Drivers.
The plastic seal on a milk container

Not being able to find the charger that fits laptop/phone/watch/iPad but finding every other charger in the world.

The sticky tabs on food such as rice or pasta not working and food falling on my face as I take packet out of the cupboard.

I hate my boss. And she is lovely..

People who use AI images to advertise their small business or event. Just had one come up on my local facebook page from a woman advertising a baby/child preloved sale coming up, but the image she's used is very clearly AI - a big room stuffed full of toys, clothes, pushchairs. Some people will look at that and think it's the actual sale. To be honest, it makes me think it's dodgy and I'll avoid going.

Or even worse people sticking their middle finger up, usually middle aged men thinking they're funny...they're not, they're gross.

Or the minks led out of court handcuffed and middle finger if press take a photo..could be a Scottish thing because a lot of them do it.

Or get out straight onto bathmat, dry himself and hang bathmat and towel up?

People who are quite capable of speaking clearly, saying fing, fousand, fink, froo, free...It's become a trendy thing to do and I'm not including dialects here by the way, for which this is standard, such as cockney.

The ubiquitous 'more slower, more better, more busier' etc. It's MORE SLOWLY OR SLOWER, not BOTH.

Or people (it's always men) doing that whole fists up boxing pose for photos. Cringe.