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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.

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IwanttoWFH · 07/01/2026 17:14

Slow walkers
People stopping dead in the middle of the pavement
People hogging the entire pavement when walking in a group
People who act as if they’ve never been on a train/tube before, getting on and blocking the doors or aisles, faffing about which way to turn
People who play music/videos in public with no headphones
People who have loud conversations in public
People who cut corners on mini roundabouts
Loud eaters
Spitting
Middle lane hoggers on the motorway
Littering
People who write everything in the past tense or change tense halfway through a report
People who randomly capitalise the first letter of words
People who write surnames/dates/places in capital letters
People who think it’s acceptable to cold call me on Teams when they aren’t in my team/my boss/I’ve never spoken with them before (the height of rudeness, in my opinion

Phew, I feel better now

Didshejustsaythatoutloud · 07/01/2026 17:36

CoubousAndTourmaIet · 07/01/2026 14:32

We drive into parking spaces forwards because we generally have a giant breed dog in the boot and they need enough space to jump out when we open the tailgate.

Surely not everyone at the supermarket cp are releasing their giant hounds from their boots 😂

Didshejustsaythatoutloud · 07/01/2026 17:37

Wexone · 07/01/2026 14:14

I drive into parking spaces as apposed to reversing in majority of the time. I need access to my boot to load shopping,bags of feed for horses anything for the stables etc. I can't access my boot nor able to lift stuff easily to the boot.

Surely thats not every day need though?

Wexone · 07/01/2026 17:40

Didshejustsaythatoutloud · 07/01/2026 17:37

Surely thats not every day need though?

majority of the time yes that's why am driving for to collect stuff most of the time
aswell as that the small town I live it's spilit in the middle by a river with one way traffic either side majority of parking is at an angle so you have to drive in and reverse out traffic behind you has to stop

Didshejustsaythatoutloud · 07/01/2026 17:40

dailyconniptions · 07/01/2026 13:36

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

Sorry, thats a whole other thing that irrationally bothers me, bath mats, toilet seat covers and the toilet brush 🤑

CoubousAndTourmaIet · 07/01/2026 17:42

Didshejustsaythatoutloud · 07/01/2026 17:36

Surely not everyone at the supermarket cp are releasing their giant hounds from their boots 😂

We have taken the pups to the supermarket pretty often, a lot of dog people do because it's good socialisation when you're training a puppy. I had assumed the comment referred car parks in general, not specifically supermarkets, exactly as the other poster with horse feed did. You are being quite pedantic, I think.

In any case, supermarket or not, it is a sodding pain having someone park right up to your bumper when you have a dog in.

Didshejustsaythatoutloud · 07/01/2026 17:49

CoubousAndTourmaIet · 07/01/2026 17:42

We have taken the pups to the supermarket pretty often, a lot of dog people do because it's good socialisation when you're training a puppy. I had assumed the comment referred car parks in general, not specifically supermarkets, exactly as the other poster with horse feed did. You are being quite pedantic, I think.

In any case, supermarket or not, it is a sodding pain having someone park right up to your bumper when you have a dog in.

😂😂read ops question again

Picoloangel · 07/01/2026 17:49

People watching videos, having conversations on speakerphone all at top volume on the train. Get some bloody earbuds.

People having long and involved work conversations and meetings in trains/cafes/hotels etc - I’m not at work and I don’t want to virtually attend your meeting. There is one cafe in town that I avoid because it’s full of people talking loudly and pompously about work whilst nursing a single and rather sad looking flat white. How is anyone making any money?!

People saying “yourself” instead of you.

People saying “hurt baby” or “hubby.”

Dogs everywhere and I love dogs.!

DandyDenimScroller · 07/01/2026 17:50

Facebook status's saying And just like that...followed usually about how their kid is 1,2 etc etc.
You're not Carrie Bradshaw ffs...just some slag from Portsmouth.

Jorge14 · 07/01/2026 17:54

People getting away with things at work really pisses me off

TheSalvadorsStickbymebaby · 07/01/2026 17:56

@Picoloangel oh the pompus overly loud meetings usually conducted by twats in blue trousers and brown shoes.
It's normally involves oil&gas in my neck of the woods and said meeting is littered with corporate lingo🤯🤮

Nothungrycat · 07/01/2026 18:01

Things that have ridiculously complicated/poorly written/non-existent instructions.I have a combi oven/microwave which I rarely use as a combi oven because there's nothing intuitive about the various dials and knobs and the instruction manual is incredibly badly written. See also the timer on the electric towel rail which comes on for 2 hours every early morning, because I have no idea how to alter the timings.

NimbleHiker · 07/01/2026 18:03

People who grunt when i ask a simple question. If i ask if you want a drink it is not hard to say yes please or no thank you. Don't complain that i haven't got you a drink when you grunted at me when i asked.

HelenaWaiting · 07/01/2026 18:07

People using the word "hence" because they think it makes them sound clever, and following it with "why". "Hence why" is a tautology, you dunderheaded ninnyhammers! It literally means "that is why why"!

Ahem. I'll get my coat.

WhitePudding · 07/01/2026 18:29

The new cult of using ‘we was’ instead of ‘we were’. I cannot understand why people think it is correct.

People who walk in groups (not people with children) and have absolutely no concept of the fact that you are coming in the opposite direction and they need to either move over or walk one behind the other.

Manners are sadly lacking these days nobody says thank you when you hold a door etc.

MercyChant66 · 07/01/2026 19:13

Sudagame · 07/01/2026 09:17

Sunglasses sliding down off my head when l look down, especially when my hands are full, no idea why it enrages me so much, possibly to do with it being something done to you that you have no control over or some such.
Makes me want to rag them off and launch them as far as l can.
Also my laptop, forever randomly freezing or logging me out my email address and l have to practically dig up all my descendants to identify that yes it is me trying to get back in. Oh and despite connecting it by cable (long since given up on wireless) it keeps saying can't find printer. Not sure what neighbours think but have regularly yelled at it that it's in bastard front of you and connected to you.

Oh goodness me - ALL of these things!

Picoloangel · 07/01/2026 19:19

Picoloangel · 07/01/2026 17:49

People watching videos, having conversations on speakerphone all at top volume on the train. Get some bloody earbuds.

People having long and involved work conversations and meetings in trains/cafes/hotels etc - I’m not at work and I don’t want to virtually attend your meeting. There is one cafe in town that I avoid because it’s full of people talking loudly and pompously about work whilst nursing a single and rather sad looking flat white. How is anyone making any money?!

People saying “yourself” instead of you.

People saying “hurt baby” or “hubby.”

Dogs everywhere and I love dogs.!

Fur baby that should say.
Auto correct is another thing that irritates me beyond measure!

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 07/01/2026 19:26

NannyOgg1341 · 07/01/2026 11:42

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!

Oh yes! Open an account, give so many details and a sodding password - once had to do it when I just wanted to buy a sample tile at £7!

Trishthedish · 07/01/2026 19:32

Letters home from school with poor spelling and punctuation! Arrgh

MrsDoylesLastTeabag · 07/01/2026 19:43

Hearing noise from someone else's house or garden or car when I'm inside my house with all the widows closed. I cannot ABIDE noise pollution.

Other than that, I'm a tolerant soul.

Bikergran · 07/01/2026 19:55

cornbunting · 07/01/2026 08:12

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 😂

And what about thise places that serve fish and chips with a piece of fake newspaper under the fish, and chips in a doll-sized frier basket to ensure they are tepid in no time!!!

OP posts:
Bikergran · 07/01/2026 19:58

TroysMammy · 07/01/2026 08:39

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

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Bikergran · 07/01/2026 20:01

Q2C4 · 07/01/2026 08:56

Sheets / duvet covers which don’t have their size clearly printed on the label. When I become PM this will be my first act of parliament!

Duvets which are difficult to work out which way is lengthways.

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Bikergran · 07/01/2026 20:03

menopause59 · 07/01/2026 09:22

New packaging for mince

Yes, it's awful, and the mince seems to cook into slop with no texture!

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Madamswearsalot · 07/01/2026 20:07

Queues at national trust cafes. They give me the rage.

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