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.

Knobs. You need smooth round door knobs.

When children aged about 4-7 go around and make tongue clicking noises.

The plethora of AI images and posts on FB and people not realising it’s fake.

People standing still on escalators and blocking me from walking (you did say irrational)

The posting of what should be private messages made publicly usually in order to show off eg “thank you so much, name of friend/ husband etc, for the beautiful flowers / champagne / latest sought after expensive item you gave me for my birthday” shared with all 999 friends or posting their child’s glowing school report on SM so that everyone can see what great parents they are. In fact, over sharing their kids’ lives in general makes me cringe.

A piece of furniture/inanimate object attacking me out of the blue, stubbing my toe or hitting me and causing an unreasonable amount of pain

Now thats a show i'd watch

Chewing gum being chewed noisily! FFS - STOP IT!!
Often by people who normally chew silently (looking at you DS).

Grown women talking about their ‘bestie’. Makes them sound about 7.

Also anyone saying ‘peeps’ or ‘baby steps’.

People who stand in fucking doorways!!! DH even does it in our small bungalow. He’s constantly blocking the living room exit or the doorways to the kitchen, bedroom and bathroom. Fucking MOVE!!!!

Or “holibobs” 🙄

‘Performative’.

I’m not sure the word existed before last Thursday, but now it does people use it to mean ‘doing anything I disapprove of although I don’t really have much justification for my disapproval’.

”Have you noticed how Maureen says ‘did you have a nice day?’ to her kid when he comes out of school? Just so performative.”

‘holibobs’ is the worst. How can someone expect to be taken seriously as a human being when using such a ridiculous expression?

My teenage daughters never standing on bathmat after a shower & putting a towel down instead to stand on !
Coming down the stairs EVERY morning & leaving all the lights on everywhere upstairs !

People standing still on escalators and blocking me from walking (you did say irrational)

On a closely-related theme, people who decide that RIGHT IN THE ENTRANCE of shops and supermarkets is a great place to have that lovely long catch-up with their friends, as you try to squeeze you and your laden trolley round them.

Also, the sodding awful taps in motorway service stations that you push, only for the feeble spray of lukewarm water to stop the instant you put your soapy hands underneath them, meaning you have to hold the tap down with each soapy hand in turn in order to get them rinsed.

And then usually the driers don’t work either.

I always say 'alright, I heard you the first time!' 😄

Honda Jazz drivers.

I’m fairly sure I could stop taking my blood pressure meds if they all just got off the fucking road.

The large Sainsbury’s near me has recently been refurbished. The alcohol section is now very spread out, while the food aisles have been made extremely narrow. The fridges also now have doors, which makes it almost impossible for more than one person to browse and pick up items at the same time. It annoys me every time I shop there and I walk around muttering to myself.

😂😂

Boots and Sainsburys who block the signal but want customers to use their app.

Cold callers like Sky call who instantly ask “how are you?” when I pick up - with zero regard for whether it’s a convenient time. I really don’t need a random stranger calling me and acting as if we’re mates. 😂

I live in a concierged building. One of the services the concierge provides is pressing a button (located under their desk) which opens the front door as you approach. Except they rarely time it quite right so you have to stop and wait for it to open. I have fully functioning arms so don't require this non-service for which I am paying. I realize this is a first world problem.

Also people eating apples.

My DH worked in retail all his life. He tidies up displays in shops, removes the empty trays from yoghurt etc. I caught him in M and S tucking a shirt into a mannequin as it was only tucked in on one side. I think he is doing it so I leave him in the cafe. 😂

As a retired person, I get pissed off with amateur shoppers at busy times taking all their family with them to the supermarket, blocking up aisles, standing in front of displays looking at every pack to find the 'best' one, talking to friends. Faffing about on the self checkouts. Give me a pensioner anyway.

People taking too long at the supermarket checkout. Did you not realise they were going to ask you to pay? And if you want to rearrange things, move away first so I can be served. See also staff who scan my things too slowly or make me wait while they chat with their friends.

The supermarket that I just left the automatic doors were about 3m from the kiosk. Customers stopped there to dig out their shopping list or had a chin wag with someone. They stood where the doors didn’t close. In cold days, it made the kiosk and nearby areas cold.

I was tempted to go to these people’s homes and stand in front of their opened front door to see how they liked their home getting cold

One thing I’m glad to see the back of in working in retail. Groups of 4-8 mums each with a pushchair and another 2-3 older kids, guessing aged 3. They come in together even though just 2-3 of them buying 3 items max. They clog up aisles and the self scan area. Only the mums that are buying stuff should go in the self scan area.

During the school holidays, there are another 3-6 more DC joining the group. There are 3 groups of mums that do this.

Why can’t the ones that need to buy something just go in themselves?

Anyone saying ‘early doors’. Surely the most stupid expression ever.

Brits saying ‘math’, and ‘ass’ when they mean arse.