Lighthearted- What petty thing(s) bother you?

[AllaMova]

I have quite a specific example.

I have a family member who saves photos from my social media page, saves them and then posts them onto her own page. (Without permission.)

It has been driving me nuts, even though it’s so petty!

What about you?

The list is long.

Dawdling or stopping dead in a flow of foot traffic. Just walk.

Braking hard in the car because you are impatient and cant keep a reasonable distance.

My husband with a head cold.

Doof doof music in cars on full volume.

People who cant recycle properly. No, you cant put plastic bags in the recycling bin.

Leaving your manky old shopping list/bit of lettuce/used tissue in the bottom of the trolley (just take your shit with you).

Performative parenting - look Johnny its an A-P-P-L-E, let's spell that again (Johnny is 6 months old).

Dogs in prams.

WhatsApp voice notes. I am just as busy as you. I do not have the time to pick up and listen to your drivel. Type a message

Cars with flat backs.
Lorries in the middle lane.
Influencers.
Socks that slide down.
Cold feet.
Noisy chewing.

Also people who insist on a call that could be a quick email, call you to talk about their email, or message 'hi' without saying what it's about and you know it'll just end up with you getting more work.

Um what?

Facebook posts that say, "I want to say hello and show a photo that I took."
It drives me to madness, despair and sweary shouting. Seems to be an absolute pandemic of them.
Futile! Pointless! Irritating!
In the grand scheme of things it may seem small.....but to me it is not!

Blister packs are a nightmare! The damn tablet either doesn't want to come out or pops out suddenly and rolls along the floor. I then have to try and find it in case the dog decides to eat it. Then when I do find it, I struggle to pick it up due to my disability. My supplements though, which I usually get from ebay, come in large bags, so are much easier to access.

What wasn't clear? 😂

I live in a cul-de-sac, literally 4 houses up from the turning circle. For some reason, every single neighbour, delivery driver, and guest uses my drive as their personal turning circle, rather than drive down past 4 houses. Drives me batty. My WFH office faces the drive, and I literally watched two cars do it within a span of 10 minutes this afternoon. I cannot let it go. I don’t know why. Probably because it’s rude and entitled AF.

God yes and pointless Teams calls are even worse.

I have a colleague who calls incessantly to ask a question which an email could have sorted. Without checking if I am free.

He invariably prefixes this by saying: “Could have emailed but its so much easier to chat.”

No its not, its wasting valuable time which I could use to be getting on with work.

People who use unnecessary capital letters. Eg my Mum, my Sister, the Teacher, Spring, Summer, happy Birthday etc etc

I hate pointless calls, I find myself getting really fidgety. Also if you finish a call early and someone says 'ooh we still have 20 minutes left, let's talk about this other random thing as well'. That makes me cross.

Copyright fraud that is! Hit your cousin with a bill, lol.

Oh yes, this is another one. Especially if they just answer with YABU or something equally short.

People who keep saying "at the end of the day"
People who when answering a question say yeah, immediately followed by no.
Phone zombies, always head straight towards you.
Adverts, they go on forever, and every 10 minutes.

When I look at my watch and 2 seconds later have completely forgotten what it said

This 1000%. The highway on my way to work has had construction for over a yr. Everyone just lines up in the left lane(.we drive on the right) so the outside lane it stretches back for miles. If you try to drive to the end of the right lane and merge the bastards bunch up and won't let you in. You think Canadians are friendly? Try a zipper merge, it drives them crazy 🤣

Radio 4 it's changed within the last 5 years.

So many modern phrases get me too for example 'be like' as in looks like

Definitely started on radio 4 and it does my nut in.

Not necessarily true. I read that on here a little while back and thought "Ahaaah, never again will I be caught out by the leaflet". It was true the first couple of times then third time I opened a pack of tablets the leaflet was at the "top" non-stamped end. I suppose if it's true 66% of the time, it's still a win.

People eating McDonald’s on the train. I just cannot stand the smell at all and some days I’m so tired and grumpy I want to grab it and throw it out of the window. It lingers for so long.

People who walk around in public having conversations on the phones on speaker phone.

I do NOT want to hear it.

When you ask a question in a group app ir Facebook e.g. does anyone have a drill I could borrow and someone replies with No I don't. Or similar - you ask for a recommendation of a Greek restaurant in a specific place e.g. London and some twerp tells you all about a great Japanese place in Birmingham. Fools.

Totally agree and where I live in London its absolutely endemic. How have people been brought up to think this is acceptable?

Bells on bikes. Specifically the men who feel the need to ring them incessantly to let you know they are coming past even though they know you have seen them and they have ample room to just go past politely & quietly.

does my head in when you are trying to go for a quiet & relaxing walk.