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?

But being said by people on radio 4 with RP voices...it's perfectly fine if Dr Finley or Andy Stewart says it that way...I can't say the word idea without pronouncing it ideal because I'm from the west country

Any of it😅

But it's said all the time on the BBC in terms like "it's not been proven that Greggs make the best sausage rolls". An English person should still say proven as Pru ven in my opinion

'I was sat.' Makes as much grammatical sense as 'I was ran.' You were SITTING!

Walking down the road and having 20 different ring doorbells probably recording my movements and conversation along the way.
I know they are a great invention in many ways and can be really useful, but I find them intrusive.

They won’t be recording your conversation

People who walk leaned over trolleys. Not only do they look stupid, it slows everyone else aka me down.

It irritates me... especially when teachers say it (and bollocks my 6 year old for correcting them)

*Creeps quietly away as wearing odd socks...

People who say that that have ‘done’ countries when they have visited them.

’oh yeah so I’ve done Thailand but not Vietnam’ (for example)

I don’t know why but it conjures up the image of these places in the world being there purely to be on their tick-list and for their own personal enjoyment rather than countries where people actually live. Makes me feel irrationally annoyed.

People who put things that have L on the label in the M section on vinted, because they decided it's a size 14 or whatever. Also people who lost things in the M section but don't show the label and don't respond when I message them asking "is this a 12 or 14?" ( Seller of a black dress I want I'm looking at you)

When people 'help' when you never asked them too. It's kindness, so you really can't scream in their face even though you are inside. Don't they know I have a specific undisclosed system to adhere too??

Most food packaging - i need sharp scissors and a knife to get into most packaging these days, and more often than not i spill milk, juice, food etc etc all over the worktops

Most food packaging these days. I need sharp. Scissors and a knife to get into groceries and still often manage to spill milk, dried goods , break biscuits etc etc just to get past crappy packaging.

Any eating noises on public transport, can't bear crunching, also hate to see snogging or hear noisy kissing on public transport, has to be fake, no one feels passionate on the tube or an escalator ffs

The light from people's phones in the dark at the theatre or cinema, so distracting

People who use the word unctuous to describe food. It makes me feel sick.
Looking at you Marcus Wareing.
Thought he'd know better

It depends on the tablet size to some extent. But I am baffled by people pushing the tablets out through the foil to open it . . . . . .

Use your nail to slice it open, and it just pushing out easily with no issue at all. This works in general, but once you get to tiny tablets then there are other issues.

People standing over me and watching me in the kitchen, or anywhere where i am doing anything that requires eye-hand co-ordination. I have co-ordination disabilities, and all such activities require absolute concentration from me, and people standing over me are at best very distracting and disturbing, and at worst make me feel as though I'm failing an exam.

Endless roadworks and pavement works that make the pavements less accessible. And of course anyone who parks on the pavement, or leaves their bike in a way that obstructs the pavement.

People who try to find out when my birthday is, and won't believe me that I hate my birthday and want it forgotten.

The school mum who doesn’t use a rain cover for her pram, even when it’s pissing down, so her toddler is always soaked. Same mum never wears a hat or waterproof coat, always a long wool coat and I’ve seen her completely drenched quite a few times. We live in a cold, rainy part of the UK and she seems otherwise nice and sensible. I wish I knew what she was thinking!

That's exactly what I do! I slice the foil open with my nail and attempt to gently ease it out, but it often doesn't work! And some of my medications are soft caplets which often end up squashed!

I have no idea how people with very arthritic hands manage. I assume they request pre-filled dosette boxes from the pharmacy.

I went for a jog earlier and there was a woman standing in street wearing a tacky animal print dressing gown, pyjamas and slippers smoking a really smelly spliff. I huffed and puffed and let her know the smell offended me. I am now really irritated by my sanctimonious attitude!

I second this Ring doorbell issue.
I work from home and regularly have delivery drivers and our regular Royal Mail post.
Most times they are beating the door like they are paying the rent even though the doorbell is clearly visible.
Sometimes I have missed a delivery as I couldn’t get down the stairs in time or haven’t heard it if I’m in a Teams meeting. Just ring the doorbell so I can see it on my phone!!

Other petty aggravation is that DH will buy something on a coat hanger and hang the item off a door downstairs rather than take it upstairs. I now clock how long his fabric decor stays there (we leave internal doors open) and so far his record is about 2 weeks.
Because I’m petty I leave the item on the door rather than take it upstairs myself.

I like pushing it out. It’s a small pleasure.

Scottish, and over sixty. Always said , and heard proven as pro ven. Not a new thing here at all.