What things irritate you irrationally?

[OracleInaCoracle]

for me it is people who dont say thank you when you step of the pavement into the road so that they can get past.
people who step on the back of your shoe and dont apologise.
and people who dont use caps correctly

and im sure i will be back with more!

Tesco home delivery trolleys blocking every aisle in their stores. Why can't they check out the goods directly from the stock rooms? Everything is bar coded and computer stock controlled.

Give the rest of us a bit of space!

How cold Sainsbury is!

People who lean against the pole on a busy tube train so everybody else has to either reach above their heads or try to get a grip on half a pole.

People who stop at the bottom of an escalator as they work out where they have to go.

People who walk really sloooooowly

Sainsbury is cold its true, how do they do that?

shopping trolleys that fool you by working OK at first then start diving off at 45° by the time you've gone up the first 2 isles.

Soooo many of the driving ones. And I don't think they are irrational.

People who think they are so funny they have to repeat the punchline to their jokes at least twice, accompanied by insane chuckling, just to make sure us mere mortals got it.

Agree with starting eating before all table is served, but again, I don't think it's irrational, rather plain good manners.

Shopping in Tescos - have discovered a new hatred for the 'self-service' checkouts.

Radio "phone-ins" from "members of the public".

Husband's fidgeting, nail biting, finger picking, bodily noise production line, foot-rubbing....

People (husband) not putting towels straight on the towel rail.

Free newspapers the size of bloody telephone directories being jammed in the letter box so tightly that they wedge the damn thing open. I hurl the sodding things straight into recycling anyway. Have been known to stamp on them first.

Oh and "almost unique" and variations thereon.

You mean rare then.

People using the word random when it isn't actually random at all.
Like 'Playing this random song on the radio'- no, it's not random it is on the playlist for a reason
'Threw some random top on' No, it's not random it was the last one you wore, so put on the top of the pile.

etc etc
It goes on.
The word 'random' is used constantly in conversation and no-one seems to have a clue what it actually means.
Argh.

Oh, like someone else ahs said 'Cheer up lvo, it mgiht never happen' or 'smile, it's not that bad'.
Some joker said that to me about half an hour after I found out my Dad had cancer, I was not amused!!

Califrau I was so happy the day I took all of our lego to the charity shop. when they no longer wanted to play with it (too old) What a day.

standing on a bit of lego you bought from a charity shop when crossing the landing in middle of night for a pregnant wee

and the word "celeb"

People who let their dogs cr@p on the pavement and don't clean it up.

People who are never on time and blame it on everyone else - one friend in particular drives me MAD.

People who spell "potatoes" potatos or potato's.

Pets.

Coat hangers.

Instant coffee.

Grumpy people.

Ah, yes, LATE people. The worst crime in my eyes. If I can get there on time 100% of the time, why can't everyone else? It's just plain respect people!!!!!

Time of meeting-- work backwards, I'll need X amount of time to do this, to travel here, there may be a delay here, so start getting ready then. It's really not rocket science!!! (and yes, sometimes I am too early, and I sit in the car with the paper for a bit, but better that than late....aaarrrggghhh....)

stupid insipid songs sung by stupid insipid women usually used on mobile phone/car adverts.

blonde eyelashes

Manchester United. And their fans.

Oh no, that's entirely rational actually.

Pensioners shopping in Tesco very slowly at the weekend - why don't they go in the week when I'm in work?

The smug couple on the train last night sniggering over a comedy programme they were watching on an iTouch through shared headphones.

People (including dh) who say haitch instead of aitch. As in "can we afford an haitch-dee tv?" Ans: "When you learn to pronounce it".

Having to pay £2.20 for hospital parking even if we're only there for half an hour.

Toilet paper on the wrong way round.

People who let their kids run around in resturants.

People who just stop dead when walking and wonder why you walk into the bad of them.

Two women (and it is always women) swimming two abreast talking but hardly moving - it is such a fag to get round them.

People who fanny around parking a car - How fuc*ing hard is it!!

Films on five them they cut for the news - and you have sky + it and forgotten to set the second half.

People that have waited in line for something for some time - when they get to the front of the line they don't have what is required and start checking pockets - be it Money or a ticket. I actually dream of just punching them in the head!!!

DH singing everything he knows as though he is Axl Rose

DH not knowing half the words to any song that he chooses to try and sing
(the bugger of it is that he actually has a decent voice so it could be quite pleasant apart from these points)

DH doing the drumbeat noise (sounds like music through someone else's headphones when they are on a train, IYKWIM)

Bowddee - me too - I even have to change it round if possible

Pictures that are hung wonky

People who say "ah well, I could get hit by a bus tomorrow" as an excuse for not doing anything to improve their health/size/life, especially when they are related to me!

The Moonpig advert

People who grunt, sniff, cough and just breathe noisily

Pleather handbags. The crappest thing EVER. Either make them leather or cotton.

The word "only" before a price - when that price is the same as it is everywhere else.

People who try to sell fake designer stuff on Gumtree with the "my boyfriend bought me this but it isnt my taste" line.

They also write things like RRP £350 for a Louis Vuitton bag [rolleyes]