What things annoy you in others?

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Thought I would start another interesting thread, this morning while out with DS, I got stuck down a road where a taxi was picking someone up, I must have waited 2 minutes, only for the taxi driver to drive off and me noticing that 4 doors up there was a space that he could of easily parked into. This drives me nuts.

Also when you are waiting for a lift and the lift button is alight, someone else will come and press it, sometimes over and over again, thinking that doing so the lift will come quicker. This also applied when you are waiting at a crossing with several other people, and someone comes along and presses it ahhhh.

Any other out there?

Try living with my DH mum2toby, it sounds as though he has a micro-phone attached to his mouth.

People who chat on their mobiles in the cinema, in the middle of the film and have the cheek to swear at you when you ask them to be quiet!!!!

mums who do nothing about their kids headlice,keep getting letters every single week

....people who can easily use the escalator in the department store filling up the lift and leaving no room for people with buggies or wheelchairs...
....people who use bus shelters as smoking shelters in the rain, leaving me the choice of getting wett or inhaling their smoke...
....my boss breathing (sorry it's been a bad day)...

mum2toby, thats my pet horror too. I have hung up on people and told them to call me back once they've finished their lunch! bleurghhh!With some people who I won't name and shame here, I have to put music on while we're eating so I don't have to hear them!

Good thread ...
I have 3

1. People behind you who toot a second after the traffic light has gone green ... makes my blood boil.
2. People who smoke in cars with small children inside ... just let me at 'em
3. Locked public toilet doors on Railway station platforms ... Oooooooh .... now that makes me want to scream! I gave a platform guard at Woking station a choice at Christmas "Well, either you find the person with the key and let us in OR my son will wee right here on the platform outside your little office" (where, incidentally there were 4 other platform guards drinking coffee and smoking ..) Why do they do that? Lock the doors of the toilets I mean, not drink coffee and smoke!!

What about people driving cars with unrestrained children - ie, no carseats or seatbelts, even with tiny children sitting on laps. Do these people have no brains?

Xhaused, I saw this today. Not only were there 5 children unrestrained, some of them were in the back of a ford transit van which had no seats or seat beths. The two women with them were weighed down with gold chains. One was wearing a cross which was 6 inches in length, with 5-6 other chains. Conservativly they were wearing about £200 worth of gold each, but didn't think it was worth spending 30-50 on a car seat for the kids. I was horrified.

People who comment on my 14 month old son..."isn't he walking YET!".." a big boy like you should be walking by now!". This happened today and I am really fed up of these remarks.

GRRR

People who phone you up and just say hello without telling you who they are because they think I have got all day to hang around playing guessing games. I have been so tempted to hang up on my sil when she does this.

Comments like 'Ah so he's an only child then?' (My ds is only 4 & yes I would LOVE another but not always so easy to fall pregnant is it?!) & another classic 'Just the one then? You really should have a baby brother or sister for him!!' Argh! - that feels better- thanks!

Ooh, mine is people who ring up (used to be worse when I worked in an office admittedly) and say, 'Who's that" I always said, 'You rang me, who are you?" in a none too friendly tone. Sometimes, if very tetchy, I would put the phone down. when someone toots me at the lights when they've just turned green, I stay there until the very last moment in the hope they will get stuck. Petty, moi?

On the subject of phone calls - people who ring up, all chummy, announcing their first name only, lot of 'how are you today' ......... & then you realise they are trying to sell you something.

People who leave their car motors running for ages when stopped; polluting the atmosphere, wasting lots of fuel. I swear fuel must be very cheap in Britain for people to use their cars like space heaters. Worst of all when someone is being dropped off & then the driver and previous-passenger chat for ages while engine spews toxins into the air... Noisy, smelly.... ARRRRGGGGhhhhh!

People who ask really stupid questions like "your back then" or when you drenched "still raining outside then", I really have to bite my lip so I do not say something sarky.

zebra - that really gets my goat too - we live next to a builder's yard and at lunchtime there's generally at least one van parked outside our place engine running (presumably for the heating) window open (?huh?) & radio full blast. It makes it real awful in the house if the windows are open. Last summer I was out most days, babe in arms, asking some hairy a*sed builder to turn their engine off - usually got their rubbich dumped in our drive for my troubles...
... and there's another thing - litter louts - Argghhhh

Ooh yes janeway ... the amount of times I have told youngsters in the street to pick up their litter! I feel like a right old bag when I do it but I can't stand litter bugs ... especially when they drop their ice cream wrappers right outside the shop where there is a bin 4 feet away!!!

Zippyb ... I have that too and it is annoying isn't it ?... When I had a miscarriage last year someone said, "Oh well, at least you've got one - that's the main thing!" She was trying to be nice but it upset me more than anything else did at the time!

I've got another one ...
Moody people - just can't bear it when people are moody around me ... When they get into a mood and go all quiet and say tersely, "No, I'm fine!" and "No, it's nothing!" When it is SO obvious that they are in a mood about something - I HATE IT!!!! It makes me feel terrible and all I want to do is run screaming for the hills (which is a bit difficult when I am staying with my MIL who is the Moody Queen!)

ZippyB, Exactly. Doesn't it make you want to spit? DS is only 17 months and I'm getting comments like that already. I feel like telling them it was a B**y Miracle I have him. Aaaagh! The other thing that really annoys me is when they realise my age (37) they say "Ooo you left it late then .... career girl were we?" Aaagh! Aaagh! Then DS wonders why Mummy is throwing herself on the ground kicking & screaming! ;-)

men that sit with their legs wide open on buses or trains
delivery men that cant tell you at what time theyre coming and even worse when they dont phone to tell you theyre not coming

This is such a good thread!

What about people who say, when your child is about to start playgroup ...... what are you going to do with yourself......... as if by leaving him/her for 2.5 hours 3 mornings a week, getting there (going in for a chat/being allocated your 'share' of the running tasks of the playgroup), getting home again ....... you're going to have enough time to do a quick bit of housework and, if you're lucky, grab a coffee and a look at the paper before going back to collect ..... are you really supposed to fit in a rewarding and lucrative career as well!

Lindy, you mean you don't wander around aimlessly not knowing what to do with yourself when your children are at playgroup, crying into their clothes and remembering their smell? Or perhaps you go and have your hair done and have a manicure ... daaarling! LOL

Futurity - I know what you mean. My son started off bottom shuffling in a weird way and didn't start crawling until he was 13 months old. He started walking around 17 months.
The number of older people who said there must be something wrong because he wasn't crawling, walking or whatever and have I talked to the HV about it. Grrrrr!
Other things that annoy me:

• Tailgaters
• Men spitting on pavements
• Child free people parking in Parent/Toddler parking
• Cashiers at Sainsburys near me who don't help out when you've got a child with you. Tesco are SO much more child-friendly -Automatic shop doors that are constantly broken down
• Broken down lifts in shops. You're told to use the service lift and are promptly escorted up but when it comes to wanting to get down you have to wait 10-15 mins for someone to escort you down. Last time my son got very impatient and just bawled - the service got a little quicker!

Oh dear, most of these things annoy me too.

Aloha - the phone thing annoys me too. In fact people who are rude on the phone generally, like people who simply hang up when they have a wrong number (you can at least say sorry).

Litter is a big one too, but I've never had the guts to tell anyone off for it like you, Ghosty. Perhaps i should.

And don't get me started on tailgaters. Especially the ones who indicate right (well, left in Spain) to let you know they want to overtake. Obviously they are unaware of the enormous lorry in the way.

oh another one - people who don't know their raod rules when it comes to roundabouts - mini or otherwise - you think in the UK land of roundabouts people would know how to use them and to indicate correctly!!

people who are amazed when assuming my dh and I will only have one child (dd - heart defect and down syndrome) - we would definitely not consider another child!!