What things annoy you in others?

[breeze]

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?

SnoobyKat - I hope I am about to make your life a little less stress filled - that scandanavian housewares retailer normally has a (very well hidden) shortcut near the beginning of the showrooms, allowing you to bypass all that and go straight to the real shopping......HTH

When people ask you a question and you say you don't know, so they rephrase the question as if suddenly the answer will appear in your brain if they ask it a different way. Aargh!

1. People who let their dogs poo right outside our front door (or anyone else's);
2. Men (always men!) who take up both armrests on the plane or train, squashing you into a miniscule amount of space - as if women just don't have a right to use the armrest, too;
3. People who sit in a traffic jam with their hand on the horn - as if this will hurry things up. Now I've started, I could rant on for ages, but I'll spare you the rest.

Financial services telesales at mealtimes.
People parking in baby spaces.
The woman in aforementioned Swedish furniture store who twice ran into my DS (in his daytripper) with her trolley.
Builders who topdress a heap of rubble and then call it a garden.
People who drive past the local tip to flytip their rubbish.
People who throw litter from car windows.
Whoever keeps putting the glass through the bus shelter at the end of our road - not only renders the bus shelter useless but makes the pavement dangerous to walk on, especially for toddlers.
People who walk across the front of a pushchair and then give you a dirty look.

People who say "you know so-and-so" and when you say you don't they say "yes, of course you do, he walks down our street all the time!"

People who have no personal radar in supermarkets.

People who won't go at a roundabout until there is absolutely nothing coming from any direction.

People who don't signal on roundabouts (because they know where they're going so you should too, presumably. And changing lanes on the motorway. DH does this, I always want to reach over and do it for him.) (He chews gum with his mouth open too. Ugh.)

Telesales people who are "using-a-script-but-can't-read-very-well-and-deliver-the-whole-thing-in-a-monotone-including-the-pauses-for-you-to-say-something-back". I used to say no thanks and hang up ASAP but now I let them carry on, without saying anything, until they've finished and go "hello?"

(I had one this week trying to sell products for people with mobility problems, arthritis, back pain etc, when I said we didn't have any she sounded quite incredulous, it worried me a bit, where did she get our phone number from??)

People who smoke in the fenced off area of the children's playground and then leave their dirty cigarette butts (some half-smouldering) on the floor for my toddler to pick up and try putting in his mouth. ARGH!

1. Companies who do not put Ms as an option on their forms. My bank is especially bad at this, despite numerous requests, they insist on calling me Miss or Mrs. It just makes me seethe.

2. Gossiping shop assistants. Especially "Customer Services" in my local Tesco who insisted on gossiping for 10 minutes while the queue grew longer and longer. When we protested the reply we got was "We're very busy you know".

3. Car drivers who seem to think that any cycle is just asking to be knocked over. Chief amongst this is the woman who knocked me off my bike by turning in front of me then only stopped when chased down by some bystanders. She then had the cheek to say it was my fault as I did not indicate. What for? I was going straight ahead, I had the right of way!

4. Motoring organisations who campaign for the removal of speed cameras as it interfers with drivers' right to speed and BREAK THE LAW!!!

5. Boy racers

6. People who know me well but insist on calling me Mrs DH even though I made it very clear at the time we got married that I was not changing my name.

Must stop before I burst a blood vessel

1. medical consultants who have no social skills

2. medical consultants who do not believe what you say about your last appt ( they were not there) until they find it in your notes and then repeat back to you exactly what you just told them!!

Guess where I had to take dd today?!?!

eidsvold

Can I just add. So called professionals (yep including consultants) who say "you know your child best" and then procede to ignore absolutely everything you say and tell you you are wrong.

Oh silly me I must have just imagined that my son understands me when I talk to him then, and I must just imagine it when he plays appropriately with his toys and I must just imagine it when he tries to talk but can't pronounce anything. Aggggghhhhhh

I absolutely cannot abide people who constantly chew gum and keep chewing it while speaking to you; I used to get parents doing it at parents' evenings sometimes and occasionally I would just stare at their mouths and wait until they asked what was wrong ( I am a teacher btw ). Then I would explain, very politely of course, not wanting to get beaten senseless, that I was unable to understand as their speech was being obscured by their gum. Varied reactions I have to say but I never regretted it....A major offender in this hideous habit is Alex Ferguson - yuk !!!!!!!!

Litter droppers, people who smoke while you are still eating in restaurants, people who use ghastly modern expressions like "factor in' ,people who read the Daily Mail, misused apostrophes, people who talk on their mobile phone while driving......I'd better stop as I'm getting furious and nothing has even happened !!!!!!!!

Ooh yes - Alex Fergusson chewing - yuk!

I'm chewing gum as I read this. Tailgaters - love just touching the brakes all the time and slowing down just to see them get all het up.

I normally have loads of these, must get in rant mode

Alex Ferguson alone - yuk!

Bozza, when I lived near a football ground (Southampton) we used to throw the rubbish back into the cars of offenders who dumped their fag packets/lager cans...in the days before widespread use of electric windows it was amusing to see them trying to wind up the windows super-fast

Bundle, I am from Portsmouth, so if we were men, we wouldn't be talking would we?.

spose not Breeze, but I'm originally from NW England, lived in Cardiff for 5 yrs, Soton for 3yrs and now a norf Londoner bit of a mongrel then!

Donnie are you my twin??

A couple of coping strategies: When people say "Isn't he walking yet?", smile briskly and say "Nope, he's retarded" This shut up my mil like you wouldn't believe. obviously it's a terrible thing to say in front of your child, but it does nip the problem in the bud, and it's no worse than what they said. On trains, use a notebook computer. It wins back space from fat male Daily Mail readers like you wouldn't believe. In supermarket car parks, smile sympathetically at fat women pulling into the child spaces with no children and say "Those regular spaces are awfully narrow if you're a bit on the lardy side, aren't they?"

neighbours that keep putting anonymous notes(we live in a semi!!!)through the letter box instead of knocking on the door and telling us what the problem is

Drivers (quite possibly male ) who see a great opportunity to overtake when I pull in to the side of the road on hearing the siren of a police car / ambulance / fire engine approaching from behind ...

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People on the tube who don't stand up for pregnant women (of which I happen to be one, but that's beside the point). Especially the ones who have seen you (and you know they have) and then close their eyes for the rest of the journey and pretend they haven't.

I've tried sticking my (admittedly relatively small at the moment, but unmistakable) bump in their faces, and I'm thinking of getting a badge made up saying "Yes I am, please offer me a seat".

Slug, totally agree with the Ms one (that would be enough to make me change my bank), also hate people who reply to 'My name is x x' with 'Is that Miss or Mrs?'. Never get Mrs DH, thank god.

Telesales people who call at teatime/child's bedtime (mothercare was a stinker at that until I wrote a disgusted-from-tunbridge-wells letter - 5 times at 7pm in the first month of dd's life). Telesales people who ring back endlessly if a) you hang up on them b) you interupt them mid-flow c) your husband answers and tells them you're not interested.

Any form where you fill in your name and address and they don't give you a box to tick if you don't want junk mail. Any company that ignores the tick until you threaten to report them under the data protection act.

Councils who sell off the electrol role to junk mailers (we know this because dh's name is spelt wrong on role).

Those annoying people who jump out on you on the street asking if you've been involved in any accidents (only the one where I beat someone from claimsdirect roughly over the head). In fact claimsdirect and their kind altogether.

The BBC running adverts for their own programmes when they're already running late because of the football.

I think I'd better stop now...

Is there anyone out there who doesn't get annoyed by telesales calls which always seem to be made between 7 - 8pm?. I find it amazing to think that anyone, with or without children would welcome calls like this in the evening. Why do they do it?