[Closed] Things that annoy you but shouldn't

Went to the supermarket last night and got to the checkout and the person after me hadn't put the little divider out after my shopping. Drives me mad - lazy sods.

I was just about to start a similar thread, but in a petty Room 101 style! My three things are...

• Pathetic hand driers that fail spectacularly in the sole job they are designed to do.
• Frying pans in self catering accommodation - has anyone found a useable one!?
• People who park at petrol pumps, don't put fuel in and just go shopping for 20 minutes.

Pointless comments.

People who sit in Brewers Fayre Aldershot last night* / in general talking crap about how great they are to their colleague, in a voice loud enough to clearly indicate that are actually telling everyone on the whole room.

No wants to know how you wealded your awesome power to eject Sadie for your Sales pitch team you powerful man you, shut the **** up.

* I go to all the nice places :/

My colleague's stuff going over the border between our two desks and onto my desk. Particularly when I come back from a meeting / holiday and his stuff isn't just over the border it is, in fact, just on my desk. 👿 👿

people

McDonalds toilets designed by some weirdo who wants the person drying his hands to be able to closely monitor your urination technique.

the-muffin-man - Member

• People who park at petrol pumps, don't put fuel in and just go shopping for 20 minutes

This. Makes me incandescent with rage!! Or when they have put in fuel but then do a weekly shop for four. Pull off the pump ffs!

Drivers who don't know that wonderful stork on the steering column activates an INDICATOR that tells other drivers where you might be GOING!

The latest dyson combined tap/dryer in public toilets. It's like a trident with the tap in the middle and then ultra powerful dryers either side.

I can see the idea - dry your hands quickly at the basin so the water drips back into the basin. In reality the dryer goes off at the slightest bit of hand proximity, usually when you have soap on. Then the massive power of the dryer immediately turns the soap to foam and blasts it all over the room and into your face. Rubbish.

Poorly maintained garden hedges.
Particularly if they take up half the pavement .

People at the checkout who only start to look for their wallet/purse etc as/when told the total to be paid. FFS, you knew this was coming, have the card/cash ready. I should pick up what ever pudding they have in their bags and hurl it across the shop.

my wife

1. People who do a year's worth of accounting and bank transactions while standing at the bank machine.

2. People who take 45 minutes to check that they have everything after paying with coins at the automatic check-out.

3. People who do an airline-level check of everything before pulling away from the pump after filling up.

4. People who pause, then take off slowly from lights, causing me to almost go into their rear bumper - whether on a bike or in a car.

5. Cars.

Ohh and the person in the shared office toilets who switches the hand-drier off at the isolation switch every time they use it. Why?

Drivers who don't know that wonderful stork on the steering column activates an INDICATOR that tells other drivers where you might be GOING!

My car isn't equipped with a long legged wading bird that supposedly delivers babies.

Being given a receipt for minor purchases.
People who stand in doorways.

The supermarket divider - simply place your shopping on the band next to theirs and they will almost always put a divider down. If they don't, let your shopping mix with theirs and waste their time.

People who watch their shopping get scanned then wait to pay THEN start packing it.

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I leave my phone charger plugged in in my home office with just the wire sticking out on the desk as the plug is awkward to get at.

Someone uses this plug socket (there are other convenient ones in the room) to do the hoovering or similar and leaves it unplugged or switched off.

I cannot see this and do not realise until my phone dies. Grr.

People that pull out then don't accelerate up to a decent speed.
It's like they think "oh job done,nothing more to do,it's only a pushbike"

All the morons at the baggage carousel at the airport that seem to think you need to stand almost on top of it whilst waiting for your case. Stand back a couple of feet so we can all see the bags that are coming round and while we are at it how is your wife and 2 kids right beside you is that just to make the place even more crowded can they not wait a few feet at the back of you with the trolley.

• Pathetic hand driers that fail spectacularly in the sole job they are designed to do.

The whole ecosystem of that annoys me. It annoys me that those machines exist - that all through the design, prototyping and manufacture process nobody stops and thinks 'hang on - this hand drier we're going to make doesn't dry hands'. Even though their business is called 'World Dryer' and thats their only job.

And the distributor doesn't think - 'this hand dryer doesn't dry hands'

And the retailer does't think about that

And whoever specs and and installs it doesn't

And whoever manages and maintains the premises doesn't seem to care either - just send it back as unfit for purpose you idiot. They don't deserve your money.

The whole of the journey from the germ of the idea to the moment you're standing there pointlessly waving your hands in some warm breath has just been one colossal mexican wave of shrugged shoulders.

Motorists who, when it's raining, just turn the car off leaving the wipers in the middle of the screen.

People at airport security checks who get to the scanners and then ask whether they have to take their laptops out of their hand luggage/keys and wallet out of pocket etc etc. There are a million signs, several people and tannoy announcements telling you to do so before you get to this point! 👿

[s]Motorists[/s] Wives who, when it's raining, just turn the car off leaving the wipers in the middle of the screen, which in winter causes them to freeze to the screen in that position and then when you turn the car on in the morning they try to move but are stuck which ****s them up and you keep doing this despite your husband asking you not to because he's got better things to do than sort out your wipers day after day after day.

People who randomly stop in the middle of the street right in front of me, then turn around into me.

Actually, on second thoughts

[s]Motorists[/s] Wives [s]who, when it's raining, just turn the car off leaving the wipers in the middle of the screen, which in winter causes them to freeze to the screen in that position and then when you turn the car on in the morning they try to move but are stuck which **** them up and you keep doing this despite your husband asking you not to because he's got better things to do than sort out your wipers day after day after day.[/s] in general.

Slow walking people down narrow walkways or people standing in busy areas such as tube stations or train stations directly in the way of people trying to get where they are going while staring blankly at something. "Out of the blinking way! Man with an agenda here!"

People walking 2 or 3 abreast (!) down a pavement when you are walking towards them and they don't move which pushes you onto the road to walk.

Generally, people who are not self aware.

On the subject of windscreens...

My wife's Fiesta has one of those heated windscreens that defrost quickly, I don't 👿

Bad driving that I see that has no effect on me whatsoever. Could be a few cars ahead, or going the opposite direction! Why? Why do I get annoyed by it?!

- fog lights on front or rear
- anyone in a post office with a plastic bag full of bills still in their envelopes who have come to pay a million bills. And just when you think they've finished the server asks 'is there anything else I can help you with', 'yes, can I have £3billion out of my account in £1 coins - bastards.
- incorrect use of their/they're/your/you're etc
- drivers that creep forward at lights then when the lights change to 'go' they take an hour to move off
- people who exaggerate

People waiting for the useless piece of paper after cash at a cashpoint.

• Pathetic hand driers that fail spectacularly in the sole job they are designed to do.

The whole ecosystem of that annoys me. It annoys me that those machines exist - that all through the design, prototyping and manufacture process nobody stops and thinks 'hang on - this hand drier we're going to make doesn't dry hands'. Even though their business is called 'World Dryer' and thats their only job.

And the distributor doesn't think - 'this hand dryer doesn't dry hands'

And the retailer does't think about that

And whoever specs and and installs it doesn't

And whoever manages and maintains the premises doesn't seem to care either - just send it back as unfit for purpose you idiot. They don't deserve your money.

The whole of the journey from the germ of the idea to the moment you're standing there pointlessly waving your hands in some warm breath

6 out of 10 up to here. But I'd give you 2 bonus points just for this

has just been one colossal mexican wave of shrugged shoulders

8/10

- drivers that creep forward at lights then when the lights change to 'go' they [u]take an hour to move off
- people who exaggerate[/u]
Ironing

The whole of the journey from the germ of the idea to the moment you're standing there pointlessly waving your hands in some warm breath has just been one colossal mexican wave of shrugged shoulders

😆 😆

That's some gem writing there. Coffee snort funny. 9/10

- drivers that creep forward at lights then when the lights change to 'go' they take an hour to move off
- people who exaggerate
Ironing

Yes, obvs

Brilliant!!!

The whole ecosystem of that annoys me. It annoys me that those machines exist - that all through the design, prototyping and manufacture process nobody stops and thinks 'hang on - this hand drier we're going to make doesn't dry hands'. Even though their business is called 'World Dryer' and thats their only job.

And the distributor doesn't think - 'this hand dryer doesn't dry hands'

And the retailer does't think about that

And whoever specs and and installs it doesn't

And whoever manages and maintains the premises doesn't seem to care either - just send it back as unfit for purpose you idiot. They don't deserve your money.

The whole of the journey from the germ of the idea to the moment you're standing there pointlessly waving your hands in some warm breath has just been one colossal mexican wave of shrugged shoulders.

- Petrol station pump design. In the past you could go to any pump and they swung out over your car if the filler was on the wrong side. None seem to do this anymore.
- People that put their side lights on. What is the poiint of side lights anyway?

Our local supermarket has a section of parent and child spaces tucked around the side of the shop, down a dead-end section of road, because it's fairly narrow and a dead-end there's a hatched box at the end (next to a space) that can be used to turn around if you drive down and there are no spaces left (otherwise you have to reverse back out, across a zebra crossing and onto the main route around the carpark while trying to avoid morons with trolleys). The selfish ****'s that park in that box really piss me off* (even if there's a space and I don't need to turn around at the end)!

*this is made worse by the fact that I cannot do anything like poo on their windscreen because I'm meant to be an adult and set a good example for my children 👿

They're a legal requirement, from the olden days, but otherwise I concur. Most DRL's are brighter than sidelights, so they're now doubly pointless.

Small children.

Use of the word pavement to describe a footway.
A pavement is a paved surface, so a paved carriageway is also a pavement.

the little divider

When I push the hand towel into the plastic holder that looks like a cat's bottom, and it immediately falls on the floor. Grr.

post arrives, post is opened, junk mail is identified to go in the recycling, legitimate mail is kept and placed on pile/in draw as appropriate, but then WHY THE ACTUAL FLIP do you also put the torn open and now empty envelopes for the legitimate mail in the pile/draw as well instead of in the recycling with the junk mail you strange and unfathomable wife!?!?!

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Work

People who walk though shopping centres not looking where the are going (eg. staring at their PHONE) and expect everyone else to be looking where [i]they[/i] are going to move out of their selfish ignorant little way.

Actually, that is something I [i]should[/i] get annoyed about

All the morons at the baggage carousel at the airport that seem to think you need to stand almost on top of it whilst waiting for your case. Stand back a couple of feet so we can all see the bags that are coming round and while we are at it how is your wife and 2 kids right beside you is that just to make the place even more crowded can they not wait a few feet at the back of you with the trolley

THIS!!

Because, unless you own the whole fricking carousel of luggage, just stand back, watch your bag come near, take it, and stand back again...

The thing moves at 2mph, and you know what - if you 'miss' you bag, it'll be back again soon enough....

Arrggghhh.....
If there's one thing that would actually spark a mass killing spree in me, it's this...

DrP

in the pile/draw

pedants

It seems wives/OH play a big part in our frustration(s)

Why does she press the back button on her phone many times instead of the home button. Some person spent their time putting it on the screen in a good place to shortcut multiple presses but she just ignores it.

Not being able to reverse out of the drive in one move. We have only lived in this house for 13 years, maybe she will learn to do it soon.

Use of the word 'common sense' in the perception that it is common, when it seems to be given out to lss people in the gene pool.

My children.

Despite being seemingly mature enough to grasp some pretty heavyweight intellectual concepts, they seem completely and stubbornly oblivious to some of the simpler ones.

Just put your shoes on. Daddy's going to be late for work. 😡

in the pile/draw

People who call a drawer a draw.

I get annoyed by students. I work at a uni and they're back on Monday 😐

DezB - Member

People who walk though shopping centres not looking where the are going (eg. staring at their PHONE) and expect everyone else to be looking where they are going to move out of their selfish ignorant little way.

Actually, that is something I should get annoyed about

My new game is to see how many of these people I can accidently bump into, I tend to then smile shrug and carry on walking

makes me smile

People who spend an absolute fortune for a gig/festival ticket then spend the whole time gassing to their mates when the band is playing.Sometimes the hubbub is louder than the music-thinking Cambridge Folk Festival tent here. Disrespectful to the artists in my opinion.

People who at work spend all day sorting out doctors, dentists, ringing up booking meals out and other private stuff. I assumed being at work was to do work not sort out your social life.

People who shout down the phone when having a conversation.

People who put luggage in the designated cycle rack on trains; and then lock it to the rail.

Folk who do not get out of the way when getting off the train. (pedals on ankles usually does the trick)

People who call a drawer a draw.

people who mistake my haste and auto-correct as intention.

Is this thread not just going to end with the conclusion that we all hate everyone, including each other?

Nah, other people are fine, it's me that's the issue, I'm the one that hates them 😉

stevied - Member
On the subject of windscreens...

My wife's Fiesta has one of those heated windscreens that defrost quickly, I don't

I believe it's a Ford owned / licensed conecpt, i.e. many / most Fords have it, only other cars that do have licensed from Ford and are expensive. Your car must not be good enough. 🙁

- Norwich bloody Council whose way to create cycle paths and move cyclists off the road is to paint a white line down the centre of the pavement and make you ride amongst the pedestrians (and in particular dog-walkers).

- People who buy houses in my rural village, which is surrounded by farm land, then complain that tractors move slowly and that occasionally the place smells of fertiliser or silage!

- Motorists that "HAVE" to overtake you on the bike despite knowing that 10 yards after they've overtaken you they are turning left, and that they are going to make that left turn so slowly you have to brake to avoid riding into their nearside.

- That bloody surface dressing that Councils use instead of properly tarmacing the road, whoever thought that up should be hung/ drawn/ quartered and stone chipped!! Especially on the road into work, where they have done it around parked cars, so there is a visible step and loads of excess hasn't been swept away as they can't get to it, no punctures for nearly 2500 miles, then 8 in a week.

- People of a "certain age" who buy 2.0 litre cars then insist of driving them at 30mph despite a changing speed limit.

- People who see a 30mph sign ahead, and instead of slowing gradually drive to the sign and brake hard!

Can you tell i am an angry man today........?

People stand in doorways and thoroughfares, especially when they act all defensive if you say "excuse me", there's no malice in my words, I don't say things in a snide way to use nice words to say nasty things - just move please or I'll shoulder barge you.

My Wife and Son who are INCAPABLE of closing a door - middle of winter, "just popping to the car to get..." front door wide open, frozen gale tearing through the house, all because they can't be arsed to close the door behind them. Worst still if I dare drop them anywhere like to the Cash-Machine, door left open, rendering it immobile blocking the way for everyone else, exposing the rest of us to the elements, lazy lazy lazy, even worse going to Aunt Mabel's to drop a card in - they know full well if caught in the act they will be there AT LEAST an hour - door open - no it's okay Love, I'll get out, walk around and close it for you.

People who queue in traffic, glued the the rear bumper of the car in front, I don't know if they're worried someone is going to pull of a daring 3mph over-take and get in front of them, or they think they can use proximity to push the cars in front along - but in doing so they've blocked the other side of the road, meaning the cars going the other way can't get passed, which means the very thing they're trying to get past - can't clear. LEAVE A GAP YOU WUCKING FANKERS.

People who drive on the wrong side of the road to clear parked cars with absolute confidence that it's their right of way *because* and present themselves to on coming traffic (closing speed of 60mph) at the last moment - hey, lets all kill each other for the sake of being a dick.

People who go massively super agro at the first sign of resistance, they're a dying breed thankfully, but when 'The Apprentice' was still popular every young suited prick I had the misfortune of working with thought it was the done thing to be super confrontational and demanding. Nope, GFY.

People who've replaced every single Verb in their vocabulary with "Do" can you "Do" me a cup of tea - what the **** is that??

People who say "Get" when they mean "Have" "Hiiiii, get I get a cheese burger" - "Sadly not Sir, this is a Cafe, I'll have to get it for you".

I could go on for hours, I'm getting madder as I write it - but I've actually failed. None of these things "shouldn't annoy" me - they really should, tolerance is a wonderful thing, but I refuse to tolerate the inconsiderate and the rude. I know our Lexicon is a constantly evolving thing, but it should be growing, not retracting If people want to willingly giving up their education and upbringing by reducing their vocabulary in favour of lazy Teen Americanisms, that's up to them, but I refuse to join in.

Dom Little wood. Steve Wright.
Folk stealing a living pedaling the same old rope for the last 30 years

My wife's constant use of the phase "oh yer" in a seemingly defeatist attitude towards everything at the moment

Wants to enroll on a college course, I tell her to go enquire "oh yer" no just ****ing go enroll!!

Can you pick some shopping up, put petrol in the car, drop me off some where

I'm not asking you to perform ****ing keyhole surgery, just ****ing get it done

- Motorists that "HAVE" to overtake you on the bike despite knowing that 10 yards after they've overtaken you they are turning left, and that they are going to make that left turn so slowly you have to brake to avoid riding into their nearside.

I encountered one of those last night. Absolute bellends.

People who stop in a queue at traffic lights leaving a big gap in front of them, then once I've stopped behind them decide to move up and fill the gap THAT THEY SHOULD HAVE BLOODY WELL FILLED IN THE FIRST PLACE!!

People who stop in a queue at traffic lights leaving a big gap in front of them, then once I've stopped behind them decide to move up and fill the gap

People who stop in a queue at traffic lights leaving a big gap in front of them, then once I've stopped behind them decide to move up and fill the gap

I think people do this to give themselves space in the event that you come up behind too quickly (ie, they can then drive on a bit to avoid a collision). I do it on motorways if the traffic suddenly slows/stops. (I wouldn't do it in normal town driving though).

Possibly for some, but given that most of them seem to have their head down tapping away at their handbrake or something (couldn't possibly be a phone, that'd be illegal) it's probably not why most of 'em do it!

Still annoys me out of all proportion to the actual act though 😈

All the morons at the baggage carousel at the airport that seem to think you need to stand almost on top of it whilst waiting for your case. Stand back a couple of feet so we can all see the bags that are coming round and while we are at it how is your wife and 2 kids right beside you is that just to make the place even more crowded can they not wait a few feet at the back of you with the trolley
THIS!!

I actually avoid going on holiday because this annoys me so much!

John Humphrey

Humphrey Cushion

- People who see a 30mph sign ahead, and instead of slowing gradually drive to the sign and brake hard!

They also brake hard at average speed cameras ,dafties 🙂

Cushions!

We have a quote tool at work that assigns a 7 digit number to each quote, sequentially.

When I started, it was at 8134xxx (can't remember the exact one) they started at 8000000.
We are now (8.5 years later) at 8945xxx.

I was very excited at the prospect of producing quote number 8888888 (yes, I know...)and had worked out roughly when it would be (we produce around 400 quotes a day). The week before, I get a letter about a doctors appointment that is scheduled for the afternoon I expect the number to be produced. Luckily it was early afternoon, they were running on time and i got a clear run of traffic back to work after, only to have miss it by 17 quotes...

Further to that, we are implementing a new tool in the next couple of weeks, so I won't have the satisfaction of having a quote number that starts with a 9, or pass the 'million quotes produced' mark, for both me or the company.

Not a big issue, but it grates...

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Peter Cushin'

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Flip-flops - specifically people who come home from holiday wearing them. Probably seemed like a great idea when you left the all-inclusive in Corfu but not so smug now you're feet are being mangled by the escalator are they? And yes, you will wish you'd put your trainers on when you have to wade through the puddles of Manchester rain on the way to the car. Next year, leave them in your stupid 4-wheeled suitcase and put yer wellies on to come home.

I was very excited at the prospect of producing quote number 8888888 (yes, I know...)and had worked out roughly when it would be (we produce around 400 quotes a day). The week before, I get a letter about a doctors appointment that is scheduled for the afternoon I expect the number to be produced. Luckily it was early afternoon, they were running on time and i got a clear run of traffic back to work after, only to have miss it by 17 quotes...

I was similarly annoyed that I was distracting myself with the trivial matters of control of the the vehicle and the safety and well being of others and missed the odometer on my van clicking over to 333,333. I'd only kept it for the last 33,333 miles because I'm missed to clicking over to 300,000 too.

Grumpy Old Men

Not an annoyance. Just an observation 🙂

The mad scrum in the Lidls and Aldis of this world when they open another check out when there is a long queue. Civility just seems to go straight out of the window. The