What "Little Things" Really Irritate You?

[SetzKitten]

When people get up from the dinner table in the middle of a meal. DH does this all the time and it drives me insane. I go to the trouble of cooking a hot meal, the least he can do is sit down and eat it without getting up to feed the dog, answer the phone, check email, etc.

My work pet peeve is when people chase me into the ladies room with work questions.

 

[cdrn1]

My boss says "keep tract of" and "nip it in the butt" and "butt naked". And "step foot". I could go on and on. This morning the lady on the Weather Channel gestured toward South America and called it "Africa".

 

[Tigger&Belle]

Um, check out my thread on people not placing the divider bar after their groceries. I was told to read the book, "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff".

Well, I read the book a long time ago and you know what? It STILL TICKS ME OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOL, I right away thought of your thread when I saw the title!

For me, it's people who leave their carts blocking the aisle in the grocery store. Can't they just push it to the side. If it's then blocking some item a person wants to see then it can be scooted up.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

Everything bothers me. Maybe I should read the book about not sweating the small stuff. I'm not even kidding....every single thing bothers me.

In general I'm not this way, but I do find that as I get closer and closer to menopause that things bother me a lot more than they used to.

 

[jenm2878]

My neighbors letting their kids scream on the front lawn at 10 pm.

My (same) neighbors blasting their car radio when they come home at 2am EVERY night.

My cats having the inability to keep the litter IN the pan.

Bad grammer.

People talking in movies, plays, anywhere that should be quiet.

Kids kicking my chair the whole plane ride.

People not using turn signals.

My fiance's inability to wash a dish when he eats after I'm done with dishes - just sticks it in the water and walks away.

My friend in the cube next to mine banging on the 10 key like it personally affronted him.

People getting in the 12 items or less line with a cart full.

I'm sure there are plenty more I'm not thinking of right now.

 

[lulugirl]

People who don't say thank you after I have held the door open for them. It's particularly irritating when people don't say thank you after my 6yr old has held the door for them.

 

[AllyandJack]

In general I'm not this way, but I do find that as I get closer and closer to menopause that things bother me a lot more than they used to.

I'm wondering if it's the fertility medication making it worse for me. Granted, I was never patient and I never enjoyed being kicked in a movie theater or listening to someone snap gum on a 3 hour flight, but ever since I started the Clomid and all the injections, I'm ready to tear people apart.

 

[JoBird]

Probably going to be long, cause I am SUPER intolerant!
-People who rush past my children, trying to get around them, almost knocking them down...did you NOT see them????
-Cars parked on the road in front of homes when there is NOT ONE SINGLE CAR IN THE DRIVEWAY. Are you saving room for your friends in case they want to drop by? Funny, no one has been by in, like, a year
-People that blow through stop signs without even pretending to slow down, just to get in front of me, only to drive 10 miles under the speed limit and 20 miles slower than I want to go
-People that put the trash out for the garbage man the night before they come and animals get into it and I have to open my garage door and pretend I don't want to vomit so early in the morning from smelling yo' trash!
-Neighbors that refuse to mow, weed-eat, pull weeds from in front of their houses...ever heard of a gardener? No? I could give you a name...
-People who stop their carts in the middle of the busiest aisles in a store to eat a sample of something. PLEASE!! If you're that hungry, go to a drive thru!
-People that are intolerant...isn't that funny

There are many, many more...Give me a few minutes...

 

[Maleficent13]

Right now, my noisy new neighbors. I have no right to complain, because they're doing it during the afternoon/evening, but come on...do you really need to shout from the driveway to the person inside the house? Or SLAM your car door? Or carry on a conversation with the person next to you AT TOP VOLUME??

If I can hear you when I'm in my living room with the TV on, you're too darn loud!

 

[NMAmy]

I hate it when cashiers can't make change without the machine giving them the correct amount. I was a cashier in college (with an old cash register that didn't have this feature)--you ought to be able to count to 20.00 without being given the answer. My 14 yo knows how, why can't you?

My work one is when co-workers interrupt me when I'm assisting someone else. Yes, they may have a "quick" question (which, believe me, are NEVER quick) but I work on a first come, first served basis.

 

[halestrm]

The fact that there isn't a single person nearly as perfect as me! (see, I am also modest)

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[allie&mattsmom]

It absolutely drives my crazy when you're in a public place, i.e. a restaurant, airport, etc. and parents think that their children are so cute and too cute to be disciplined when they are disturbing others. I'll give you an example: In August, we were flying back from Disney. It was my mom and me with my DS who's eight sitting in between us. I am always aware of what my DS is doing so as to not bother anyone around us. I make him turn the sound on his Nintendo DS down so it's not heard by others, I make sure his feet don't push on the seat in front of us and I usually don't let him put his seat back. Sitting in front of us were three very obnoxiously loud people. They were even awful in the airport before we boarded and my mom and I were joking about what the odds were that we would get stuck right behind them. It was a mom, a Grandma and a five year old girl in between them (I know she was five because they had the flight attendant announce "Happy Birthday to so and so who is five today in row 16 C". The girl was playing with her seat, making it go up and down a zillion times when my son was trying to eat his snack and had his tray down. She screamed and yelled and talked snotty to her mom which her mom & grandma laughed about. Then here's the kicker, toward the end of the flight, the little girl unbuckled, stood up on her seat, turned around and yelled at the top of her lungs to my DS to stop pushing on her seat. Her mom started laughing and turned around smiling at me. I said, "Excuse me, but my DS doesn't have nor has he had his feet anywhere near her seat." The mom just shrugged her shoulders like "yeah, right, whatever." The mom thought it was adorable that her DD stood up and yelled at my son. She laughed about it! I was stunned and disgusted by this. Okay, my rant's over now. But those are types of things that make me nutty!!!

 

[jenm2878]

Right now, my noisy new neighbors. I have no right to complain, because they're doing it during the afternoon/evening, but come on...do you really need to shout from the driveway to the person inside the house? Or SLAM your car door? Or carry on a conversation with the person next to you AT TOP VOLUME??

If I can hear you when I'm in my living room with the TV on, you're too darn loud!

Do you live by me? Last night they were parked in the driveway with the car radio blaring Guns N Roses at 10pm. I could hear it with windows closed and tv on.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

I'm wondering if it's the fertility medication making it worse for me. Granted, I was never patient and I never enjoyed being kicked in a movie theater or listening to someone snap gum on a 3 hour flight, but ever since I started the Clomid and all the injections, I'm ready to tear people apart.

Oh, yes, you are hormonal!!! Hang in there and no that it should get better and at least it probably won't get worse!

 

[Tigger&Belle]

The fact that there isn't a single person nearly as perfect as me! (see, I am also modest)

Hey, I might not be, but I am close! At least my DH thinks so!

 

[allie&mattsmom]

I'm wondering if it's the fertility medication making it worse for me. Granted, I was never patient and I never enjoyed being kicked in a movie theater or listening to someone snap gum on a 3 hour flight, but ever since I started the Clomid and all the injections, I'm ready to tear people apart.

Clomid made me absolutely psycho! I hated it. It was like PMS time 10! Even the pergonal injections that I took later didn't affect me like the clomid.

 

[halestrm]

Hey, I might not be, but I am close! At least my DH thinks so!

I don't doubt it.

 

[JoBird]

Okay, here's the major one thing that is irritating the crap out of me right now...my neighbors are in DW as we speak and I am not!!!!
They even had the audacity to ask my DH to pick them up at the airport upon their return!!!! And I have to wait another 2+ months before I get to be in my "Happy Place".
Gloria Gaynor is singin' in my ear..."I will survive!"

 

[Jackie0824]

Oh goodie, I love this one...
Lets see
People who dont use their turn signals(you know, the cars which signals are optional)
Grown adults who crack their gum
People using the word "Aint"...makes me cringe
people who use the express lane in the grocery store, when they have like 50 item, and act like "Oh I didnt see that"(yeah right)
people dont clean up the dog poop when walking their dogs
people who smoke in front of their kids(Im not bashing smokers, just the ones who smoke in front of their kids)
gosh I could go on and on

 

[Tigger&Belle]

I don't doubt it.

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