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Things that are really of no consequence, but cause you disproportionate levels of urinary steam.
I'll start:
Lattes (do you want milk in your coffee? This has always been possible, it's called a white coffee)
Men who carry change in purses/wallets when they have perfectly good pockets (it's just wrong)
Sitting in the office when there are lovely dusty dry trails out there just begging to be ridden.
Actually that's not petty, that's serious business.
People who think a latte and a white coffee are the same thing
Coffee snobs.
Being asked if I want my americano with milk.
The office juniors (one "boy", one girl) in the office nattering about their kids all morning, and not answering the phone. It's like loose women in here! 👿
Women (because let's face it, it is) who insist on packing all their shopping before rummaging in their bags to find their purse to find a card to pay.
1/ You stood in the queue already, why not find it then?
2/ Break off from packing to pay, it'll take a few seconds for the card to connect in which time you can do some more packing, then come back for the pin entry, then pack a bit more. The way you do it, it's dead time where you're waiting for the card reader with nothing else to do (except feel my eye-daggers).
3/ YOU'RE the ones who are supposed to be able to multi-task! Not me.
Its Friday. The suns out! I'm on an early finish! And theres a nice bakery down the road, where pastry based lunch beckons.
Nothing can irritate me at the moment!
I even remained calm last night while watching Louise Mensch on This Week. Thats zen-like for me! 😀
Edit: Though theotherjonv does have a very valid point. Why do women at checkouts actually look genuinelly suprised to be asked for a method of payment for the trolley full of shopping they've just put through. Like the thought had never occured to them before that exact point? And only then start rummaging in their now obligatory massive 'hand'bags, that contain god only knows what!
Kids not switching off lights/tv/anything they just used. 👿
[i]People who think a latte and a white coffee are the same thing [/i]
For the majority of people who order them, they are.
People who think the distinction between a latte and a white coffee is important 😉
People who leave massive gaps at traffic lights, those gaps mean people at the back don't get through on that green.
Receptionists who answer the phone before seeing to the person stood in front of them.
There were only two fig rolls left to have with my mid-morning cup of tea today.
People smoking around kids. I know it is none of my business but it just winds me up.
People who blame everyone but themselves. You have more influence over yourself than anything or anyone else, if you don't like your life do something about it.
Fat people who make fat kids. If you're fat, that's fine, your choice, but don't feed your kids the kind of crap food that means they too will be fat.
People that talk on their mobile phones on trains. The entire carriage is in silence but some braying peacock thinks the entire train needs to hear every wonderful detail of their life at a volume that even The Who would have considered excessive at their peak.
Friday's.
Hang on, we're straying into important things here like public health.
[i]There were only two fig rolls left to have with my mid-morning cup of tea today. [/i]
That's better.
The fog horn sitting behind me who likes the sound of her own voice too much.
[i]That's better. [/i]
*is pleased that I've passed the pettiness test*
Women (because let's face it, it is) who insist on packing all their shopping before rummaging in their bags to find their purse to find a card to pay
YES!
It's not just shopping. Massive queue for anything and they will invariably wait until the transaction is almost complete before getting their purse out instead of utilising the dead time in the queue TO ACTUALLY BE ****ING READY
People saying "can I get?" in shops/cafes
People that really should know the difference between square metres and metres squared but don't(most Quantity Surveyors IME)
The phrase "in terms of"
I could go on.....
I got a
'My Bad'
in Screwfix yesterday.
I think he heard my teeth grinding 'cos he didn't do it again.
People who sit right on my rear bumper through 30 / 40 mph limits (which I pretty much always stick to) then disappear as soon as we enter an NSL with corners, only to hurtle up behind me again at the next 30.
Although it doesn't really irritate me as such, it just amuses me. Maybe I'm quite hard to irritate.
Oh, and tights. And specifically the inventor of tights.
When their predecessor was so much more artistically pleasant, why did you have to **** it up for us?
The fact 'my mate' still hasn't paid me for the airport hotel / parking before we went skiing.
Being offered the afternoon off on a day when I'm desperately in need of rest and so can't think of something to do.
Oh, and people who get annoyed when I don't overtake cyclists until there's a good gap. That does irritate me a bit.
Driving to Woburn Sands for a lovely evening of riding on a warm, sunny spring day then splitting the sidewall of my rear type 1 mile in.
People who use the word literally incorrectly....and frequently.
Folk selling very well used bib shorts and such like on "bike parts for sale" facebook page for proper money
Beatboxing.
There was a beatboxing busker at the top of Whitehall yesterday. I'm sure beatboxing has a proud heritage of fighting off oppression and creating your own entertainment with no money in US ghettos, but when you've got hundreds of quids worth of amp, mike and backing equipment to make it sound more tolerable? Just **** off and buy a proper instrument, you eejit.
If I want to hear someone making farting and squeaking noises with their mouth who expects me to be impressed, I'll go and look after my toddler cousin.
People who continue their mobile phone conversations while in the office toilets. Just had this happen as I was contemplating in trap #1.
Bloke walks in to toilets:
"Yes, Mike says <blah>"
"I'm just popping into the toilets"
"<blah"
"No, it's OK, I'm using a headphone"
"You sure? OK, I'll call you back"
The other party was the one who wanted to terminate the call as soon as they heard matey was about to unload 🙂
More petty, when I cycle to the station and take my bike on the train, there are 3 spots, 1 of which is on it's own with less chance of scratches off other bikes, the premium spot if you will. If I get to the platform second or 3rd I will let the other bikes on first so they can take the premium spot if they wish, I would expect they do the same to me. But do they? No, of course not, they just get on and take the best spot and it winds me up.
People who use "random" incorrectly. That REALLY winds me up.
A cold. Or hayfever, I'm not sure which and the accompanying cough. It's irritating me. Probably also bloody annoying for the other people in the office.
People who are perfectly happy to drink really bad coffee, and who then complain about those that aren't 😐
Oh and the whiney voices that kids put on when they want something.
[i]People saying "can I get?" in shops/cafes [/i]
Oooh, this.
People who use the word 'like' when describing a conversation:
"He was like 'Shall we go to the pub?' and I was like 'yeah, great idea'"
So no-one said anything? You both communicated 'like' that? How did you do it; mime, charades, interpretive dance?
[i]The fact 'my mate' still hasn't paid me for the airport hotel / parking before we went skiing.[/i]
The expectations I have of 'my mate' were managed many, many years ago...
People irritated by other people who don't have holes in their pockets because they carry a wallet.
People who complain about your organisation on line (Twitter) but don't bother to call you when you tweet them back with your number. Shytehawks.
Pedestrians who whilst crossing on a redman, will jump out of the way of cars but saunter on like they're soo cool when it's a bike coming! Yes, you the baldy ****t in the suede coat this morning on North Bridge who got a bit of fright when I shouted at you 👿 You saw me coming 😆
I can honestly say that other than my kids relentless mischief and mayhem, the only things in life that I'm irritated by are my own shortcomings (although I'm aware that the two are related)
And arrogance, arrogance is pretty offensive
People who think that loose coins cause holes in pockets, despite the evidence of many people carrying coins in hole-free pockets.
"yeah, no" as a conversation filler. I do it, and it annoys me. it's a tick like "err" "so" etc etc. I wish I could just stop doing it.
Coffee snobs
My broken bike, the trails... 'nuff said
the fact that the weekend weather's looking less great than the whole week.
Women (because let's face it, it is) who insist on packing all their shopping before rummaging in their bags to find their purse to find a card to pay.
also the complete opposite...
those who don't pack anything at all (especially in smaller shops with single packing area at the till) until everything has been scanned, and then paid for.
and then the checkout girl scans and stacks all my stuff together, where I can't pack it either, or stick it back inthe basket, so making it look like I'm the one holding up the next person.
we really need some self serve tills here. but then I always buy a beer or something on purpose at those to make the girl come over to auth the 18+ thing. and hold up the next person.
today's minor gripe - cherry scones, with hardly any cherries in them. If I wanted a plain scone with a wee bit of cherry on top, I'd buy them. It really screwed up my 11 am coffee break.
Driving, right, oh there are so many, but the one that gets me every single sodding time:
You're following this dope out of a side road, around a couple of roundabouts - no sign whatsoever of any indicator to tell you where they're going. Must have a broken indicator, yeah? Or a disabled little finger..?
But, you then follow them down a slip road onto an empty motorway.. they get on the slip road ON COMES THE RIGHT INDICATOR! So many of these f-heads.
I'm stood y the luggage belt, it's 830pm and I just want to go home....
Me myself and I. almost all the irritations I experience in daily life can be followed back to a decision I've made somewhere along the line. Usually by trying to rush things or not leaving enough time. 🙄
Ok here's another one - Nemone on 6Music helping me through my morning and the dicks outside have started up the pipes and drums.
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It's not just shopping. Massive queue for anything and they will invariably wait until the transaction is almost complete before getting their purse out instead of utilising the dead time in the queue TO ACTUALLY BE ****ING READY
I'd expand this to include everyone who doesn't understand the concept of a critial path and task predecesors and can't apply it in life to sceanrios when then need to decide in what order to do things.
Simple things being over-explained, has been my petty irritation this morning.
People who say pacific when they mean specific.
People who have to get out their cars to put the ticket in the exit barrier in car parks. If you have this little spatial awareness, you shouldn't be on the road; in fact, it should be part of the driving test.
pondo - Member
Simple things being over-explained, has been my petty irritation this morning.
Care to elaborate?
Drivers who overtake me on my bike approaching a red light.
Where did you think you could go?
Delivery companies, well, delivery companies that aren't DPD. It must be possible for them to tell me when my package will be delivered, and by when I mean a 1 or 2 hour timeslot not a "between 7am and 6pm Tuesday" slot. And, when you have given said slot, sticking to it. Parcel Force are currently up to 72 hours on a 48 hour delivery promise, my wife was not happy about waiting in all day yesterday for a package that never arrived...
"SomethinK, anythinK, everythinK".
Oh and the whiney voices that kids put on when they want something.
The whiney voice kids put on all the time!* Especially while telling a crap story about school etc...
(*I'm sure it's different with your own kids)
Alot.
Abit.
Aswell.
Oh and Ton's apostrophe in Fridays irked me too.
PDF files at work that prompt me to save every single file when I've not made any changes...
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I'd expand this to include everyone who doesn't understand the concept of a critial path and task predecesors and can't apply it in life to sceanrios when then need to decide in what order to do things.
Adds project managers to the list 🙂
People who link to stw threads from Twitter.
[you know who you are 😉 ]
I just bought a curly wurly, and it's all smashed up into little bits. I've no moral objection to little bits of nibblable chocolate, in fact if they made bags of curly wurly shrapnel, I'd buy one. But you don't buy a curly wurly for little bits, you buy it for impractical hard-to-eat goodness!
Drivers who overtake me on my bike approaching a red light.
And then pull in close to the curb to block you pootling past, so you have the choice of, stopping, riding on the pavement or going round the right hand side.
Also - drivers who race past, to slam the brakes on a turn left causing you to brake (twice this morning...)
Northwind - Member
I just bought a curly wurly, and it's all smashed up into little bits. I've no moral objection to little bits of nibblable chocolate, in fact if they made bags of curly wurly shrapnel, I'd buy one. But you don't buy a curly wurly for little bits, you buy it for impractical hard-to-eat goodness!
I am bereft.
🙄
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People who use "random" incorrectly.
See also: jealous.
People saying "can I get?" in shops/cafes
Instead of "can I have?"?
Wouldn't "may I purchase?" be more appropriate?
EDIT: I hate pedants 
More EDIT: Actually I do - especially the ones who are worng about what they're being picky about.
Also - drivers who race past, to slam the brakes on a turn left causing you to brake (twice this morning...)
That's not a petty irritation though, that's a big f'off annoyance that should be a capital offence.
People who don't understand the concept of a thread.
[i]Actually I do - especially the ones who are worng about what they're being picky about. [/i]
but you're not bothered by poor spelling?
I mean, how do you even shatter caramel?
Surely "Please may I have..." is better than "Can I have..."?
People who say pacific when they mean specific.
AARRGGHH!!!
Loose instead of lose.
Every time I read it I almost loose it
There are certainly some valid points being raised here, but clearly the big one has been missed - people who sniff constantly on public transport - like Chinese water torture with a side order of gross out.
People who over exaggerate sneezes.
People saying "can I get?"
Yes to that. I of often been irritated by another little misuse. Can you guess what it is?
This site requiring you to login again every time there's a new video advert 😉
but you're not bothered by poor spelling?
Should be a capital "B"
Consistency:
www.google.co.uk/search?espv=2&q=site:singletrackworld.com/forum/+user:rob+hilton+worng&nfpr=1&sa=X&ei=-7EnVeD2M8_tarj9gcAI&ved=0CBwQvgUoAQ
People who say 'haitch' for the letter aitch, thinking they are being posh. I never fail to let them know the error of their ways
surroundedbyhills - Member
and the dicks outside have started up the pipes and drums.
Oh the joys of tourism, so glad your business doesn't rely on it. 😉
There is only one reasonable response to pipes - a BB gun. Close range. Aimed upwards. From ground level.
neil the wheel - MemberPeople who say pacific when they mean specific.
People who say "different tact" when they mean "different tack" Ironically, most often said by people who lack any tact at all.
Northwind - MemberI mean, how do you even shatter caramel?
If it's chilled, very easily I reckon....
Which brings me to my first irritation. The vending machine at work chills the items inside, which is good. But when you buy something, you have to watch as your chocolate bar is dropped from a not insubstantial height onto a hard metal 'floor'. Fine for Mars bars etc. but not for Twirls or Kitkats....would it be that hard to put a rubber mat in the bottom?
theotherjonv - MemberWomen (because let's face it, it is) who insist on packing all their shopping before rummaging in their bags to find their purse to find a card to pay
Taking this a step further, it's the ones who then get out a massive wodge of coupons and just hands them to the cashier so they have to check every one to see which actually still in date and valid for the stuff that's been purchased GAH!!!!
Too many driving ones to get started on. Although.....
People who do something blatantly wrong, you take avoiding action to avoid a collision with perhaps a quick toot and then they hurl abuse at you, as if you are the one who was actually driving like a moron in the first place. I had this happen to me at Sandy roundabout on the A1 a while back and the resulting flash of anger from the bloke who'd nearly smashed into the side of my car ended up with him tailing me all the way up the A1 to Peterborough maintaining a constant gap. Admittedly I did turn this into a fun way to pass my commute by randomly varying my speed and seeing if he's stay following me (he did).
People who can't walk in a straight line, particularly in underground passages.
See also trolley luggage, and walking 3 abreast.
People using their phones in all sorts of situations where they shouldn't be, two notable examples being when they should be packing their groceries and paying for them (aside from the little aspect of acknowledging that the cashier is a human being), and when they're dawdling along the footpath looking at the screen when they should be aware of the fact that a very important person (i.e. me) is heading straight towards them and is in a hurry.
