Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[Spinney]

Rucksack space awareness has always bugged me, in two distinct ways:
1) The classic case of the rucksack wearer who seemingly has no idea that the fact that they are wearing one has actually increased the amount of space that they take up, so turn around and boff you in the mush, and don't even realise.
2) This one makes my blood boil When I am the rucksack wearer, and I AM rucksack aware and take account of its presence on my back in my movements through public spaces. However, some tw@t will walk into the back of you, and THEN have the cheek to tut as though its YOU who is at fault. No, Mrs Fartybreath, it was YOU who walked into ME, while I was performing a collision-preventative hip-swerve in order to avoid such unwanted contact. So don't you go tutting at me...

Lack of rucksack space awareness in the people who design/erect kissing gates on public footpaths - on a long distance trail, many users are likely to be wearing reasonably large rucksacks, so design the (&%&^$$%£&^( gate so that I can get through it without having to take my rucksack off!

 

[Sandra6]

Yesterday my irrational annoyance was caused by a fitter refusing to put the wiper blades he didn't use away.
Of course I could put them back and it would only take me two minutes, but it is not my job to tidy up after lazy blokes -I am not their mother!!
If they are still laying around when I get to work later I will explode! Irrationally.

 

[GM]

Daughter that can't get up in the morning. After taking Mrs GM to the station, get back home to find Miss GM wants a lift to the same station. Arrrgggg

 

[swee'pea99]

Those folks on aircraft who get up as soon as the fasten seat-belt sign is switched off in order to alight, when the cabin doors are not open for another 10 minutes and they just stand there, looking the eejits they really are.

"Still miles from Calais, yet the idiot Sergeants are getting their luggage down. Some are even standing at the door. In their tiny minds they think they’ll get there quicker. Why don’t they stand near a graveyard"

Spike Milligan - Where have all the bullets gone?​

 

[swee'pea99]

I remember a radio programme about recorded voices, and they talked to one of the men who are the voice of station announcements. Part of the job was reading out the name of every station in three intonations - for when it was the start of a list of stations, for when it was in the middle, and for when it was last.

That's interesting!

 

[tyred]

Peugeot for designing a central locking system that decides to lock or unlock my car whenever it bloody well feels like it.

 

[Arch]

That's interesting!

Yes, it's quite a skill, apparently, being able to reproduce different intonations (or lack of them) out of sentence context.

Other trivia - David Archer out of The Archers, is also the voice of Mind The Gap at certain underground stations.

 

[ColinJ]

Daughter that can't get up in the morning. After taking Mrs GM to the station, get back home to find Miss GM wants a lift to the same station. Arrrgggg

Why should she bother getting up on time if she knows that she can have a lie-in and still get a lift? Make a rule that there is just one lift to the station every morning so she can get up in time for that, or have the lie-in and then enjoy the walk!

 

[GM]

^
Quite right, it's not every day though, just when I have a Day off ( very rarely )

 

[Moon bunny]

And don't even get me on the subject of people who use the expression "fit for purpose".

But the words "works" or "useless" are not jargon-led management speak and using them does not make the speaker appear more intelligent than their listeners or readers.

 

[Maz]

And the edible one iPud

How about the iRack and the iRan?

 

[green1]

Being late really annoys me, I'd rather be 30 minutes early than 30 secs late.

 

[captain nemo1701]

Those incredibly tough clear plastic blister packs that are used as packaging for things like camera memory cards. You break the kitchen scissors trying to open them and then resort to sawing them open with the breadknife, slashing your fingers as you do so.

B#stards![/quote]
Yeah, I hate those as well. I think they're made of the same indestructible stuff as an aircraft black box. Or maybe they're made of 'unobtainium':

 

[MontyVeda]

Nope, and I'm quoting the guy who wrote just about Half of the Health and Safety and Environmental health laws. (happens to be my dad but that is by the by). But you do as you please and I'll do it right.
"Multiple exclamation marks," he went on, shaking his head, "are a sure sign of a diseased mind." Terry Pratchett

having lived with a registered blind person.... knives go down... end of!

 

[mattobrien]

People who text too much.