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I was at a barbecue a while ago and in the early hours we started talking about the different things that annoyed us. As it got to close on to 3.00am and we knew that we were having another barbecue in two weeks time my friend suggested that we all list some things that annoy us for next time, saying that mine would probably be written on a piece of paper the length of the Bayeux Tapestry. I did have quite a few I must admit. Here are a few. I’d like to here everyone else’s.
Automated phone systems that ask you if you’ve heard about the existence of a thing called the internet and then proceed to give you masses of information in the hope that it will discourage you from staying on the line to actually speak to someone. They then inform you that you’ve called when they are experiencing a particularly high volume of calls.
People who ride bikes in the street with no hands? There’s no reason for it apart from pointless, childish showing off. I saw a guy fall off about a year ago…I still smile at the thought of it.
People who begin each sentence with the word ‘so.’ Why this weird trend? …”And what do you do for a living?”….“So I work for my local council….!”
People who say ‘pacifically’ instead of ‘specifically.”
TV companies giving you pointless trigger warnings about things that ‘might’ upset you before a programme comes on. Are we such sensitive souls these days that we can become traumatised by Coronation Street? Bored…yes. Upset…no.
Soap actors who stand there gaping like a fish without saying anything for ages just before the shows ending or before it goes to a break. It’s supposed to create suspense but it’s just irritatingly unrealistic.
People who can’t hold a pen normally. What’s wrong with people these days?
TV announcers and journalists who refer to Coronation Street as ‘The Cobbles!’
Paying for a cup of tea in a café then being given a cup of hot water with a tea bag in it.
Alcoholic drinks where the glass is filled almost to the brim with ice.
People who go on quiz shows and, when they don’t know the answer to something, say “well, it was before my time!” The Battle of Trafalgar was before my time but I still know when it was!
Food that’s too much effort to eat because you have to mess around peeling it or removing stones or spitting bones out.
People who spend hours in the bathroom. Mainly women I’m afraid but not solely. How can anyone be in there so long? There should be a timer. For a shower 15 minutes at the most.
People who spend hours on a cash machine acting as if they’ve never seen one before.
Shop assistants who serve you while they are on their phones and look at you as if you’re being ill-mannered by requiring serving.
Footballers (Professional Cheats) rolling around on the floor as if they’ve just been punched by Sonny Liston when they’ve actually just made nothing more than mild ‘contact’ with another player.
Reality TV - there’s absolutely nothing ‘real’ about it.
People who don’t say please or thank you. A couple of months ago I was sitting outside of a café with a friend when I saw a couple get up and leave. My friend noticed that the woman had left her phone on the table so she called her back. The woman said “oh, right. I don’t know how I forgot that.” No ‘thank you.’ Nothing. And it was one of those £1000+ flip phones.
Lying taxi firms who tell you that the taxi is ‘just around the corner’ when it’s not.
Dustbin men who insist that you place your bins in the correct position, facing the correct way and not even slightly overfilled. But after they’ve emptied them you have to walk around the street to find your own because the lazy b******s can’t be bothered to return them to the house that they took them from.
People that walk along the street staring at their phones relying on everyone else avoiding walking into them.
People that intentionally make their cars/motorbikes louder than they need to be.
People that wear jeans/trousers as if they’re about to fall down.
Young men who walk around with their hand down their trousers. (This one is a case for the return of the death penalty imo)
People who keep spitting. Why? I never spit.
People who make a deafening noise when they blow their nose.
Vapers who blow out more steam than The Flying Scotsman.
Politicians of all parties who simply cannot answer a straight question when they are asked it.
GP’s who appear to be still using COVID to avoid actually seeing patients (when Dentists and Opticians have gone back to how it was before COVID). The same Doctors who say that they are struggling to cope with the amount of patients that they have to deal with while at the same time they are advertising that they are willing to accept new patients!
So what really annoys you?
Automated phone systems that ask you if you’ve heard about the existence of a thing called the internet and then proceed to give you masses of information in the hope that it will discourage you from staying on the line to actually speak to someone. They then inform you that you’ve called when they are experiencing a particularly high volume of calls.
People who ride bikes in the street with no hands? There’s no reason for it apart from pointless, childish showing off. I saw a guy fall off about a year ago…I still smile at the thought of it.
People who begin each sentence with the word ‘so.’ Why this weird trend? …”And what do you do for a living?”….“So I work for my local council….!”
People who say ‘pacifically’ instead of ‘specifically.”
TV companies giving you pointless trigger warnings about things that ‘might’ upset you before a programme comes on. Are we such sensitive souls these days that we can become traumatised by Coronation Street? Bored…yes. Upset…no.
Soap actors who stand there gaping like a fish without saying anything for ages just before the shows ending or before it goes to a break. It’s supposed to create suspense but it’s just irritatingly unrealistic.
People who can’t hold a pen normally. What’s wrong with people these days?
TV announcers and journalists who refer to Coronation Street as ‘The Cobbles!’
Paying for a cup of tea in a café then being given a cup of hot water with a tea bag in it.
Alcoholic drinks where the glass is filled almost to the brim with ice.
People who go on quiz shows and, when they don’t know the answer to something, say “well, it was before my time!” The Battle of Trafalgar was before my time but I still know when it was!
Food that’s too much effort to eat because you have to mess around peeling it or removing stones or spitting bones out.
People who spend hours in the bathroom. Mainly women I’m afraid but not solely. How can anyone be in there so long? There should be a timer. For a shower 15 minutes at the most.
People who spend hours on a cash machine acting as if they’ve never seen one before.
Shop assistants who serve you while they are on their phones and look at you as if you’re being ill-mannered by requiring serving.
Footballers (Professional Cheats) rolling around on the floor as if they’ve just been punched by Sonny Liston when they’ve actually just made nothing more than mild ‘contact’ with another player.
Reality TV - there’s absolutely nothing ‘real’ about it.
People who don’t say please or thank you. A couple of months ago I was sitting outside of a café with a friend when I saw a couple get up and leave. My friend noticed that the woman had left her phone on the table so she called her back. The woman said “oh, right. I don’t know how I forgot that.” No ‘thank you.’ Nothing. And it was one of those £1000+ flip phones.
Lying taxi firms who tell you that the taxi is ‘just around the corner’ when it’s not.
Dustbin men who insist that you place your bins in the correct position, facing the correct way and not even slightly overfilled. But after they’ve emptied them you have to walk around the street to find your own because the lazy b******s can’t be bothered to return them to the house that they took them from.
People that walk along the street staring at their phones relying on everyone else avoiding walking into them.
People that intentionally make their cars/motorbikes louder than they need to be.
People that wear jeans/trousers as if they’re about to fall down.
Young men who walk around with their hand down their trousers. (This one is a case for the return of the death penalty imo)
People who keep spitting. Why? I never spit.
People who make a deafening noise when they blow their nose.
Vapers who blow out more steam than The Flying Scotsman.
Politicians of all parties who simply cannot answer a straight question when they are asked it.
GP’s who appear to be still using COVID to avoid actually seeing patients (when Dentists and Opticians have gone back to how it was before COVID). The same Doctors who say that they are struggling to cope with the amount of patients that they have to deal with while at the same time they are advertising that they are willing to accept new patients!
So what really annoys you?
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