What's your pettiest gripe?

AskMyChocolate

What's that one small thing that really annoys you? You know damn well that there are people all over the world who'd give their eye-teeth to have your problems. Japan,Lybia,Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, etc.

And yet, there's one thing that really pisses you off. It probably isn't your biggest worry. It's just a red rag to a bull.

For me? Well I'd have to say it's happened a few times, and my patience is wearing thin.

It's milk. Milk that is well in date. You're just about to sit down to enjoy a big bowl of baked beans and toast.

Butter? Check.
Pepper? Check
Milk? Check
Lea and Perrins? Check
Sugar? Check.

And so you're in your jimjams. Things couldn't be any sweeter, and then, the milk which is supposed to be good for the next five days, goes "Gloop,gloop,gloop"

I feel like hunting down the delivery man or the shopkeeper who left it out in the sun, as if they were drugdealers or paedophiles preying on the innocent. I feel like organising a community watch, to stop these "evil" people.

So AHers, what's your irrational gripe that you've blown out of all proportion?

Chocolate

Pauleta

People leaving my gate open and cars on my road beeping their horns.

cosmicfart

sock puppets

Latchy

Not finding that damm tv remote again ...jasus dont start me :mad:

AckwelFoley

bad table manners.

People that make loud noises like while chewing their food need to be kicked in the face

Packet

Having to ask people if they're in the queue or just happen to be standing there.

AnonoBoy

The phrase 'jim jams'.

Uriel.

My prettiest grape is black one I picked up in San Jose in the Summer of '03. It is still well preserved to this day in my freezer. I often take it out to admire its prettiness.
:pac:

Paparazzo

After watching The Masters yesterday, its golf fans shouting "get in the hole"

orourkeda

Cats

Savage Tyrant

People not closing doors when they enter or leave a room. Especially swinging it back so it almost closes but stays open an inch or 2. Really gets on my nerves actually. Close the doors properly you bastards!

mikemac

Yellow bastards are everywhere in Ireland, nobody wants them here, I wish they would go somewhere else.


Of course I am referring to wasps

Knasher

People who overtake me when I'm on my bicycle only to immediately stop in front of me to let oncoming cars go.

krudler

people who use speakerphone, cnuts the lot of them.

JoseJones

What really grinds my gears...... People who instead of emptying an overflowing bin, prefer to balance their rubbish on top of it for someone else to empty.

Housemates who turn the fridge down to 1 causing all my milk, meat and veggies to turn manky.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGjwMMlUhCQ

Also, America!

Daegerty

When someone has an ould lump of metal outside their house and instead of bringing it to the scrap metal they decide to plonk a load of plants into it and try to pass it off as something good

jackiebaron

People walking in front of me and veering all over the fücking path making my ability to overtake them all the more annoying. If these pricks drove the same way as they walk they'd be getting rear-ended every fücking day!

faigs

When you sit in your car and all your change falls out of your pocket and in under/beside the seat, never to be seen again. AAARRRRGGGHHHHH!!!!!

dan1895

cosmicfart wrote: »

sock puppets

Where? WHERE? AAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!

suicide_circus

People in a queue for an atm or in a shop who only start routing around for their wallet/purse/card when they get to the top of the queue instead of using the time when they were actually queuing ti get their act together, thereby extending everyone elses queue time.

omen80

1. People who consistently drive in the overtaking lane of a motorway even though they are not overtaking anyone!!

2. Close talkers - that's just invasion of personal space! Even worse if they have bad breath.

3. People who are obsessively tight with money - it's only a few euro ffs!

4. Nightclubs / pubs that let too many people in.

5. People that only listen to chart music.

6. People who play tag rugby and think they're hard.

7. Glee.

8. The Green Party.

9. The 2nd day hangover.

10. Smilie faces

pow wow

Txt spk, even in text messages. If you're not a pauper pony up for the price of two texts.

stateofflux

suicide_circus wrote: »

People in a queue for an atm or in a shop who only start routing around for their wallet/purse/card when they get to the top of the queue instead of using the time when they were actually queuing ti get their act together, thereby extending everyone elses queue time.

ill add to that with people who (with a massive queue behind them) decide to pull out a bag of copper change to pay for a packet of chewing gum / small item, counting each cent on the counter ...****in wrecks my head! :mad:

FesterBeatty

Oim from Sith Afica and I hate red gripes.

MGMTea

omen80 wrote: »

1. People who consistently drive in the overtaking lane of a motorway even though they are not overtaking anyone!!

2. Close talkers - that's just invasion of personal space! Even worse if they have bad breath.

3. People who are obsessively tight with money - it's only a few euro ffs!

4. Nightclubs / pubs that let too many people in.

5. People that only listen to chart music.

6. People who play tag rugby and think they're hard.

7. Glee.

8. The Green Party.

9. The 2nd day hangover.

10. Smilie faces

Numer #5 +1000000

Lapin

Kit Kat 9 packs advertised on the supermarket shelf on special offer for €1.79.

Get to checkout and charged €2.99.

Checkout girl says "That special offer expired last Friday". :eek:

Snakey fcukers hoping I wouldn't notice. :mad:





Take your Kit Kats back and shove them up your ars..........

Ciderswigger

People who can't use the self service checkout in Tesco and I'm left standing behind them while staff comes to help. :mad: If you can't use it then just get out of my way so I can scan the one thing I want to buy and leave.

sollar

The way they pronounce fine gael on RTE news and when ann doyle says billions instead of billion.... very petty but enough to annoy me.

Smegball

People writing their signature at the end of a post, we can read your fcking username!

Ciderswigger

sollar wrote: »

The way they pronounce fine gael on RTE news and when ann doyle says billions instead of billion.... very petty but enough to annoy me.

+1! And when people say 'It happened 23 YEAR ago.' It's yearS!!! Plural!

giftgrub

I hate it when....

People leave the tinfoil cover bit on tubs of spread.
When work colleagues ask if you're making tea and then bitch because its too strong or weak or whatever. (I'll throw it in your face next time)
You call eircom and you have to speak to some robot like an idiot for the first few minutes.

OutlawPete

People, wish they'd all just get ta fcuk.

Ahoy hoy

People who skip the queue at the bus stop, after you waiting about 20 minutes they just leisurely stroll past you on the way to the top of the queue and thus getting a seat to themselves.

Dr conrad murray

when im walking down the street and someone that knows me beeps their
horn to say hello i really want to drag them out the car and kick them to death.

verywell

People who bang doors

lesserspottedchloe

Dr conrad murray wrote: »

when im walking down the street and someone that knows me beeps there
horn to say hello i really want to drag them out the car and kick them to death.

people that don't know the difference between 'their' and 'there'......

RichieC

People who breath loudly through their nose as they eat.

daithi09

People who look at you horrified because you are eating a beautiful bloody steak, and then say they are vegetarian..
It's worse when you ask them how long they have being vegetarians and they say 'two weeks now'.

People driving in the overtaking lane on the motorway when they are not overtaking anyone, and then when you go past them they look at you as if your the ass.

People who have massive phone conversations on the bus, no one wants to hear, wait until you get off the bus.

People who say they never study when it's clear they spend most of there life studying.

There are loads, but that's a start!

FlutterinBantam

Fcukers in shorts at the first hint of Summer, bringing huge baskets of product to the Tesco self service areas and clogging up the kip.

We know you were in SoCal for 3 weeks or Bali for a month traveling.

The focking Self service is for small numbers of items man!!

That and cunts who don't wait for the toilet to flush and leave King Kong's thumb for the first thing you see in the morning.

Disgusting.:eek:

InTheTrees

People who dont follow the lane rules on the motorway and therefore force everyone following them to break the rules too.

If people are overtaking you on the inside you're in the wrong f'ing lane!

AnonoBoy

daithi09 wrote: »

People who look at you horrified because you are eating a beautiful bloody steak, and then say they are vegetarian..
It's worse when you ask them how long they have being vegetarians and they say 'two weeks now'.

People driving in the overtaking lane on the motorway when they are not overtaking anyone, and then when you go past them they look at you as if your the ass.

People who have massive phone conversations on the bus, no one wants to hear, wait until you get off the bus.

People who say they never study when it's clear they spend most of there life studying.

There are loads, but that's a start!

These are all legitimate gripes. Don't let anyone tell you they're petty.

FlutterinBantam

InTheTrees wrote: »

People who dont follow the lane rules on the motorway and therefore force everyone following them to break the rules too.

If people are overtaking you on the inside you're in the wrong f'ing lane!

No, you are not!

Dudess

- People who take forever at the ATM... even using more than one card
- I second the noisy eaters one - but to be fair, some peeps can't help it
- People who walk backwards in crowded areas - they're actually that self-centred that they expect everyone to just make way for them
- People who cat-call "begrudgery" whenever someone says they dislike a celebrity, because of course they'd never dislike anyone well known
- The inevitable genius (and it's usually only a minority of one) on these discussions who grumpily orders everyone to stop being grumpy bastards, because of course they'd never get annoyed by anything

SparKing

My pettiest, but most encountered, gripe is poor spelling.
The minimum anyone I know went to school for is 11 years, how can someone not know the difference between their, there and they're or to, too and two or any number of things which are spelled slightly differently than they are pronounced after 11 years of English lessons?

Plain_Sailing

My three petty gripes are:

(i) cyclists riding on the pavement

(b) People driving with their fog lamps on when there is no fog to be seen

and

(3) people who toss litter on the ground/out of the car/bus etc...

There. . . . I said it :-)

Sam Vimes

giftgrub wrote: »

You call eircom and you have to speak to some robot like an idiot for the first few minutes.

If you ignore all of the options and just say 'agent' you should be put right through to someone. At least it used to work

Sam Vimes

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

No, you are not!

Are you saying that it's ok to drive in the overtaking lane when not overtaking anyone? Since that's the only way someone can overtake you on the inside......

haydar

Women with buggies in shopping centers.

sunflower27

People with foreign accents that feel the need to talk really loudly as if they are somehow really unique in being over here.

Was at Dublin airport a few months ago and there was a group of American girls who were practically screaming and then looking around making eye contact at people.

Er, you aren't special. Shut-up.

Caoimhín

Litter drives me nuts, but that is hardly petty is it?

FlutterinBantam

Sam Vimes wrote: »

Are you saying that it's ok to drive in the overtaking lane when not overtaking anyone? Since that's the only way someone can overtake you on the inside......

I am not Samuel, I am not indeed.

Where did you get that notion from.?