Most common everyday irritations

[daydream]

30 most common everyday irritations revealed – see how many annoy you

Being told you've entered an incorrect password (again!)

 

How are we supposed to remember the 63,000 passwords that we all have to everything? 15 digit and number strings with punctuation marks, each different to the last by one or more character. Plus every time you try to log in, you can't and you have to change it again and the new password ends up even less memorable that whatever the last one was. AAARGH!

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My personal grouse

So I was attending the 3 day convention and taking the bus to the venue. The bus comes once every hour and Moovit doesn't give an accurate time for the arrival of the bus. Not the app's fault.

So after waiting for 20 minutes, along comes the bus. It takes about 30 minutes to get there. So this 40ish woman gets on and starts to video chat with her relatives on full volume, laughing loudly and showing the ones on the phone, the scenery as well. I was sitting behind her. After about 10 minutes of this cacophony,  the gentleman across the aisle told her to tone down the volume

I don't know why some people (certain races are prone to chatting loudly on public transport whether on their phones or not) So it's common to hear loud conversations in languages that are not intelligible to me for the whole duration of the trip (> 30 minutes) Some foreigners (and some low class locals as well) have no common courtesies or they're just down right inconsiderate.

Edited August 9 by daydream

[daydream]

20 Rude Things People Should Stop Doing In Grocery Stores

Putting Items Anywhere

 

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There’s no shame in second-guessing that loaf of bread, but don’t leave it in the frozen food section. It’s always better to return items where you got them from, especially when it’s an item that needs refrigeration—leaving that stuff anywhere spells disaster. 

Here, in this low income country, I find some people will bring fresh food like chicken, check the price of the item and leave the meat sitting on the basket below the price checker. So I always take these perishable items and leave at the nearest chiller, not going all the way to the place where it is to be found. As it is, I travel some distance to my favorite Aeon supermarket by public transport (bus, then MRT) and I'm not going the extra distance to make up for some lout who doesn't care about ruining someone's else meat. All sorts of things that needs refrigeration are been dumped there : yoghurt, fresh milk that needs refrigeration etc. Good exercise for my legs though.

[daydream]

30 most common everyday irritations revealed – see how many annoy you

People listening to music without headphones on public transport

 

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Buses and trains are boring, aren't they? The only way to combat the tedium is to distract yourself with a book or magazine. Perhaps a little music. Of course, you'd listen to that music through headphones, wouldn't you? Of course you would. That's because you're not ludicrously selfish. Is there anything worse than people playing loud music on public transport? Other than, the smell of other people's body odour on public transport, of course

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Another one of my bugbears. I really need to bring ear plugs. After a fall from a stool, I'm slowly losing my hearing (by extension my brain cells as well) Now I'm hypervigilant about loud noises: lion dances all round the year, events at the mall (recently young 6 years olds were engaged in a cheerleading competition. I'm suppose to buy a hearing aid for my iphone but have not gone round to it.

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[Tsheppar]

Mine is setting down to watch a family movie  with friends and then notice the kids scrolling on their phones during it. 

[daydream]

On 8/10/2025 at 3:58 AM, daydream said:

Some foreigners (and some low class locals as well) have no common courtesies or they're just down right inconsiderate.

Sorry for my poor choice of words. Some people just hadn't the chance of a good education or not yet avail themselves to some well chosen reading material. I should always have some of our literature with me to share with those who are less fortunate and are in need of enlightenment.

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[Mike047]

I think that I can tick most of them and maybe a few more:

 

* When someone needs cash for a purchase and you don't have any

* When you can't find the car keys

* When you loose your glasses

* When you see your bag is still at the bus stop as the bus moves off

* When you have personal problems and forget to pack spare underwear

 

To put just a few!

[Julsey]

Sitting in the passing lane. I think I am one of the few in the US who knows it’s not just annoying but illegal to sit in the passing lane when someone wants to get by. If the police enforced the law where I am, they could bring in a tidy little sum every day for the coffers!

[daydream]

On 8/11/2025 at 3:35 AM, Tsheppar said:

the kids scrolling on their phones during it

4 things the happiest people do every day

Author and social scientist Arthur C. Brooks has a tangible piece of advice to a quick fix when it comes to improving our happiness and family relationships: ditch our phones. Not completely, but he says we need to cut down our time spent on them, especially in the company of our families.

 

'Devices are highly addictive and actually take us away from real family relationships. We are ignoring our families while we are using them. We need to take back the meaning in our lives by actually putting down our phones and only pick them back up at certain times'

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[dljbsp]

On 8/11/2025 at 11:41 AM, Julsey said:

Sitting in the passing lane.

 

Are there fines or penalties?

 

** Yes, several states have enforceable penalties for misusing the left lane.**

 

• Texas: Fines up to $200 for impeding traffic by lingering in the left lane  .

• New York: Under its “slow‑poke” law, drivers can face $150 fines, 3 license points, and surcharges—even if traveling at or below the speed limit while not passing  .

• Louisiana: As of August 1, 2025, loitering in the left lane—even just 1 mph under the limit—carries $150 fines, increasing for repeat offenses up to $350, and can lead to 30 days in jail  .

• South Carolina: There’s a proposed hike in fines from $25 to $100 for improperly using the left lane  .

• Oregon: Legislators have considered a $250 fine for violations  .

[Tortuga]

On 8/11/2025 at 3:33 AM, Mike047 said:

I think that I can tick most of them and maybe a few more:

 

* When someone needs cash for a purchase and you don't have any

* When you can't find the car keys

* When you loose your glasses

* When you see your bag is still at the bus stop as the bus moves off

* When you have personal problems and forget to pack spare underwear

 

To put just a few!

I'm not sitting next to you on the bus. You don't have any money, keys, glasses, bag or spare underwear...

[tekmantwo]

One of my little irritations, forks that don't....

 

Y'know, those things that look like forks, tines and all, but are only blunt tipped imposers that are only good for frustrating you as you endlessly,  hopelessly, push things around on your plate, stabbing desperately, trying to feed yourself without looking like a buffoon...

 

Yeah, 'forks'.....

[minister159]

Fast talking, fast walking, fast driving, impatient young people who only think of themselves without consideration for anybody else. I guess it's a generational thing. Oh! and did I mention, they tend to be loud with no idea what an indoor voice is?  

[Dolce vita]

When someone, at the table, shows us everything they are eating, making mouth noises to ensure we don't miss a single crumb.😩

[Andrey]

Yes, everything irritates me. Even the things that irritate me, irritate me. 

[Patience87]

11 hours ago, Dolce vita said:

When someone, at the table, shows us everything they are eating, making mouth noises to ensure we don't miss a single crumb.😩

Mouth noises, mouth breathing into a microphone - I find it so distracting when people are speaking into a microphone and you hear smacking or saliva noises. I have such a hard time concentrating never mind being slightly grossed out by the sound. One brother on our convention had a part on symposium and it was hard to listen to his talk. He was a good speaker but the lip smacking/saliva noises were constant. Imagine my disappointment to find out he was the speaker for the last talk of the convention, the one I usually am excited for, but I'm like great it's a longer talk... Amazing to say somehow he didn't have that problem on the final talk, so I have to guess he probably had a dry mouth the first time around. Thank goodness, because it was a great talk (as usual) and I didn't have to tune it out (sometimes the only way I can deal with it sad to say if its really bad).

[Dolce vita]

2 hours ago, Patience87 said:

Mouth noises, mouth breathing into a microphone - I find it so distracting when people are speaking into a microphone and you hear smacking or saliva noises. I have such a hard time concentrating never mind being slightly grossed out by the sound. One brother on our convention had a part on symposium and it was hard to listen to his talk. He was a good speaker but the lip smacking/saliva noises were constant. Imagine my disappointment to find out he was the speaker for the last talk of the convention, the one I usually am excited for, but I'm like great it's a longer talk... Amazing to say somehow he didn't have that problem on the final talk, so I have to guess he probably had a dry mouth the first time around. Thank goodness, because it was a great talk (as usual) and I didn't have to tune it out (sometimes the only way I can deal with it sad to say if its really bad).

Since the microphone is an amplifier, it's not difficult to hear small sounds that can possibly interfere with listening; that's not what really bothers me, Sister Rebecca. Stress and medication often dry out the oral mucous membranes, so it's something that's difficult to control. For my part, I was mainly talking about table attitudes, those that can be improved as long as you're not eating alone. It's not a big deal, the topic of the discussion being everyday irritations that don't have much at stake, just a little tension that love manages to heal.

[Patience87]

2 hours ago, Dolce vita said:

Since the microphone is an amplifier, it's not difficult to hear small sounds that can possibly interfere with listening; that's not what really bothers me, Sister Rebecca. Stress and medication often dry out the oral mucous membranes, so it's something that's difficult to control. For my part, I was mainly talking about table attitudes, those that can be improved as long as you're not eating alone. It's not a big deal, the topic of the discussion being everyday irritations that don't have much at stake, just a little tension that love manages to heal.

Agreed, it's something I have to work on to overlook. I know it's just me because my husband doesn't even notice it. And technically this is not an everyday irritation 😉 thank goodness. 

[Cool.As.Ice]

Being constantly interrupted while I’m talking is a pet peeve. 
 

Another one is when other publishers try to push me to do houses I’m not comfortable doing.

 

Last, making an important point in a conversation, such as this forum, and being completely ignored