Bad behaviour, stupidity and relentlessly annoying people really get under my skin. I’m not intolerant or impatient – I have average standards and low expectations – yet somehow certain things irk me to such an extent I feel compelled to have a little rant on here.
1) People with no manners.
Hand them a drink, a magazine or a plate of food and they don’t even say ‘thanks’. Cook dinner for them, run errands or pay for lunch and you hear not a mutter from their lips. Others barge past rather than step aside, cause doors to shut in your face, or fail to show gratitude when you do the opposite on either count.
2a) People who whistle in public, or sing along to pop tunes in shops.
No further explanation required.
2b) Cafes, bars, restaurants and retailers who play loud music of dubious quality at inappropriate times, presumably under the impression everyone wants to go clubbing at 2.34 on a Tuesday afternoon.
3) People who engage their vocal cords to yawn, creating wince-worthy noises of such epic proportions your eardrums split.
4) Chairs being scraped along hard floors instead of lifted up.
If ever there was a noise that goes right through you, to your very core and beyond, it’s this.
As far as I’m concerned such activity is almost as bad as Chinese water torture – and metal objects being dragged down blackboards – and as such should be banned under the Human Rights Act.
5) People who drop cutlery, coins and crockery from a height onto other cutlery, coins or crockery, or other hard surfaces.
You know who you are.
6) Idiots with souped-up car engines.
‘Nuff said.
7a) Relentlessly annoying squawking sproglets who bewail their way to ‘most bothersome things in the world’ status for hours on end.
7b) The bad parents who allow their irritating little darlings to continuously behave in such a poor, antisocial and generally tiresome manner. (See point 4, above, re human rights).
8) People who talk so loudly to their gaggle of friends you can hear every single word and all the intimate details.
Just. Shut. Up.
9) People who are incapable of taking half-decent photos. ‘Ooo, what a lovely plain brick wall/fire escape sign to be pictured against on holiday: Everyone will be able to tell we’re in one of the world’s most beautiful and exotic locations with this as a backdrop.’
10) Handbags being put on dining tables and kitchen worktops.
Handbags, dear readers, will invariably have been on grubby and germ-infested surfaces in their lifetime, such as pub loos (no hook on the back of the door, so you dumped it on the floor), night clubs (when you were dancing round it), pavements (when you couldn’t find your mobile phone) and car rooftops (when you were fumbling for your keys).
Likewise, shopping bags: Supermarket packing area, to trolley, to car boot/footwell, to garden path/house entrance hall, to dining table or other food preparation area.
Nice.
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