Top 10 Most Annoying Things People Do (Often Without Realising)

#1 – Eating Noisily

At some point in your life, you’ve probably had to endure the noisy eater who manages to eat his food in a manner not dissimilar to a pig slurping on its swill. Oblivious to his fellow diners, he munches, crunches, slurps and swallows the food set before him for all to hear while you try to enjoy your own. But you can’t. Of course, you’d love to politely point out his immensely annoying eating habits but you know you’re not going to. Oh no, you’re going to suffer in silence until he finishes every last morsel on place plate. Arghh!

#2 – Not Thanking You For Giving Way On The Road

Picture the scene. You can see a car 100 yards away coming towards you on a tight street. Courteously, you pull your car in behind the row of parked cars so the driver can pass. You wait patiently for the oncoming driver to go by so you can continue down the road. Obviously, she’ll raise her hand to thank you for giving way, won’t she? Not a chance! She just drives on by, not even looking at you, as if it’s her divine right to make you wait there without showing you the slightest hint of gratitude for your consideration. It isn’t her divine right though. She should thank you. But it’s too late. She’s gone and you’re left seething at her ignorance as she fades out of view in your rear view mirror.

#3 – Blocking The Aisle With The Supermarket Trolley

You’re a busy person and don’t want to spend any longer than you need to in the supermarket collecting your weekly groceries. Straight in and out is the order of the day. Well that’s the idea anyway. But no, the old dear has different ideas as she parks her trolley plumb in the middle of the narrow aisle while she takes what seems like an eternity analysing the wide array of Steradent tablets on offer. She’s not even aware of the trolley tailback, headed by you, winding its way halfway around the store as she makes the crucial decision between peppermint and spearmint. You want to launch the trolley out of the way and continue on your way. But how can you? She’s old and fragile. So you just begrudgingly grin and bear it, flashing dear Doris the best fake smile you can muster whilst secretly wanting scream.

#4 – Driving Too Slowly

The road is once again the setting for this major gripe. Drivers are smart enough to read the speed limit signs by the side of the road. So why, or why are there those who insist in dawdling along at 15mph in a 30mph zone? To the annoyance of just about everyone else on the road, they merrily crawl along in their own little world at a snail’s pace in their poxy, sensible car as the queue of cars behind steadily builds up. As does the blood pressure of the drivers stuck behind this buffoon. You’d love to be able to overtake and give the perpetrator the dirtiest of looks you’ve been perfecting but the constant stream of oncoming traffic means that’s not going to happen. Instead, you have to wait patiently. Message to these fools: GET OFF THE ROADS!

#5 – Making Every Sentence Sound Like A Question

Think Aussie soaps and the characters whose habit is to make every normal sentence sound like it’s a question. The technical term for this phenomenon is ‘high-rise terminals’. The feeling it evokes when you have to listen to it is one which makes you want to drop the culprit off the nearest high-rise building. This infuriating habit has unfortunately made its way over to these shores so the normal ones amongst us now have to endure listening to these idiots who don’t even know they’re doing it. That’s the annoying part. If it’s a question, by all means make it sound like one. If not, don’t. Simples. No one could blame you for walking away mid-conversation to stop yourself from bubbling over. It’s either that or blowing a gasket as you grab the guilty party by the scruff of the neck, barking, ‘Why, or why, or why?’ in their faces.

#6 – Constantly Using Their Mobile Phones

Whatever happened to the art of conversation? Why can’t two people sit down together and enjoy each other’s company without one of them feeling compelled to be continuously checking and playing with their mobile phone? Really, is there any need? Fretful, anxious, nervous, restless, panicked, jittery and paranoid. All words used by people to describe how they felt when asked to go without their mobiles for a 24-hour period. Well, here’s another adjective for you: PATHETIC! How ignorant it is when only two of you are out together and your so-called friend is tinkering with her mobile at every given opportunity while you just sit there like, feeling like a gooseberry to your pal and her Blackberry. Go on, no one would blame you if you snatched the device out of her hand and rifled it into the nearest wall, taking great delight in as it falls apart. I bet she’d be a little more considerate then.

#7 – Talking Too Much

There are some people who simply don’t know when to shut the hell up. It’s like they almost get off on the sound of their own voice, taking great delight in imparting their views on you. The thing is, you’re not really interested in what they have to say and you couldn’t even say that it’s a conversation you’re having because that would require you to speak too. On the rare occasions you do get to sneak a couple of words in, you can tell that the dumbass facing you is not even listening, instead almost visibly willing you to finish what you’re saying so they can get back to their favourite subject: themselves! This is ridiculously annoying in itself. To have a meaningful, interesting conversation requires listening, not just speaking, but too many people overlook this simplest of concepts. Avoid them. At all costs.

#8 – Fat People Claiming They Hardly Eat Anything

Come on now, these people must think you’re stupid when they try to convince you that their twenty stone frame is the product of munching on celery sticks and eating no more than a thousand calories per day. Fact: if you eat more than you burn off, you will get fat, quite possibly obese. If you don’t, you won’t. But these deluded chunkies kid themselves and try to do the same to those around them, moaning that their fatness can’t possibly be down to what they eat as they only eat a paltry amount of food every day. But what about those midnight trips to the fridge – does that not count? Or eating a full bag of sugary sweets during the day – do these somehow amount to less calories because they’ve been spread out over the day? Eh…. NO! Stop talking rubbish fatty, start eating less and doing more and stop annoying the hell out of people with your obvious dietary lies.

#9 – Jumping In At The Bar

You’re in a busy pub, waiting patiently to be served and have been doing for the last five minutes. You’re already losing the will to live, as are your friends who claim to be dying of dehydration as they wait for you to get the round in. Then up the comes the joker who stands right next to you and ambushes a member of the bar staff, placing his order for ten pints. Is he too stupid or ignorant to have the courtesy to acknowledge the fact that you were there first and were next to be served? The chances are, he’s just too drunk to have the slightest inkling that he’s just been incredibly rude. God knows, you’d love to give the ass a piece of your mind and explain bar etiquette to him in the hope that he’ll see the errors of his selfish ways. But let’s be honest, you don’t want your face rearranging by the Neanderthal. Best just grin and bear it, secretly hoping that he goes arse over tit whilst carrying the beers back to his buddies.

#10 – Not Responding To Texts Or Returning Calls

You probably know someone who falls into this most annoying category. It can’t be that hard to return a call or send a text, can it? Apparently so. ‘I’ve just been so busy over the last couple of days’ or ‘I just didn’t get the chance’ are the all too often cited excuses for the wall of silence which meets your text or call. But these pathetic excuses are simply not good enough. So you’re meant to believe that someone is too busy to take 30 seconds out of their schedule to fire off a response to your text. Absolute rubbish! Even more incensing is the fact that they don’t think they’ve done anything wrong, actually convinced by their own feeble excuses for what is nothing more than plain ignorance. This just makes matters worse and you have to muster all your powers of self control to prevent yourself from unleashing a verbal tirade in their direction. As satisfying as this would be, it’s probably not worth it.

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