I am sure we can all think of examples of people who break a particular rule that they do not like and thus cause us a problem.

Whether it be smoking in non-smoking areas (my own pet hate), going through an eight items or less till with a trolly load of shopping, driving onto a pedestrian crossing that they cannot drive clear of etc etc. There must be literally hundreds of rules broken everyday by people who either don't care or feel they should be able to break a rule and go unpunished.

Which ones in particular annoy you?

Lifes too short to waste time getting worked-up about minor things like the "8 items or less" checkout.

people cycling on the pavement. Most people who walk tend to be listening to music so when they come up from behind how are you meant to know that they are there?

oh and people who smoke on busses:rant:

drivers who break the rules annoy me, using bus lanes and overtaking on the inside whilst on a motorway:mad:

Originally posted by nick2
Lifes too short to waste time getting worked-up about minor things like the "8 items or less" checkout.

Not if you have 8 items and they have 9, then start wanting to use credit cards in the Cash only till. Only same as driving in a bus lane.

Also people who start a queue at "Argos" for their stuff.
You dont queue at Argos, you wait for your number to be called out. Only in Britain would we start a queue when there is no need for a queue. :mad:

My pet hate happened not so long ago on the Chesterfield/Dronfield bypass where there are currently road works taking place. The dual carriage way is narrowed to one lane with signs giving the usual countdown. A little further on are other signs saying 'use both lanes', 'allow right lane to filter into left lane' etc.

Everyone was in the left lane (WHY!!) so I chose to use the right lane, until a transit decided it was too much being overtaken so he pulled out thereby blocking both lanes and making it awkward for people behind to filter in! WHAT A T****R!!
These people are my pet hate... the blockers...

And just to note, in Europe all the drivers are much more capable of filtering and can actually read the signs too!!

:rant:

Originally posted by viking
Not if you have 8 items and they have 9, then start wanting to use credit cards in the Cash only till. Only same as driving in a bus lane.

Also people who start a queue at "Argos" for their stuff.
You dont queue at Argos, you wait for your number to be called out. Only in Britain would we start a queue when there is no need for a queue. :mad:

Sometimes they call numbers out and the stuff isn't ready, I've seen it happen....

Originally posted by liencam
Sometimes they call numbers out and the stuff isn't ready, I've seen it happen....

And quite often you see your stuff arrive and your number isn't called out! :rolleyes:

Originally posted by liencam
Sometimes they call numbers out and the stuff isn't ready, I've seen it happen....

Thats right, so have I, but queing does not speed it up

Originally posted by viking
Not if you have 8 items and they have 9, then start wanting to use credit cards in the Cash only till. Only same as driving in a bus lane.

Also people who start a queue at "Argos" for their stuff.
You dont queue at Argos, you wait for your number to be called out. Only in Britain would we start a queue when there is no need for a queue. :mad:

The people of britain are so funny in queues. I saw a women shouting at some other women for "pushing in" the other day, I couldn't stop sniggering. The queue wasn't even that obvious.
She looked like she was going to explode. "Do you realise I've been here nearly 10 MINUTES???" Jeeez take a chill pill.

Anyway, back to the topic. I hate it when people stop in traffic queues across cycle lanes. They should be castrated.

Originally posted by tim_rutter

Anyway, back to the topic. I hate it when people stop in traffic queues across cycle lanes. They should be castrated.

What if they are Women? :heyhey:

You know that getting wound up like this over nothing reduces your life expectancy.

(probably).

My pet hate are the actions of people who I refer to as green light weasels.

They sit at the head of a queue of traffic with the lights on red and when the lights turn to green they sit there like muppets looking at it while all of the other members of the queue fume behind them. Buffoons all of them! :rant:

Originally posted by nick2
You know that getting wound up like this over nothing reduces your life expectancy.


I expect it will, but never expect the unexpected:confused:

Originally posted by Swan_Vesta
My pet hate are the actions of people who I refer to as green light weasels.

They sit at the head of a queue of traffic with the lights on red and when the lights turn to green they sit there like muppets looking at it while all of the other members of the queue fume behind them. Buffoons all of them! :rant:
As a pedestrian I get a bit narked by the drivers who stop on pedestrian crossings and block the road just in time for the green man to appear.

Or drivers who seem to think that the second the lights turn to green they're justified in darting off regardless of the fact that you're crossing the road and the lights changed when you were halfway across.

I was in Ilkley once and the lights changed before I could cross the road, so the driver at the lights started sounding his horn. I called his bluff by just stopping and staring at him until he went red and shut up...t*sser!:D

parents taking their offsprings into adult only bars (see thread|)

Originally posted by nick2
Lifes too short to waste time getting worked-up about minor things like the "8 items or less" checkout.

Yeah but think of the time wasted whilst some fool unloads a huge weekly shop infront of you... Now think of the time wasted

Originally posted by viking
Thats right, so have I, but queing does not speed it up

No, but if the items arrive in the order called....

Originally posted by Carmine

I was in Ilkley once and the lights changed before I could cross the road, so the driver at the lights started sounding his horn. I called his bluff by just stopping and staring at him until he went red and shut up...t*sser!:D

Good one Carmine :hihi: I've done that before and it shuts the beggars up good and proper!

Originally posted by Lickable
Yeah but think of the time wasted whilst some fool unloads a huge weekly shop infront of you... Now think of the time wasted

just move to another queue, or point out to them that they are in the wrong queue.

Originally posted by nick2
just move to another queue, or point out to them that they are in the wrong queue.

I agree with this. There can sometimes be a tendancy of british to complain but not act. Say something politely to the person, they may not even have seen the sign!

Parking cars on the pavement, so that you have to go on the road to get round them. :rant:
Thats one of the ones that annoys me the most
Ignoring the road markings near schools :rant:
I could get on a bit of a victor meldrew trip here so I'll leave it at that for now

Originally posted by honeyplanet
Parking cars on the pavement, so that you have to go on the road to get round them. :rant:
The upshot of which is that you nearly get killed by a driver while you're in the road!

People who hog the middle lane on motorways, when the slow lane is clear.

It just clogs everything up for everyone else, and it's really inconsiderate.

Some people say they 'don't like' changing lanes. I say if you're too scared to move from one lane to the other then you shouldn't be driving on a fast road.

These also tend to be the same people who moan when somebody overtakes them on the inside!!!

people in the gym just turning the tv over without asking.

It's got to the point where I take the remote (if i'm in the gym on my own) and when people come in and walk over to turn it over I tell them that i'm watching it. I had to tell about 3 people on Monday, and when i'd done they had it turned over before I'd even walked out the door. Not one of them was going to ask if anyone was watching what was on though, it's so rude it really p*sses me off.

Originally posted by tim_rutter
I agree with this. There can sometimes be a tendancy of british to complain but not act. Say something politely to the person, they may not even have seen the sign!

I was thinking more along the lines of "ARE YOU BLIND ?" or "CAN'T YOU COUNT ?", I had a good laugh in the ASDA a bit back when a woman flew into the queue infront of me and unpacked a huge trolly full of stuff, only to be told by the checkout person that this was "a baskets only till, luv", she had to put everything back in the trolly and go to a different till :)

Cyclone, join Virgin, the machines have individual TV's on them so you can watch what you want, some have little fans to help keep you cool.

Originally posted by Carmine
The upshot of which is that you nearly get killed by a driver while you're in the road! .
Too right, I am allways having to squeeze the pram down the sides of cars to avoid pushing it into the main road. Flouting road traffic regulations seems to happen frequently

Maybe not so much a rule as social ettiqette but people who don't turn their phones off in the cinema and then they get a call.

The last thing I want is to listen to some numb nut's phone playing Amarillo while they fumble for it juggling their super sized coke, skip of popcorn and bag of m&m's just when Ben Kenobi's giving Anakin a pasting.

Turn it off before you go in! That's why they have the cleverly subtle Orange ads on To REMIND YOU! :rant:

Originally posted by Swan_Vesta
The last thing I want is to listen to some numb nut's phone playing Amarillo while they fumble for it juggling their super sized coke, skip of popcorn and bag of m&m's just when Ben Kenobi's giving Anakin a pasting.
Even worse when it's a small army of charvers who'll take as much notice of you as they do of newsnight specials on national elections in the Baltic.

Beats me why they pay the £5.20 to see a film if all they're going to do is act the tw*t and not pay attention.

Surely they can do that on their usual street corner and save themselves the admittance fee? Think how much white lightening that'd buy.

Can I have two things? I do love a good rant.

First of all there are all the people who are participating in National "Park Your Car Where You Like" Day.

Or at least I assume that is the case, there must be some explanation for the large numbers of people round our way who more or less abandon their cars any old where as they go off to do their shopping, any old corner/zebra crossing will do.

Mind you, my mate says she thinks it is because they all have these special magic warning lights. She says she thinks it must be the case that if you put your magic flashers on then you are entitled to park where you like.

My second thing is people, dozens and dozens and dozens of them, who every single night, under cover of darkness, dump bags and bags of unwanted clothes, toys and bric-a-brac, probably broken and worthless, on the doorsteps of our local charity shops. Despite the fact that the shops and the police both have notices in the windows begging and imploring them not to.

Despite the fact that they must know that scavengers (human and animal) rip the bags to pieces every night to see what they contain.

How charitable is that? To leave all your garbage outside a shop because you are too idle to either
a. turn up when it is open or
b. go to the tip

Rant rant rant rant

Originally posted by nick2
I was thinking more along the lines of "ARE YOU BLIND ?" or "CAN'T YOU COUNT ?", I had a good laugh in the ASDA a bit back when a woman flew into the queue infront of me and unpacked a huge trolly full of stuff, only to be told by the checkout person that this was "a baskets only till, luv", she had to put everything back in the trolly and go to a different till :)

Cyclone, join Virgin, the machines have individual TV's on them so you can watch what you want, some have little fans to help keep you cool.

i'm not paying for a gym when I get one for free in a hotel.

Originally posted by Belle
First of all there are all the people who are participating in National "Park Your Car Where You Like" Day.

Or at least I assume that is the case, there must be some explanation for the large numbers of people round our way who more or less abandon their cars any old where as they go off to do their shopping, any old corner/zebra crossing will do.

Mind you, my mate says she thinks it is because they all have these special magic warning lights. She says she thinks it must be the case that if you put your magic flashers on then you are entitled to park where you like.
I've often theorised that there must be a mental disorder that manifests itself as an unwavering belief that the sufferer has been given a kind of special "Get out of Jail Free" card in the giant Monopoly game that is life.

This allows them to park on the double yellows, turn right where there's a no right turn sign, enter and occupy a cross-hatched box for as long as they like, cut in front of others becasue they don't like the idea of being overtaken, flick lit cigarettes out of the window of their car...and so on into infinity!:D

Well cathartic this thread innit?

The hazard lights thing I think is what winds me up the most. You've broken down outside Blockbuster? How convienient....

But I try not to let the little things in life get under my skin - theres too much else to do besides stress about bad drivers, smokers, kids, chavs etc

Seize the day peeps :thumbsup:

I find it rather interesting that the majority of posters mention bad driving as the thing that winds them up most.

Interesting!

Originally posted by Saxon
I find it rather interesting that the majority of posters mention bad driving as the thing that winds them up most.

Interesting!

Hope they didn't pass their test through you Saxon :hihi:

Of course not!;)

I know you wouldn't do anything wrong!!:hihi:

Originally posted by viking
Not if you have 8 items and they have 9, then start wanting to use credit cards in the Cash only till. Only same as driving in a bus lane.


My pet hate is people getting arsy about me having 9 items in the 8 item checkout. Is that extra 10 seconds to scan one extra item really going to hold you up?

quite a few rules on here annoy me :P

but im coping.................just

Staying in the outside lane and doing a steady 50mph!!!!
What makes it worse is if they're in a BMW or other some other performance car.
:mad: :mad: :mad:

OkyDoky - here goes!

People (usually elderly) who queue jump.
People who don't clear their doggy plops up.
Smokers who do it in my vicinity or in no smokiong areas.
Smokers dropping litter (see thread)
People who shout n swear into mobile phones - usually on busses
People who shout n swear in public.
Rotherham Council Refuse collectors who insist on leaving the bins in some kind of erratic slalom after they've been emptied.
People who park on the pavement when they have perfectly good drives.
Drivers who run over slow moving wild animals like hedgehogs.
A/E patients who think they should be seen first despite being assessed as timewasters.
People (patients) in hospital (always the Unemployable) who like to remind you that "They pay your f**king wages" :loopy:



Now I'm all upset. :mad:

Originally posted by viking
Also people who start a queue at "Argos" for their stuff.
You dont queue at Argos, you wait for your number to be called out. Only in Britain would we start a queue when there is no need for a queue. :mad:

Have you noticed in Argos as well, particularly in the Drakehouse Retail one, if there is only one person serving on the cash-desks and about 3 people in the queue line.. you will hear the familiar phrase "I've been here x amount of time now, this is ridiculous, why do I come in here to get my stuff"

And - sorry ladies- its coming from you. I've not heard it from blokes yet... lasses are quite content to tell the nearest person to them at the top of your voices, their displeasure in this also.

If you dont like it, sod off to meadowhall argos.

Originally posted by nick2
You know that getting wound up like this over nothing reduces your life expectancy.

(probably).

EDIT: Delete (probably) Substitute: almost certainly

(But I just have to say that dog poo on pavements gets my goat.....so that's a month off my life now!).

Originally posted by viking

Also people who start a queue at "Argos" for their stuff.
You dont queue at Argos, you wait for your number to be called out. Only in Britain would we start a queue when there is no need for a queue. :mad:
I do this all the time :o


Even if I'm not buying anything, just to pass the time.

Gosh, i must be getting really chilled out in my old age! It's taken me ages to think of anything that really anoys me.

Now let me see - nope can't think of anything. Ah I know, the shoppers in M&S are probably the rudest people you'll ever meet. They all seem to walk around there with the 'i'm rich enough to shop here so you scum will move out of my way attitude' and that winds me up. And people in any supermarket who, whilst looking at something on display have their trolly parked right across the isle so no-one can get passed. Then there's the shop assistants (i use the term loosley) they should be called shop unassistants who stand around chatting to each other and ignoring the customers.

But what really annoys me is when I'm looking at an item on a supermarket shelf thinking 'wow, that's a really good price' and then realising that the price below the item is actually for something else altogether ...

Never being asked if i'm old enough to buy alchohol when it bleeps through the supermarket checkout - they automatically assume i'm over 18 :suspect: how do they know? I may have just led a very hard life?

How about those soft buggers who get to the top of an escalator & stop, right there, rooted to the spot, bewildered wondering which way to turn while a panicking queue of people are heaping up behind them?!:hihi:

Think Meadowhall
Think Christmas
Think pensioner
:roll: you know the Don's got a point :heyhey:

Originally posted by Don_Kiddick
How about those soft buggers who get to the top of an escalator & stop, right there, rooted to the spot, bewildered wondering which way to turn while a panicking queue of people are heaping up behind them?!:hihi:

Think Meadowhall
Think Christmas
Think pensioner
:roll: you know the Don's got a point :heyhey:

True Don, but not just confined to escalators. I get severely miffed when the pushchair mafia/the grey brigade/assorted dullards decide to congregate in doorways.

Surely the good people of South Yorkshire have worked out by now the humble door facilitates transition between building and street and not a meeting point to discuss "Our Waynes hives".

Originally posted by owl74
drivers who break the rules annoy me, using bus lanes and overtaking on the inside whilst on a motorway:mad:

Drivers who do not indicate and drivers who use mobile phones.

Oh and mobile speed cameras!

Originally posted by Don_Kiddick
People (patients) in hospital (always the Unemployable) who like to remind you that "They pay your f**king wages" :loopy:
I presume you pay your taxes, Don?

Doesn't that make you self-employed by the twisted logic that kind of idiot applies to the situation?:D

I went to my local this afternoon for some sunshine and lager, and a lovely view of the carpark (oh, the glamour). A woman pulled into the disabled spot, left her dog in the car with the windows up, and went to collect her child from the nearby school. I was apoplectic beyond belief, and had not realised what a rule obsessive I am: Its not the school's car park, its the pub's; she did not have a blue badge for the disabled spot; and then leaving a dog in the car in this heat???? FFS. Why couldn't she take the dog with her to the school gates??? And she put the car alarm on so that when the dog jumped about the alarm went off. *luckily* (please note irony) the dog soon virtually passed out in the 30 mins she was gone and so the alarm only went off a couple of times.

Unfortunately, when I accosted her and explained that I thought she was unfit to own an dog, she looked at me like I was dirt. Its that kind of area, I suppose. Ah well, moving back to Sheffield soon.

Originally posted by Carmine
I presume you pay your taxes, Don?

Doesn't that make you self-employed by the twisted logic that kind of idiot applies to the situation?:D

:thumbsup: Cor! Not alf!

I've paid taxes since I had my first Saturday morning job after leaving school.

Here's a couple more annoyances.

People who use mobile phones:
a: while driving
b: in hospitals (despite signs)
c: kids with them in school
d: people who take a call half way through their pre-employment medical :loopy: what a promising impression that makes.

people who don't clear up after their dogs:rant:

Originally posted by viking
Not if you have 8 items and they have 9, then start wanting to use credit cards in the Cash only till. Only same as driving in a bus lane.

Hmmm...at Sainsbury's in Meadowhall, I took a trolley with about 15 items through the 10 items or less aisle and the cashier (a female) told me off for doing so, adding that particular aisle was well-signposted as being such.

So I had a look round for the sign.

Was it to my left? No

Was it to my right? No

Was it in front of me? No

Was it on the floor? No

I later noticed the sign was suspended from the ceiling, several metres up. As if I'm going to be looking up at the ceiling when I've finished my shopping :loopy:

Crazy woman.

Never mind; she'll be out of a job within a few weeks :clap:

Petty? Me? :blush:

Originally posted by Swan_Vesta
I get severely miffed when the pushchair mafia/the grey brigade/assorted dullards decide to congregate in doorways.

Surely the good people of South Yorkshire have worked out by now the humble door facilitates transition between building and street and not a meeting point to discuss "Our Waynes hives".

They're usually ladies, aren't they?

Interesting how they'll block the throughfare while stopping to chat, and usually the busier the throughfare, the more often it happens. Why? Do they want everybody else in town or Meadowhall to know how important and / or popular they are?

I sometimes wonder - if these people walked past each other in an open field, would they blank each other completely :huh:

People who throw their 'litter' in my garden! Yet again today I have had to tour my small estate with a carrier bag collecting all things from pizza boxes, discarded bottles of beer/pop and reels of disused 'first buses' ticket paper :suspect:

So needless to say i wasn't impressed by the 'neighbour' leaving all his hedge trimmings in my garden too.

Guess i'm not as chilled out today as i was yesterday when i couldn't think of anything that annoyed me :hihi:

Originally posted by Hels
People who throw their 'litter' in my garden! Yet again today I have had to tour my small estate with a carrier bag collecting all things from pizza boxes, discarded bottles of beer/pop and reels of disused 'first buses' ticket paper :suspect:

So needless to say i wasn't impressed by the 'neighbour' leaving all his hedge trimmings in my garden too.

Guess i'm not as chilled out today as i was yesterday when i couldn't think of anything that annoyed me :hihi:

It's the heatwave that's so annoying at the moment! We'll all chill out when we aren't knackered by the heat all day, and can get some sleep in comfort.

Yip red, its way too warm. Roll on tomorrows rain, I hope it cools off a bit.:cool:

Originally posted by AJ sheffield
Yip red, its way too warm. Roll on tomorrows rain, I hope it cools off a bit.:cool:

Hiya AJ

Not heard the weather forecast, but it's gonna rain soon - 'cos I'm off to Wales on holiday again this weekend, and rain is nearly always guaranteed! Then we can indeed all cool down, and stop being annoyed by so many rule breakers!

Red

the scum shouting racist abuse at each other on walkley lane at midnight last night.

The incosiderate blonde woman in the black Chelsea tractor who lobbed her still burning fag end out of the window onto the pavement outside the pharmacy at Stag Roundabout yesterday.

That'll be a £1000 fine please madam - and use your ashtray next time :mad:

Beggars who don't need to beg, but who do it because they take home more money than I earn, and then don't pay tax on it!!

Originally posted by Swan_Vesta
Beats me why they pay the £5.20 to see a film if all they're going to do is act the tw*t and not pay attention.


It only costs them £4.00:thumbsup: - kids with a mega travel if its the breed i'm thinking of.

Originally posted by Don_Kiddick
How about those soft buggers who get to the top of an escalator & stop, right there, rooted to the spot, bewildered wondering which way to turn while a panicking queue of people are heaping up behind them?!:hihi:


That will be my brother your talking about- he finds it wildly amusing to do so- much to my terror of kicking and whacking him to move before we all end up in a big clump at the top:loopy:

Originally posted by Abdul
Hmmm...at Sainsbury's in Meadowhall, I took a trolley with about 15 items through the 10 items or less aisle and the cashier (a female) told me off for doing so, adding that particular aisle was well-signposted as being such.


Some of my friends work in supermarkets and they get so sick of the rude customers to keep them selves amused they stop scanning at 10 items (or whatever the limit is) and tell them they can't accept anymore items in this transaction. :suspect:

I can't think of anything that annoys me right now.........

Originally posted by Abdul
Crazy woman.

Never mind; she'll be out of a job within a few weeks :clap:


Hi Abdul,

I don't think someone losing their job is anything to celebrate.

Originally posted by Andy
I don't think someone losing their job is anything to celebrate.

Oh, I can be a bitch when provoked :D

Originally posted by franc1987
Some of my friends work in supermarkets and they get so sick of the rude customers to keep them selves amused they stop scanning at 10 items (or whatever the limit is) and tell them they can't accept anymore items in this transaction. :suspect:

Crikey!

I always thought it was the customers job to annoy the staff, not the other way round :confused:

People who overtake on the inside on the motorway, then suddenly realise that they're stuck behind a slower lorry and try to cut in front of me.