AND ANOTHER THING! A place to post a moan about lifes minor irritations!

Not sure exactly what you mean by your post, petallus! Are you saying you are irritated by people who you consider not to be on your intellectual level?

baubles that could have been me a few years ago

But, since my son had to start using a wheelchair, and I started pushing babies around again, it makes me really angry! Our village doesn't have wide enough roads or enough parking spaces in the middle but people could THINK about it a bit more before they park. I now carry a 'snotty' notice which I put under the offending car's windscreen - and then I run like the clappers!

Truck drivers who move out of convoy and hog all four lanes on the motorway for some unfathomable reason that is not clear to other motorway users. It seems to happen often on the M62 late at night. Last month, one truck driver went halfway into the outside lane and kept weaving his vehicle to stop cars getting through. The road ahead was empty. I eventually drove through and all the trucks flashed their headlights and sounded their horns at me. It was very intimidating. I left the motorway 3 junctions after and there was no reason for them to have held up the traffic. Has this happened to anyone else?

Irritation at people who have not had the same level of education or do not have the same level of intelligence as oneself.

The 'yourself' and 'myself' thing... I remember stamping on that in letters sent by the company I worked for - I explained that only I can hurt myself, and only you can hurt yourself - the key word being 'reflexive', and so 'feel free to call myself' is codswallop with no meaning whatsoever... I got myself quite worked up!

I also suggested that 'how can I help you' made more sense than 'how may I help you', which caused a little friction between myself and her what taught the telephone receptionists. And it's 'she who', not 'her what'!

Yes, yes and yes yoga

Mothers giving their children food off the shelves in supermarkets before they go through the checkout. I've actually seen people putting empty packets back on the shelves when their children have finished their "snack"

Wrapping on cucumbers -- grrr

Motorists who sit in the middle lane of the motorway when the inside lane lane is empty

We have has 3 power cuts this evening. It puts everything out, the phone, the internet and SKY+ box when I was recording New tricks. This is annoying, but Not life threatening.

Yes Baubles all those!! Pushing a buggy along the pavements is fraught with danger!

And what about those people who park their cars on the pavement forcing pedestrians, especially those pushing prams, on to the road? Grrrr

Drivers who tailgate me in a 30mph area when I am trying NOT to get any more points on my licence.

A lovely young girl, cycling to work for 'The Big Issue', was mown down and killed by a lorry driver 'who hadn't seen her'.
So while I am on the subject, lorry drivers who get too close behind me when I'm driving, who excede the speed limit on motorways, who drive 'in convoy' and who don't use their kerbside mirrors.

Plenty, in both cases! It wasn't me who did for the bikes though! Just doing a quick count, I've actually had two stolen, and I think there were five or six others. I still have the latest one.

And, more to the point, how many bikes have you got through?

How many lives have you got, Bags?

Hasn't rained for ages and now it has [for one day] we're on flood alert.....

And the car drivers that come out of a side road and knock you off your bike (wrecking the bike but, fortunately, not you) when you're cycling on the main road. And the car drivers who turn right in front of you and across your perfectly proper path so suddenly that you can't stop in time and crash into the side of them (wrecking the bike but, fortunately, not you), and the bus drivers who stop behind you at a junction but then forget you're there and drive straight into your back wheel(wrecking the bike but, fortunately, not you). And the lorry drivers who are too impatient to wait for a safe overtaking space so just drive too close and shove you into the verge or ditch or curb. And the pedestrians who step out onto the road without looking, or wheel the front of their push-chairs into the road before looking, or they have looked but don't see bikes.

All that has happened to me and yet I never ran a red light or rode without lights when I shouldn't or on pavements when they weren't also designated cycle lanes, or in pedestrianised areas.

Huh! Cyclists ARE NOT WORSE than other road users!

And what about drivers who open the car door without looking for the cyclist coming up on the right?

Now for something completely different.
I am mildly irritated because I have just made an effort and tried a new recipe (stir fried prawns with pak choi, sugar snap peas and baby corn with rice noodles) only to realise I should have pre-soaked the noodles before adding them to the wok.
Now I am having to steam them in situ and the vegetables will get overcooked.
The recipe didn't say anything about pre-soaking the noodles - I gleaned this, belatedly, from the side of the packet.
Grrrr.

I just wish cyclists, bikers, motorist and well everyone really would just show a bit of forethought and consideration.

I agree kitty and*janthea*, I was nearly knocked by a cyclist on a pedestrian crossing where everyone else had stopped he then turned round and called me a blankety blank stupid bitch.

Well said janthea. I found myself apologising for getting in the way of a cyclist in the (pedestrianised) middle of town the other day?

Back to cyclists. I hate those were insist on riding on the pavement even when there are cycle lanes on the roads (put in at great expense by local councils) and the road itself is nearly empty!! I hate those who jump red lights and ignore pedestrian crossings!!

To enter a completely empty restaurant , sit at a table .
Only to be told .

Can you please stand at the sign so we can seat you ????