Things that annoy you that shouldn't

Almost too many to mention (and many already have):

To a waitress 'Can I get a whatever?'. Yes, of course you can. I think you mean 'please may I have a whatever?'

'So' at the beginning of every sentence (so seems to be displacing 'basically'.)

Spitting on the pavement. Surely runners could find room for a tissue twixt Lycra and skin.

'Haich', although I have been told that pronunciation of this varies from both varying regions and religions.

'Should of' instead of 'should have'.

The creeping use of 'shh' where there is just an s, For example, conSHUme.

The use of young 'with it' BBC continuity announcers whose English and pronunciation is appalling (I know, I know, I sound really old-fashioned but the young man I am thinking of doesn't pronounce the ends of words and slurs. We shout at the radio and TV!)

Agressive motorists driving right up behind me because I am sticking to the speed limit

The offspring of famouse parents being given lucrative modelling contracts.

Celebrity versions of quiz shows (especially when they show how ignorant they are)

People who don't know when to use "to" or "too"

The word "amazing"

Babies in pushchairs with pierced ears and silly headbands.

(Better stop now - in case I get RSI from typing the rest)

People who constantly put apostrophes in plurals (or maybe I should have written plural's for those who find it all a mystery).
Those who say, "Can I get.." to a waiter
Anyone who pronounces aitch as Haitch.
"Passed" instead of died. I'll stop there or this will be a very long post.

Children as old as 4 or 5 still sucking soothers.

Middle aged people boasting about how 'wild' or 'rebellious' they were at school.

Men wearing tight fitting blue suits with brown pointy shoes.

Ah, the "pointy shoed b******s", as I've heard them referred to.

I know a man who gets ridiculously angry at seeing men with their jumpers arranged around their shoulders. Tied by the arms, with the main jumper part down their backs.

I can become unreasonably aggressive when I hear mischievous pronounced “mischeeveus”.

The expression ‘for free’.......for nothing or free surely !

The plastic 'sleeve' put on cucumbers. WHY????

People who use their elbows to push supermarket trollies, I want to say “stand up straight, not slumped over the trolley handle” ugh!

My neighbour's wind chimes and twinkly lights.
Island instead of IRELAND

People on mobility scooters who think they're at Brands Hatch instead of a shopping centre.

Shelf after shelf of expensive ready meals in supermarkets; buy one get one free - it’s not free and I don’t want two. Animal print clothing.

Music everywhere ! Terrible street singers with loudspeakers, music in restaurant loos, music if you’re hanging on the phone , the assumption that everybody needs to listen to music if they’re out running , or doing anything in fact . Peace and quiet is good sometimes.

I realise I wrote loose twice. I meant, of course, muddling loose and lose. I agree with so many of these posts. Another Victoria Meldrew here. I was with my friend yesterday and we were addressed as “you guys.” We are ladies in our fifties. Surely “is everything alright?” is enough. Otherwise call us ladies. My bad and meh are real bugbears for me as they are so meaningless. I would never mention my irritation at euphemisms for death but I am always tempted to say “how careless of you” when someone mentions that they “lost Mother last year.”

Use of the word 'guys', especially when there isn't a man in sight.

Also seeing babies, toddlers and children with dummies in their mouths. I always thought dummies were to help babies get to sleep!

When on the phone to the bank and the customer service person asks if it is ok to call you by your Christian name.

Basically everything annoys me at the moment

homefarm

My neighbour's wind chimes and twinkly lights.
Island instead of IRELAND

You might be calling out these poor people unjustly. When I had a really bad back it was bliss to lean on the trolly bent over a bit .

I quite like being called a guy.
It makes me feel all young and "with it".

On the other hand I especially like local pronunciations such as 'Emburry' as when the late Prince Philip was "The Chooky Emburry".

skelington instead of skeleton, specific when they mean pacific. I have a black felt-tip in my bag to correct mistakes on signs, unnecessary or missing apostrophes, spelling mistakes, local butcher was selling ”hole” lambs. Used to embarrass my girls when there were young, they do it themselves now

Retired65

When on the phone to the bank and the customer service person asks if it is ok to call you by your Christian name.

I've been asked this question and didn't mind being asked; I replied "no thank you, please call me Mrs ...... " There was a brief moment of stunned silence.... I get very cross when people on the phone assume it's fine to call me by my Christian name without asking first.

I agree with most of the previous posts, and having read a lot of them during the last year I am especially irritated by estate agents' property particulars. Floor plans containing rooms with no means of entry; a flat for sale with a description belonging to another flat in a similarly-named road in another town; homes described as being "within walking distance of shops/bus stop/etc" when these facilities are over half a mile away (I can't walk far); or, worse, descriptions for homes for sale or holiday homes to rent that say vaguely "10 mins to shops and pub" and you just know they mean by car, not on foot. What's the point of being 10 minutes from the pub by car? Someone - usually me - will have to forego having a drink so we can get home again! I thought there was a law against estate agents providing misleading or wrong information but I think they all now write whatever they want and put a disclaimer at the end to wriggle out of it. Grrr!

I am also annoyed by online forms which insist on having your phone number. I am hard of hearing and prefer not to use the phone. The whole point of going online is so I can communicate with the company by email, otherwise I'd just phone them to start with.

I like being called by my first name, too.
I must be a very easy customer.

Mischeeevious gets on my pip too! As does being called a girl when I’m a 60 year old woman. Oh, and people who say ‘ain’t’ all the time - and people who say ‘I am 70 years young’ ….and tv chefs who talk with their mouths full …. I could go on. But that would annoy people ?