What’s your pet hate

Cockroaches. Hate them. Sometimes in summer they appear in the kitchen. Dirty great big black things. I scream, can’t help it. I’d never seen one before we came to Australia.

People leaning over the dishwasher to pile things in the sink. WHY?

Me too - mind you, I’m not keen on shopping at the best of times.
I do try to get into Newcastle once a month or so, just for a wander and usually buy a coffee in Fenwicks and people watch.

On a personal level, I hate bad manners, rudeness, people eating with open mouths, others yelling into their phones. I’ve quite a long list when I think about it! Not a fan of Christmas either.

The trouble for me is, that every time I go shopping with my daughters, or grandchildren, I end up buying them things. So it's better to have them there with me to get it right. Otherwise I end up traipsing back to exchange the goods!

If I want a quiet period to myself in say a book shop, I tell them to meet me back in an hour.

We always then have lunch together in Côte on the cathedral green. It's making memories

I hardly ever go shopping with anyone else. If I ever go with dh, he will almost inevitably wander off and I’ll have to ring him or end up fuming at the checkouts.

Well before mobile phones, I was once with him in Homebase, where we’d gone to get a besom broom, for sweeping leaves off the grass.

It was late October, near Halloween, so after he’d done his usual wandering off, I was left clutching my besom and fuming by the checkouts, when I noticed a little boy nearby, nervously half-hiding behind his mother and saying in a very loud whisper, ‘Mummy, is she a witch? 😂

nanna8

Cockroaches. Hate them. Sometimes in summer they appear in the kitchen. Dirty great big black things. I scream, can’t help it. I’d never seen one before we came to Australia.

My first experience of cockroaches was in the ladies loos at Grundy’s Surfers Paradise, I wailed like a banshee into, DH had to come in and rescue me.

My pet hate is, ok I have several, people who do not pick up after their dogs 🤬

Litter, I live on the main through our village I am so fed up with finding cans/bottles on my wall or thrown over it 🤬🤬

I must be quite content because my current bugbear is quite petty. It infuriates me when DH comes back from his keep fit session and goes upstairs to the bathroom and empties his gym bag out, leaving his towel and gym kit in there with the dirty washing. I then have to follow him upstairs and pick it up and take it back downstairs to the laundry.

He does the same when we come back from holiday or a weekend away.

Why on why can't he just leave the dirty washing downstairs and take the empty bag up?

And yes, I have tried to explain to him that it creates more work for me and doesn't even make sense.

Queue jumpers.

Shopping period. I hate it. Any kind, food shopping or clothes shopping etc., have grown daughters who love it and can spend all day in Westfield’s London. They know better than to ask me. I mean I love a day out in London or any city/town, but prefer to walk around looking at the place and maybe stopping for a nice cuppa.
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Litterbugs

With you all the way on preferring solo shopping BlueBelle

Currently the constant appeals - Children in Need, Christmas charities etc - are making me feel emotionally overloaded.

My ongoing pet hate is for people who drop litter, especially those who buy a takeaway, eat it in the car, open the door, drop the leftovers onto the pavement and just drive away. I have been known to shout and make gestures at the rear lights of a car or two!

My red mist arrives when I hear grown women talking with silly girly voices on TV or the radio.

Smoking - oh, and litter!

Bullies. I've come across a few over the years. I also like to shop alone.
People who allow their dogs to jump up on me. I have arthritis in my hips and a dog almost knocked me over.

People who sniff! I just want to shout 'for goodness sake just blow your bloody nose!' Drives me mad.

I'm with you on shopping with others BB, I prefer to be a solitary shopper. I find it really tedious looking at stuff someone else wants to purchase. I have a lifelong friend, on our meet ups around shops, when we had young children, I'd find myself trailing along after her to look at girls' clothes, thinking "why am I doing this?, I've got boys and I wouldn't expect you to be looking at boys clothes" She still does it now, after we've had lunch, says I'm looking for something or other for her daughter, only child. "Bloody Hell! our kids, well they're in their 30s now, let your daughter look for her own stuff" I'm thinking, of course I don't say that, but bid her farewell, no more trailing around looking for other people's purchases thank you very much. I don't really like prolonged shopping trips anyway.

I prefer shopping on my own too. My pet hate is litter.

I have quite a few pet hates but to follow the OP, shopping with other people is in the top ten. I'm very difficult when it comes to clothes. I can't wear anything with wool in due to eczema (you'd be surprised how much stuff does) and I have other sensory issues too. I have small but wide feet and big boobs but a small frame. So basically I'm a nightmare. A personal shopper would need counselling after dealing with me.

CLEANING!!!! It's a waste of time in my house. The minute I've washed the floor and let it dry 'someone' walks straight in from the garden. If I vac the downstairs 'someone' trudges into the house missing the doormats [note the plural]. So is it worth cleaning? Even dusting seems to settle fairly quickly after I've made a lot of effort. Hey ho! such is life

I've found it impossible to shop with others, unless you are shopping for just one of you. Would be nice to have a personal shopper whose job it is to help you choose. Loved going shopping with my precious mum as she would buy me anything I wanted.

I agree with you, BlueBelle, - I much prefer shopping alone.
My pet hate is housework. It's painful for me, and tedious,
and just when you think it's finished you have to start all over again.

Litter, I can not understand why people drop litter it's my big hate. I never dropped litter as a child, and my children didn't equally my GC don't.
Why can't people do the right thing and bin it.

JackyB

I must be quite content because my current bugbear is quite petty. It infuriates me when DH comes back from his keep fit session and goes upstairs to the bathroom and empties his gym bag out, leaving his towel and gym kit in there with the dirty washing. I then have to follow him upstairs and pick it up and take it back downstairs to the laundry.

He does the same when we come back from holiday or a weekend away.

Why on why can't he just leave the dirty washing downstairs and take the empty bag up?

And yes, I have tried to explain to him that it creates more work for me and doesn't even make sense.

Just don't pick up after him. He's a grown up and can take care of his own laundry. He will soon sort himself out when he's got no clean clothes for the gym.