What’s your pet hate

I hate people that throw their rubbish out of their cars.
People who think it is their right to speed mindlessly, endangering animal and human lives.
People who drive cars with those farty exhausts.

People who get pets on a whim, and then don't look after them, is one of my pets hates (pardon the pun)

Witzend, that made me laugh, bet your DH was hiding somewhere , afraid to appear...

Cleaning the bathroom. The smallest room in our house but it takes the longest to clean.
I could scream when I hear people, mainly youngsters keep saying 'like' after every few words.

Oh I have a few. Poor spelling - that drives me nuts. eg their/there and such like. My partners loading of the dishwasher. It's worse than a child and I have to move everything. Dogs that jump up and their owners who think their dogs are lovely and that I want them sniffing and licking me. Rudeness. Cruelty to humans and animals.

Net Zero.

Oh, keepingquiet, you are echoing my thoughts on dogs. They are everywhere. On the beach, in the park, on the verges, the pavements. Now it seems a lot of people have three. Apart from anything else, how on earth do they afford them! Sorry I know this thread isn't about dogs.

Putin 😝

Dog poo in bags but not put in bin

Some people insisting men are women

Rubbish on sides of motorways

Tripe

PS

Russell Brand when he refused to take his Alsatian dog out of the Waitrose supermarket in Henley on Thames

I hate waiting, and so I hate unpunctuality.

Segregation and discrimination. Does not matter what direction it is in you should not treat someone different because of something about them that is quite irrelevant to what you are doing. Race gender and colour are the normal ones but there are others.

Simpering, coy, coquettish behaviour of any kind in a grown woman.

I'll second that. 👍

Another pet hate - Santa instead of Father Christmas. People don’t even say Santa Claus in full.

I suspect some children now don’t even know the term Father Christmas.

Newatthis

People who gossip - evil people - this can cause so much damage. Also jealousy, can't bear jealous people and people who are mean, that is those who know how to put money in their purse but seem to forget how to take it out when it comes to paying their share.

So agree with this. Especially the gossiping. Have heard total nonsense which could have devastating consequences. Usually started by people who have nothing better to do.

Sniffing is my pet hate as well. My mother in law sniffed and I would say to her would you like a hankie and she would say “no I’m fine” sniff. My husband knew it drove me mad and would say “stop sniffing mum, blow your nose” she would say “no I’m fine”
I am currently giving a lift to an acquaintance with a broken arm and she constantly sniffs, I feel like I could push her out of the car sometimes.

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.

Why are you doing his laundry?

Companies who thank me for reaching out to them.

Companies and organisations who - when it's discovered that they've made some awful mistake - insist that they "take our customer's safety incredibly seriously".

... and any recorded answering service that gives more than three options to press. By the time they've got to the 6th or 7th, I've forgotten the first 3.

Lastly, any website that encourages me to visit their FAQs - because I've never yet found an answer to mine among them.

Far Right racist idiots.

Jelly Babies!

UGH!

Tasteless and slimy!

I just thought of a seasonal one - the pernicious habit from across the pond of leaving ‘milk and cookies’ for Father Christmas! 😱🎅🏻

In the U.K. he is entitled to expect a tot of something warming, and a mince pie or two. Who on earth wants cold milk on a midwinter night?

My milkman (or rather his company) is even offering a ‘keepsake’ bottle saying ‘Milk for Santa’.
I am appalled!!

I absolutely loathe shopping if all types, hence am Mrs Internet Shopping!

I too cannot get my head around why people (especially in our house) pile up their dirty dishes in the sink which is right next to the dishwasher.

Discrimination, of any type, makes my blood boil, as does a lack of manners and basic courtesy!

Other than that I’m very laid back

Witzend

I just thought of a seasonal one - the pernicious habit from across the pond of leaving ‘milk and cookies’ for Father Christmas! 😱🎅🏻

In the U.K. he is entitled to expect a tot of something warming, and a mince pie or two. Who on earth wants cold milk on a midwinter night?

My milkman (or rather his company) is even offering a ‘keepsake’ bottle saying ‘Milk for Santa’.
I am appalled!!

Oh I agree! We always left Sherry and mince pie and a carrot for the reindeers when I was little. When my children were little the sherry was substituted for either Baileys or Brandy!

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.

nanna8, I only first saw one when living in Cyprus, and later, in Oman, there were so many, we could never get rid of them. We all lived in prefabs on a construction camp - perfectly nice accommodation except for those - apparently they liked living inside the prefabricated walls.

Didn’t really see them during the day, but if I ever ventured into the kitchen during the night, there’d be several of the huge things, scuttling about and brandishing their feelers at me.
Vile things!!

The words 'my hubby'