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‘What insignificant things wind you up way more than they should?’ – 17 trivial sources of serious stress

10.
‘When you are in the Supermarket and you need something specific. You go to the aisle its on and when you get there you find there is one other person on the aisle and they will be stood right in front of the thing you want and really taking their time.’
-sjw_7

11.
‘People parking in front of my house when they aren’t coming TO my house. Utterly unimportant but winds me up for some reason.’
-Sure-Present-3398

12.
‘People having a full phone conversation on a busy bus or train’
-Neddykins82

13.
‘My wife being unable to put a bin bag in a bin without it just collapsing in on itself.

‘How hard is it to wrap the top round the sides?!?!’
-RainbowPenguin1000

14.
‘Middle lane hoggers on the motorway early in the morning or late at night. When there’s only us on that stretch of motorway it’s really not that important but it still just winds me up to no end. Why?! Why do you need to sit in the middle lane?!’
-Any_Literature_3469

15.
‘Dropping things on the floor really annoys me even if it is my fault

‘People who walk past stairs to a lift to go up one floor when they are clearly perfectly capable of walking.

‘People who drive slowly for no good reason.

‘People at buffets in hotels. Get the fuck out of my way and stop dithering.

‘Accept cookie messages. But it really boils my piss when they invite you to “reject and pay”. Just fuck off!

‘Social media. Facebook, X etc. Full of absolute bollocks. Reels, adverts, fake news and trolls. The scummy toilets of the internet.

‘Adverts for news articles that end up being behind paywalls (yes I know I can bypass, but I CBA).

‘Liars.

‘People who take themselves too seriously.’
-TheCannyLad

16.
‘Don’t know if there’s a name for it, but when you’re typing a text, or into a search engine, you see the correct suggestion pop up, then a nanosecond before your finger hits it, it changes to a completely different word or search term.

‘Absolutely boils my picture!! Aarrhggg, I mean piss.’
-Possible-Ad-2682

17.
‘Saying haitch instead of aitch…

‘Yes, language changes and blah blah. It just gets me, every time. Nobody says N-HAITCH-S, but will say Haitch-SBC.

‘At least be consistent!!’
-Greedy_Investigator7

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