I would not put out decorative towels and expect my guests not to use them. I would always wash them afterwards. I guess I wouldn’t put anything out that I don’t want people to use. On the other hand, if I knew my host didn’t want me to use their decorative towels, it wouldn’t offend me. I don’t have decorative towels, they are all meant to be used. 
Ha. Thanks @doschicos! Vocal Fry! That’s the term for it. Hate it. Some women completely overdo it in combination with stretching their words “yeaeaeah, it was soooo very aaawesooome”. Whaaaaaa! Horrid.
My little annoyances are things I just fix…
- I’ve been married for 36 years,,,and every. single. time. my husband changes the toilet paper...I have to flip it around...so I do, BUT you would think he would notice by now!!
- I grill my own steaks. I just got sick of eating well done steak because that is the way DH likes his. So...he does his...and I do mine.
- Don’t tell me there is almost 1/2a tank of gas in my car when you use it...when really...it’s running on fumes.
Now that I don’t have a husband, my list is noticeably shorter.
^^lol, @oldfort.
Fascinating thread. I, on occasion, admit to not returning a cart. I have never left it where it could hit a car or be in someone’s way. It’s rare but I do it. It’s interesting to me to see how universal it is as an irritant. I’m pretty diligent but maybe this discussion will push me to 100% compliance.
I also find I sometimes use an apostrophe incorrectly on CC bc, like a couple other people mentioned, it just looks/seems funny to write dds rather than dd’s even if I don’t mean it to be possessive.
Finally, numerous people can’t stand the sound of chewing on this thread. My husband is one such person. I try to hard to chew quietly but, honestly, it can be challenging to chew so that the person right next to you can’t hear. And we both enjoy potato chips…no chance for me then. For those who can’t stand the sound, what’s a person to do?!
My daughter eats in another room. She cannot go out to eat with anyone. She cannot go to the movies. It’s very lonely and isolating. We cannot have family meals.
Maybe he likes it his way and can’t believe after 36 years you won’t just leave it alone!
If he didn’t purposely hang it the way you don’t like it, you’d think he’d get it right 50% of the time, but no, you always have to change it so he must put it on the way he likes it.
BTW, my sister solved this by making her husband use the other bathroom. She has hers (master) and he can use one of the others (his, kids, basement…)
The annoyance caused by chewing noises is called misophonia and is related to brain physiology. Apparently 20% of humans experience it.
https://www.sciencealert.com/if-you-can-t-stand-the-sound-of-people-chewing-blame-your-brain
"The sound of people chewing, slurping, tapping, or humming can drive some people into a rage, and now scientists have discovered the neurological wiring responsible for this strange condition.
Taken together, the evidence suggests that those with misophonia have brains that struggle to control the spread of messages associated with certain sounds.
While we all might feel a twinge of bother, having misophonia turns an annoying sound into an enraging experience, as it spreads through different parts of the brain associated with ‘fight or flight’ responses."
@twoinanddone
If my DH really wanted it the other way…don’t you think he would switch it back every so often?
And I suppose I should also learn to like well done steak? Um…no.
These are little things that bother me…as the thread title says.
@collage1 I totally get that some food is noisy to eat. If someone is crunching raw carrots or the like, I just need to leave the room. That’s on me. My idiosyncrasy.
But why Carl’s Jr., TGI Fridays and Kit Kat make chewing, smacking noises prominent on their commercials is lost on me. What does it add? Don’t they do ad testing?
Apparently my noisy water-swallowing is a little thing that bothers other people. I’m not sure how to swallow liquids quietly…
This describes my experience with a blaring TV. Any chance it’s the same disorder? I wish I knew what to do to overcome it.
For the people bothered by chewing noises, does your own chewing bother you, too? Honestly curious because we all make chewing noises, right?
Maybe some background music while eating would help? :-??
I hate it when people hit the fork on their teeth when they eat. It is also bad for the teeth. But some Food Network shows add this sound when contestant’s foods ate being tasted. Why??
@morrismm big peeve of mine. And any scraping on plates. It’s like nails on a chalkboard.
No, my own chewing doesn’t bother me because it’s inside my head (different sound) and under my control.
Because the issue is mine and not that of the person chewing, I do whatever I have to to escape the sound, usually leaving the room. When I worked in an office, I used earbuds and music to ignore the crunch of a co-worker who insisted on eating cereal at his desk every day. What’s interesting to me is the rage factor. I’ve never mentioned that to my family because it seems so insanely irrational, but I get absolutely livid when I hear others chew. I can’t tell you what goes through my head. It’s somewhat comforting to know that rage is a common response with this disorder.
I can’t stand being tapped on the shoulder.
OMG this thread!! Where have you been all my life?
Today’s annoyance; driving on Sunset Blvd, there are three bikers (motorcyclists) ahead of me. They’re buddies, I guess, they’re all wearing leather jackets that say “Lone Wolf.” One is in one lane, two in the other, all going around 30 MPH. Dudes, move it! There’s a line up cars behind each of you.
I wasn’t in a particular hurry, and Sunset (where I was, west of UCLA) is a pretty curvy street so no one should be going 60MPH, but still. Whyyyyyy.
It really irks me when people speak really loudly into their cell phones on the railroad. I have often yelled out things like “Nobody gives a crap about what you are having for dinner.”
The best was on a relatively empty train one day when a woman was speaking really loudly in Spanish. I kept giving her the stink eye but she didn’t stop. Finally, another woman looked at her and said: “I can completely understand why the judge is taking your children away from you.” At that, the loud woman said goodbye, stood up and began cursing out the second woman, in English, for having the nerve to eavesdrop on her private conversation! She then moved to the middle of the car and tried to resume her conversation. I heard a man say to her, “if you don’t shut up, I am going to find that judge and tell him to cut off your visitation, too.” She finally left the car. I really don’t understand why people would discuss their health issues, their salaries, their marital issues and the like at the top of the lungs on the LIRR. It seems like they think that nobody else can hear them. Strange.
Our dogs bites his nails and licks his feet; it drives me through the roof! My husband thinks I am crazy that it bothers me so much, so in researching it a year or so ago, I realized it was due to the same disorder as mentioned on the previous page. I end up yelling at the dogs or moving his feet away from his mouth; the two of us have a power struggle over this. I have found if we keep his nails short and bathed more often, he does it less. But, when he starts at bedtime, I lose it!! He has been told the bedroom is a no bite zone, so he will have to leave if he continues; he usually stops after the third scolding! [-(