15 "Normal" Things That Secretly Annoy People
So, when Reddit user u/Advanced-Tell-9958 asked the question, "What's something 'normal' you just can't stand?" In r/CasualConversation, I knew it would bring out some pretty passionately irritated people:
"Other people brushing their teeth, even on TV. Not sure why, but it makes me feel like gagging."
"Anything spinning or rocking that makes a noise and won't fucking stop. A pot lid rocking back and forth on the counter or spinning on the ground after you drop it is absolutely infuriating."
"Barking dogs. Not just a bark, but nonstop, incessant yapping and barking. If you're an asshole owner, I will let you know. Secondly, people who say dogs are supposed to bark whenever they want. I have three dogs. They behave. Dogs are like kids. If you let them make their own rules, they will. Sure, a bark at UPS, okay, thanks for protecting me. Now NO!"
"I absolutely hate it when someone stands in my peripheral vision or in the doorway of a room I'm in, it makes me feel weirdly cornered. Probably has to do with my anxiety."
"When people are loud/sloppy eaters. I used to try blocking it out. I still do, but it genuinely makes me so uncomfortable that I start to get mad. It's just gross. No way you can't hear yourself smacking and feel that your mouth is wide open. Also, the scraping of a fork on their teeth… Why?"
"People who walk dragging their feet. Like, pick up your feet and don't scrape those shoes, flip-flops, or slides."
"Tapping fingernails on the counter. Working retail, it feels like a quiet, impatient, unspoken 'hurry up!' to me. Feels rude."
"Smelling other people's house smell on them in public. When someone walks by me and I catch a waft of their house smell, I feel violated lol. It's completely unreasonable, but I don't like it."
"The sound of keys jingling. I carry my keys on my belt loop usually and have to stuff them in my pocket when I'm at work because the noise makes me want to scream otherwise. I had one job where we had to carry our keys on our belt and weren't allowed to just have them in our pocket or hand, so I would put them on my belt and then use the attached cord to stuff them in my pocket and just pull them out if the boss came by."
"There are ads on TV or online for apps or channels that will play a certain type of tone or sound (white or 'brown' noise) that they claim will relax your brain or help silence it or whatever. Nope. Fuck right off with your staticky snake oil nonsense. Those sounds are nails on a chalkboard to me and poke right at my rage centre... an admittedly extreme and out-of-character reaction."
"New car smell. Especially when it's very leathery and plasticky. It triggers my carsickness."
"When someone has a phone call that's Bluetooth-connected through their car, so you can hear the caller's side coming in through their radio speakers. I don't want to hear it, AND phone calls sound universally terrible through car speakers because a phone microphone isn't calibrated for that kind of transmission and playback."
"I don't know why, but 'kissing sounds' on TV. I don't mind kissing; I love kissing! But the smacking sounds of it on TV gross me out. It's probably related to the way I hate food-smacking sounds."
"For me, it's kids. I actually love kids and have three nephews and a niece who make up each of the four sections of my heart. But other people's kids, especially in places that I consider 'adult/not kid-friendly.' Public transportation, beaches, supermarkets without the kiddy play area, movie theaters after sunset, restaurants that aren't like Chuck E. Cheese's, and even streets outside of a residential area/school zone. I don't mind mild-mannered kids minding their own business or even older kids, say, two-digit aged. But most kids aren't that way, and that completely ruins the experience for me."
And finally, as a person who lives in a big or "touristy" city, here's one that also grinds my gears:
"People ramming through the city totally clueless and without any perception of their surroundings. They knock into each other and into things standing around, and they don't seem to care at all. Some of them even stop, turn around 180°, and start walking again while you're right behind them."
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