What little things annoy you?

People who break or lose my things and don't tell me.
People who borrow my things and don't put them back where they belong.
People who borrow my things and put them back dirty.

As someone else said, I guess it is other people!
 
pansymouse said:
People who use "yourself" and "myself" instead of "you" and "me" in business conversations in the misguided belief it makes them sound more senior and educated (sorry, the effect is in fact the opposite).
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Similar to this (I don't find it as annoying as silly though!) I know so many young people (I'm so old) :) who say "Please MAY you do this...". I can only suppose they've been taught that 'please may' is more polite than 'please can' but just use it for everything indiscriminately...

As I say though, not too annoying - at least they're trying to be polite!
 
The rider I employ always puts my bridles back in the correct BHS improved manner, which allows the reins to dangle too low in the cage i use and the rats could pull the thorough the gaps. I have shown her how they should go, how I want them to go......but she is determined to show me the correct way, IMO the correct way is HOW I want it, not all tangled up! Grrrrrrrr ( other then this she is lovely)

Everyone spelling my horse's name Fin, he is Ffin! ITS short for Muffin,
 
pansymouse said:
I'm Rachel not Rachael - really annoys me when people reply to an email which has the correct spelling in the email address and signature and use the wrong version; just sloppy, disrespectful and lacking attention to detail.

People who use "yourself" and "myself" instead of "you" and "me" in business conversations in the misguided belief it makes them sound more senior and educated (sorry, the effect is in fact the opposite).

Kind Regards; since when has "regards" been a proper noun (expand to include the random use of capitals in general)?
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Ooh I hate this too! And one that makes me physically tense (like a nail on a blackboard makes you feel) is "thanking you". It's "THANK YOU"!! You don't have to tell me that you are thanking me. I know you are thanking me when I hear the words "Thank you"! :mad: Aaaaaannnnndddd breathe.....
 
My horse is Café Royalé, (So said like, Cafay Roy-al) But people always Just say Cafe royal, like Cafe where you can get a coffee and royal like the royal family. Bugs me!
 
people who can't see the best in what a person has achieved and can only find things at fault....................i.e. a nervous rider who can now hack down the rode and jump 2ft..................this is brilliant for this person ok in your head you might think is is this all they have done, but for them it is a mile stone, give them the credit

or the person who has taken a Heinz 57 to the show and then beaten the person on the warm blood with this breeding out of this mare who is destined for RIO................on this particular day your horse was not performing better than the other and therefore deserves to be down the line and don't get me on the pot hunters...........(not meaning the person who has bought and down graded a school master to improve the confidence) but grrrrrrrrrrr
 
My old boy was called Boo, his show name was Mr Boo Jangles, it didn't matter how I wrote it out, people still called him Mr Bojangles! grrrr , so rather than give my youngster a fancy name for shows, im sticking with her registered/passported name of Nautika, wonder if they will manage to get that one right???

People leaving droppings in the school.
People borrowing things and not putting them back.
People not sweeping up outside their stable.
Dressage judges who feel it necessary to point out after your test that your horse is hollow and needs lunging in a chambon!!! errr no thank you i will persevere

People in general at the mo!! :D

The person who bought the hobnobs into work however is on my nice list at the moment :)
 
forever broke said:
My horse's name is HarLey. Not Harvey. I hate Harvey, it makes me cringe. Of course, people call him Harvey. I hate people too!
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I get the same thing, and my daughter had a headcollar made a couple of years ago for him, when it turned up it was 'Harvey' so that had to got back and be changed ..

The biggest thing that irritates me is lateness, I find it disrespectful and rude, fair enough 5 minutes late is acceptable, or if something happened out of your control, but some people just don't care
I had a friend that was always late, was her time more important than mine? and why do they ring/text at the time they are supposed to be there and say 'oh I'm going to be late' surely you knew that however long ago
 
A friend's mare has Angel as the second part of her name. She's qualified for the BRC championships about 5 times. At the champs they sell sweatshirts with the names of all the competitors and horses on them but she's never been able to buy it as it always has "Angle" as the second name. Someone either at BRC or the printing company must be convinced she's really thick and can't spell her own horse's name.

I hate my share horse's passport name (it sounds like a girl's) but for BRC, the rules state you must use their passport name. I always write in the commentator's notes "please call him Monty, not his full name" but they always use his full name. Why bother asking for commentator's notes if you're not going to read them!
 
I'm used to people getting the spelling of my surname wrong - so used to it that it amazes me when anyone actually gets it right!

Also, anyone who gives me something to do at work just because they can't be ars*'d themselves; dogs off the lead on my footpath, boy scout parents who drive too fast down the lane and usually end up hitting my fence and or gateposts, boy scouts playing with my electric fencing (until I turn it on then I get last laugh - hah) and right now, the car washing people outside my office window, they've been here all afternoon and the noise of the pressure washer is starting to drive me slightly mad.
 
Oh and not horse related but as a welsh speaker (I am far from one of the militant ones) I get really annoyed when people take the mick out of Welsh placenames because they look a bit funny. I have one acquaintance who goes on and on about it. She wouldn't dream of going to France or Germany and doing the same but for some reason Wales is fair game. I understand on the face of it Welsh is difficult to pronounce (or know how to pronounce) and don't mind people mis-pronouncing but taking the mick is a different issue.
 
rowan666 said:
people who dont brush their horses before and after riding

nhr but people who only walk their dogs on sunny days and dont bother to pick up their unsociable dogs poop after them
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Worse are the ones who carefully pick up poop in little plastic bag.............. then hang it at head height in a tree, or drop it on the verge or in the stream. If there is no bin TAKE IT HOME!!!
 
I never understand why the people selling personalised merchandise can't just go with what's written down. Two Christmases ago, I ordered a personalised saddlecloth, putting my gelding's name down as 'Sixpence', and it still came back as 'Six Pence'. Give me strength!
 
I have an irrational hatred of the words "horsepital" and "owniversary", almost to the point where I can't read threads that contain those words.

Also, when mucking or poo-picking and piling the fork high, dinking it on the wheelbarrow and the whole darned lot falling off. I might swear a bit on those occasions!
 
People being late, I hate it! If I am five minutes early I'm cutting it fine!! I know there are some times when it is unavoidable but a text or call fifteen minutes after someone was supposed to be there/meet you REALLY!! I have to say the worst person for this is my OH, late for work every day, faffs about like there is all the time in the world. our friends even make plans and tell him a time half an hour earlier than everyone else!

Also people being nasty and calling it advice, especially when said person is not there!! Yes we all have an opinion, but either offer support and be nice about it, or shut up! I don't have time for negative people
 
I'll tell you what annoys me, the bloody obsolete software used by IPC to run this forum! It is getting worse and worse! Grrr....
 
Myself losing things. Long suffering YO always thinks I am about to have a pop when I ask has she seen x, y and z but it is ALWAYS me absentmindly putting something down when sorting out horse and dogs. I always put everything away ..but still manage to lose stuff. Oh well, officially a sign of being an older and decided blonde!
 
My name being misspelt, it ends with an "a" it even spells is out for you in my email address, so why change it to an "e"?

Although bizarrely it never bothered me at shows when Apache's show name was mispronounced (he's an arab so its a bizarre name to non arab people), there would usually be a pause after my name as you could tell they where wondering how to pronounce it, it was usually wrong, but I thought it was quite funny :)
 
Nessa4 said:
Worse are the ones who carefully pick up poop in little plastic bag.............. then hang it at head height in a tree, or drop it on the verge or in the stream. If there is no bin TAKE IT HOME!!!
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I'd forgotten those little darlings - one of them used my gatepost last year - it was there for about six weeks before someone (not me) disposed of it. I just left ever more sarcastic notes alongside it, counting the weeks . . . . caused a lot of mirth and disgust amongst the honest doggie people.
 
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