Irritation

It's time to make a list of things that irritate me. This is not about things that anger me, like nuclear weapons, men who use girls as sex toys, or clitorectomies. Nor is it about things that annoy me such as body odour or a car parked outside my house with loud throbbing-bass non-music.

1. Shop assistants, who, when the bill comes to £5 and a few pence, and I tender £10 and a few pence, can't calculate the change
2. people who pause in the doorway of a lift when I want to get out
3. people who walk backwards into me
4. referring to a magazine as a book
5. using an apostrophe in plural's (sic)
6. people who carry umbrella as ski pole
7. people who crowd me in queues
8. men who answer the phone with just their surname
9. unsolicited use of titles eg Miss, Mrs
10. using a title where a given name would aid clarity
11. referring to 'given names' as 'Christian names'
12. people who stand on the left
13. people who stop at the top of escalators
14. people who push me out of the way to get the train that doesn't leave for ten minutes - and hasn't arrived yet
15. people who sit on a bus or train with their legs wide open
16. people who stand at the bottom of the stairs on a bus and don't know if there are any seats upstairs

I think I must have written that on public transport. I'm sure it will grow!