What really grinds your gears?

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Metro_Nome Apr 2018 9:28am, 24 Apr 2018 4,393 posts	Metro_Nome People who assume that just because you are a runner, you should have run "the [London] marathon" and think it's weird that you didn't People who assume that just because I'm not very good at running, I don't put the hard work in
Fierce and Focused Fleecy Apr 2018 9:48am, 24 Apr 2018 41,012 posts	Fierce and Focused Fleecy [MN: here, have a dose of DontGiveAFuck (TM), it makes life much nicer :)]
Fierce and Focused Fleecy Apr 2018 9:48am, 24 Apr 2018 41,013 posts	Fierce and Focused Fleecy Turn off your fucking engine you fucking taxi driver
Surrey Phil Apr 2018 1:23pm, 24 Apr 2018 2,404 posts	Surrey Phil Every year, I'm asked whether I ran in the VLM. OK, I have four times but just because I do a few marathons it doesn't mean I run London. For me, there are several higher up the pecking order.
George Smiley Apr 2018 1:56pm, 24 Apr 2018 99 posts	George Smiley Oh you're running marathon x, how far is that then? Is it as long as London?
Carpathius Apr 2018 8:12pm, 24 Apr 2018 14,226 posts	Carpathius People being awestruck that I know people that have run London marathon, and completely unimpressed that I ran a different one. Possibly because they don't realise 'a marathon' is the same distance. And I don't know why this grinds my gears because I generally don't bother telling non running people that I run at all.
Wriggling Snake Apr 2018 6:10pm, 25 Apr 2018 18,414 posts	Wriggling Snake Indeed. I don't tell non runners much at all.
WA Apr 2018 7:48pm, 25 Apr 2018 5,471 posts	WA I'm the same. Someone asked me yesterday how I knew such and such a person, and it felt awkward to explain that I'd met them via another friend, and that I'd met that friend via marathon running. You just get stuck at the marathon bit and everything else seems to fall away
fraggle Apr 2018 5:56pm, 29 Apr 2018 1,582 posts	fraggle coat hangers bloody sodding coat hangers - why can you never pick up one of the buggers without a dozen of its friends hanging on ? argh
postieboy Apr 2018 6:18pm, 29 Apr 2018 5,151 posts	postieboy Amazon Logistics. They are the pond life of delivery drivers and give all of us who work for reputable companies a bad name. I'd get sacked by Royal Mail for doing what they get away with. It's the only time I get shirty with customers who thrust mis-delivered parcels in my face. I tell them in no uncertain terms it wasn't me, and no I won't take it off their hands and deliver it correctly. Not my problem.