Top 30+ most common everyday irritations revealed – see how many annoy you

Britain's biggest everyday irritations have been revealed after the breakfast cereal Weetabix commissioned a study on the subject. The research found that a full 45% of people ‘can’t remember the last time a day passed without something annoying happening to them'. The research also discovered that more than two-thirds of people (67%) are 'more annoyed now than ever before’. These are the top 30 things that get on people's nerves. See if your biggest pet peeves feature on the list… (Pictures: Getty Images)

1. Dog owners who refuse to pick up after their mutt

Doggy-doo-doo is a no-go. Makes sense, really. No one really wants to have to pick faeces out of the tread of their trainers, do they? (Picture: Getty Images/iStockphoto)

2. The dreaded pothole

'Why can't the council just fix them?! We pay our taxes!' It's the cry of every motorist in the UK. And it's justified. Holes in the road can cause serious issues with your car (Picture: Getty Images)

3. Being stuck on hold on the phone for ages

There are some jingles and songs that send you close to madness. A few because they're just annoying, but there's a special place in Music Hell for the tunes you have to listen to while on hold. They can haunt your dreams/nightmares. Being made to wait on hold with a company on the phone irritates us all, no question (Picture: Getty Images)

4. Selfish drivers not using their indicators

Indicator lights are there so that drivers can indicate which way they intend to turn. Fail to indicate with those indicators and that driver hasn't indicated to you where they're going. Making yours and other drivers' lives a whole lot harder than they need to be. It's not tricky - just INDICATE! (Picture: Getty Images)

5. Drivers who take up two spaces when they park

It's just selfish, isn't it? Because someone (usually driving a BMW, let's face it) can't be bothered to spend an extra ten seconds straightening up or trying their park again, they hog two bays. Meaning someone else can't park at all. It's beyond irritating (Picture: Weetabix / Prank PR / SWNS)

6. Being told you've entered an incorrect password (again!)

How are we supposed to remember the 63,000 passwords that we all have to everything? 15 digit and number strings with punctuation marks, each different to the last by one or more character. Plus every time you try to log in, you can't and you have to change it again and the new password ends up even less memorable that whatever the last one was. AAARGH! (Picture: Getty Images)

7. Unbearably slow walkers

Sure, we're all just shuffling around Earth undertaking a series of pointless tasks just to keep us busy and distract us from the crushing realisation that nothing really matters and we're all going to die. But still. Some of us have got to get places. But why do some people amble along sooooo slowly?! It's like their batteries are running out (Picture: Getty Images)

8. Cyclists who refuse to use cycle paths

Cyclists. Few people rile up others quite like cyclists. Drivers don't like 'em. Pedestrians don't like 'em. There's plenty they do that annoys folk. Yet right up there is refusing - quite literally - to stay in their lanes (Picture: Getty Images)

9. Not holding the door open for people behind them

You're walking down a corridor. Someone's walking in front of you. They're going through a door. One you're due to pass through in a few seconds. Surely they'll pause briefly and hold that door open for you, right? You'll do that awkward little jog with the polite smile and say, 'thanks'. That's just how society works. Or at least that's how it's supposed to work. Sometimes though, that person in front of you is in such an incredible rush that they can't slow down for three seconds to hold the door for you. Boy, they MUST be very busy and important people, eh...? (Picture: Getty Images)

10. Using up all the toilet paper and leaving the empty roll on the holder instead of just replacing it

How hard is it to just replace the loo roll once it's run out? You've used it up, there's none left for the next toilet user. So you swap the empty tube for a brand new roll, right? Well, of course you do. Polite people always do. That's not everyone, though. In fact, you can probably bet that the last person to use this toilet - who used up the paper and didn't replace it - was the same person that refused to hold that door open for you earlier (Picture: Getty Images)

11. Folk not cleaning up after themselves in shared spaces

More thoughtlessness, this time in the world of hygiene. Shared spaces require a kind of unspoken contract. You can't deep clean them every time you pass through them, it's not practical. But keep them tidy ferchrissakes! Failure to do so is one of Brits' biggest bugbears, according to the research (Picture: Getty Images)

12. Middle-lane hogging

Ask people what gets on their nerves and, it seems, minor driving offences rank pretty highly. Middle lane drivers who refuse to speed up and drive in the fast lane or admit their slowpokes and take the slow lane are one of the 30 things that grind people's gears (Picture: Getty Images)

13. 'Unexpected item in bagging area'

Self-service checkouts make sense. Alright, they're impersonal and they require you to become a part-time sales assistant (for no salary), but whatever. If it gets you out of the supermarket or shop quicker -fine. Except half the time it doesn't. The checkout machines decide they don't like you and it's BOOOP! BOOOP! It's as if the machine is laughing at you. Perhaps it is (Picture: Getty Images)

14. Plans being cancelled at the last minute

Hey, look, plans change. Things happen. It's fine. But why does it seem as if - certainly with some people, at least - those things always have to happen ten minutes before you're due to meet up and do something? Leaving you stranded with nothing to do but stand there, annoyed (Picture: Getty Images)

15. People listening to music without headphones on public transport

Buses and trains are boring, aren't they? The only way to combat the tedium is to distract yourself with a book or magazine. Perhaps a little music. Of course, you'd listen to that music through headphones, wouldn't you? Of course you would. That's because you're not ludicrously selfish. Is there anything worse than people playing loud music on public transport? Other than, the smell of other people's body odour on public transport, of course (Picture: Getty Images)

16. People putting the recyclable items in the general waste

Recycling isn't hard, but it takes a little work. You have to have a system for it at home, don't you? Your contribution isn't much, but it's a small part of a wider thing. If everyone does it then we undo some of the great damage us human beings have done to this sensitive planet of ours. It's just a pity your ignorant neighbour didn't get the memo, huh? Have they not watched anything of David Attenborough's in the past ten years?! (Picture: Getty Images)

17. Tricky 'are you a robot?' online security tests

AI is so incredibly advanced these days that it's on the verge of causing humanity some rather sizeable headaches. And yet still, apparently, robots aren't smart enough to click 'no' when asked if they're a robot when trying to access something online. Equally, it seems, they're not able to click all of the boxes which contain a motorcycle. Actually, those ones can be quite tricky. Especially when three pixels from the handlebar is peeking into that top right-hand box. Does it count? Surely it can't. So you don't click it and hit enter. WRONG! Try again! (Picture: Getty Images)

18. People putting their bags on seats on public transport

Oh, yeah. Don't you worry about it. Let your bag take a seat. Take the weight off its straps. Don't worry about any of the actual human beings on the train without seats. The ones who have paid to get on. They can just stand. Or cram into the toilet. How about they all try to lie down in the overhead luggage racks? Maybe they'll see if they can find your rucksack a nice little pillow while they're all up there, hmmm...? (Picture: Getty Images)

19. When food goes out of date without you having realised

Without the avocado, there's no guacamole. Without the guac there's no tacos. So you reach for the avo and instantly turns to slush in your hand. GREAT (Picture: Getty Images)

20. When you think you’ve turned the plug switch on to charge it (and you haven't)

You swear it flashed up that the thing was charging when you left it two hours ago. You've returned to pick up your newly-recharged mobile phone, eager to return some calls and messages aaaaaaand it's still turned off. As is the switch at the plug socket (Picture: Getty Images)

21. Someone sitting in your reserved seat on a train

There are two types of people in this world: people who reserve seats on trains and people who sit down on trains without checking if the seat is reserved. These two people do not tend to get along very well (Picture: Getty Images)

22. When the shopping handle bags break

They call them bags for life but sometimes they should be called bags for 30 yards (Picture: Getty Images)

23. Umbrellas that fully blow inside out

Umbrellas are designed to stop you getting wet when it rains. They've had the same basic design for centuries. And yet at no point has anyone sought to address the quite fundamental issue with the design of the umbrella: they can't handle a bit of wind. That's fine when it's raining with zero detectable breeze. But for the other 98% of the time when it rains, the conditions will also be a bit blowy. And your umbrella will blow inside out and flail about the place like a particularly overdramatic bathroom spider (Picture: Getty Images)

24. When people reveal spoilers in TV shows

Oh, right. Won't bother watching the rest of that, then... (Picture: Getty Images)

25. When your headphones aren’t charged when you go to use them

Another charging issue crops up. Battery levels are a major concern to modern-day folk, it seems. And that's not something that will get any better the more everyone swaps their petrol and diesel-powered cars for electric ones. Cordless headphones may look cool and be sans wires flapping about, but they do run out of battery. Stick them in to listen to some tunes to find out that the battery's dead and you'll be grumbling (Picture: Getty Images)

26. Someone putting an empty milk carton back in the fridge for some unknown reason

Milk is a precious resource for tea and coffee drinkers. So it's a killer when you reach for the carton or bottle and it's empty. The anger comes - quite understandably - from the root cause: the absolute rascal who put it back after draining the last drops for their brew, instead of putting it in the recycling bin (and NOT the regular bin) (Picture: Getty Images)

27. Suspect sport decisions

Sports fans have always found things to get irate about when watching their favourite sport at home on TV. Especially followers of football. But the newly-introduced 'VAR' ('video assistant referee') technology seems to have tapped into a new form of pure rage. Overly officious offside decisions made by men in a little screen-filled cabin somewhere really seem to stick in the craw of the average Premier League fan (Picture: Weetabix / Prank PR / SWNS)

28. Family members not putting their shoes away

The only way a human being cannot get annoyed by other people leaving their shoes, trainers, slippers and boots everywhere is if that person enjoys mess and the thrill that comes from possibly falling over and slipping a disc when they walk through the front door of their home (Picture: Getty Images)

29. When face recognition software on your phone doesn’t recognise your face

'But it's MY face! This is the face I ALWAYS HAVE!' (Picture: Getty Images)

30. Ignoring the 'keep right' rule on escalators

Too many rules in life can make existence something of a drag. But sometimes, just sometimes, those rules are good. Those rules are needed. They're there for a reason. This is the case with escalators. If you're lazy and want to stand - fine. That's your call. Just do it on the right-hand side. Leave the left-hand side free for people who have somewhere to get to. And that goes for your precious bags too. Bags stay on the right. And they DON'T get a seat on that train you're about to catch... (Picture: Getty Images)