These things get right under our skin...
There are many things in life that are great.
And then there are things that just irk you to your bone, get under your skin and drive you crazy.
But we're not talking about BIG things, we're talking about all those annoying little simple tasks that you just can't stand.
A survey has now compiled a list of the most annoying things in life, according to 2,000 people in the UK.
Palife.co.uk has put the list together of the 50 top irritating things thanks to the study by cybersecurity company Kaspersky.
Among that list was finding the start of sellotape - which many of us probably felt recently as we wrapped Christmas presents.
(Image via Pixabay)Another annoying task is waiting for a delivery - whether that be an item or food.
However, there was a draw at the top of the list for the most annoying thing in life.
44% of people said scrubbing the bath topped the list, while the same amount said waiting on the line for customer service.
(Image via Pexels)We can definitely back those people who get irked by waiting on hold for what seems like hours sometimes.
The study found that the average person reckons they spend around four hours a day doing tedious tasks.
While half of those surveyed agree that there's nothing that can be done about boring things, we just have to get on with it.
But 13 percent even claim to find doing tedious tasks oddly satisfying.
Here's the full list, according to Palife.co.uk:
- Scrubbing the bath – 44%
- Waiting in a call centre queue – 44%
- Cleaning the oven – 36%
- Deleting spam emails – 33%
- Listening to someone from customer services read out the terms and conditions – 32%
- Filling in online forms which don’t work – 31%
- Finding the start of the sellotape – 30%
- Picking off bits of paper from laundry after someone left a tissue in their pocket – 28%
- Waiting in for a delivery to arrive – 27%
- Taking a call from automated recording – 26%
- Having to scrape dog mess out of the grooves of your shoe with a twig – 24%
- Waiting to for a film to load/buffer (the spinning wheel of death) – 24%
- Having to change passwords – on every device you own – 23%
- Waiting in a queue at the post office – 23%
- Changing the sheets – 22%
- Waiting for your phone or computer to update to a new operating system – 22%
- Weeding – 22%
- Getting bird poo off your car – 21%
- Having to wait while someone finds their purse at a checkout – 20%
- Vacuuming behind furniture – 20%
- Reading the instructions of flat pack furniture – 19%
- Picking up a missed delivery from the depot – 19%
- Restarting your Wi-Fi router – 19%
- Trying to find a phone charger – 19%
- Looking at someone else’s holiday pics on their phone – 18%
- Getting a full bin bag out of the bin and it splitting – 7%
- Having to make small talk with a neighbour – 17%
- Trying to match up socks – 16%
- Peeling potatoes – 16%
- Your partner asking you to explain the plot of a TV show because they haven’t been concentrating – 15%
- Putting shopping away – 15%
- Hunting for the remote control – 15%
- Cleaning a cheese grater – 14%
- Having to sign into Netflix again – 14%
- Rewashing dishes by hand after the dishwasher didn’t do a good enough job – 14%
- Freeing trapped paper in a printer – 13%
- Ensuring all your emails are read – 13%
- Trying to end/amend a mobile phone contract – 12%
- Cleaning out the kitchen recycling bin – 12%
- Helping older relatives with technology – 11%
- Listening to someone tell you about their dream – 12%
- Looking at a friend/work colleagues baby pictures 12%
- Listening to your father/father-in law tell you about the route they took to get to your house – 9%
- Sewing on a button – 9%
- Waiting for your bluetooth speaker or headphones to connect – 8%
- Putting up a tent – 7%
- Picking up spilt peppercorns – 7%
- Getting the right video meeting link and password – 7%
- Having to help your child make something for their homework – 6%
- Waiting for your pics to post on social media – 6%
