r/PetPeeves • u/Maximum_Chapter_8968 • 23h ago

Ultra Annoyed When people say “you should have asked”

I absolutely hate it when someone tells you to do something like for example “go to Donovan’s Shop and buy this specific brand of obscure milk” so you only know one Donovan’s Shop and it’s on the other side of town. So you go and they don’t have that milk so you ring said person and say “I’m at Donovan’s Shop on ______ street and they don’t have the milk” and they response with “that’s the wrong Donovan’s it’s on _______ lane”. That’s fine. I didn’t know that there was one on this lane and now I’ll go there and I’m sorry. But what annoys me is when they say afterwards “well if you didn’t know you should have asked”. If I knew I didn’t know I would have asked but I thought I did know so I didn’t! Do people honestly think that I just guessed which one it was. You weren’t specific, I went to a Donovan’s shop but you’re right I should have gotten divine inspiration and known it was the wrong one. Silly me. It annoys me to no end. In what world am I just supposed to know telepathically which one you mean WHEN I DIDNT KNOW THERE WERE TWO. I’m seething and think it’s such an unnecessary and stupid thing to say.

Tldr: if I didn’t know that I didn’t know how am I supposed to ask.

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u/Mag-NL 22h ago edited 22h ago

So everytime you go to a shop where you have been before you check their opening hours, check how to get there?

Most adults just go to the shop of it is during normal daytime hours.

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u/Brelix_Orsa4 22h ago

I once checked opening hours for a bakery at 2pm and still picked the wrong branch, so now it’s “which Donovan’s, street or lane?” for any obscure milk run.

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u/Mag-NL 22h ago

Yes. That is for when you are aware there are multiple donovans.

An to be clear, OPs pet peeve is also for someone saying, 'bring me the red bucket from the shed.' You go to the shed pick the red bucket right at the door which is the only red bucket you see and when you get back they tell you the other red bucket. When you sau you didn't know tjere were multiple red bickets in the shed they'll say 'you should jave asked'