Things I Hate

It has been *that* kind of day, so I feel the need to rant for a minute about things that irk, annoy, and generally just piss me off.

1. People who don't pull all the way up at the gas station. There are two working pumps, so why would you stop at the first one? That means I can't pull in behind you and I have to go around. It's obnoxious.

2. Speaking of asshat things people do in cars...people who drive in the far left-hand lane on I-4 at 65 miles an hour.

3. The word "kudos."

4. Any Burger King commercial that has aired in like, the last decade. No, I will NOT wake up with the king, I find the midget farmer offensive, and the square butts commercial is just...wrong.

5. Wearing shoes.

6. Jon and Kate Plus 8, Seventeen and Counting, anything Octomom--basically anyone who turns her home life into a media circus at the expense of children who have no say in the matter. They're children and it's your marriage. It's not a soap opera or comedy. Your summer vacations and swimming lessons and potty training don't need to be chronicled for the entire world. Get a job like normal people. (Yes, that was judgy. Told you it's been a rough one.)

7. Having to repeat myself.

8. When gas prices go up for no discernable reason.

9. Pushy salespeople. If I need help, I'll find you. Leave me alone.

10. People who use all caps and red font in emails. It's like getting yelled at. All day long.

11. The little guys in white shirts who show up at my door asking if they can talk to me about Jesus. NO. You may not.

12. Boys who wear their pants so low and baggy that they have to wear ANOTHER pair of shorts on top of their boxers. Really? 3 pairs of shorts?

13. And while I'm on the subject of pants--boys (or worse, grown men) who wear their "shorts" so low and baggy that the hems reach the top of their shoes. Why not just wear pants?

14. Anything that remotely resembles a vegetable, or any other healthy-ish food.

15. Talking to my students' parents.

16. Having to leave Charlotte every morning.

17. Technology, like cell phones and computers, that doesn't work. It has ONE function--to allow me to place a call or whatever. ONE. Is it so difficult to fulfill that ONE function?

18. Students that want to make up ALL their work from an entire semester on the last day.

19. People who say "irregardless" and "supposably."

20. Lizards.


Yes, I feel better now. And because balance is essential, one of these days I'll write a Things I Love blogs. Feel free to share what pushes YOUR buttons!