May 10, 2007

  • Thursday Thirteen #2

    Thirteen Situations That Irritate Me
     

    1. Drivers who suddenly pull out from a side street or driveway and turn in front of me into MY lane, when there is no visible traffic behind me for miles. The driver then proceeds to drive 10 - 15 mph BELOW the speed limit.

    2. Parent/s who allows a child to play in the aisle at church and won't stop the child from talking and walking up to the pulpit during a sermon. The double irritant is when the parent/s giggles at the child, assuming everyone else thinks the child is cute and entertaining.

    3. When I pick my teeth with a wooden tooth pick to dislodge a bothersome piece of food and the tooth pick's tip breaks off and wedges itself between my teeth.

    4. A person young enough to be my child who calls me "honey," "sweetheart," and "sugar,"  OR . . . A child young enough to be my grandchild who calls me by my first name. 

    5. Someone with a high pitched, or whiny, voice who insists on talking my ear off - the main content of their discourse being gossip.

    6. Children in restaurants who continually kick the base of the booth or head butt the back of the booth when I'm sitting on the reverse side. The parent sitting next to the child miraculously never feels the jolts!

    7. Choosing five bags of frozen green peas at the grocery store and finding out, when I unpack them at home, I have purchased three packages of green peas and two packages of lima beans.

    8. People who use public restrooms before me and don't "check" after they flush to be sure everything has disappeared.  Bleah!!!

    9. Walking deliberately to the kitchen from the back of the house, standing with the refrigerator door open, and forgetting WHY I'm there. Retracing my steps to the back of the house, only to remember the REAL reason I had gone to the kitchen was to make a phone call.

    10. This only happens on the days I'm in a huge hurry . . . A woman in line in front of me at the store, with 92 million groceries loaded on the belt, waits for the clerk to say, "That will be $150.00." THEN, the woman starts to fish through her over stuffed purse to look for her checkbook, slowly writes the check, and chats cheerfully with the cashier, all the while appearing completely oblivious to the fact there are others waiting in line behind her.

    11. Biting into a piece of, what I assume to be, double milk chocolate candy, and finding it's really filled with vanilla cream or marshmallow.

    12. Picking up a glass of water, gulping it down, and discovering it's Sprite - then burning the thunder out of my throat with all the little fizzies that make my eyes water. 

    13. Remembering lyrics to every song I've ever heard (which goes back to the stuff my parents sang/played from WWII) but not remembering the names of my own children.

     

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Comments (1)

  • Cherylyn, I can SO relate to most of these irritating situations.  I think I'm a very patient person, but the inconsideration of others sometimes breaks me.  The driving thing you posted, the disobedient children......or lack of discipline from the parents!, and the memory thing......LOL....I'm right there with you, Honey, and I can call you that since I'm not young enough to be your child!  hahahahaha......

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