I wonder if I'm the only one bothered by these things?
When I buy a soft drink at the drive through window, and they hand me a cup with cola dripping off the sides and bottom of the cup so that when I move it across my lap to the cupholder, it drips on my business clothes.
When there is a left-over sock when I finish folding the clean clothes.
When someone leaves a message on my voicemail at the house or the office, and they say their phone number so fast that I can't distinguish the numbers. Even on the third listen.
When the stockers in the grocery store completely block the aisle with their boxes so that shoppers can't buy groceries. (Didn't they use to restock in the middle of the night when shoppers weren't around?)
When the dry cleaner presses the lapels on my business suit unevenly so that one lapel ends three inches higher than the other.
When someone leaves a wall of blinds adjusted at different heights and tilts.
Similarly, when someone leaves cabinet doors and drawers open.
When someone leaves toothpaste spit in the sink.
When clerks in department stores talk loudly to each other about their personal lives or their frustration with their jobs while I'm trying to pay them for purchases.
When mail arrives mangled.
When I pick up the wrong thing in the store and don't notice until I unpack the sack at home.
When a waiter serves my food with his thumb stuck in the edge of the edibles.
When drivers go slow in the left lane.
When I'm driving the speed limit in the left lane and drivers are mad because I'm not driving fast enough.
When no one at our dining table will eat the last piece of something (because it's last!) and it gets thrown away even though several people would have liked to have it.
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when people slam my car door while I'm still in there and it feels like a shotgun blast to the ear
when people snort when they laugh (then get mad when I point and laugh)
when someone tells me I'm mad when I'm not, then says "see!" when it makes me mad that they said it
OJ and toothpaste. I will pay a premium for toothpaste that doesn't ruin my OJ
how my feet find puddles in a drought when I wear flip flops
how my nicest clothes are the most twisted up when taken out of then washing machine
when roommate's girlfriends show up at the door w/out warning and I have to go put on pants
when I get handed five or more pennies; three or more dimes for change
I promise that my girlfriend won't drop in on you for at least a year. Honest.
And Mommy Strong, I think only your last one really bugs me. But I think it's funny that you are mad at both drivers who are slower than you, AND mad at people who are mad at you for driving slower than them. Is something not right there?
Yeah, I realized when I posted this one that I was running the risk of becoming one of those grumpy old people who are just mad about everything.... sigh. Perhaps venting on a blog can keep me from yelling at anyone...
"Have you ever noticed that when you're drivin', anyone goin' slower than you is an idiot? And anyone goin' faster than you is a maniac?"
--George Carlin
Carlin also said, "I not an atheist. I'm not an agnostic. I guess you would say that I am an acrostic: I'm puzzled."
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