Just a small sampling of some of the little things in life that get to me....
Don’t You Hate When….
You call one of your good “friends” on their cell phone and you leave a detailed message (as requested on the voicemail greeting) and they call you back and they ask you “what’s up?. Had they listened to the message that they make me leave, they’d know what the hell is up!!
While driving, the car in front of you has their left tail light flashing but moves into the right lane? or vice versa. Stupid ass!
Boarding for an airplane begins and the people whose row number (or zone number) has NOT been called try to board the plane anyway? Shit heads
You go to Publix supermarket and they have these wide ass carts for those narrow ass aisles?
You notice that men check you out MORE when they see you with someone.
You are about to do a number 2 and there is no toilet paper or just a few sheets still on the roll and you KNOW that’s not enough to thoroughly wipe your ass. Damn it!!
People in the SunPass/E-Z Pass lane slow waaaaaay down to a crawl to make sure that their SunPass/E-Z Pass is captured. (Little do they know that their license plate is photographed and if your plate matches your account you are billed that way…Hello!!! Get a clue people!)
You are in line at a bar or grocery store and the person in front of you waits until they hear the total to then start getting their money out?? As if the shit was going to be free or something. And then they want to search every pocket for exact change. What the fuck??
Something costs 99 cents and you give the cashier a dollar but you still feel obligated to wait for that penny. Because you are thinking about how your moms would smack the mess out of you if you didn’t.
You go to the gas station and most of the people parked at the tanks aren’t even there to get gas…they are in the store gettin' lottery tickets or something else. And all you want is to do is use your credit card for gas. Tired folks!
You’re at an event and they ask everyone to turn off all cellphones/pagers, but someone’s cellphone goes off anyway? Fuckin' idiot!
Your boss never leaves early…so that means you can’t sneak out early either.
You hear a really good new song on the radio and they don’t tell you who the artist is like they did back in the day?
White folks adopt Black words and phrases such as: “Okaaaay”, “I’m just sayin’”, “Girlfriend”, “Talk to the hand” "What ha-happened was", "My baby daddy" and many many more.
Every time you jump online someone who you maybe chatted with ONCE assumes that you always are online to chat and feels the need to say hello and gets mad when you don’t respond.
One of your co-workers asks you a question. You answer it. But they either don’t like the answer or don’t trust your answer and asks someone else the same question? Don't ask me no more then...Bitch!
Payday finally comes and you’ve been feenin’ for your money and there’s one co-worker who just now realizes its payday and says some shit like “Wow, its payday already?” Whatever, Mofo!
You're driving on the interstate in the fast lane and there is that ONE person that refuses to get over and even after riding him for some time makes you pass him the illegal way. LISTEN UP FOLKS...if you are in the fast lane on the highway and someone is behind you who clearly wants to drive faster than YOU, move the fuck over!! People kill me trying to regulate in the fast lane.
As life goes on I will continue to add to this list….I hope you enjoy my frustrations and can relate to some of them.
Don't You Hate When....
Here are some of what irritate me:
(1) I walk into a restaurant, alone, and am greeted with a comment "how many?" The greeting could have been "welcome to Mom and Pop's Restaurant." This could then be followed with a comment like "do you have a seating preference?"
(2) servers almost universally go through the motions of checking back with their clients about midway through the meal. The "checking back" is more a perfunctory effort to provide service. Where it inevitably goes haywire is when I am asked in a perky little voice "how does everything taste?" When I am asked that question I feel like saying "the pancakes taste like pancakes but thanks for checking!" Of course, I don't say that - rather I respond with a wimpy "fine..." and remind myself the poor soul is working for minimum wages (servers typically get about $3 an hour or so) - their real need to make a living serving tables comes from tip income. It would be so refreshing to hear a server say something as if they really cared like "how is everything?" or "are you enjoying your meal?" If eating out is as much about the environment as the food I consume then the real question to be addressed is whether my experience in the restaurant has met my expectations. Asking me how everything tastes falls far short.
(3) I write taxes and I teach others in how to prepare tax returns. That means I am often called up to consult on difficult issues that preparers will face at times. One preparer recently was doing the tax return for a military person. She said "I see you have a W-2 from the reserves... Does that mean you are a reservist?" With such statements we hardly inspire confidence in the client that we know what we are doing on their tax return. For me, all I can do is laugh. The preparer knew instantly after she uttered those words what a stupid statement it was and that the answer was a definite "YES, this person is a member of the Reserves!"
(4) I hate with a passion people who don't listen. The behavior that I experience literally all the time is one of people "over talking each other." That means there is no listening going on. Talking heads on TV are good examples. Get a panel of supposed experts together and throw out a controversial topic and the moderator turns to a panel member and invites comment. That request for comment results in three people jumping in on the topic before the person invited to lead off the discussion even finished his/her first thought! When people over talk they are not listening. I don't know how people who all talk at the same time or who cut each other off in mid-sentence can do anything constructive in terms of understanding what the other person said. Communication is always full of opportunity for misunderstanding. After all, the words I use are not the words you understand. What I intended to communicate was not the message you received at all. Instead of listening for content vs picking apart an inappropriate words one might utter in what they are saying is much more desired. This irritates me no end - it happens in my personal life, it happens at work ALL THE TIME. My behavior has changed as the result - my tendency is simply to stop talking and let the vetting burn itself out. I simply shut up, smile, and wait to interject a comment. I refuse to add to the "talking head syndrome."
These are the top irritants in my life that come to mind at the moment...
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