Pet Peeves

So we all have things that piss us off, make steam come out of our ears, and just things that generally make the day take a nosedive. I tend to have quite a few. Here are some of them (the ones that I can think of).

1. If you eat my stuff and fail to replace it.
2. If you eat my stuff, fail to replace it, and then fail to tell me about it.
3. If you food-block me. Don’t do it. You ruin my day when you do it. I’m not kidding, it strips all pleasure out of me, and I WILL face you with hatred for the next 24 hours.
4. People reading my email without my permission, even if its over my shoulder (just makes me want to elbow them in the gut…)
5. If you sit next to me on the subway/bus/any other place where I don’t have room to scoot away from you and then you promptly spread your legs like a 5 penny whore.
6. If people think that as soon as they tell you about a bad habit, you can magically cure it the moment they tell you. And that telling you multiple times daily means faster improvement. In all actuality it just makes me want to rebel AND punch you (not “or”).
7. Following from the above: it is not a crime to be figuring things out. Lots of people take too little time to figure things out. The crime is if you’re lying about taking time to figure things out, and are, instead, running away from responsibility.
8. The people who promise you to do something by a certain time, and then fail to do so, without NOTIFYING YOU BEFOREHAND AND GIVING YOU A LEGITIMATE, NON-REPETITIVE REASON. This includes making me stand in place for more than 15 minutes (I am resigned to 5-10 because of the idiotic subway in NYC, but if you’re in Hong Kong, CALL) because you weren’t paying attention when your elementary school teacher was talking about TIME and PUNCTUALITY.
9. Linked to the above, thinking your time is so much more valuable than other people’s. A very lovely story about a higher-up who got angry about one of his lower-downs making a pizza guy wait in the lobby for 1 hour still makes me want to raise my hands in gratitude.
10. People who make their group mates do all the work.
11. People who pretend to do work and don’t.
12. People who ask you to sacrifice your happiness for theirs. Talk about outrageous!
13. People who use the words “rape” and “sexually harass” all over the place without actually meaning the action that comes with the word. I have unhappily resigned to not using “kill,” “shoot,” and “strangle” so as not to be a hypocrite. The world should look on me kindly, refer to no. 5, and start doing the same.
14. Foam sounds. !!!!!!!!!
15. If I cannot find the pen that I started writing a piece for, and thus cannot continue with the same pen (and I don’t mean the same brand, type, whatever either. I mean the SAME pen).

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