In my new memoir, It's Hard Not to Hate You, about releasing anger in order to prevent major emotional meltdowns, I just had to include a chapter on the pet peeves and daily annoyances that send me into a hyperactive blind rage. What makes your blood pressure rise?
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Mildly Annoying
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Apparently they all seem to think that everyone around them will move out of the way for them.
Aside from the loud phone talker, here are some of my peeves:
People who sit on aisle seat and act like it's a big issue for them to move so you can take the empty seat next to them or move when you try to get out
People who listen to music or play games without their headphones on or the sound off. Yes - I play Angry Birds too, I just don't make everyone listens to it.
Out of tune singers with headphones. Seriously - you don't know you're singing out loud?
People who try to push onto the train before letting the people who want to get off out first - hey - there'd be a lot more room for you if we got out, hmmmm?
2. trying to communicate with a customer rep over the phone that is in a foreign land and cannot speak or understand ENGLISH!
3. The Republican Party/Tea Party
4. I could go on and on!
13. People who let their darling spawns push the wagon. I really love it when the spawns are too short to see over the cart. It's just so damn adorable. NOT!
14. Kids who sit in the carriage part of the wagon w/their dirty feet all over the place. We put our food in that. If your kid is too big to sit in the front part, then they are big enough to WALK in the store.
15. Old people who complain about the lines especially before a holidays.
7. Bringing the whole damn tribe w/you. Does the entire family, including extended relatives, all need to go shopping together? And must all 50 of you stand on line together?
8. People who talk on their cell phone while trying to push a wagon. Sorry but you can't do both. PUT THE FRIGGEN PHONE DOWN!
9. Just like the above, but when they have a conversation while checking out. It's rude.
10. People who block the door reading the receipt - I understand that costly errors can happen. But move to the side so people can pass you.
11. Those motorized carts that some supermarkets have - ever notice the majority of those zipping around in them are obese? A little walk won't kill you...oh wait, maybe it will.
12. Wagons for kids - excuse me, and I only speak for myself, but I'm tired of this child friendly world. Those huge wagons w/the red car or the little shopping wagons in Trader Joe's aren't cute, they are annoying.
1. It should be against the law for old/retired people to shop on the weekend. You have all week to shop-there's no need to be out on Sat. and Sun. (and they aren't being driven by a relative).
2. Same goes for SAHM - you have all week to do this.
3. Dads who food shop w/the kids. I'm a sexist female - there is no way on earth I would allow my husband to do the food shopping (we would be eating ice cream and cookies for an eternity) and if we had kids HELL NO!!!
4. People who read every damn label. It is THAT serious, especially when most of the crap in your cart is junk?
5. People who feel the need to make that very important cell phone call to find out what everyone wants for dinner. Here's an idea - make what you think your family, you know - the people you have lived w/for most of your life - would like to eat. No need for a pow wow - you aren't making executive decisions in the White House.
6. People who bring their tired and cranky kids shopping w/them, especially at night. What is so important that you must be in Target at 9pm w/children who look like they are going to pass out from sleep deprivation?
Stress being a reaction to an ever changing situation.You can't live with it till you learn to channel it,to absorb it intently.and effect a change with powerful concentration. Then you will find it tough to live without it.
The problem is you can get rid of it before it happens but then it can't help you function at a higher level as when learn to channel it with rhyme or a lttle levity. A little mix of the two can do wonders for me and for you. Don't let stress make you a mess.Its like being abil to chill without that little white pill.
Dog gone it where did darn stress go. I wish you luck I know I'll find enough of my fair share.
It's mostly guys I notice doing this. I think they figure well... I'm at the grocery store, but i'm not getting behind the damned cart. Maybe they just wish that they were still eight years old, and mom was in the driver's seat :P