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It is a rainy, gloomy day and because of that I am in a funk. In the spirit of "misery loves company," I decided to spread the gloomy funk of an attitude across the net. Why should l be the only one miserable?
As I sat waiting for 45 minutes to go one block this morning in the Houston traffic, I began to realize that a lot of things make me mad. I have a ton of pet peeves. Since normal people would try relaxation tricks and techniques while sitting in traffic so that they relax more, I did the opposite. I compiled a list of pet peeves-things that make me so ticked to the point of no return. Here is the list:
People who think their time is more valuable than mine
This really upsets me. Going along with the traffic issue, it is these people who know that the left lane is closed but instead swerve into that left lane to pass those waiting patiently then force their car back into the line 20 cars ahead of you why you wait patiently. Or the people, why you wait patiently in line at the fast food place with a whiny three year old that is going insane, ignore you and walk in front of you to place their order first.
Masking Prayer For Gossip
I can not stand hearing someone ask for prayer for someone else as a means of gossiping about that someone else. I think it is a trap that churchgoers fall into. We have all done it. I can't tell you though the amount of guilt that happens the first time you do it. You would think if someone felt that guilt they would stop, but yet everyday I hear: "We really need to pray for so and so, their ____ is horrible or did you hear what her husband did. Please people pray for them in private, but don't spread the gossip.
People Who Think My Life Is Easy Because I stay at home
I work two part time jobs just to be able to stay at home. Furthermore, even if I was staying at home with no side jobs, it would be a ton of work. I can't stand women who think just because I am at home, I have time to do extra church work, babysitting, etc. Have they once tried being with a whiny three year for seven days 24 hours a day while balancing cleaning a house, cooking a dinner (because you can't eat out no matter how tired you are because you don't have those big paychecks), and doing a million other things like homework, etc?
People Who Feel The Need To Tell Me How To Parent
Why is it that people who have kids spawned from Satan or no kids at all feel the need to tell me how to raise my kids? Seriously, have you seen your kids? Today was the worst. I was killing time in Target because after sitting in traffic so long my street was flooded from the rain and I was unable to get to my house. I am wheeling around a little girl who really wanted to be home. So she stands up in the basket and we are pretending like she is surfing. Yes she has both hands on the side of the cart and she is completely in the middle. But a kid barely 18 proceeds to yell at me about making her sit down in the basket. Does he honestly think that I would do anything to endanger my own child? Keep you opinions to yourself.
Misleading advertisements
We recently switched to AT&T because the cell phone company we were with dropped a lot of calls. At the time AT&T had an ad for the fewest dropped calls. My phone in the two weeks since I have had it, has not worked for entire nights. According to the live techs online there is always an outage or a tower down. It is never ending excuses. Since then they investigated by the Better Business Bureau and was forced to drop the ad because of the amount of dropped calls in Houston, Los Angeles and Chicago. Oh, how I love living in Houston.
Incompetent Government Offices
My friend is losing her baby today. Apparently the government feels her child that she has raised for the last six months should be raised by his own family. Not an immediate family but a great aunt and uncle who have already given him up before and has said countless times that having him puts a strain on their marriage and they don't want him. He is only 18 months and has lived with six other families before coming to her house. He calls her mom and is adjusted well. But with a caseworker who has their first case ever, it is her mission that this boy, stay with blood relatives. So a family is tore apart. Or a tax office in which one person says it will take four to six weeks to process a form and another that says it takes 90 days. Would it kill the government to have departments that actually talk to one another?
Gas Prices
Seriously $3.50 a gallon? My son just did a report on transportation. One kid's grandmother remembers it being one cent a gallon. This is just ridiculous! If you are going to charge so much per gallon, the least the government can do is not close whole lanes when they are not working in those lanes.
I think I feel better now that I got it out of my system. What are your pet peeves? I would love for someone else to join in my misery today!
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