Dawn's Thursday Thirteen, Edition Twenty-Seven: Grrr...

Thirteen Pet Peeves

i am normally a pretty laidback, happy person, but occasionally a girl must vent...

1) really explicit spam. spam, in & of itself, is annoying, but when it's also vulgar, that really ticks me off.

2) angry people at Disney. or that do nothing but complain. about the crowds. about the weather. about the prices. about the attractions. about the food. GO. HOME. no one is forcing you to be here. if you think it's so terrible, why did you come in the first place?!

3) drivers that wait until the last possible second to pull out in front of you & then drive 4mph.

4) drivers who ignore the fact that their traffic light has been red & mine has been green for at least ten seconds, and just keep coming through the intersection.

5) people who disregard the fact that there are other people ahead of them in line. they just squeeze around the people who are already there, patiently waiting, and weave closer to the front. like they are somehow superior to waiting in line like the rest of us. c'mon folks. we learned this in preschool.

6) groups who walk shoulder-to-shoulder, taking up an entire walkway, with no regard for the people who would like to get around them or walk past them in the opposite direction.

7) drivers who come flying up on me & flash their lights at me, indicating that they want me to move over so they can get by. hello!! i am passing people too. i cannot just move into that lane when there are already cars there. and it's not like i'm dogging it either. i am sorry that you need to travel 103mph, but you're just going to have to wait til i get past the cars to my right before i can move aside to let you endanger more lives further up the highway. continuing to flash your headlights impatiently at me isn't going to make this happen any more quickly.

8) you know when you're at the grocery store & you take a carriage? you know how you stop to check something out? yeah. your carriage doesn't need to be parked in the center of the aisle, making it impossible for anyone else to get by. move your cart off to one side -- preferably the side you're browsing, because it doesn't help when you push it to the side & then stand beside it. that's still blocking the entire aisle. and please don't give me a dirty look when i say "excuse me"!

9) people who feel the need to talk to me while i am on the phone. wait your turn!

10) if i have staked out a spot to watch the fireworks or the parade at Disney, or if i am presently looking over a display at the store, please don't push me out of the way to make room for yourself, which effectively means i no longer *have* a place to stand, or can no longer see what i was looking at.

11) for that matter, if i haven't made it abundantly clear that it is ok to be within my circle of personal space, please don't take it upon yourself to make contact with me. didn't you learn in kindergarten to keep your hands to yourself? i know that there are times when a close crowd is unavoidable, but that doesn't mean you need to have your hands anywhere on my person, uninvited.

12) it really drives me crazy when somebody just helps themselves to something on or in my desk. without even asking. especially if i am sitting there.

13) (without casting judgement upon anyone) after four years spent working in daycare, it makes my skin crawl to see a child with a pacifier or a bottle in their mouth when the child has the ability to carry on a completely understandable conversation around said item. i know it's your child & your decision. i'm not going to tell you when it's time to give those things up. but it still drives me insane to see it.

ahhhh... that felt good. back to your regularly bright & shiny Dawn! ;-)

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