My Favorite Pet Peeves

Everyone has a few things that bother them.  While most folks are taking time to be thankful and forgiving, I thought I’d go straight in the opposite direction.  Following is a list of things that irritate me like fingernails on a blackboard:

• Fingernails on a blackboard
• People in the passing lane that drive slower than people in the right lane
• Traffic in general
• The McRib
  

  Not so much the McRib though . . .

• Rude Customer Service Representatives – I mean really – isn’t that an oxymoron?
• Parking meters
• Driving in downtown, anywhere downtown, traffic.  What’s with all the one-way streets??
• People with the “My Kid’s on the Honor Roll” bumper stickers.  Really?  Well my kid got a C in Algebra by 1 point so lay off already will ya?  (Except for that year my kid WAS on the Honor Roll then of course I proudly displayed my bumper sticker and curiously those people didn’t irritate me nearly so much)
• Having the sniffles
• Weathermen who predict snow and then talk about it for a week and it never happens.
• Miranda Lambert

Give me fingernails on a blackboard instead . . . please!

• Showers in hotels that when you adjust a millimeter to the left get ice-cold and adjust a millimeter to the right get boiling hot.
• Airport Security – I know it’s necessary and I don’t fight it but I don’t have to like it so I don’t!
• When your favorite pair of socks get a hole in the heel and you have to throw them away because you’re the Mom and that’s what you tell everyone else in the house they have to do.
• Running out of wine
• Running out of vodka
• Running out of rum . . . wait this is taking a wrong turn
• Running out of milk

• When you’ve been waiting in line for 15 minutes and just as it’s your turn a new register opens.
• Vegans – they make me feel so damn guilty!
• Kelly Rippa
• Writer’s Block
• Twilight Haters – you don’t have to read the books and you don’t have to watch the movies, but let me enjoy my werewolves and vampires ok?
• Chain Letters – which have now turned into Facebook posts about fighting cancer or hunger or being kind to animals and if you don’t copy and post to your status for 1 hour you are the root of all evil.
• People who serve real cranberries for Thanksgiving.  I want the slippery, slimy sauce out of the can like Mom used to make.
• Anything, or anyone, that happens before my first cup of coffee.
• Finally, and most importantly:  Crabby critical people who like to make lists of things that bug them.  Hmm . . . wait a minute . . .