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July 31, 2006 Please do not look for deep meaning in this article because if you do, you will surely be disappointed! I am sitting here on a rather gloomy day thinking of things that annoy me. Not a very productive way to pass the time but it beats complaining about the heat and watching endless re-runs on television. I'll start with one of my pet peeves; when you say something to someone like "Isn't the grass nice and green on that golf course?" and they reply, "Isn't the grass nice and green on that golf course." right back to you. Your comment was a question and their reply was a statement. Or, "Do you like Kumquats?" and they reply, "Do I like Kumquats." My first instinct is to be rude and say, "Is there an echo in here?", but I know that they will simply repeat it back to me. I am reading a book and the author has the main character repeating everything that is said to her and it's annoying so I stopped reading the book. This book came highly recommended so I am probably cutting off my nose to spite my face but who cares, it's annoying. So what if I miss the new great American novel which everyone else is reading. I refuse to be further annoyed. The next annoyance is the person who calls you on the phone, does not identify themselves and jumps right into some angst-ridden diatribe about how sucky their life is. Never mind if you are cooking dinner, watering your lawn or waiting for an ambulance because you've just suffered a major heart attack...their problem comes first and foremost in EVERYONE'S life. You don't get to say much to this person aside from "Uh huh" and "Really" but you feel compelled to listen because it would be rude and mean not to. Thank God for Caller ID because now I can weed out the habitual complain and run callers. They always run because they never want to hear about your life so when they are finished with their long, drawn-out sob story they are done and have no more time for you. Very annoying. How about the neighbor who sees that you are headed out to the grocery store on your usual shopping day (yes, I am a creature of habit and my neighbors know when I am going shopping), and then stops you in your tracks to ask if you'd bring them something back from the store? "Okay," you say out of kindness and because you don't want to seem rude and un-neighborly. Before you know it they've suddenly remembered at least ten other items to add to the one little thing that they first PRETENDED they wanted you to pick up. You wind up grabbing your own list and adding half a page of stuff that you don't want to get let alone carry home. To add insult to injury this idiot...I mean good neighbor, tells you that he/she doesn't have any money on them so they will pay you when you get back. If I added up all of the extra, unwanted grocery debt that I have accumulated over the past twelve years of living next to neighbor from hell I could probably take a trip to London (first class) and not have to pay a cent for the plane, hotel or little models of Big Ben that I would bring home as gifts. Before I end this partial list of things that annoy me there's one more little matter that I want to bring up. There is the ARTICLE JUDGE who happily resides behind the scenes of the UK Magazine."What is that?" you say; well, that would be the person who reads anything that you write on here and feels it necessary to act as your editor. It isn't the usual kind of reply to an article where people agree, disagree, compliment or criticize. It's the kind where they JUDGE you. "I thought that was better than the last one you wrote" "This time I approved of what you said..."...you get my drift. I have also noticed that this kind of special self-appointed critic either never writes anything themselves or writes some pretty awful stuff and you would never dream of writing to them to judge their work. Actually, you probably wouldn't even bother reading their work because their articles are about as stimulating as their unsolicited judgment calls. As I sit here hoping that I didn't annoy all of you too much I am waiting for my email to alert me to the fact that Mr./Ms. Self-Appointed Critic has sent his/her usual missive and that will annoy me most of all. ------------ About the author: Meri has a Medical/Legal background and is a former forensic researcher specializing in psychological profiling. https://www2.xlibris.com/bookstore/bookdisplay.asp?bookid=27335 Email: writers2@cox.net Comment on this article here! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com. Please link to this article rather than copying and pasting it onto your site (which would be unauthorized and illegal). |
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