Oh, pet peeves…I have them. I’m pretty laid back most of the
time, but there are some things that really bug me. Some are minor and no big
deal and don’t affect me all that much if at all, and others infuriate me to no
end and make me want to severely limit my time with people who do these things.
The Minor Ones:
Socks and sandals (or mandals, as one of my “adopted” sons
calls them) - My uncle used to wear socks with his Birkenstocks all the time
and it drove me insane. My adopted son did the same thing. If it’s not warm
enough to wear sandals without socks, it’s not warm enough to wear sandals. The
end.
People who don’t put toilet paper back on the spindle and
instead leave it on the counter to fall into the sink that drips constantly. I’m
convinced that this is an affliction that affects only men since I’m the only
one in this house that can actually manage to change the roll properly.
When the underwire pokes through my bra – especially if it’s
my favorite. I can mend a lot of things, but I’ve never found an effective way
to fix this.
When companies discontinue a product I love. Most recently
it was my favorite coffee creamer and my aforementioned favorite bra. Now, I’m
on a Holy Grail type searches for replacements for both items. The quest is not
going well.
The Important
Ones:
I’m of course irritated by the biggies – bigotry, cruelty,
shaming, etc, but these are some other more specific things that I’ve dealt
with that just send me over the edge.
People that refuse to apologize and just pretend their
shitty behavior never happened. This burns me up more than I can possibly tell
you. If you do something shitty like bite someone’s head off either in person,
email or phone call own it and apologize. The person you were an
ass to may not call you on it, but believe me, s/he will remember. And it will
affect your relationship.
People who are pathologically competitive. I’m not talking
about a little professional jealousy - we all feel a twinge of it from time to
time, but we still have genuine happiness for the people in question. I’m talking
about the people who only feel good about themselves if they feel like they’re
doing better than other people – even their friends. It doesn’t matter what it
is – hobbies, business, weight loss, exercise, whatever – as long as they perceive
that they’re out performing the other person, it’s fine.
The minute their
friend might start to excel in an area, that person competitiveness and
jealousy comes out in an ugly way.
Revisionist Historians. These are the people who even if you
were both involved in an event have constructed a completely different version
of what happened, and bonus! They believe it. Now, no two versions of anything
will ever be identical – our perceptions color our experience of everything. I’m
talking about when the actual facts change. Hell, some people change their
story from telling to telling.
Condescending People. Yes, I may be a little flighty
sometimes, but I’m not stupid, so don’t roll your eyes at me or talk down to
me. Or anyone else for that matter. That’s just bullshit.
People who lack empathy. I’m talking about the ones that are
dismissive or disdainful of other people’s worries, fears etc. because they
lack an inability to put themselves in other people’s shoes and remember that
not both of you have the same life experiences and therefore something that was
no big deal to you might be a very big deal to them.
Soooooo...those are mine. What are some of yours?
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