Here’s a list of things that are currently irritating the shit out of me:
- The fact that I’m waking up every morning at 5:30. My alarm doesn’t go off for another 45 minutes, yet I”m awake and unable to go back to sleep.
- Snow. Looking at it. Walking on it. And living with the fact that it’s still winter and spring is weeks away.
- Large chunks of ice flying off my roof, hitting the porch roof with a loud BANG, and then landing with a THUD below. I can’t tell you how many times my heart has skipped a beat or two or ten and I’ve wondered if I’d need CPR. I usually do.
- People who drive slowly in the left lane. Yo dumb asses, the left lane is for PASSING, not meandering tortoise-like while you admire the view. Move your ass over to the right so that I can dust you.
- Fourth grade homework. It’s making ME mental, so I can only imagine how my 4th grader feels about it. I’ve spoken to the teacher with marginal success; talking to the principal would be an utter waste of my time.
- Hearing people scuff their feet when they walk. This isn’t cross country skiing; your feet should leave the ground when you take steps. Stand up straight too, while you’re at it.
- People who let their dogs crap all over the sidewalk. Makes me want to send Pete over to their houses and drop a load on their front porches.
So tell me, what is irritating you mightily this week?
My mother nagged me about shuffling my feet. Now at work I can tell who is walking down the hall by the sound of their shuffle. I want to scream most days at one in particular. Shuffling her feet is just one of her many issues.
My butt, and the fact that it has not shrunken dramatically just because I’ve been eating right and exercising for two whole weeks.
I hear you on the dog issue. We have a neighbor down the street who has two pugs. He walks them all the time and does not clean up after them. We’ve seen him let his dogs crap in our yard and then he walks away. He’s an older guy, but I told my husband starting this Spring I will take him down if he doesn’t start cleaning up after them. I’ll take our 90 pound lab over to his house and let her use his lawn as a drop zone.
A little hissy these days, are we?
Never fear, Spring is coming. It’s almost March.
Jenny
How about co-workers who come to the office obviously sick?
Bad drivers, especially the ones that cruise right through stop signs without stopping.
Hmm. I’m actually feeling pretty non-irritable lately. *ducks* If you’re gonna throw shoes, throw Ferragamos, size 8!
Foot shuffling drives me nuts. I’m not sure there’s a teenager in my town who knows how to pick their feet up when they walk. AAARRRGGGHHH!
Hey! That’s where my wake up call went! Send it back, would you?!? (Because I should be getting up around 5:15 but instead have been sleeping until 6:30!)
You don’t want to get me started on irritated. I’m still dealing with those postpartum hormones. Everything and everyone is pissing me off right now.
I’m with Jen above, who is irritated with the size of her butt, given that I’ve finally gotten back in the groove of gym and tae kwon do 4-6 x a week and eating things like nonfat greek yogurt and a pink grapefruit for lunch. What gives, man??
And I’m irritated that we’re NOT getting snow, but depressing, cold rain.
Just a little ray of sunshine here in Boston!
who-boy, i’m likin’ the hissy. Cuz when you get to be peri-menopausal, it don’t take much to set one off! Rant! who!!!!
dogs taking dumps. I’ve got that plus horses too. Big sloppy horse dumps in the middle of the street. Because “what do you expect when you live in a semi-rural neighborhood?” I guess I expect to NOT have to drive over horse doody and then back my SUV into my garage. Nothing says rural white trash more than the smell of horse manure in your garage!
Next up: neighbors who schedule their mow & blowers to do their yard EVERY FUCKING SATURDAY MORNING AT 8:00A..M. For the past 6 years now. They’re from the UK, and have the most fucked up attitude towards their America (mostly) neighbors. Can we say entitlement issues? Yes We Can!
I think #1 is happening because of #3. Your body is expecting it to happen again, so you aren’t resting.
I’m sick of winter, plain and simple. I don’t get out and do much of anything, so I have very few complaints right now. How about the snowplow plowing in the end of my driveway again?
Winter. The SNOW, the ICE, the ZERO DEGREES. Blech.
I feel your pain on all of those things but the snow. Hugs, that spring arrives quickly.
I am tippy toeing right past this one today….
Um, would Pete really GO over to their houses and drop a load on their front porches?
I think not…
One of the teachers is really irritating me today. First, trying to explain to an 8 year old what her teacher meant when she said she “beat her kids black and blue” sometimes. Then listening to the lecture she was given about how horrible it is to be “fat or chubby” because it’ll kill you, so the ‘slightly chubby’ growing 8 year old was telling me how much she was going to run to keep the fat from filling up her heart. Yay for teachers who teach lessons by blowing things out of proportion and scaring kids. I don’t need us dealing with anorexia here… And to top it off, she came to me a little later, a bit worried, over her teacher telling her that one of the lunch ladies was going to be fired. The story turned out to be something that the teacher was surely joking about, but come on, the kids are 8 and 9. Keep your private personal talk private and out of the classrooms. Gah!
Yep, you need to drop a load of sh*t on some porches. Or kick it into their front yards at the very least!
I’m with you on the homework pain. It’s hell. Pure hell.
I hate, no, I loathe when people scrape eating utensils against their teeth while eating!! I have had to get up from the dinner table while my mother in law is here because she does it with EVERY bite. Spoon, fork, spork…she’ll rape that thing between her teeth!! AHHH!!
The huge mess left from tons of snow – 8 inch puddles of gray mess at each street corner. I just bought a pair of rain boots online – now I’ll walk through them without a care!