Lists

If you want to hear my "other story" (see previous post), wait awhile, I'll get to it eventually.

After a very long and busy work week, I feel like making a list. This list is of my pet peeves.

Here goes, in no particular order:

• People on the interstate doing 90 in their big Mercedes, coming up so close they almost tap my bumper and flash their lights to try to intimidate me into driving off the interstate, because there's a string of about 20 big rigs in the right lane.
• The idiots trying to go around everyone by driving up the shoulder in a construction zone, and end up being the cause of the chain-reaction that brings the entire traffic stream to a dead stop.
• Women applying perfume or strong-scented cremes and lotions nearby in a closed space like an airplane. Then they get to watch me throw up.
• While we're on women, women who feel the need to apply their makeup in public, even at the table in a restaurant. Talk about losing an appetite.
• Parents who let their small children get their own food with no supervision at buffets. Kids that need help, drop things, handle the food with their hands, and sneeze and cough all over the buffet.
• Parents of wild children who refuse to lift a finger to quiet, calm, or otherwise try to keep them from driving everyone else in the public place nuts.
• More parents - that let their kids run wild through the neighborhood after school and don't even show up to feed them dinner, parents who don't care whether their kids succeed, abusive, neglectful, inattentive, just so many bad parents it makes me sad.
• Customer service from the telephone company, airlines, BMV, stores, restaurants; Wait, I finally got it! There is no such thing as customer service! No wonder I've been unhappy about it all these years.
• Politicians who lie; believing the end justifies the means.
• Reporters who perpetuate politicians' lies. Because they are aligned with the same political party line. Forget "unbiased journalism", it almost doesn't exist anymore.
• Planned obsolescence.
• Dropped cellular calls. Even when your signal strength is max.
• Friends who aren't really.
• Customers who will lie and cheat to save a couple of bucks.
• The uber-righteous
• Athiest anti-religion activists
• The ACLU. Wouldn't it be nice if they actually fought for what their name says instead of denying others their rights?
• Hatred
• People who base their life's philosophy on emotion, abandoning reason and practicality
• Smokers in a non-smoking area
• Smokers creating a gauntlet outside the building you need to enter
• Mullets and Dreadlocks
• Hip-Hop and Rap
• High gas prices
• Drug Dealers
• Drunk Drivers
• Health Insurance Companies
• Apostate denominations, churches, pastors, priests
• Hurtful and untruthful name-calling, used either to prop up a losing argument or make oneself feel better at the expense of another
• Unfettered Profanity
• Judge George Greer, who just sentenced Terry Schiavo to death by starvation and told the US Congress to get lost.

Maybe my next list should be positive, like favorite things.