12 things that annoy the crap out of me
1. co-workers that walk too briskly around the office. Also, co-workers that print out all their emails that you then have to weed through to find the one thing that you printed.
2. really bad midwestern accents….not south-side or Chicago-suburb old lady, Walnut-room-visiting accents…those are cute, but I’m talkin’ really whiny trixie new-mom, new money accents….the kind of mom’s that over-program their children
3. the color scheme at Jewel
4. trying to park between SUVs in Lincoln Park
5. when Hank (my cat) chews on my head in the morning
6. drug stores…..all drug stores…cvs, walgreens, osco, I hate them all. I can’t figure out the way they are organized. I can never find anything quickly. Blinding lights, narrow aisles.
7. toddlers speaking on answering machine outgoing messages
8. people talking too loudly on their cell phone or just too loudly in general
9. ordering a sandwich (usually a bagel) that you ask to be cut in half, and they forget to cut it in half a minute after you tell them. (I can’t tell you how many times this has happened to me at numerous establishments)
10. the intersection of damen/fullerton/elston aves.
11. Mass phone texts
12. Generation Y-ers ….you know, the ones that always expect to be praised for everything? the ones that don’t want to pay their dues? the ones that don’t even know how good they have it? the ones that take things for granted. the ones that make stupid comments at meetings that somehow turn the topic into “look how great I am”
that is all.
6 Comments
- the little one replied:
Who’s Generation Y? Am curious. I get confused with all the Gen X and every other crazy name we give age groups. I suspect I totally agree with you. I’m just not sure I actually know who the hell they are.
I think I might want a certain death if I’m ever one of those people talking too loud. Definitely a reasonable thing to annoy the crap out of you.
December 20th, 2007 at 1:12 am. Permalink.
- kp replied:
Great list of “annoy the crap out of me” things!
I CAN’T STAND mass phone texts! They’re TACKY are INSINCERE. Argh!
And now I have to pay attention to the color scheme at Jewel.
December 20th, 2007 at 7:42 am. Permalink.
- LD replied:
well, I don’t want to piss anyone off by naming an age group, and I’m not going to make a sweeping generalization that this covers everyone born in this range but it’s typically kids born in the 80s that are now out in the workforce and pull the “look at me, I’m so fabulous!” shit. They are of the computer age, but frankly I don’t think some of them know how to communicate with real people if front of their face…not commenting on their myspace.
December 20th, 2007 at 10:31 am. Permalink.
- the little one replied:
Ah, yes Myspace. I asked my students if they read blogs and they all said no, but hell, their sure are up on tons of stupid ass Myspace pages. The 80s sucked for lots of reasons I guess.
December 21st, 2007 at 3:39 am. Permalink.
- LD replied:
don’t get me wrong, I loved the 80s….just for the hairstyles alone!
December 21st, 2007 at 8:54 am. Permalink.
- kp replied:
the 80’s…bad…ronald reagan and george bush. I HATED the 80’s.
December 23rd, 2007 at 8:30 am. Permalink.
