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What are some of your minor annoyances?
This past couple of weeks I have been on edge, because a friend is in hospice care, with a very bleak outlook : (
It seems like some things that I either don’t pay much attention to, or never really noticed before, have become amplified.
Here are a few examples of my own personal minor annoyances:
People absentmindedly tapping things, or jingling their keys.
Passengers in your car fiddling with the air conditiong (rather than asking you to adjust it) or rolling the windows down while the air conditioner is running.
Guests in your home, after you have shown them the lovely guest towels that you have hung on the racks especially for them, going into your cabinets to use different towels.
People parking just over the line, or at an angle, so that there is not enough room for you to park in the ajacent parking space.
People on TV being interviewed (usually lay people, not actors, or professionals on TV) chewing gum while they are talking.
People smoking cigarettes directly outside the entrance to a business (smoking is not allowed inside businesses in CA) so that the stink of their smoke comes inside. Or smoking outside, where people are made to stand in line before going in (like for a concert or a play).
People walking and not picking up their feet, so that their shoes squeak across the floor, like so many fingernails on a chalkboard.
An asshole in a car behind me honking his horn, because the poor person in the car in front of me didn’t move instantaneously when the light turned green.
Entering a bathroom stall to find an unflushed toilet.
Seeing people digging dirt out from under their fingernails, with another fingernail (usually a grotesquely long one) while you are sitting near them in a restaurant. One of my friends has taken to doing this recently. She never had long nails until recently, and only a couple of the nails are long, but apparently she enjoys the digging.
Having people reply to your texts without actually answering the question that you asked. It usually involves a specific time. Me: “Hey Marge, you want to go to the movies tomorrow? There’s a 10 o’clock showing or a 1 o’clock showing.”
Marge: “Yeah! That sounds good”
Me: “What time works best for you?”
Marge: “Maybe we can go out to eat afterwards!”
Me: “Yeah, what time works best for you?”
Marge: “It’s playing at The Bijou right?”
Me: “Yeah. What showing is best for you?”
Marge: “Do you want to meet there, or at the restaurant?”
Me: “It depends on what time we see the movie. What time is best for you?”
Marge:
Sorry for my long list of minor annoyances. I guess they are occupying my mind, so that I don’t think too much about the much bigger issue, of my friend being in hospice : (
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