(And if not, the blog God's have finally deemed me worthy of getting out of that font prison I have been silently suffering in for 2+ years...ALLELUIA.)
(But my guess is that hasn't happened, and I am now NOT so silently still in this font prison.)
But I've digressed.
Here's my pet peeves:
1) People at the grocery store that cannot return the cart to the cart return- This was passed to me from my father, I remember many occasions where we would pass the time of my mom running into the store (bless her for having to do that) and us sitting in the car guessing who would and who would not actually walk the extra distance to return the cart. You'd be surprised how many people don't walk those extra steps. Seriously, are you that lazy that you can't walk a few extra feet to put it in the correct place???
2) People that cannot wait in a traffic jam and have to drive on the side of the road to get around it. It makes my blood boil. And if I am feeling lucky (like I feel that maybe they aren't harboring guns and ammo in their cars), then I am the one that pulls to the side to block them. You better have a siren or AT LEAST flashing hazards to get by me.
3) People that ride my tail for no good reason. There really is no good reason to ride my tail, but I understand your frustration if I mis-calculated your speed and distance and pulled in front of you and slowed you down. OTHERWISE, no I don't understand why you have to ride my tail. You know I can't get the other cars in front of me to move any faster, right? You also know that I have no where else to go, right? And you know if I slammed on my brakes for whatever reason we'd both be screwed, right? So why do you continue to do this???
4) People that don't understand basic traffic laws. I live right off a highway access road. When I pull out of my apartment complex, I face a highway overpass bridge. The access road has no stop sign. My complex and the people on the bridge have a stop sign. Lets see, when the access road becomes clear, who's turn is it to go? IT'S WHOMEVER GOT THERE FIRST!!! (Very frequently, they do not know this, and I end up in the middle of the access road slamming on my breaks praying the next car coming isn't going to crash into me.)
(BUT, soon I am going to put a post about what I have personally done to fix this, it's awesome, wait for it!)
5) People talking on the phone in relatively QUIET public places. I don't love people talking on the phone at the grocery store, but at least I can move away and it's happened to me before where I just had to take/make that call. However, if you are sitting in an airport waiting for a flight to board or in a doctor's office waiting room; I know I look like I am intently reading my book and not at all paying attention to you, but really, I am just picturing your conversation and what all the people you are talking about look like in real life and I am seeing the scenario of how these dramatic situations are playing out. AND, because I am not going to actually find out how these dramatic situations are going to work out, I would rather read my book where I can get to some satisfying conclusion, eventually.
6) Ridiculously bad commercials. I think I have a hidden profession in analyzing commercials and being able to tweak them to make them better. There's a variety of bad commercials, seriously, I COULD categorize them for you, but I will save that for another time (and that time hopefully, for your sake, is never.). BUT, here is one example, you've probably seen this Windows 7 & Staples commercial. But did you notice that the robbers took everything? Like LITERALLY, EVERYTHING. They moved them out! Who would take all the books and trinkets off the shelves... MOVERS (not robbers)!
7) Factually incorrect TV shows/movies. I am loving the new TV show Love Bites. So it pains me that I am going to have to burn them. But they did a "byte" about three astronauts on the Space Station. I am kinda a space nerd, blame my brother for working at NASA, but this scene was just plain BAD. I realize they couldn't make them look exactly like astronauts, but, their symbol looks like a sail boat, their polo's look ridiculous, I am sure they don't have all that junk posted up on the wall because they have better things to do than put junk on the wall, the one guy says, "I don't know I was doing Space Stuff," it's fishy that the guy from the Hangover is on there and what woman would cheat on an astronaut with her yard guy???
And the clip I included is the only one I could find, but if it kept going, you would see they get a satellite to stop over the girlfriends house so it can zoom in and see what is going on there. And everyone knows that a satellite could never just stop in mid-air because of a little law, known as Newton's First Law, which states that an object in motion will remain in motion and an object at rest will remain at rest unless an unbalanced force acts on it...duh.
Okay, so I know I have more, but I just can't think of them right now. Maybe I will make a part two... someday.
For now, this grandma-driving, over-analytical, science nerd needs to go to bed!
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