I'm starting to worry that I'm to easily annoyed. Little things just really rile me up sometimes. My new laptop for example (to be correct its the university's new laptop which I have the privilege of using) has the delete key up next to the F keys instead of down next to the arrows like my old one and it drives me nuts. And I really hate how smokers throw cigarette butts every where. And don't get me started on gap closers. I digress. . . why? because I am the Old cat lady of pet peeves. I've got loads of them; I hoard them and I'm getting more and more as I get older. Sure, I need to relax, let go of things I can't change before they fill up my house full of feces and urine, until I and die leaving my home to be cleaned up by hazmat and my children thinking it was all there fault and they should have stopped by more. Sorry maybe I took the metaphor a little far. But maybe I sould let it be, live and let live and all that serenity blah blah.
No! I say, nothing will ever change unless someone like me makes noise. Would we have this great nation if the founding father just decided, ah I can't change things the British aren't that annoying. Would we have air conditioning if people just thought " it's hot but I can't change that". Would we have disposable diaper because someone was annoyed with washing cloth diapers which is definitely gross. Or would we have easy cheese if someone didn't get annoyed with cutting up lots of little pieces of cheese for their crackers. Or would we have Velcro shoes it old people didn't get tired of tying their shoes? Or would I have death ray on my car that gives a severe sun burns to anyone that attempts to close the gap when I changing lanes? . . .wait still working on the "death ray" but one day people will think twice when closing gaps mark my word mooohohohohwaahahahah.
But then again, I guess all this whining just makes ME annoying or move the delete key on my computer.
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Gross! Easy cheese is orange colored Styrofoam. Nasty cheese(Kraft singles) are better than that. But I prefer REAL cheese. None of this sissy watered down crap. By the way if you are going to be the cat lady of pet peeves then I'll have to move out since I'm deathly allergic to peeves. I look like a anaphylactic penguin about to explode!
It is okay to have pet peeves and IF you choose to do something about them, you can, in fact create something that society will consider useful progress. BUT that is only if you are willing to do something about it. So, write a letter to your computer manufacturer...or sit down and shut up. I for one like my delete key up there because that is where it is on a normal keyboard. Or mention it to someone next time you see them toss a butt.
So what I am saying is you either need to get out the shot gun and go Rambo on the kitties, or let them loose to run free and wild out of your life. (Now that is what we call carrying a metafore too far.)
I can't believe you'd advocate the mass murder of Kittens, Liz!!!
I don't know what Liz is on, but I am currently typing on a regular keyboard, and the delete key is directly to the right of the backslash (\) key.
Aside from the mass murder of kittens, I would say, you don't have to let them all go at once, cause then you would go into kitty withdrawl. Rather look at each pet peeve kitty and decide how much you like it. Is it pretty, worth while, a genuine problem in life, or just a nuisance? Gap closers? A worthy peeve. having the delete key in the wrong place? Just use back space, it's in the same place it always has been.
Amie, I'm on Toshiba Satellite. The delete key is kitty-corner (no pun intended) to the back space. If you look at a full-sized keyboard with a ten-key on the right, the delete key is above the arrows, right next to the "end" key.
You should BOTH let go of your gap-closer fetish b/c there is nothing you can do about it, it is just a nuisance and I really don't think that it is as common as you two rant about. Of course, I have a fine collection of pet peeves myself, so I can't say too much. But at least I can choose to not have a Christmas Wedding and let others know that while I am happy for them, I am very unhappy with the choices they made in that regards. You just communicate well gap closers...well you can, but it really isn't worth being that kind of person.
There is something I do to gap closers. I turn on my signal and move my two ton car in front of them before they close the gap.
Actually the thing getting my goat lately are people that don't know how to merge. They pull up into a cars blind spot and wonder why they can't get in. I saw a lady pulling out of a parking spot honk because a car didn't let her in (frankly he would have had to back up to let her in and she was in his blind spot so he couldn't see her turn signal)
Meatloaf! Run for your lives!
I also do want to comment that Don votes on his own polls. Notice the one vote saying that his pinky toe isn't large. I wonder who that could have been . . . .
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