The world’s a messy place. Entire countries have gone into default, and our own is headed in that direction. Unemployment runs rampant while greedy Wall Street types just take more for themselves. Grrr.Such woes are heavy indeed, but they pale in comparison to the things that vex me and affect my world:
1. Clerks who jam a printed receipt, cash and change into my hand all at once. I’ve got a bag, a purse, a food tray and maybe a small dog in one hand, and now I’m grasping a giant wad of paper in the other. What am I supposed to do? Pull out my mutant third arm?
2. People who make hackneyed statements such as:
“Well, at least it’s a dry heat.” or
“I never watch television.”
If you must make weather observations or discuss your ridiculous lack of entertainment good sense, then at least come up with something original:
“This must be a preview to the crematorium.” or
“I prefer nightly performances of mime Shakespeare in the round.”
3. Louts who don’t take care of their pets, who leave them alone penned in the yard with no food or shade. If you don’t have the time or inclination to care for an animal, don’t get one. At all. Ever. I mean it.
4. Celebrities who want attention on their terms. You got into show biz to be seen and heard. Right? Sorry, it doesn’t go both ways. When the chips are down, we, your public, don’t turn off our interest. We ramp it up.
5. Drivers who take forever to exit a parking spot. C’mon. Are you leaving or are you living there? Why do you get in, turn on the engine, and wait. It’s not a space shuttle launch. Move it!
Bonus Peeve. Grouchy folks who complain about everything—drivers, neighbors, politics, etiquette, and cable companies.
Golly, I believe I’m now peeved at myself.
