Countdown Meme - Day 3
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aearwen2I'm thinking it's about time I do another day's posting of this. Frankly, I'm kinda enjoying thinking things through so that I can answer these questions. Never let it be said that I avoid a chance for introspection.
Anyway, here goes...
Day 1 - Ten random facts about yourself
Day 2 - Nine things you do everyday
Day 3 - Eight things that annoy you
Day 4 - Seven fears/phobias
Day 5 - Six songs that you’re addicted to
Day 6 - Five things you can’t live without
Day 7 - Four memories you won’t forget
Day 8 - Three words you can’t go a day without
Day 9 - Two things you wish you could do
Day 10 - One person you can trust
1. People who focus on their bloody smart phones rather than the social activities around them. I mean really!!! FaceBook and Twitter are NOT the be-alls and end-alls of social contact. Face to face conversation, an honest exchange of ideas with a living human being in your proximity is far more meaningful and sustaining (not to mention beneficial) than non-stop semi-anonymous barf-lettes of tripe. Put the bloody things away and pay attention to the surroundings and the people in them! You can play that level of Candy Crush or take pics of your dinner tomorrow (as if any of the rest of us are really all that interested in either to begin with...)
2. People who think that speeding ahead and then crowding into the lane that is going around a traffic obstacle is okay - or even optimal. The highway workers put those warning signs far enough back so that everybody can just get into line and go through the bottle-neck at a reasonable speed. It's those JERKS who think that the empty lane created by those thoughtful folks who quietly get into queue gives them the right to speed on past everybody else and then shove themselves into the head of the line. Selfish, self-centered, obstructive and dangerous - that's what they are.
3. Discrimination of any flavor: religous, racist, political, gender-based, geographical, you name it. We're all human beings, and we all have pretty much the same desires in life: to be happy, to feel loved and needed, to have safety and security in our homes and our lives. Making someone "wrong" just so someone else can feel "right" about themselves is, again, selfish, self-centered and so very dangerous - both to the one being discriminated against as well as, ultimately, the one doing the discrimination. Payback is usually quite the bitch.
4. Evangelism of any flavor. It is the height of rudeness to dismiss the beliefs of others simply because they don't jibe with those held, and then attempt to thrust one's own beliefs down another's throat in the name of "love one's neighbor." No. If you love me, you can talk to me and we can discuss our differences. I love those kinds of discussions. But do not dismiss my beliefs simply because you disagree with them, lest you run the risk of my dismissing yours with equal impunity - not to mention the risk of the same level of rudeness to boot. In other words, don't dish it out if you can't take it.
5. Drawers and cupboard doors left open. It looks like the dickens and is really disrespectful to the person who tries to keep a neat, orderly house. If you can open the drawer/cupboard, you can darned well close it up when you're finished. It doesn't take that much time.
6. Daylight Savings Time. There's a graphic that floats around social media that addresses my feelings about having to disrupt my Circadian Rhythm twice a year: An old Indian is depicted, and the words are something to the effect of "only a fool will think cutting a foot off one end of a blanket and sewing it to the other will extend the blanket." The reasons for instituting Daylight Savings Time in the first place truly no longer exist. It's time to retire the anachronistic, disruptive practice once and for all!
7. So-called "riders" on legislation that have nothing whatsoever to do with the original legislation. Something (like common sense, duh!) tells me that our governing bodies would work so much smoother if each piece of legislation were presented "clean" - in other words, don't encumber a financial bill establishing a budget with something stupidly non-sequitor like legalizing marijuana or the like. Just present another "clean" bill, for pity's sake!!
8. Whiney kids. So many parents allow their children to whine - and then capitulate to stop the noise. The best answer is "If you want to cry, I'll give you something to cry about" - and then carry through. Mine, when shopping with me and whining to get something, were told "If you don't stop, this will be the last time you come shopping with me - and you won't get [whatever the heck they were whining for] for a good long time." Kids need limits, and it's the parents' responsibility to establish boundaries of acceptable behavior. In my opinion, whining is a sign of failed parenting, period, end of statement. And I really have to bite my tongue to keep from (1) telling the kid to bloody well shut up; and (2) telling the parents to grow up and parent!
Eeeeek!!! I didn't realize I could be quite so annoyed!
Introspection is healthy for the soul. Now, to figure out how to let go of some of the annoyance...
Anyway, here goes...
Day 2 - Nine things you do everyday
Day 3 - Eight things that annoy you
Day 4 - Seven fears/phobias
Day 5 - Six songs that you’re addicted to
Day 6 - Five things you can’t live without
Day 7 - Four memories you won’t forget
Day 8 - Three words you can’t go a day without
Day 9 - Two things you wish you could do
Day 10 - One person you can trust
1. People who focus on their bloody smart phones rather than the social activities around them. I mean really!!! FaceBook and Twitter are NOT the be-alls and end-alls of social contact. Face to face conversation, an honest exchange of ideas with a living human being in your proximity is far more meaningful and sustaining (not to mention beneficial) than non-stop semi-anonymous barf-lettes of tripe. Put the bloody things away and pay attention to the surroundings and the people in them! You can play that level of Candy Crush or take pics of your dinner tomorrow (as if any of the rest of us are really all that interested in either to begin with...)
2. People who think that speeding ahead and then crowding into the lane that is going around a traffic obstacle is okay - or even optimal. The highway workers put those warning signs far enough back so that everybody can just get into line and go through the bottle-neck at a reasonable speed. It's those JERKS who think that the empty lane created by those thoughtful folks who quietly get into queue gives them the right to speed on past everybody else and then shove themselves into the head of the line. Selfish, self-centered, obstructive and dangerous - that's what they are.
3. Discrimination of any flavor: religous, racist, political, gender-based, geographical, you name it. We're all human beings, and we all have pretty much the same desires in life: to be happy, to feel loved and needed, to have safety and security in our homes and our lives. Making someone "wrong" just so someone else can feel "right" about themselves is, again, selfish, self-centered and so very dangerous - both to the one being discriminated against as well as, ultimately, the one doing the discrimination. Payback is usually quite the bitch.
4. Evangelism of any flavor. It is the height of rudeness to dismiss the beliefs of others simply because they don't jibe with those held, and then attempt to thrust one's own beliefs down another's throat in the name of "love one's neighbor." No. If you love me, you can talk to me and we can discuss our differences. I love those kinds of discussions. But do not dismiss my beliefs simply because you disagree with them, lest you run the risk of my dismissing yours with equal impunity - not to mention the risk of the same level of rudeness to boot. In other words, don't dish it out if you can't take it.
5. Drawers and cupboard doors left open. It looks like the dickens and is really disrespectful to the person who tries to keep a neat, orderly house. If you can open the drawer/cupboard, you can darned well close it up when you're finished. It doesn't take that much time.
6. Daylight Savings Time. There's a graphic that floats around social media that addresses my feelings about having to disrupt my Circadian Rhythm twice a year: An old Indian is depicted, and the words are something to the effect of "only a fool will think cutting a foot off one end of a blanket and sewing it to the other will extend the blanket." The reasons for instituting Daylight Savings Time in the first place truly no longer exist. It's time to retire the anachronistic, disruptive practice once and for all!
7. So-called "riders" on legislation that have nothing whatsoever to do with the original legislation. Something (like common sense, duh!) tells me that our governing bodies would work so much smoother if each piece of legislation were presented "clean" - in other words, don't encumber a financial bill establishing a budget with something stupidly non-sequitor like legalizing marijuana or the like. Just present another "clean" bill, for pity's sake!!
8. Whiney kids. So many parents allow their children to whine - and then capitulate to stop the noise. The best answer is "If you want to cry, I'll give you something to cry about" - and then carry through. Mine, when shopping with me and whining to get something, were told "If you don't stop, this will be the last time you come shopping with me - and you won't get [whatever the heck they were whining for] for a good long time." Kids need limits, and it's the parents' responsibility to establish boundaries of acceptable behavior. In my opinion, whining is a sign of failed parenting, period, end of statement. And I really have to bite my tongue to keep from (1) telling the kid to bloody well shut up; and (2) telling the parents to grow up and parent!
Eeeeek!!! I didn't realize I could be quite so annoyed!
Introspection is healthy for the soul. Now, to figure out how to let go of some of the annoyance...
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Date: 2015-02-20 10:27 pm (UTC)- Erulisse (one L)
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Date: 2015-02-20 11:14 pm (UTC)1. What baffles me are people who spend a good bit of money to attend a concert or event and then spend the entirety of it watching it through their screen. Because we know that those videos are going to be watched again ... like never? And even if they do once or twice, why would a person want to watch a grainy video with bad audio over experiencing fully the original event?
Or couples who go out and then sit opposite each other, each on their smart phones. My husband and I will wonder aloud if they are texting each other?
2. I also finds this causes traffic to back up worse than it already is. I will hug the car in front of me to not let these people in.
8. I am child-free, but when I was still a kid myself, it would have been a cold day in hell when whining or any type of coercion would have gotten me anything but worse off than I was to start. But believing that correcting or punishing children is detrimental is apparently A Thing. I just wish parents ascribing to this belief would keep themselves and their precious offspring home!
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Date: 2015-02-21 07:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-02-21 03:47 pm (UTC)#1 irritates me no end, too, though I am a Twitter fan. (Though I don't spend most of my day on the thing.) #3, #4, and #5 (especially this one) also annoy the heck out of me, and drive me crazy.
Not that I'm not crazy already. :)
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Date: 2015-02-27 02:41 am (UTC)Whiny kids can be annoying. I find whiny adults way, way worse. I don't mind answering questions. I enjoy trying to help. But it gets very old very fast when every helpful suggestion I make gets thrown back in my face. If grown adults don't want to help themselves, why should I go out of my way to help them? Kids are relatively powerless. They whine for stuff because they can't get it themselves and whining works. Competent adults who are perfectly capable of helping themselves but who would rather just make a lot of annoying noise are a supreme waste of time.