I saw this over at Schmutzie’s Milkmoney and was charmed with the idea. And since she stole it from someone (because they stole from her what she stole from someone else), I’m going to steal it from her. Except I’m going to narrow it down from a list of 25 to a list of 10 because a) I have no time as it is and b) my brain isn’t functioning at full capacity today. Anyhow, best I can tell, the idea here is to make a list of things that bug the crap out of you. Because we ALL have a list of that sort of stuff, don’t we? Except this list is called:
25 10 Things That Shit Me To Tears
- People (mostly those from the east coast), who refer to Nevada as “Neh-vaahh-duh” instead of “Neh-vaaaa-duh”. It’s “aaa”, not “aahh”! Don’t make me come over there and rip your tongue out.
- People who assume that because Reno is in Nevada that it is the desert and couldn’t possibly get any snow. People, please. Next time, I’m making each and every one of you shovel my driveway.
- People who glue bows to their infant daughters’ heads.
- Going to a restaurant and looking obviously pregnant only to be asked by the waited if I want a glass of wine. I can understand not wanting to make a faux pas, but each time this has happened it has made me feel like I look like a fat whale instead of pregnant.
- Those ghastly blue LED Christmas lights. Hey, I get that LED is great for energy conservation and I have nothing against them in general. But I saw several houses this year that decorated with primarily blue LED lights and it hurt my eyes SO BAD. There’s something about that color that makes it where you cannot focus on the lights and then you have a headache.
- The smell of old grease, particularly when it sits in my kitchen garbage for several days.
- People who insist on driving normally (meaning: like completely lunatics) in the snow just because they’re driving a 4 wheel drive vehicle. They cause accidents that make me late to OB appointments and that stresses me out.
- When a neighbor shovels their driveway between 12pm and 3pm, waking up the baby from his nap. Our one neighbor is notorious for this.
- Living clear out here in the boonies where there are really only two roads into town and both of them go up hills so in nasty weather, you’re screwed either way. Plus, it takes forever to get to any sort of decent shopping. Let’s not even talk about restaurants.
- Dogs who insist on being on my lap at all times of the day. I’m seriously considering setting a “living being” limit on this chair and limiting it to two. Me, and the gestational wonder within. Dogs… you’re out of luck! (yeah, as if they’d listen to that)
