Pet Peeves

I told all of you that I am a very opinionated person and, so...over the course of my life, I have collected a nice Boeing 747 sized container of pet peeves. So, without further ado, here they are:

1. When people say "a whole nother". There is no such word as "nother". There is "another, an, and other. You could say "a whole other". No "Nother" Exists!

2. The term "Manny". So, I am not a feminist. Not enough so that I would like to label myself as such, anyway. But, the term "Manny" implies that the word nanny has a gender and thus needs to be changed to make way for the new trend of "Male Nannies". Why? Can't we just call him a Nanny? Or, refer to him as "Such and Such's Male Nanny"? It is, IMO, a sexist and antiquated way of thinking to just assume that the word Nanny implies a female and that we must make a new word to refer to a man who takes a position as a Nanny. Please, stop referring to a man nanny as a Manny!

3. Again, not a feminist but, the thought that women are bad drivers while men are just assholes on the road. Wrong. Why is it that when a woman does something stupid on the road, like cut someone off, she is a bad driver? When a man does the exact same thing he is just being an asshole.

4. I don't know if it is because it is written this way, of if it is some annoying form of ad libbing on the part of the actor/actress. When a character does the following example: "Liz, she is upset right now." So, here is why this is stupid. That quote would be something from General Hospital. Not necessarily a direct quote but, something I am making up for the sake of using an example. So, Lucky would be the one saying that sentence, while talking to another character...perhaps Emily. He is saying that Liz is upset right now. Does he really have to add "she" in there? We know Liz is a woman. Emily knows Liz is a woman. So, he should just say the sentence as "Liz is upset right now." And, he doesn't say it like "Liz...(a pause for emphasis), she is upset right now." He says it quickly. And, on one occasion, he was talking about 2 of the characters and after he would say each name, he would refer to them as she. He had several lines in that specific sequence and he did it in each line! SO Annoying!

5. When one asks a person a question and their answer starts with "Honestly"? No, I thought that when I asked you that question, it was implied that I wanted you to lie to me.

6. People who get on their cell phones in restaurants and talk loudly as if we all want to hear one side of their conversation.

7. People who stand too close to the person in front of them in any line. If you are up my rear in line, don't expect me to apologize to you when I back up and step on your toes! Yes! I did it on purpose and, I am gleefully giggling and listening to the crowd roar and cheer for me inside of my own head!

8. Parents who think that, just because they have a stroller, I should forfeit my right to walk with convenience or stand in a line at a register without being hit. I have been hit by parents with their strollers and, they didn't apologize. (Note: I do not hate parents! Most of my friends are parents! The difference is that they don't assume that just because they are parents, they have special privileges. They are courteous in and out of public!)

9. This goes back to something similar to 6 & 8. People in grocery stores on cell phones who aren't paying any attention to what they are doing or where they are walking. I was hit, not once, but twice by the same woman with her cart in a grocery store years ago. She was on her cell and, not only did she not apologize to me for hitting me with her grocery cart, but she gave me a look as though, I did something wrong...to her!

10. People who call you, at your house or your business, who dialed a wrong number and then, instead of apologizing for the mistake (which hardly seems really even necessary since, we have all done it and will probably do it many times in the future and it is just an accident/mistake), proceeds to argue with you that the person that they are looking for is most certainly at your residence or office. "I just called her there 2 days ago." Nope...I am the only female that lives in my house who can answer this phone as my cats don't speak human or have the ability to lift the phone what with that pesky missing apposable thumb bit they have going on. And, I am the only female that works at my office, bugs not included as they are sort of limited as far as that whole human speak thing I mentioned before...oh...and they tend to be too small to do anything but sit on my phone.

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