31 Days of Blogging - Day 7

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Day 7 - Your Pet Hates

Oh, where do I even begin! There are so many things that drive me completely insane!

• People with really poor grammar and punctuation. This probably bothers me a lot more than it ought to but there's just something about it that just drives me crazy.

• As an extension of that, people who mispronounce words also bother me quite a bit. The most annoying, perhaps, being people who pronounce aluminium without the second 'i'.
• And while we're still on the topic of linguistics, another thing that really bugs me is when people make up their own conjugations of words when there's already a perfectly good form of it. Sports commentators are probably the worst offenders here, making up words such as "aggressiveness" (when the noun is aggression), "winningest" (I don't even know...), and worst of all "most winningest" (like what the hell does that even mean?). Oh, and it also bothers me immensely when people use the word "costed" as the past tense of "cost". I have a friend who does this all the time and it may have been a lapse in judgment before, but I swear she just does it to see my eyes twitch now.
• Drivers who don't give the courtesy wave. I'm in a hurry to go places and have slowed down to let you merge into my lane. If I don't take the half a second to give me a courtesy wave, expect to see someone flipping you off the next time you look in the rear view mirror.
• Smokers who light up in public places. And then don't actually smoke the damn thing but pollute the air with their noxious fumes anyway.
• People on public transport who feel the need to share their terrible terrible taste in music with everyone else aboard by blasting it through their phone's loudspeaker. Seriously, it's never anybody with good music who does this. Maybe there's some correlation between bad musical taste and being totally disrespectful and uncouth.
• When people (mostly mum and dad) come barging into my room without knocking first and then leave without closing the door afterwards.
• That douchebag at the front of every queue ever who's been standing in line for half an hour already but still has to look at the menu to decide what he wants because he's been too busy playing frakking Doodle Jump the whole time.
• The Catholic church's use of the word 'youth' to refer only to Catholic youth (and middle aged women). I resent their use of the word in things like World Youth Day (which, by the way, lasts an entire week) because quite frankly, it's a misrepresentation of the world's youth (not to mention the concept of a 24 hour day).
• Tardiness. It's really not that hard to be on time for things. If you can be on time for work every morning, then I expect you to be on time for social occasions as well. When I say, "I'll pick you up at 7", please try to be ready at least 5 minutes earlier. If you're busy reading/watching something, then for the love of god, get ready first then read. Seriously, it's possible to read a book in attire other than your PJs. Even worse than tardiness is tardiness without explanation and/or attitude. If we've agreed to meet at 7 and you're going to be running late, I expect you to call or message me before 7. Not to give me attitude when I message you at 7:30 asking where the hell you are. Every time I make the effort to be punctual and you're late because you were "busy", it's telling me that you think your time is more important than mine and that, quite frankly, is not on.
• People who are rude to waitstaff because "I'm the customer and I'm always right". No, they're there to serve you and everyone else in the restaurant. They're quite often underpaid, overworked and by the time you rock up for dinner after the opera they've probably already been on their feet all day. Trust me, you will get better service by smiling and being polite with the staff rather than clicking your fingers at them and giving them attitude because it took 5 minutes to bring you water.
• People who walk at snail's pace triple file across the footpath. If you're going to be walking that slowly, please move to the side so the rest of us who need to be places can get around you without having to play in traffic.
• People who let their kids play with the self-serve checkouts during peak business hours. I get it, little John and Joanne look adorable when they're packing away groceries into bags. If it's a quiet time and there's nobody else around, by all means, let your kids play with the scanners but for the love of god, when there is a massive queue of busy people behind you, scan your shiz yourself and get the hell out of the way.
• People who don't reply to emails, text messages, and other e-communications in a timely manner. I know you always have your phone on you and that you check it every couple of minutes. Don't pretend you didn't see my message. I get that you might be out socialising and too busy to reply (in which case, why are you looking at your phone so frequently anyway?) but when I see that you've been spamming the hell out of Twitter/Facebook...
• People who borrow stuff and then take forever to return it. If you've borrowed a book from me, I'm going to assume it's because you have the time to read it. If I ask for it back a month later and you still haven't read it yet because you've been busy, maybe you shouldn't have borrowed it. I have a family friend who borrowed a DVD from me back in 2006 or something. I have seen neither him, nor my DVD since. Also, when you borrow stuff from me, I expect you to return it to me without me having to hound you for it.
• Speaking of hounding, I hate it when people bug and heckle you for your opinion and advice and then totally ignore it.
• And back on the topic of borrowing things, I expect them to be returned to me in the condition they were when I leant them to you. If I hand you a mint condition book, I don't want to see it returned to me with dog ears, a creased cover, and a broken spine because you were too lazy to use a piece of paper as a bookmark, put it into a safe part of your bag, and hold the book open while reading it.
• I also hate it when someone asks you to do something for them and then stands around telling you how you should be doing it. If you're that much of an expert, please just do it yourself. If not, just let me do my thing.

I'm sure there are plenty more but these are the ones that come to mind at this moment in time.

And here's what you can look forward to in future posts:
01. Introduction & recent photo
02. 20 facts about you
03. Your favorite quote
04. What are you afraid of
05. 10 songs you love right now
06. Your 5 senses right now
07. Your pet hates
08. What's in your handbag
09. What are your worst habits
10. What's your best physical feature
11. List 15 of your favorite things
12. What's inside your fridge
13. What is your earliest memory
14. If you won the lottery...
15. Timeline of your day
16. What's at the top of your bucket list
17. What is your most proud moment
18. The meaning behind your blog name
19. What do you collect
20. A difficult time in your life
21. Your favorite foods
22. The best thing that happened this year
23. Your dream job
24. Your favorite childhood book
25. Your 5 favorite blogs
26. An old photo of you
27. Post your favorite recipe
28. What are you looking forward to
29. Where have you traveled
30. What's in your makeup bag
31. Why do you blog