Pet Peeves
Hmmm… This live journal thing is tricky. I’m not quite sure what to do any longer. I guess I can come up with another list. Two ironic things that have recently occurred to me are 1.) I started this live journal thing because my girlfriend did and she has only posted two entries and this is my third and 2.) she is way better at it and is way more interesting and people really like to check what she writes but I’m not too sure that anyone will ever see this.
I think that I don’t want anyone to see these “entries” but one has to ask one’s self what in the world is the purpose of an “online journal”. I mean, if I sneak into my sister’s room and stole her journal, she’d call the national guard and if she found me, she’d rip out my spleen and staple it to the wall. Journal’s have almost always (I thought) been regarded as sacred things. Yet, someone had the idea that people should post journal’s online. I am so confused. Maybe I’ll wade through these days and figure this whole thing out.
Meanwhile, I guess its time that I come up with another list. Jennifer, (the love of my life, the girl of my dreams) said that one day she would come up with a list of things that make her smile. I am near as great and wonderful as she is and so I will come up with a list of things that often tick me off. Andrew Peterson wrote an incredibly cool song about his tendency to be self serving and said that it is just a song about what a big jerk he is. Well, this list is proof that I am a jerk no matter how much I try to fake it. Oh yea, and I’ve probably done every single one of these things at some point or another and might do some of them often. That doesn’t mean that they don’t still tick me off.
- breaking others in line
- living in a constant state of self pity
- not being able to say that one is sorry
- demanding things such as time, energy, or resources as if they were expected and not a gift
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not tipping when tipping is expected -
refusing to try to have an open mind -
giving unwanted gifts and then act upset when they are not appreciated -
making someone of the opposite sex think that they are interested when they are not -
racism -
playing loud music when it is at an inappropriate time -
picking on someone else just to look good -
making fun of someone behind their back when the person would never be aware of it -
taking a piece of food and not the whole thing -
acting as if something isn’t aggravating, only to talk later about the other person behind their back -
being fake -
being mean at church -
acting as if it is a person’s obligation to be my friend -
answering a cell phone during a performance -
staying angry for no reason -
not lending something to someone in need for no reason at all -
looking down on someone for doing something that the hypocrite is guilty of also (that sure makes this the most hypocritical list in history, doesn’t it?) -
looking down on someone for doing something that the person assisted them in -
saying one thing but meaning another -
accepting things as true only because that is the way that it has always been -
not pausing a conversation when the commercials are finished and the show has started -
incessant talking during movies -
talking loud just to get attention -
trying to get attention when attention should be given elsewhere -
farting out loud in public (yet, even though it might get on my nerves, it still might make me laugh a lot) -
pushing a button on an elevator that has obviously already been pushed -
crying as a means of manipulation -
not going on a date with someone because of a lack of initial attraction -
cheating on someone -
using the power of authority of someone just to feel powerful -
being a leader who only commands but is never willing to act -
expecting everyone to cater to one’s own desires -
not being willing to show any mercy to others -
expecting everyone else to sacrifice something just because the original person needed to -
being mean in an argument just to gain control -
making fun of someone to their face just to look funny when the person obviously doesn’t enjoy it -
picking at other people’s skin -
ignoring someone in a conversation of several people -
looking down upon people of the opposite sex -
being a man and hitting a woman or a child -
being a man and hitting a weaker man -
making fun of those who are handicap -
scamming people for money -
never being willing to thank someone -
being unwilling to beg or even ask for something needed -
constantly trying to make others feel bad for things that they have done, especially when done for selfish reasons
Well, I guess my list couldn’t be as long as I thought it would be, but I’ll add more to this entry later today.