SOL 2- Personal Pet Peeves

          Personally, I have many pet peeves. I don't know why, but many small things bother me, even though I am probably guilty of many of them. Here is a short list of these annoyances:

          Passive aggressiveness bothers me. If you are going to say something rude, just say it to my face. I know I am very guilty of being passive aggressive, but I try to just be outright aggressive if I am going to be rude.

          When people chew loudly, especially when it is to the point that it is obvious that they are chewing with their mouth open. In my opinion, no one wants to see your unchewed food, it is just unpleasant for everyone involved. If I don't want to see it, I definitely do not want to listen to it loudly during a meal.

          When people respond to an apology that both of you know was more because of curtesy then an actual reason to apologize with "It's OK." As an addition to this, when people apologize by saying, "I'm sorry you feel that way." You could have just said that you weren't genuinely sorry, and none of this conversation would have needed to happen.

          When a teacher has moved on too a more complex topic, and then five minutes later a student asks about how you do the simpler thing. That was already explained a while ago, sorry you didn't get the memo.

          When people repeatedly ask questions about the same thing after it has been explained specifically when it wastes everyone else's time. I find this one particularly obnoxious because I don't want to sit there and listen to someone else repeating themselves for no reason.

          On the same note as the previous annoyance, when people repeat themselves and then never end up finishing their original statement, like finish your statement, but I heard you the first time. It makes no sense to me why someone would say the beginning of a sentence three times and then leave it on a cliffhanger by not finishing their statement. It is a pain for everyone involved.

          The feeling of unfinished pottery. I just absolutely hate it with a passion. For some reason it really bothers me. Even the thought of it makes me want to curl up and die in a hole.

What is this, a bag of lay's chips?

          When people do not remove the air from a Ziploc bag before they seal it. Why are you taking the time to store something in a compact, airtight bag if you are going to make it take up extra space and be surrounded by air? It makes no sense to me, and it makes me mad that someone would misuse a bag like that.

          When people are consistent and then change things up randomly. It is very obnoxious. For example, if someone is always on time and then starts being consistently late repeatedly. It is just a pain for everyone involved. Another example is when someone is very specific and strict about when things are due, and then one day you walk into the classroom and they say something like "I changed my mind, this assignment is not due for another two days." Make up your mind, people. If I'd have known that I did not really need to do the assignment I would not have stayed up until midnight working on it.

          When people use shortenings of other words instead of spelling out the entire word in conversation. I get that it is the modern, hip slang, but if that is where the world of communication is going, I have no want to be involved in it. I refuse to actually say out loud to someone, "LOL!" I just refuse to ever say that kind of thing to another human being.

          When people choose random synonyms to make themselves sound smarter when in reality it just complicates things. In my opinion, at least, saying that he hit someone with his clapper dudgeon (yes, that is an actual word, look it up), does not sound cooler than saying "he hit someone with the hilt of his dagger."

          Now that this unintentionally passive aggressive sounding slice is done, I hope you enjoyed it and can relate to some of them, no matter how weird they may be.