things that bother me

After a bit of a blog hiatus, today's post will be about Things That Bother Me.

1. "Convenience" fees when you buy tickets online. If it was so "convenient," why does it add so much to the tab that I could purchase at least one more ticket, or at least a dinner for two at a nice restaurant? It is most inconvenient! I don't understand.

2. People who light up cigarettes inside the bus shelter. Bus shelters are typically enclosed spaces, right, so when you smoke inside the bus shelter, it's like smoking in a very small room with a door propped open. So basically, instead of stepping outside for a smoke like a normal, courteous person, you're forcing all the other occupants of the small room to either cough through your cancer cloud or move to stand outside themselves. That is just rude! Especially when the other occupants are old grannies with canes or bags of groceries.

3. Couples that are inexplicably icky. You know what I mean: two people who are relatively attractive, fairly intelligent, reasonably sociable...but somehow make you feel so uncomfortable, you can't bear to sit next to them in a class or share a meal with them. It's nothing overt. It's not like they're groping at each other or passive/aggressive fighting all the time. But it's like something about their interactions or the way they look at each other that is just like "Ugh, I am in the presence of something that isn't quite right." Gross.

4. Overripe fruit when you're not expecting it to be. (I'm looking at you, banana-that-I-just-threw-out.) There is nothing more disgusting than peeling a banana that's greenish on the outside but is somehow all soft and mushy on the inside. Ugh. Just thinking about overripe bananas makes me want to gag.

5. People my age who have small children but don't have a firm grasp on the proper use homonyms, such as here/hear. Really? You're responsible for another human life but you can't pick out the right you're/your to use in a sentence?? Yes, I am judging your ability to teach your child the basics of the English language if you still can't tell which there/their/they're to use at age 24.

I possess a lot of spite. In case you couldn't tell.