Stuff That’s Making Me Irritated Today.

Yesterday, I told you about three random celebrities who were annoying me for various and sundry and unrelated reasons, and included in that post the fact that Jennifer Aniston’s nipples were aggressively pointing at people. If you missed that post, you can catch up right here.

I had a lot of positive feedback about that post, which leads me to believe that a) you like it when I write about stuff that annoys me or b) you like when I write about nipples or c) you just like when I’m annoyed in general because you’re a jerk.

Regardless of the reason you enjoyed that post, I decided to do a non-celebrity version today, because there’s stuff that irritates me besides obnoxious celebrities and their aggressively pointy nipples.

You know what makes me absolutely rage?  When you go through a drive-thru, and you hand the cashier, say, a $20 bill, and the total charge comes to, say, $11.46, and when the cashier gives you back your change, he/she puts the paper money into your hand before the coins, which means that the coins invariably spill all over the place.  WHY DO THEY DO THIS.  How is it not common knowledge that you give the coins back FIRST, and THEN the paper money?

That makes me rage.  In fact, I’ve gotten into the habit of telling cashiers who return change properly that I appreciate the way they return change.  And while most of the time I just get weird looks from them in response, I feel like it’s important to provide positive reinforcement, so I’m going to keep doing it.

You know what else I hate?  I hate words with silent letters in them which serve absolutely no purpose except to trip you up on spelling tests.  Like pneumonia.  Or opossum.  Or phlegm, for that matter.  Who decided, when they were busy making the English language, that randomly throwing in silent letters was a good idea?  They should be punished.

Also, why do people put quotation marks around stuff that doesn’t need quotation marks?  BEHOLD:

People do that with their own names, too.  I don’t get it.  You’re not the Smith’s.  You’re the Smiths.  So stop it already.

Also, what is going on with people pronouncing the word “especially” as if it had a “k” in it? It’s not “ekspecially,” you guys.  Cut it out.  Look – I get that the English language is complex.  But when you arbitrarily add a whole letter to a word for no reason, you’re not making it any simpler.

Also – if you pronounce the word “Italian” as “Eye-talian,” you need to stop it right now.  Do you say, “Eye-taly?”  No.  You don’t.  Stop saying “Eye-talian.”

Speaking of stuff we say wrong, I love this video so much:

Now, I should point out, before one of y’all points it out for me, that I am guilty of saying ALL KINDS of things that people hate.  For example, I say “literally” a lot, even when I’m not being literal.  And I also rarely type the word “probably” anymore – I just type “prolly” which isn’t even a word, but it’s quicker. Also, I rarely ask Daisy if she “remembers” something.  I say, “Hey – ‘member when so-and-so happened?”  We got an Actual Complaint about that once because I said it on the air, and so now I say it as often as possible out of pure spite.

But that’s a whole nother story. 😉

What are your pet peeves?