It turns out that there are more than 5 things that annoy me. Would you believe, there are as many as TEN things that annoy me!

1. When you get gas and the pump automatically prints out your receipt without asking you. I NEVER want the receipt. You’re just wasting paper! Why wouldn’t you just ask first before printing it? I don’t know anybody who wants their receipt printed out, so printing it should not be the default.
2. People who call you back without listening to your message. What if I said don’t call me back? What if I said I’m being held hostage and if you call me back, they’ll kill me? Best case scenario I’m just going to have to repeat everything I already said in the message.
3. The way big companies just couldn’t care less about providing good service. Everybody knows Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, etc. all just try to take as much as they can from you while providing as little as possible. They all have the worst customer service ever. It’s almost like they are intentionally trying to give the worst customer service they possibly can. And everybody knows it and everybody still has their service, because there’s no other choice. Every one of those companies is essentially identical. If you want phone or television, or whatever it is, you have to go with one of them. Grin and bear it. The only people worse than those guys are the airlines. I hope guys who try and come up with ways to sell cigarettes to children sleep better at night than the guys who run airlines. Just try to tell me that there’s no collusion with these big companies. They have a silent agreement that, as long as everybody else is just as awful so there’s no other good choice, they can punch us in the face and have us thank them for the privilege.
4. Waste. I hate wasting food, and I hate throwing away landfills of packaging. I hate the awful and yet totally true stereotype of mindless consuming, not thinking about anything or anyone other than immediate gratification. I hate spending money on things we don’t need. I hate it in other people and I hate it in myself.
5. I was at the post office and it was taking FOREVER. But that’s not what annoyed me. It ALWAYS takes forever at the post office. If you don’t expect that, then I can only assume you have never been to the post office before. What annoyed me was the lady behind me in line who was acting like she was so put out by everything. You know the attitude: big, over-dramatic sighs, muttering to herself loud enough so everyone can hear, slowly increasing in annoyance and loudness when she doesn’t get immediate attention. One of the attendants was on lunch break and, in fact, was nice enough to help someone while she was on her lunch break. When the other attendant went in the back to look for something, the lady yelled, “Are you all gone??” into the back. She was complaining saying the lady shouldn’t have taken her lunch with such a long line and finally when she left she loudly proclaimed she was going to report the place and then paused, like she was waiting for a slow clap / standing ovation for her efforts on all of our parts. That is what annoyed me, the whole  “this is rediculous, am I right people?” attitude, as if we were all on her side and she was just saying what we were all thinking. I’m sorry lady, but workers have rights too. If it is time for someone to take their lunch break, then they get to take their lunch break. I’m sorry if that causes you to have to wait a little longer. And furthermore, it’s the US postal service that is at fault for not having more attendants, not these individual attendants who are doing the best they can. If you want to be mad at anybody, be mad at the government. Don’t expect special treatment and don’t yell at the wrong people when you don’t get it, and especially don’t expect that I will be on your side if you do.