Alright, now we’re up to 15 things that annoy me!
- If you are dropping kids off at school and you only pull over half way, you might as well not have pulled over. You’re still blocking everybody on the street. We both know it’s a fake effort, so just save the pretense and stop in the middle of the street.
- If I’m stopped at a stop sign and a pedestrian is crossing the street on the opposite side, then of course the cross traffic is free to go even though it is not their turn. However, if the cross traffic is trying to turn in the same direction I’m going, then they have to wait for the same person crossing as I do. In that case they are NOT allowed to go out of turn and then just sit in the intersection until the person is finished crossing!
- The fact that organic bananas now come wrapped in a plastic bag. The fact that any bananas would be wrapped in something that has to go in the trash is ridiculous. They kind of already come in a pretty handy wrapper. But to wrap specifically the organic bananas in trash is such a slap in the face. Oh, you actually care about your health and the Earth in general? Okay, well here’s some extra trash for the landfill for no reason!
- Concepts which are not internally consistent. This is especially true of movies, politicians, and people in their personal lives. If you give me a framework, I am willing to go with it…but don’t then violate the framework. If you tell me a “giant ray” can make a lizard 20 times its size, I’ll buy it. But then it can’t suddenly fly or ignore missiles smashing into its face. Government should stay out of our business and personal lives, or it shouldn’t. We should be religious or we should be debaucherous. None of it matters one way or the other to me, but pick a story and stick to it! You can’t have it both ways. Of course, if you can come up with some cockamimi story about why everything remains internally consistent, then I’m back on board again. Why didn’t you SAY that the giant-ray messes with the neurons in the lizard’s head giving him telekinetic powers??
- People who don’t like firm plans. In most cases, these people are known as “people who don’t have kids.” The only way I can get through a day is with a schedule. I have to know when I have to be somewhere, so that I can start getting the kids ready roughly 3 hours before that. When you have kids, you have certain milestones you have to hit (meal times, nap times, bed times, etc.) and those are firm deadlines. And when I hear, “Eh, we’ll just be there whenever”, then I know that means it’s not happening.
Shane Halbach 
Based on the last one I would say both Nathan and I bother you every time we make plans 🙂
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Too funny Rachael – I was kind of thinking the same thing!
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