Just giving you fair warning – it’s been a long week, I’m tired, and here’s a shortlist of things that have irritated me recently:
1. Employment agencies. My mobile, which I want to keep on during the day, rings constantly because I have a CV on Monster. Send me a fricken email, for gods sake, so I can respond to you at my leisure, not at yours.
2. Cyclists. On the only fast stretch of road on my commute, everyone had to crawl along because of a spandex-clad cyclist insisting on their right to ride in the centre of the lane. There’s a lot of traffic coming the other way, so traffic backed up for miles behind his pink-clad ass as his majesty rode in spendour at the head of the procession.
3. Shelf-stockers at markets. I don’t know what it is about the UK, but the shelf-stackers are very self-important about their jobs, and will totally block access to the food that you want to buy while they stack shelves. Wtf? You’re stacking it because I goddam BUY it, and if I can’t buy it, then I guess there’s no need for stock boys, is there? Move aside, because my shopping is paying for your wages.
4. The cat, who at 4:00 am this morning decided to spend five minutes hacking up the world’s largest hairball. And then Phil woke up and had an asthma attack. I got up and played Warcraft until 7:00 am this morning.
Well, that was my week. How was yours? :D
2 and 3 are two of my pet peeves here in Switzerland, too.
You’re too passive…
Point 2 – employ the wing mirrors – it’s what they there for…
Point 3 – replace ‘wing mirrors’ with shopping trolley – it’s what it’s there for.
Cyclists who do that annoy me too. I am often tempted to nudge them as we overtake.