What crummy, stupid, nothing thing pisses you off? Not something you’d like to punch someone out for, but something that bugs you like that hull of popcorn that sticks to the roof of your mouth. You know, the one that lodges itself in the pallate just far enough back that it sets off the gag reflex when you try to use a fingernail to dislodge it. Stuff like that.
Mine is plastic packaging that is so well sealed it takes a scissors to open the end of the package…and then you practically need the jaws of life to separate the two halves of the package!
Okay, bubbie, what’s pissing you off?
School for, like, expecting me to work and study and learn and stuff to get my degree.
I mean, c’mon! I’m paying them (…er…my dad is paying them), so- like- shouldn’t I just be given a degree or two? Why do I have to, like, work and stuff? It’s not like Poli Sci and History are real degrees anyway*!
Bastards.
: runs off to study :
*Or so I’ve been told by my science major buddies.
I hate assholes who park on the sidewalk. Like, they go like they are going to pull in to their garage, and then decide they are too lazy to actually park there, so they just leave their car on the sidewalk.
I pay taxes for this sidewalk. The sidewalk is for walking. It’s not a garage. Garages rent for a couple hundred a month around here. I don’t have a car and I don’t pay for a garage. So I take the bus and walk up the hill. If you don’t want to rent a garage or prefer not to park in yours and you don’t want to circle around looking for parking in this busy neighborhood, you can very well take the bus and walk up the hill, too. If your friends want to visit you, they can drive around looking for parking and hoof it over to your house just like my friends do when they visit. What you can’t do is just park all over my sidewalk. If I had a car and parked it across your driveway, you’d have my head and I’d get a fat ticket. So why do you at all think it’s okay to park across my sidewalk? You don’t pay rent for it. It’s not yours. You or your slimeball guests can’t park there.
I live on top of a big hill on a narrow street bounded by two blind corners. This area has one of the highest pedestrian death rates in the world. It’s dangerous for me to go out in the street five times during my block-long walk up the hill. It’s also pretty inconvenient, given that the hill is already a bit of a huffer without me routing out of my way every ten feet. And I’m pretty healthy. There are plenty of old people in my building who still rely on walking to connect them to the community and get their everyday errands done. These cars have got to be a somewhat major obstacle for them.
Fuckers.
Fast food places that default every burger order to “cheeseburger”. I can’t eat cheese because I’m lactose intolerant, and even if I could I don’t like the taste and don’t need the extra calories.
I’m not alone in these preferences. So why do I get a cheeseburger every fucking time I order a hamburger, and have to waste time making them prepare another one? And God help me if I leave the drive-through window without checking.
Great title, Desert Geezer, but we already have an active ‘minor rants’ thread. And that one pushes the MPSIMS boundary.
The two threads don’t look like they’d merge seamlessly enough to make sense to readers. For that reason, this one is closed.
