Irritations

[c.d.]

People who stand backwards when going up or down an escalator. I guess they think it makes them cool or daring. I am always hoping they will miscalculate when to turn around and fall and hurt themselves. Idiots.

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[C. F. Leon]

hi diddles!
i teach in md and luckily none of tje parents have gone the stupid ridiculous route with their kids names at my school, but they have gotten rather creative. I actually love some of the names:

Nirvana
Gerber (parents were new immigrants from mexico and named him after the baby food!)
Zeppelin (Zep for short)
Lorrell
Unique
Tauryn
Shango (really love that one)
Kaliya
Quinn
Manyana(Manny for short)
Zhaniya
Mazie
Reeve
Genesis
Jaden (like three kids named that! )
Aria
Adelaide(for a girl, Addy for short)

Lots more but you get the picture lol. Very diverse area so i think that contributes to the creative names. alot of the beautiful hispanic names too.. Gabriella, Natalia, Maria, Bonita, Mateo, Tuca (love that one!)But most here are pretty traditional too.. lots of jacks, zacks, alex, olivia, chloe, hanah etc.

One of the Government Agencies that I have to deal with has 5 black chicks (all 20-somethings) that I know of working in the office. THREE of them are named "Keisha". When I asked one how do they tell the difference, she gave me me a look like I had just confessed that I voted for Trump (I didn't, but you know the LOOK) and said "I'M KEISHA, she's (pointing) KEISHA and she's KEISHA". I just nodded like I understood what she was talking about.

At another agency that I deal with, there's a 30-something named "Penumbra" (goes by "Penny", I suppose). A couple ahead of me in line, see the name tag and say "That's a very unusual name". "Penny" beams and says "Isn't it? It's a Native American name that means 'Leading Light of the World". Based on previous experiences, I decide to keep my mouth shut and let Penny live in Ignorance. They do their business, I do MY business. When I leave, the couple are outside having a good laugh at Penny's fantasy.

[Herlock Sholmes]

Not paying close attention to food labels and coming home with "50% Less Salt" Peanuts. Now my favorite snack is on a par with non-alcoholic beer and kissing your sister.

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P.S. I once read a review of a particular brand of non-alcoholic beer. It said the taste was so non-existent that your first thought is that maybe somehow you managed to miss your mouth.

[c.d.]

Not paying close attention to food labels and coming home with "50% Less Salt" Peanuts. Now my favorite snack is on a par with non-alcoholic beer and kissing your sister.

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P.S. I once read a review of a particular brand of non-alcoholic beer. It said the taste was so non-existent that your first thought is that maybe somehow you managed to miss your mouth.

[Herlock Sholmes]

Couples at the grocery store who feel the need to discuss every possible item they are considering buying and having to reach a consensus before they can drop a bag of frozen peas into their cart.

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Absolutely. Or family groups in a café who take half an hour to make their order because everyone has half a dozen questions about their meals and then they want to know if they can swap x for y and then they want to know they still get a free something if they don’t have z? I’m standing behind them losing the will to live.

[c.d.]

Couples at the grocery store who feel the need to discuss every possible item they are considering buying and having to reach a consensus before they can drop a bag of frozen peas into their cart.

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[C. F. Leon]

I'm actually more of a baseball fan in general, but I do follow my local basketball team. For those with short memories, in 2020 the NBA season was cut short for reasons that we don't really need to rehash. To fill the time, the local radio station that runs the games started broadcasting old vintage games, mostly from the "Good Years" (largely pre-2000), including from our lone Championship Year (1977). For us fans, it was great listening to games that No One had heard for 30-40 years or more. But, did they run the games in any sort of reasonable order? Of course not. As far as we could determine, it was entirely random. Except the Playoffs of the Championship Year, which they ran in REVERSE order.

Who makes these decisions?

[C. F. Leon]

I find an electrical appliance chucked into the pool at just the right moment puts a stop to that!

Yeah, but then you have to say "goodbye" to a perfectly good radio or toaster. And I really can't afford a new one EVERY week.

Plus the alligators that I'm trying to breed don't like it.

[C. F. Leon]

Agreed!

One of my friends is a teacher here in Glasgow, and we regularly discuss the horrendous names some of these kids are saddled with.

The worst one I ever heard was La - a.

Apparently that's Ladasha; "you pronounce the dash!!!!!" (said in an aggressive Glasweigan accent as though incensed that the poor teacher had the nerve to stumble over this stupid name when calling the register!).

Notable mention also to "Ibroxia".

I mean, it's ok to be into Rangers (if you really must), but that sounds like some kind of disease!

Just awful!

And People wonder why their kids never call them...

[C. F. Leon]

Tags on clothes. They rub on your skin and are extremely irritating. If you try and remove them you usually end up with a hole in your clothes.

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The tags usually don't bother me, but when they do (usually on shirt collars) I find it's a matter of the position and/or material used, which is more of a brand issue.

That brings up the opposite problem- people that cut the tags off. I buy much of my clothing from thrift shops, and it's a major annoyance not being able to check the size of a garment or the material used- some people do have allergies to certain stuff. Really, what's the damn issue here- Some Stranger may find out that you're NOT a Size "Petite"?

[c.d.]

Tags on clothes. They rub on your skin and are extremely irritating. If you try and remove them you usually end up with a hole in your clothes.

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[c.d.]

My last job with the Government required getting a security clearance. I had to fill out a form the length of War and Peace. They wanted to know if I ever had a lemonade stand when I was five years old. If so, I had to provide the names of five people, with their current addresses and phone numbers who could confirm that. Followed up by an interview conducted by an FBI agent. It was a giant pain in the behind.

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[Tani]

Job applications

Send your CV and a cover letter? ✗

Fill out a 40 page form with information that's already on your CV, remember bizarre things like where you lived when you were born ✓

[Ms Diddles]

And even THEN, some of them still keep pissing in the pool, until you fire a warning shot. .

I find an electrical appliance chucked into the pool at just the right moment puts a stop to that!

[C. F. Leon]

You have to learn how to speak your mind, C.F. and say how you really feel and not hold back like you do.

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Unfortunately, it's my experience that the damn kids don't get off the lawn until you actually yell at them. Some will if you ask them nicely, but nowadays, most of them don't until they actually see the shotgun. And even THEN, some of them still keep pissing in the pool, until you fire a warning shot.

I tell you, just TRY to keep a butterfly/hummingbird garden going nowadays. And forget about encouraging amphibians in the creek out back...