Several small things have irritated me this past week:
People on cell phones while driving cars. It amazes me how people are slaves to their phones such that they have to be on them all the time. If I ever see someone driving erratically, or making sudden lane changes or turns, 99% of the time the person is on their cell phone. Someone about careened into me the other day while doing a three lane change left turn. I ended up next to the person and as it happened their window was down and I proceeded to ask them if they were born a moron or if talking on the phone instantly turned them into one. Needless to say, my question was not met with a friendly answer.
People who turn when I clearly have the turn signal and the right of way. Traffic laws are not difficult. They are actually based on common sense. The same with people who cannot function at a four way stop or roundabout. Argh.
Fat and/or lazy people who ride escalators and do not walk up them, or fat and/or lazy people who go up or down one floor on an elevator. Maybe you wouldn't be fat and/or lazy if you walked up the escalator or took the stairs.
There is a contract attorney at one of my jobs who is a sidler. You know, the kind of people that no matter where you go or what you are doing, without warning all of a sudden they are there. And he wears the same thing every day, which is just bizarre.
My neighbor next door slams her front door whenever she enters or leaves. Our doors are very heavy and basically shake the building if you do not gently close them. I have asked her several times not to slam the door as it generally wakes me up, since she comes in from work well after I have gone to bed.
There is also a downstairs neighbor and his wife who have a dog that looks like a cross between a collie and a german shepherd. The dog only likes them and growls and makes aggressive noises towards any other person. It is so menacing that the owner never takes the dog in the elevator and has it on a very short leash to keep it from going after someone. I was in the stairwell the other day and saw him coming down one of the hallways with the dog. He saw me through the glass window, and instead of waiting for me to continue down the stairs and away from them, he came right out and followed close on my heels all the while the dog is growling and straining at the leash. My worry is if one day he slips and the dog gets loose and attacks someone. As I was trying to get out of the way, I sort of snapped at him and told him to back off that I didn't like his dog. He just looked at me like I was insane. If you have a dog that is that unsocialized you do not need to be living in a condo complex, you need a house where the dog cannot attack someone.
That is enough for now. I just wanted to get some things off my chest. Ahhhhh. Peace and calm.
I have a thing for cats. And I have a thing for Star Wars. Put the two together...heaven!
Lyrics That Are Rattling Around My Brain
"I’m gonna take a stab at this
Surely we’ll be alright
Make a decision with a kiss
Maybe I have frostbite
And when I shuffled on back home
I made sure all my tracks in the snow were gone
Tissue and bone it was a tryst
This isn’t a gunfight
Checking it off of my list
Unable to write
Five years, countless months and a loan
Hope I’m ready, able to make my own, good home"
Grizzly Bear
"Ready, Able"
"Don't speak to me this way
Don't ever let me say
Don't leave me again
I never felt this loss before
And the world is closing doors
I never wanted anything more.
Don't hurt me this way
Don't touch me this way
Don't hurt me again"
Moby
"Mistake"
"When the world is a monster
Bad to swallow you whole
Kick the clay that holds the teeth in
Throw your trolls out the door
If you're needing inspiration
Philomath is where I go
Lawyer Jeff he knows the low-down
He's mighty bad to visit home"
R.E.M.
"Can't Get There From Here"
"Surrender your heart to me
Surrender your heart to me
Surrender your heart why can't you see
It's the only way that it can be
Surrender your heart I don't know why
But you never give in to me"
Missing Persons
"Surrender Your Heart"
"You're the one who told me
You're the one who told me what to say
Would you come and hold me?
Would you come and show me right away?
Cause I'm gone
Cause I'm gone"
Dinosaur Jr.
"I Don't Wanna Go There"
Appealing Things:
80 degree high temperatures in Atlanta in the middle of July
Mountain biking
Bears
Rock Band
Woof's
Annoying Things:
Cell phone companies
My doctor's office staff who are rude
Working two jobs and putting in 80 hours a week
People who type loudly
Not having universal health care
i am okay with escalator standers if they follow the "stand right, walk left" rule. i try to take the stairs or at least walk the escalator since i believe in little habits adding up but admit sometimes i'm lazy (though often it is b/c i'm sore from the gym).
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