It's possible that I'm cranky. Okay, it's probable that I'm cranky. And in my crankiness I may be a bit less tolerant than my normally sunny tolerant less cranky personality allows me to be. I feel like I have extreme aggravation on speed dial. Things that would normally merely annoy me are driving me bats. The kind of bats that makes me want to throw things. Things like rocks.
But because I don't to set a bad example for my children, I've decided to throw a few metaphorical rocks instead.
My Targets
1. The medical and scientific community - why hasn't the treatment for carpal tunnel syndrome changed in twenty years? Everything else has. Oh, and an extra rock for Dr.Coven who implied that I was being whiny when I mentioned the carpal tunnel, exhaustion and heartburn I've been experiencing lately.
2. People who send me emails with ridiculous political or medical allegations without doing any research on them. It's not really hard to check Snopes.com or Truth in Politics, you know? Or if you don't want to research it, don't freaking send it to me. Because I WILL check and I WILL reply.
(PS If you receive the one that makes false allegations about Obama and is supposedly written by NYT columnist Maureen Dowd, delete it. Definitely fake.)
3. Parents who don't allow their children to grow up - have you heard about the parents of college kids who give them wake-up calls, argue with their professors about their grades and confront their roommates for them? Do you want any of these kids to be your doctor, lawyer or child's teacher someday?
4. Whoever brought high waist pants back. Because those pants just look ugly.
5. The reality "stars" on VH1's show "I Love Money" and the producers paying them. Their time is up. Let them crawl back into their trashy lives where they belong.
6. Everyone who speeds on my cul-de-sac. Where the fuck do you think you're going to go?
7. The Travel Channel. Because The World Series of Poker, while on the channel practically every night, is not a travel show.
8. Politicians who are pro-life but vote against expanding health care for kids, day care vouchers, sex education, tax breaks for lower middle class families and everything else that will help after the children are born.
9. My dryer. The buzzing noise it makes to signal that it's done is the most grating noise I've ever heard - and that includes when both of my children are whining.
10. Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly. Because people actually take them seriously.
Anything/one you'd like to throw a rock at?
12 comments:
Here's a good one that I'm experiencing today: Coworkers coming back from maternity leave and droning on and on about how hard it is for them as if they are the only person in the world that has had to go through this. This is especially annoying when you yourself just came back from maternity leave a few months earlier and they didn't even have the decency to ask you how your baby is doing. In summary - narcissistic people.
I am so with you on the cul-de-sac one (as well as others). We are on a 5 house cul-de-sac. I just don't get why anyone would go more than 15mph on it or so. It's about 300 ft from start to finish. I'm no math major, but hell even you are doing 80mpg you are gonna save, what, 3 seconds?
There is a supervisor at my work that is such a sorry ass excuse for a manager. She lets her personal feelings determine how she's going to manage someone. She also made a negative comment about an employee that's deceased, hmm...I could go on an on but you get the point. She sucks major ass!
My air conditioner. Because it broke.
There aren't enough rocks.
UGH on #2 and 3. My dad actually had a mom call him to set up a job interview for her college-graduate son!
Have you got a wrist splint for the carpal tunnel? I was lucky enough to work at a doctor's office that also had physical therapy while I was pregnant, so the PT hooked me up with splints. I still get little spurts of pain in my wrists and I wear the splints while I'm sleeping for a few nights and then its gone for a couple of months. If you don't have any, ask your doctor! They really do help!
you are entitled to whine and throw rocks, especially at the dr. who said you were being whiny!! I've got lots of rock throwing I'd like to do...
Jen - Oh, I dealt with that when I was teaching. Ugh.
Becky - You want me to kick his ass?
Mike - LOVE that Carlin quote.
Wordvixen - What a horrible story! Rocks are too good for those people.
Worker Mommy - Yuck. Two rocks for her.
Jen in MI - How about a bomb for the people who created No Child Left Behind?
Leslie - Yikes! That stinks.
Jess - Grenades, then?
Reiza - Oh, I hope you don't have to spend a lot of time with your brother in law!
Jenni - That is frightening. I feel sorry for his future wife.
Karly - I'm going to have to buy one . ..I was just hoping there was something else - I hated wearing it when I was preggers with Ironflower.
Silken - Thank you! And I'll share my rocks with you.
Jen - Oh, I dealt with that when I was teaching. Ugh.
Becky - You want me to kick his ass?
Mike - LOVE that Carlin quote.
Wordvixen - What a horrible story! Rocks are too good for those people.
Worker Mommy - Yuck. Two rocks for her.
Jen in MI - How about a bomb for the people who created No Child Left Behind?
Leslie - Yikes! That stinks.
Jess - Grenades, then?
Reiza - Oh, I hope you don't have to spend a lot of time with your brother in law!
Jenni - That is frightening. I feel sorry for his future wife.
Karly - I'm going to have to buy one . ..I was just hoping there was something else - I hated wearing it when I was preggers with Ironflower.
Silken - Thank you! And I'll share my rocks with you.
you are entitled to whine and throw rocks, especially at the dr. who said you were being whiny!! I've got lots of rock throwing I'd like to do...
UGH on #2 and 3. My dad actually had a mom call him to set up a job interview for her college-graduate son!
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