A different sort of slant on a survey. This time it's not a list of FAVORITE stuff, but a list of HATED stuff...
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FRUIT: Canteloupe.
CANDY: Whoa... candy corn is pretty heinous
BEVERAGE: Probably Sprite. Who in the heck likes this vaguely lemony, syrupy crap that you can still taste and feel three hours later?
COLOR: Tan
TOWN/CITY: Oh... none really, though Danbury, TX holds a special place in my mind...
MOVIE: Any disease of the week TV flick
ASPECT OF MYSPACE: Myspace is awfully damn clunky and bug-ridden. A full third of my clicks result in errors. And navigation isn't particularly smooth or well thought-out.
ASPECT OF INSTANT MESSENGER: Not enough people on it!
ANIMAL: Possums kinda piss me off
INSECT: Fleas. We had an infestation in our sunroom some years back. This was an isolated room with no animals or humans spending significant time in there, no carpet... it was a concrete floor, one brick wall, and three walls that were mostly glass. Why in the WORLD did they set up camp in there?
BIRD: Crows.
SEASON: Winter. Being cold is not funny.
AGE OF KIDS: Whoa, hey now, I'm a parent. Ask me again when one of 'em hits puberty.
...WHAT ANNOYS YOU MORE THAN ANYTHING WHEN...
DRIVING: Rainy weather, and some pseudo-bubba driving his Ford F-350 is doing 80 on the freeway and can't be bothered to take one pinky off the steering wheel to make his random lane-changes from 10 feet behind people's rear bumpers the LEAST bit clear by, say, using the signal on that ozone chewing piece of shit. That end of the gene pool is shallow but wide, awful damn wide.
TALKING ON THE PHONE: There are a ton to choose from, but let me say that I'm stunned at how quickly people are to, say, interrupt a meal with their family to take a phone call. If I'm eating supper with my kids or tucking them in or something, I won't answer the phone. There is no reason to. What I'm currently doing is more important. The phone can wait.
WATCHING TV OR MOVIES: I... I... don't get me started about TV.
EATING IN RESTAURANTS: Now that my kids are old enough to sort of behave I'm fine. I DID really hate the days when most of my time was spent walking angry todders/infants up and down the sidewalks in front of Tarrant County's finer eating establishments.
GOING THROUGH DRIVE-THRUS: They f*ck up your order. Really. Most of the time, it's wrong.
YOU'RE AT THE MALL: The number of cart vendors who approach you, aggressively hawking sunglasses or nail buffers or some other crap.
SLEEPING: Generally I sleep well, though last night I slept in a bad position and really jacked up this iffy shoulder of mine. Dang.
YOU'RE AT THE BEACH: Glass in the sand. People can be such idiots.
YOU'RE AT THE GROCERY: The people who take their 50% of the aisle outta the middle. "Say lady... any chance I can get AROUND you while you're comparing costs on store brand versus Reynolds brand aluminum foil?"
YOU'RE ON A DATE: When she says, "You're only 22? My last boyfriend was 40--you're such a baby!" Of course, I stuck around and we've been married for 13 years.
COOKING OR BAKING: Just that I suck at it.
WHAT HOUSEHOLD CHORE DO YOU HATE THE MOST? Anything to do with clogged toilets.
WHAT DO YOU THINK WOULD BE THE ABSOLUTE WORST WAY TO DIE? Watching Everybody Loves Raymond in my boxer shorts, eating sour cream 'n' onion Pringles.
WHAT'S THE MOST ANNOYING HABIT IN OTHERS? Talking too much and listening too little.
WHAT IS YOUR WORST HABIT? Probably this cloud of comfortable oblivion I float around on.
WHAT FASHION TREND (PAST OR PRESENT): You know, I still say the French pedicure is just awful looking. I mean... your damn toenails have grown too long so you paint the crap that should've been trimmed off? It always makes the feet look like claws.
WHAT POPULAR SONG (PAST OR PRESENT): Look, if I stood in the middle of a CD store using a fire hose, pretty much anything touched by a drop of water would piss me off.
WORST OR MOST HATED PICKUP LINE: "Hey, why don't ya sit on my lap and we'll talk about the first thing that pops up?"
WORST THING ABOUT HIGH SCHOOL: Freshman year.
MOST IRRITATING THING ABOUT YOUR CAR: The battery connectors that don't tighten enough. But I bought new ones and will fix this weekend.
TO BE COMPLETELY STEREOTYPICAL, WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE MOST ANNOYING THING ABOUT GIRLS? Eh.... I can't stoop to that, though I am convinced that for some reason they actually do operate on chocolate.
TO BE COMPLETELY STEREOTYPICAL, WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE MOST ANNOYING THING ABOUT GUYS? Their GUYNESS. Holy crap, just this year I've been exposed to guys who chest-thump (ie want to fight) over NOTHING. Or how about the ENGAGED jerk I had lunch with in Phoenix who nevertheless hit on a girl at the next table ("You have the most incredible eyes...")...?
WHAT'S ANNOYING YOU TODAY? This calf injury and some strange tingling in my neck.
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FRUIT: Canteloupe.
CANDY: anything sour. Who wants to eat sour candy?
BEVERAGE: Plain old milk. Never drink it.
COLOR: I am still haunted by a Halloween orange bridesmaid dress that was supposedly going to be 'coral.' Nobody should have to wear orange formal attire.
TOWN/CITY: Graham, Texas. Spent 8 hours in a car with my crabby two-year-old to attend a relative's wedding. Oh, and I was pregnant to boot.
MOVIE: Deliverance has never done anything special for me.
ASPECT OF MYSPACE: Don't do myspace.
ASPECT OF INSTANT MESSENGER: Don't do this either.
ANIMAL: Lately it's been mice.
INSECT: Texas big-as-your toddler cockroaches
BIRD: Crows.
SEASON: Winter. Being cold is not funny.
AGE OF KIDS: I'm not too fond of the toddler years....
WHAT ANNOYS YOU MORE THAN ANYTHING WHEN...
DRIVING: People tailgating me
TALKING ON THE PHONE: Call waiting. We have this but I seldom use it because it is rude.
WATCHING TV OR MOVIES: don't know.
EATING IN RESTAURANTS: Waiting forever for our food when the kids are with us.
GOING THROUGH DRIVE-THRUS: They f*ck up your order. Really. Most of the time, it's wrong.
YOU'RE AT THE MALL: Our mall has cart vendors selling makeup on one end and some other crap at the other. I was approached by the same guy twice in one mall trip.
SLEEPING: My toddler has one of her unexplained wake up and scream all night episodes.
YOU'RE AT THE BEACH: Glass in the sand. People can be such idiots.
YOU'RE AT THE GROCERY: I hate everything about grocery shopping.
YOU'RE ON A DATE: The couple we rode with got in a huge fight.
COOKING OR BAKING: When I realize I am missing an ingredient.
WHAT HOUSEHOLD CHORE DO YOU HATE THE MOST? Laundry
WHAT DO YOU THINK WOULD BE THE ABSOLUTE WORST WAY TO DIE? If there's any throwing up involved...
WHAT'S THE MOST ANNOYING HABIT IN OTHERS? People who spend too much time talking about themselves.
WHAT IS YOUR WORST HABIT? Crabbiness
WHAT FASHION TREND (PAST OR PRESENT): Neon clothing
WHAT POPULAR SONG (PAST OR PRESENT): Anything by Michael Bolton
WORST OR MOST HATED PICKUP LINE: I have virtually no experience with this. Men were never rushing to flirt with me. It's a wonder I found Ed and got married!
WORST THING ABOUT HIGH SCHOOL: Mrs. French's Chemistry class.
MOST IRRITATING THING ABOUT YOUR CAR: The side airbag light periodically goes on for no reason and I have to take it to the dealer to be reset.
TO BE COMPLETELY STEREOTYPICAL, WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE MOST ANNOYING THING ABOUT GIRLS? Preoccupation with appearance.
TO BE COMPLETELY STEREOTYPICAL, WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE MOST ANNOYING THING ABOUT GUYS? I don't know about all guys, but Eddie operates in a constant state of confusion. I don't get how he can STILL not know what time the kids get out of school.
WHAT'S ANNOYING YOU TODAY? That I have to babysit a kid for the night tomorrow, and the fact that my house is a wreck.
FRUIT: Canteloupe.
CANDY: Anything with coconut in it.
BEVERAGE: I had a taste of whiskey once that I thought was the worst tasting anything I'd ever tried.
COLOR: Urine yellow
TOWN/CITY: I haven't traveled enough to really say. Though I can't say I had much good to say about Houston once I left it.
MOVIE: Ghosts of Mars
ASPECT OF MYSPACE: The search function bites pretty hard.
ASPECT OF INSTANT MESSENGER: I've never used it.
ANIMAL: Party animals irritate me.
INSECT: Ticks. Thank goodness they're not common in urban areas.
BIRD: Grackles.
SEASON: Winter. I hate being even remotely cold.
AGE OF KIDS: Good question. Ask me again after I've watched my niece and nephew get to 18.
...WHAT ANNOYS YOU MORE THAN ANYTHING WHEN...
DRIVING: People who drive as if totally oblivious to the fact that there are other people on the road, no matter the driving conditions.
TALKING ON THE PHONE: I'm not crazy about talking on the phone in any case, so I don't really know what annoys me the most.
WATCHING TV OR MOVIES: TV: The commercials. Movies: They're invariably too damn long these days. Both: The constant feeling that (a) what you're watching has been done before, better, in another medium and (b) my intelligence is being insulted.
EATING IN RESTAURANTS: Indifferent service and cold food. (Sorry, I had both last night.)
GOING THROUGH DRIVE-THRUS: I went through a drive-through for the first time in YEARS on Sunday (a Starbucks) and waddaya know...they fucked up the order.
YOU'RE AT THE MALL: I'm never at the mall.
SLEEPING: When I can't sleep through the night, which is all the time. When I have a screwy dream and don't feel rested when I get up. Which is also all the time.
YOU'RE AT THE BEACH: I don't go to the beach if I can avoid it.
YOU'RE AT THE GROCERY: People who hold a place in line for someone still shopping.
YOU'RE ON A DATE: Trying to determine how much of my natural personality to let out of the cage.
COOKING OR BAKING: Working with an oven that cooks faster than normal, making the cooking times listed in the recipes meaningless.
WHAT HOUSEHOLD CHORE DO YOU HATE THE MOST? Laundry.
WHAT DO YOU THINK WOULD BE THE ABSOLUTE WORST WAY TO DIE? Fighting in a pointless, unwinnable war to satisfy a vacationing politician's stubborn whims.
WHAT'S THE MOST ANNOYING HABIT IN OTHERS? Thinking I have any interest whatsoever in how fucked up their lives are.
WHAT IS YOUR WORST HABIT? Being almost totally self-absorbed, and thus missing a lot of the nuances in what people say and do to me.
WHAT FASHION TREND (PAST OR PRESENT): Hell if I know. Corduroy pants?
WHAT POPULAR SONG (PAST OR PRESENT): It would take me a year to list them all.
WORST OR MOST HATED PICKUP LINE: Dunno. Nobody's ever tried to pick me up.
WORST THING ABOUT HIGH SCHOOL: Being there.
MOST IRRITATING THING ABOUT YOUR CAR: I'm actually pretty happy with my current car.
TO BE COMPLETELY STEREOTYPICAL, WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE MOST ANNOYING THING ABOUT GIRLS? They really do all seem to take fashion much too seriously. I've actually had one say to me, on a freezing cold day, "I can't wear my coat - it doesn't match my outfit!"
TO BE COMPLETELY STEREOTYPICAL, WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE MOST ANNOYING THING ABOUT GUYS? Their obliviousness to anything but their own interests and desires. And yes, I'm quite guilty of this.
WHAT'S ANNOYING YOU TODAY? The fact that the bottoms of my feet constantly hurt.
Michael
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