Things that are currently driving me crazy:
*The loopholes in the Missouri no-call list. Why can radio station surveys call me? Why does the same survey call my husband 5 times in two days, ask him if he works for radio/tv/newspapers, asks his age, and then tells him thank you? Hangs up...and then calls again 4 hours later? Saying "please take me off your list I only listen to NPR" is met with "thank you for the information." I'm almost at the referee whistle stage, where I got with the asshole from AT&T who was trying to get me to come back to them. That involved arguments over things as far afield as the Red Cross and the Democratic Party.
*My children complaining about what they are given to eat at dinner. I lost it tonight. I put them both in the car, left Mike to wash up afterward, and lectured them the whole way to the grocery store and the whole way home. New rule: you whine about what you're served, and you go to bed. We talked about eating locally produced food, about insulting the farmers that grew it, about how we cannot live on hot dogs and french fries. When did they become such spoiled brats? It was not a good evening.
*Friends who never call or answer emails after they get married, even though after Mike and I got married, our relationship with them, single, continued at the same pace. I wonder sometimes if they notice our absence. I wonder if they care. I wonder if I just have some strange sort of marriage that needs outside contact.
*People who assume I agree with them about this, because I agree with them about that. Like, just because my daughter is in Irish Dance with your son does not mean I have your political preferences.
*That guy who sits in for Diane Rehm and interrupts people. He makes me crazy.
*People who walk three abreast on a city sidewalk. Hello, the sidewalk is a two-way path and you've taken all of it. And the guy behind you is considering jumping into traffic to pass you.
I think the pregnancy is starting to bug me. Short fuse.
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I think all of those are perfectly valid complaints, and I'm not pregnant.
The corollary to the People Who Assume You Share All of Their Beliefs: yes, I support public education as a necessity for our society. yes, I think our local government's propensity to do whatever big companies/rich people tell them to is disturbing. No, I don't want my kids starring in an Obama commercial ...
etc.
Agree, agree, agree....
But I don't assume that we agree on everything!
I call it grumpy old woman syndrome as I increasingly suffer from this, but as you seem neither grumpy nor old, maybe I shouldn't label myself a grumpy old woman either?
PS A marriage which allows the participants to have outside contact is in my view a HEALTHY marriage/
Man, people are annoying. Have an award.
I mostly get grumpy about the woman with the book cart at my local K-Mart who is obsessed with sales pressure...she scares me...
I think pregnancy is a good time to make all this known. People seldom like to argue with pregnant women. (How's that for a gross generalization?)
I was just telling Bob how glad I was that Susan Page (I think) was sitting in today b/c the interrupting guy drives me crazy. But so does Don Marsh. Does he know that a Talk Show is not supposed to be just him talking?
And I agree about the married friends, too. Weird, isn't it?
Susan Page does do a better job than he does. Don Marsh makes me crazy too...I miss Mike Sampson so much--it's 4years this January since he died. Sigh.
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