Stuff That Ticks Me Off

I’m not exactly sure why I felt the urge to write a blog post today about stuff that ticks me off, but sometimes a girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do, right? It occurred to me that I get ticked off over a lot of things that JUST SHOULDN’T MATTER! But I’m not sure what to really do about that. I mean, you feel what you feel.

Here’s something that ticks me off about myself…I hold others to higher standards than I hold myself. I know…it’s a double standard and it’s hypocritical (just keepin’ it real, y’all). Let me give you an example: say for instance someone calls me out for something and they’re right…that just ticks me off, even though I know I would have done the same thing.

It ticks me off when a store tells me that their bathroom is “out of order”. Yeah, right. Okay, it’s not like I’m in the store looking like a bag lady. I’m always well dressed, hair fixed, makeup on. Many years ago (and I wouldn’t do this now because it’s dishonest), a store really annoyed me when they said their bathroom was out of order. I said, “I just want to wash my hands.” No…the sink didn’t work either. I SO did not believe them. A few days later, I called the store and told them that the Department of Health had received a complaint that they did not have a working restroom for their customers, which was against the law. I have no idea if that was even true. I was young and stupid. However…two days after that I visited the store again and asked to use the restroom. It had miraculously been restored. I’m not sure why I decided that I was the bathroom police, but there you go.

It ticks me off when store managers are ignorant about their coupon policies. Even when you show them their own coupon policy and they still don’t get it. That REALLY ticks me off and I want to call corporate and tell them I will be happy to teach a coupon class for their managers.

It ticks me off when people use bad grammar then try to redirect your attention away from it. Example: for mothers day I noticed a TON of people posting “Have a great day to all of the Mother’s out there” (or similar). Mothers should not have an apostrophe. So I ‘educated’ everyone about the use of apostrophes in this case. I didn’t call anyone out – just a general post. You would not believe how many people were irritated with ME! Really? So you actually WANT to sound ignorant? Fine. I guess I’m the grammar police in my mind, too.

It REALLY ticks me off when people give me stupid excuses. I feel as though they’re saying, “You know, I’m going to give you this really dumb excuse because I think you’re stupid enough to believe it.” Grrrr. My preference? Just be honest with me. You don’t want to come to my party? Just say, “I’m just not in the mood.” Or whatever. I’m perfectly fine with that. I am not perfectly fine when you indicate to me that you think I’m stupid enough to buy your flimsy excuse. Don’t do it.

It ticks me off when people in the Facebook groups that I’m in complain about not having the money to buy groceries, pay rent, buy medicine, etc. And then a day later on their page you see that they’re planning a family vacay to Disney. Enough said. Maybe the mouse will give you money. Word for the day: Priorities.

People who play on tablets when they should be interacting with family. That bugs me. I mean literally sitting in the same room while others are conversing and interacting and adults are glued to a tablet. Am I the only one that finds that fairly rude?

And here’s what probably ticks me off the most. That I actually spent valuable time writing this.