Annoyances - A Little About Me

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This is not a rant or a vent, this is pulling back the curtain a little bit into who I am. This time it's about annoyances. We all have them, the pet peeves that really push our buttons and make us want to scream. I'm going to start with the world of fashion. My first annoyance would be peddle pushers. For those of you too young to know what those are, they're capris or glorified peddle pushers. They're too short for long pants and too long for shorts and totally disgusting. My mother made me wear them when I was a kid. My next annoyance in the fashion world is saddle shoes. They must be the ugliest shoes ever made. I had no choice but to wear them in fourth grade. If you're too young to know what they are, they're black and white shoes. The black goes across the top of the foot, saddle style. Next comes high water clothes whether pants, skirts or dresses. If they are supposed to go to the floor but fail, they are high water not to be confused with peddle pushers which were designed that way. I like my clothes to fit to the floor, not above the floor or too long that I'm stepping on them. That brings me to the next fashion no-no. Clothes that are too long you're stepping on them. It makes it very hard to walk that way. Truly annoying and what a good needle and thread will easily fix or turn up the cuff. Another annoyance I have is I only get dressed once a day. What I put on in the morning, I take off at night. I don't change my clothes multiple times a day, not even when I worked. I'm the one doing the laundry, so one set of clothes per day. I made that clear to my children while they were growing up too. I don't know if they've carried on with that tradition. Now, let's leave the area of clothes and fashion. Books. I absolutely hate turning the corner of the page or setting the book with it open face down, though I confess, I'm guilty of that one when I can't find a bookmark. I do my best to have a bookmark handy when I'm reading. I never ever corner a page. I see people do that and it's like claws on a chalkboard. Totally annoying. Being late. It's not in my vocabulary. I'm early. Though I admit to being late on a few occasions and none of them was my fault. Trains and boats were usually to blame. Being late is annoying and makes you breathless as you hurry to get where you're going. Trains and boats. We have three drawbridges in Green Bay. Trains and boats can hold you up for longer than I want to wait, but wait I must as it's always on the route I need to take to get where I'm going. Trains always have the knack of stopping before it's fully gone through and that wait can seem like an eternity. I don't mind when I'm not in a hurry to get anywhere, but when I'm on my way to church on Sunday morning and there isn't usually a train at that time, and there is one, it's annoying. Boats - coal boats to be precise. They're very long. They put up two drawbridges at a time. That's how close those bridges are to one another. It can take fifteen minutes for a boat to go through one of those bridges. Also annoying. I have no control over trains and boats, so I wait. I count the train cars if I see the engine when the bar goes down in front of me and I look at my watch every few seconds until the last car has gone past. I'll watch the progress of the boat as it makes its way through the two bridges, also looking at my watch every few minutes. When you're not used to being late for anything, it's annoying how long even a few minutes can be. I remember getting home seconds before an appointment showed up to install my cable. That was a couple of years ago and I no longer have cable, only the Internet. Cold drinks. Yes, you read that right. I don't like anything cold. No ice in my drinks. It goes back to when I had teeth and one of them hurt to the max when anything cold hit it. Since that time, I've drunk everything room temperature and prefer it that way. No ice, please. I'm sure there are many more annoyances, like the person who can't keep quiet but rambles on and on and on. So that I'm not annoying, I'll close this now, finish up the notifications that came in while I wrote this, and then get on with my book which I want to work on today. I have a confrontational scene to write. And yes, that's another annoyance. I hate confrontation. What are your annoyances? Thanks for reading. The image belongs to me.