DAY NINE: PET PEEVES
Hah. This is just asking for my asshole/smart-ass self to come out… as if you haven’t already seen it, lol. I’ll just give you 10 to go on:
1) Pretentious/elitist commentary. If you go out of your way to correct someone mid-conversation, make them feel stupid about something they said, or else belittle their power to speak on a topic/have an honest (but non-derogatory) opinion of their own, then I have little patience for you.
2) Lip-smacking when eating.
3) PDA
4) Stomping on someone else’s words in order to make your own claim. This happens a lot on Tumblr in the form of reblogging a post completely unrelated to your own so that you can make an “I HATE THIS FOR THIS AND THAT REASON” post. Like… Just make your own post about your opinions without jabbing at someone else for no fucking reason.
5) Bad driving. To me, this often means “slow driving.”
6) The usual racist/chauvinist/inconsiderate/intolerant droll that everyone should hate. I’m in a biracial relationship, so I deal with that shit a lot and from various sides.
7) Being called “Sweetie” by older people (especially men) I don’t know. It’s not endearing; it’s condescending.
8) Brown-nosing. Or, you know, involving oneself in anything simply to get ahead/enhance a resume. I hate inauthenticity.
9) Uncleanliness. I’m not a neat freak by any leaps or bounds, but I can’t stand slobbery.
10) Couples who sit on the same side of a booth at a restaurant. To me it just seems like a reason for gross touching and shit. I mean, I want to engage my date with eye contact across the table—to talk and watch them, let them talk and watch my own body language. So….. I just don’t like it when couples do that. It’s probably the most random pet peeve I have (hence it being #10), ha).