Day 46 Pet Peeves
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tripperfunsterOkay, not racism or really hurty things that horrible people do, but what are some teeth grinding things that you have to deal with on a daily basis?
Here's some of mine, categorized for your convenience.
Work
I own a pet store that buys new and used items. Often times people will bring in say, a ten gallon fish tank set up, with the lids and filters etc and I have to look through everything (and plug in the plug-inny things to make sure they work,) before I can decide what I can pay for the items. Now, this is not rocket science. I've owned a pet store for 15 years, I have a few more years experience at other stores, and an assload of my OWN experience too. Time after time after fucking time, when I'm going through these EXTREMELY MUNDANE AND TOTALLY BEGINNER HOBBYIST type things, the person selling the stuff feels the need to man-splain them to me. "That's the filter! It hangs on the back!" That's a siphon, you use it to drain the tank." and on and on. OMG!!!!!! This would seriously be like taking your car to the mechanic and saying "That's the steering wheel. You use it to steer the car. Those are the tires, the car ROLLS AROUND ON THEM."
There are certainly things I don't know, but chances are I AM FAMILIAR WITH YOUR SHITTY TEN GALLON STARTER KIT ITEMS. (can you tell that this happened to me AGAIN today???)
Home
Toilet paper. For reals. Am I the only human in this entire house who is capable of putting a roll of toilet paper ON THE ROLLER THINGIE? I think I am.
Out in public
Spitting. Gross. Unless a spider just flew into your mouth, you have no reason to spit in public. Ever.
fic
Kittens. I don't know why, but I've read enough bad "Harry and Draco get a kitten together" type fics (insert whichever characters here, but generally not kitten owning type people) that I just FLY BY that fic without ever clicking ever. I'm sure there are some GREAT 'kitten' fics out there, but I will just have to take your word for it.
Tell me what picks YOUR ass.
Here's some of mine, categorized for your convenience.
Work
I own a pet store that buys new and used items. Often times people will bring in say, a ten gallon fish tank set up, with the lids and filters etc and I have to look through everything (and plug in the plug-inny things to make sure they work,) before I can decide what I can pay for the items. Now, this is not rocket science. I've owned a pet store for 15 years, I have a few more years experience at other stores, and an assload of my OWN experience too. Time after time after fucking time, when I'm going through these EXTREMELY MUNDANE AND TOTALLY BEGINNER HOBBYIST type things, the person selling the stuff feels the need to man-splain them to me. "That's the filter! It hangs on the back!" That's a siphon, you use it to drain the tank." and on and on. OMG!!!!!! This would seriously be like taking your car to the mechanic and saying "That's the steering wheel. You use it to steer the car. Those are the tires, the car ROLLS AROUND ON THEM."
There are certainly things I don't know, but chances are I AM FAMILIAR WITH YOUR SHITTY TEN GALLON STARTER KIT ITEMS. (can you tell that this happened to me AGAIN today???)
Home
Toilet paper. For reals. Am I the only human in this entire house who is capable of putting a roll of toilet paper ON THE ROLLER THINGIE? I think I am.
Out in public
Spitting. Gross. Unless a spider just flew into your mouth, you have no reason to spit in public. Ever.
fic
Kittens. I don't know why, but I've read enough bad "Harry and Draco get a kitten together" type fics (insert whichever characters here, but generally not kitten owning type people) that I just FLY BY that fic without ever clicking ever. I'm sure there are some GREAT 'kitten' fics out there, but I will just have to take your word for it.
Tell me what picks YOUR ass.
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Date: 2012-07-08 04:12 am (UTC)The streetcar driver in the morning that waits until the bus has just pulled in (but not offloaded yet), to close his door and pull away. I see you, fucker. We're going to have words at some point, because it's happened no less than twelve times.
My brother.
Lastly, fics where Severus and/or Harry are in character right up until they bang uglies and then are FULL of 'I love yous, this will last forever and ever, and you're the only one for me'. WTF. No. A more appropriate afterglow statement for them is 'this is my side of the bed, you little twerp' or some variation of that. I may have to write that.
Also, you definitely should start saying 'Oh really! Thank god you told me, I thought it was part of a bong.'
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Date: 2012-07-08 04:20 am (UTC)Or, at least, what magazine ads would have me believe what a penis enlarger looks like. It never fails to crack me up when someone walks by a shelf, sees one and starts to snicker. ;)