This was taken from Corrine at Skinned Cartree's idea: 20 things I hate.
I'll go with 10 things that annoy me.
This post is meant in jest but with a steel edge of truth and long-suffering...
Ahem...
1. "Can I go toilet please?" this question inordinately irritates me at school. No matter how busy I am or whatever I am in the middle of, I will correct children on this. It's MAY. And we have missed out the preposition TO and the definite article- THE! Sometimes they don't say please. That phrase is the holy trinity of annoying toilet requests...
2. Ground and floor being used indiscriminately in a sentence to describe the opposite surface. Ground=outside, floor=inside.
3. IT's NOT A XYLOPHONE.
Xylophones are made of wood!!!! Metallophones or vibraphones are made of metal and are big. Tiny-keyed instruments made of metal are GLOCKENSPIELS. Please do not call a metal instrument a xylophone- it is NOT!
4. Honey knives/spoons:
DO not leave your sticky honey knife on the wooden chopping board. See below*.
5. Large wooden chopping boards.
SOOOOOOO heavy, so awkward to lift, such a pain to wash, so long to dry. My husband loves his wooden chopping board. It's enormous. If HE's done the cooking, then I have to wash up. The chopping board will be covered in a layer of scum. Or bits of veg. Or covered in tomato juice. Or bread crumbs. CBC will leave the bread on the bread board and also see the above* I will have to strain my wrists picking up the enormous chopping board in order to empty debris into the bin or to wash it. It is too big for the draining board. I hate it.
(N.B. If I have cooked and CBC does the washing up, he will have the light Joseph Joseph folding chopping board to wash up. This is easy to wash up.)
6. Walking in a long line with a group and blocking the pavement.
LET ME PAST!!!!!!!!!!! I walk fast and you are essentially snails in human-costume! Teenagers are especially guilty of this AND large families with pushchairs!
7. The two pesky people who consistently get onto my second train in the morning before me and go to the back seats on the train and SIT ON THE OUTSIDE SEAT. That corner is where I want to snooze on the train. If you take those corners, APPRECIATE THEM! Sit IN the corner. DO not stop me from sitting there and sit on the OUTSIDE seat. There is NO ONE THERE next to you or opposite you- STOP being so greedy!
8. Spitting on the street. YOU are disgusting! If I am able to keep whatever is in my mouth that I am not enjoying until I can dispose of it discretely, then you can too!
9. Getting into bed with every day clothes on. Really can't stand this. PJs only. Sigh...
10. Song and piece being interchanged. If the music has a SINGER in it then it is a SONG - S for Singer, S for Song. If the music JUST has instruments playing in it, it is a PIECE. P for Piece, P for Playing!
Thursday, February 02, 2017
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Spitting absolutely appalls me, it's disgusting.
ReplyDeleteI hate it when people ruin a beauty spot by throwing cigarette butts on the floor. View. Bench. Cigarette butts. It's nasty.
Yes, that is another awful annoyance!!
DeleteOh Kezzie, I feel your pain with the chopping board, we have the same issue in our house, one day I may possibly kill husband because of crumbs on the chopping board!
ReplyDeleteOh thank you for telling me that!! I really thought it was just me!
DeleteI did not know the difference between a song and a piece! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteYou are welcome. I am very pedantic about it with my children.
DeleteHide that big chopping board under the bed, Bahhaha, or change the rules on wash duties..."You use it, you wash it".
ReplyDeleteI have way so many things that annoys me too and my husband is usually to blame, hahaha.
Hugs,
Julia
OK, take that "way" out. it's a typo.
DeleteJulia
I would love to change the rules but I suspect it wouldn't work!
DeleteI agree with you on all of these. I love my little wooden cutting board because it's so easy to wash. Your first complaint reminds me of a funny story. My girlfriend and I had plans to go out with another couple for dinner. Our friends have small children. As we were leaving their house to go to the restaurant, the wife said to the three of us "Does anyone need to go potty before we go?" After a second, she realized we are all adults and started profusely apologizing, but we were laughing so hard by then.
ReplyDeleteThat is hilarious!!!
DeleteI had a xylophone as a child, but I really never knew that the metal version was something else! Mostly agree with you on all the others, except that I love my big wooden pastry board - heaven help GM if he uses it as a chopping board though, although I think now after 30 years together he's got the message.It seems that the subtle difference between "can" and "may" has been lost, the one that really annoys me but no-one else seems to mind is the incorrect use of "shall" and "will" - I SHALL, YOU WILL.
ReplyDeleteI don't know that one. Does one never really say, "I will..."?
DeleteSome things are really annoying indeed. Blocking the pavement drives me nuts too.
ReplyDeleteI hate to see spitting.
ReplyDeleteIt also annoys me when people just drop litter.
All the best Jan
Thanks for sharing this Kezzie. As I was reading your lists of annoyances, I began thinking of what annoys me, which I may share later on my blog, but I'll share one right now. I can't stand the abbreviated word "Ok". I don't know why this annoys me but it really does. I refuse to spell it that way and will type out the whole word "Okay", even in text messages. I know it's really stupid but for a word that's only 4 letters, I just can't justify abbreviating it.
ReplyDeletethis is fun! But I can see how these tings annoy you, I think I nodded to most of them - I didn't know the Xylophone one, but I do now. Not that I talk about Xylophones a lot, but if I do :) ...
ReplyDeleteHAHA, you have some quirky pet hates! Song and piece? Ground and floor? Never heard this annoyances before :)
ReplyDeleteCorinne x
www.skinnedcartree.com
They certainly are. But annoyances tend to be like that.
DeleteI feel your pain with slow people and trains - those drive me mad too. I sense there's a story behind number 9 and am intrigued! X
ReplyDeleteThere is! I'm married to this problem.
DeleteOh dear, I think I'm guilty of the xylophone thing... I stand corrected! Totally with you on ground/floor though. See also: roof/ceiling, itch/scratch, lend/borrow...
ReplyDeleteLiz x
Distract Me Now Please
Can I go toilet. That made me laugh. I have a boy in my class this year who will then say 'can I though?' when I say no!
ReplyDeleteGood to get that off your chest I bet!
ReplyDeleteSpitting is disgusting, end of.
Thanks for thinking of me with regards to the polka dot jacket. I'm usually a 14 but not a petite.
Thanks again for the thought.
Lisa x
No.9 drives me crazy too but husband won't listen:)... better not to elaborate on other habits of his that annoy me lest it looks I'm too resentful- we all have our annoying habits, I'm sure I have mine too.
ReplyDeleteHowever, you've right about no.9...the clothes we wear outside contain all the germs from every place we sat on or rubbed against- so it is never ok to sit on a bed in those clothes, let alone lie in the bed fully dressed- but husbands don't listen.
I totally agree about no.1 as well. I always corrected students when they would ask me 'Can I go to the bathroom?'- but at least they didn't leave out the proposition 'to' and the definite article ( I only taught for a year but it was English so I felt I had to be firm about the whole may and can thing hence I always corrected them).
As an ex-classroom music teacher I feel your pain!!!! Jx
ReplyDeleteDon't get me started! Spitting really is the most annoying thing for me. So does littering. And throwing cigarette butts out of car windows. People who wear track suits "out of context". I don't like groups blocking the pavement either. And people who get on the bus before you have a chance to alight. I told you: don't get me started ... ;-)
ReplyDeleteI didn't know that about xylophones!
ReplyDeleteI don't agree that all of these things "shouldn't" annoy you. It is good for us humans to have standards of behavior such as not spitting on the street, for example. If societal rules break down and everyone thinks they should not care (i.e. be annoyed) - you know that things will get worse fast.
Of course, after being annoyed, you may have to forgive the person and hold your tongue, depending on who it is that is doing the annoying. But if it's a child, you really must teach them the right way, as you would do about the xylophone :-)
We used to get in trouble for asking "Can I go to the toilet" but I don't remember anybody ever dropping the preposition as well. Standards have clearly dropped ;-)
ReplyDeleteAargh, slow-moving people taking up the entire pavement are so annoying! Also people who block the entire aisle at the supermarket while they have a chat!