My Pet Peeves

My last blog post was definitely too cheerful and Mormon, so I'm going to take a page from Laura Taylor and make this my "angry blog," just for today, and talk about all the things that annoy me. Really, if you think about it, this post is a "how-to" guide for not making me hate you. So here, in no particular order, are some rants about some of my big pet peeves:

1. It's spelled "definitely." Every email program in the world has spell check; there's no excuse for "definately." Add other awful misspellings and grammatical flops to this point as well--especially using subject pronouns as prepositional objects (e.g. "Kim went to the store with he and I.")
2. Put the lid to the toilet down! There's a lid for a reason, and that reason is so all of your toilet germs don't get all over the bathroom and on my toothbrush.
3. When you step onto the train, don't just stand there in the doorway. People have to get in behind you. And while we're on the subject, if you're not on the train when the doors start closing, you're not going to get on the train. All that's going to happen is that the overly-possessive train operator is going to yell at you for holding up the train full of people.
4. Walk on the left side of the escalator; stand on the right.
5. Charlie Sheen. I hate him. I don't hate many people, but I hate Charlie Sheen. I don't think he should get any attention at all. I actually hate myself a little for mentioning him in my blog.
6. Reset the microwave when you take your food out! I don't know how many times I've freaked out because I momentarily mistook the amount of time remaining on someone's breakfast burrito for the actual time.
7. I really can't stand when I'm in a seminar/lecture/family home evening lesson which has already gone way too long and am forced to sit still during someone's extremely tangential question for the lecturer/teacher. Just go up and ask your question privately while everyone else is eating their cookies.
8. If you're in the library computer lab and there aren't any free computers, you'd better not be on facebook. If you're the reason that I can't get on the computer, you'd better be doing something insanely academically important...or reading my blog.

Do I really only have eight things? Maybe I'm just in a charitable mood today. I did eat an awesome hot dog at UBurger (spoiler alert: anytime I use the word "UBurger" in a sentence, the word "awesome" will also be in that sentence). And then I bought yarn, and the guy working at the yarn store was pretty cute. On the home front, my roommate Sheena bequeathed me her mattress and box spring that she no longer needs because she's married (yay!) and for some reason no longer needs a twin bed...this will be the first time in over two years that I've slept on a mattress that couldn't double as a life raft. Also, the "Drain Doctor" (that's what he's called, really) is doing his magic in the bathroom right now, and with hope there won't be any puddles in the shower tonight.