Pet Peeves

For the last few days, I have been making notes of my pet peeves - things that annoy me about people, particular uncomfortable situations or just general frustrating things that happen in life - with the idea of combining them all to make this blog post. What I have noticed is that as I have written each thing down, I have not been annoyed, as I am when that thing actually happens in real life, but instead have just found the situation funny and have even enjoyed this blog post preparation!  This is a perfect example of how much blogging can be a kind of therapy and beneficial to mental health! Just getting these grievances written down, putting them out there and getting them out of my head, helps me so much to deal with them and get over them.  Of course, I wish I could be the kind of person who never wastes their time getting annoyed by such petty trifles... but do those kind of people exist?!

Hopefully, after publishing this blog post, next time any of these things happen to me, I will not be annoyed or in a bad mood about it, but will just be able to smile and move on.  If you find that you are also affected by any of these things, or others, why not also try writing them down.

 I also wanted to note that, most of the time, I feel very lucky in my life and for all that I have.  Even to be able to write a blog post about stupid things that annoy me is a privilege.  But sometimes, as I am sure we can all agree, it is difficult to remember this, and we have to be able to just be annoyed without feeling guilty. 

 So here they are, 25 of my pet peeves.

  1. When a barista puts cocoa on my coffee without asking.  I HATE cocoa on my coffee.
  2. Delayed trains/buses/planes.  Who doesn't find this annoying?
  3. When people jump the queue.
  4. When my computer freezes.
  5. People who tell me off for crossing the road when the man is red.  It is MY choice if I want to risk my life or not.
  6. When the ticket-man enjoys their small power over people a bit too much.
  7. Broad, sweeping statements made with assumed authority, when there  is none.
  8. When Pokemon Go crashes.
  9. When I get funny looks for speaking English with my friends, in public, in Germany. Multi-culture is a GOOD THING people.
  10. People who only talk about themselves.
  11. When I wake up feeling productive on Monday morning and discover there's no milk / the bread is moldy.
  12. When I sneeze straight after I've done my make up.
  13. When a fly gets in my drink.
  14. When I arrive at the post office or bank 5 minutes after they closed.
  15. When people assume, because I work at home, that I have free time.
  16. People who blast their music on speaker phone in public.  I don't want to listen to that, use headphones.
  17. When the DHL guy can't be bothered to ring my bell, so he just puts a note in the post box saying I have to go pick up my parcel at the post office myself. I waited in all day for that parcel.
  18. Being late.
  19. When listening to music with a group of friends, and someone sings the next line of the song while we are still on the previous line. We KNOW you know it...
  20. People who take up the WHOLE pavement, and then walk really slowly.
  21. When people get off the escalator and just stop right in front of it.
  22. People who test out all the ring tones on their phone on a public bus.
  23. The expectation that all young women want to get married and have babies.
  24. When people with suitcases in very crowded areas, drag them unnecessarily far behind them and are oblivious to how many people are tripping over them.
  25. Pushy and aggressive sales people.


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