Pet Peeves

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Leave him a little cutesy valentine's card next time - maybe one where it's all hearts and flowers with a gushy saying :biggrin2:

Where I am we have those Super mail boxes now - no more door to door delivery - Canada Post said they didn't have enough money for that!
I think they blew their budget for the next several years repainting all the standard red mailboxes with cutesy postal codes. This was a very necessary venture that, if not done, may have changed the face of mail as we know it!
 

skimom2

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Dirty dishes. When I was a kid, dishes were my mom's absolute last priority--they didn't get done until every one was dirty (or I broke down and did them, when I got older). It was horribly embarrassing if someone came over unexpectedly, so I swore I wouldn't do that. Not so easy to keep that vow when the kids were little, I found out. It's a priority for me, though, and nothing ruins my morning more than getting up to dirty dishes in the sink or a cluttered counter.
 

blunthead

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Aug 2, 2006
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What !! You can not just take a pill and the pounds fall off. LOL!!
I can't, or at least I assume so. The bad part is that the only way you can purchase the stuff is via credit card and then when it doesn't work, which I assure you it won't (I haven't tried it because I know better), you can't cancel your account. The only way not to continue to pay for shipments of it for the rest of your life is to cancel the credit card itself.
 

Walter Oobleck

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Dirty dishes. When I was a kid, dishes were my mom's absolute last priority--they didn't get done until every one was dirty (or I broke down and did them, when I got older). It was horribly embarrassing if someone came over unexpectedly, so I swore I wouldn't do that. Not so easy to keep that vow when the kids were little, I found out. It's a priority for me, though, and nothing ruins my morning more than getting up to dirty dishes in the sink or a cluttered counter.

I agree. No mater how late it is or how tired I am, I make sure the kitchen (and the living room) is spotless before going to bed.

ya'll ought to do what my wife did...and I've no clue what it was...but somehow I wash the dishes...maybe that's it. I've got dirty dishes calling to me at 3 in the aye-em, Waaaaalt! Waaaaaaaaaaaalt! We're dirty! Filthy! Dishes! Wake up and wash us! I don't know how I got hood-winked into this. Men! Help me out! What's the answer!
 

80sFan

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ya'll ought to do what my wife did...and I've no clue what it was...but somehow I wash the dishes...maybe that's it. I've got dirty dishes calling to me at 3 in the aye-em, Waaaaalt! Waaaaaaaaaaaalt! We're dirty! Filthy! Dishes! Wake up and wash us! I don't know how I got hood-winked into this. Men! Help me out! What's the answer!

My husband loaded the dishwasher ONCE and I chewed him out big time. I need it loaded a certain way. MY way. Have I mentioned I'm a tad OCD?
 

PatInTheHat

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ya'll ought to do what my wife did...and I've no clue what it was...but somehow I wash the dishes...maybe that's it. I've got dirty dishes calling to me at 3 in the aye-em, Waaaaalt! Waaaaaaaaaaaalt! We're dirty! Filthy! Dishes! Wake up and wash us! I don't know how I got hood-winked into this. Men! Help me out! What's the answer!
Walt, I'm afraid at this point, probably the best course of action left to you might be to just get your dishes an alarm clock set to a more reasonable time:biggrin2:
 

Walter Oobleck

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Told the story about the dishwasher...put some of that liquid dish soap in it, squirted some in the little box with the flip-open lever and some in the field, as it were, in and about the rack. Had suds enough for Sunday. There are some dishes over yonder, peeking up over the rim of the sink. I honestly don't mind, been doing it for long seems like. Thing I like most is wiping it all down, shining it up, the faucet, sink. Then I take a cold drink of water. Water never tastes better, better than snuff and not half as dusty as the song has it. In fact, I think I'll get one now. :very_drunk:
 

Anni M

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The are ALL good posts and I will just say that I like them, because, like, we have 13 pages of posts to like. ;-)
I noticed Grammar was a biggie, Twitter, and FB were drawn onto the carpet (good--and I adore the title of TWITARDS--BRILLIANT!!)

Cleanliness was mentioned as well. So I shall start with cleanliness. Lupus prevents me from doing things which please me. I like a shiny clean kitchen and bathroom and these will be sparkling by the time I go to bed or first thing in the morning because it depends on my hands, yadayada. But they are clean. Come to think of it, the upstairs looks darn good. When in hosp, I stress out because 2 men are in charge of MY home and the 4 legged babies. Hubs is pretty chill about getting stuff done. My son Ben fed Nibbler, the kitteh and Sunni, my pug. She looked like she swallowed a football when I got home.
But I digress...I have 6 bird feeders to top up every other day. Those bags of seed are a PITA, but the pay-off is great. We live near a wetlands. I shared some pix.

GRAMMAR! ARGGG !!! I totally sooo can't go there!! My other pet peeve is poor punctuation, probably because I stink at it. In the old days, Mod used to kindly correct it for me.

I have a FB page .keep my friends under 90, have joined some like-minded groups and have a pretty good time. It is also a great way to keep in touch with my family. I get friend requests that make me laugh. One was a 'mutual friend' of an Canadian actor I knew, and who had died in 2013. The same thing happened this week --a Mutual Friend of a writer who passed last year.
Twitter just ticks me off. I think it's lazy. And how can you say what you really wanna say in under 140 characters? Sorry, maybe I'm just old. harrumph. Anyway, I have an account and forget that I do.

Then there is rudeness, control freaks, mindless violence, the list goes on!


I didn't mean to write a tome, but look out for Pet Peeves, The Prequel...
 

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Pucker

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In the interest of full disclosure:

I did type "whole" when I meant "hole" in a thread recently, but one of the guys who lives in my head told me that it was an acceptable mistake because when I said that I had a hole in my life I was subconsciously intimating that it had been there for my whole life.

Did I mention that the people who live in my head are very accommodating?
 

blunthead

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Aug 2, 2006
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In the interest of full disclosure:

I did type "whole" when I meant "hole" in a thread recently, but one of the guys who lives in my head told me that it was an acceptable mistake because when I said that I had a hole in my life I was subconsciously intimating that it had been there for my whole life.

Did I mention that the people who live in my head are very accommodating?
Not surprising considering the amount of space. =D