Postcard - The Cat Girl by Rev. Xanatos Satanicos Bombasticos

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Whether it is someone ‘moving your cheese’ or leaving only a quarter of a glass of milk in the refrigerator, we all have those little strokes that get us steamed. It could be the smallest thing but it gets us irritated big time. I thought it would be entertaining to go over a few of the things I find most irritating. Enjoy!

1. Phone Ringing:

I don’t know why but the sound of a house phone ringing is like nails on a chalk board. I can’t stand it. Even my cell phone is on silent. I haven’t heard my cell phone ring in about a year or more. So when I hear someone else’s phone ring, or I hear a house phone ring, I wince. I just can’t stand the sound. Maybe it is the shrill pitch or the insistence of the noise. I don’t know. But it bothers me.

2. Leaving a Kitchen Cupboard Partially Open

I am short. My exact height has my face lining up with the bottom corner of kitchen cupboards. It’s sort of like a ‘short blind spot’ because I never see that sharp angle until it has whacked me in the head or pocked me in the eyeball. I have never understood why people leave cupboards partially open, or open at all. It makes sense to me to close them. Maybe because I have walked into the sharp corners so often, regardless it is a severely painful irritant.

3. Using Headphones

If I am using headphones in conjunction with my computer speakers I am usually doing it because I want to listen to my music loud but don’t want to bother roommates or neighbors. I’m trying to be nice. But if I have my cute little earbud headphones plugged into my computer speakers and I move to either get up or turn around and they yank on my ears, I get swearing angry. I guess my neighbors think I am very quiet with spurts of Tourettes syndrome. Oh well. I know I do this to myself and it is no one else’s fault, but it still irritates me. I’ve resorted to only wearing my little ipod and clipping it to my shirt. It helps. But still.

4. Chairs that Spin

That is right. I talked about the short factor before. Another great part of being short is that chairs are never the right height for me. I can either sit all the way back in the chair properly and let my toes barely graze the floor or sit on the edge so I can have my feet flat. I don’t mind so much unless I am sitting down to work or study. Then I get the phantom chair syndrome which is where I sit properly and end up with an abs workout. That is right, because I can’t touch the floor except with my tippy toes, the chair spins on its own every few seconds. It looks like I’m swiveling the chair right and left but really I am trying to get the chair to stop pulling me to the side. Tell me that wouldn’t bug the heck out of you?

So I have to make sure the chair is adjustable and it is adjustable for short people, like me! Because as much as I love having firm abs, I like being able to concentrate on my writing more.

5. Automatic Updates and Tech-y Settings

I admit it, I have a geek streak. It’s all good. But I get very irritated when I update software and they automatically check those little ‘settings’ in there that make the program auto-start in my registry keys. I don’t need five hundred programs auto starting on my computer if I only use them once every few weeks.

And I don’t like the updates – Specifically Apple and my security Operating system updates – that they try to auto-restart my computer. I get a little pop up with a count down. This is WHY I set my settings to download whenever and update when I TELL them too. Still, regardless of settings, I get a little pop up ever now and again that is basically ‘I don’t care that you are trying to save that draft or edit this page, I’m going to shut down your computer in ten…nine….eight’ and this is where I start swearing profusely and wishing I could tell Microsoft to find some dark hole to crawl into.

Alright. That is my Friday Five Rant basically. These are things that are little but irritate me in a BIG way. I don’t know why, I just get irritated with them. Call me crazy! Of course I hope everyone is having a great day and would love to hear your own little quirks and irritations about random things!