The Daily Peeve / Rant

[SiouzQ.]

Probably wishful thinkin'...

[ctg492]

Todays' is the same as everytime I call my mom and for basically the last 51 years, My Brother is perfect, smart, and so highly educated.

[JaneV2.0]

I guess I should be thrilled that our byzantine tax system keeps millions employed by the IRS, tax preparation businesses, tax lawyers, etc., and it usually only takes me an hour or so to fill out my tax forms and send them in. I'm doing my taxes today, and wishing we had a simpler, more efficient system. Maybe some combination of graduated flat tax and value-added tax? It's a pipe dream, I know...

[Jemima]

It's that time again. I no sooner woke up than the Yard Guy went roaring past the window on Pennsylvania's hands-down loudest lawn mower. Every year I swear I'm going to have the entire yard tilled and planted with ground cover or something and never quite make it. Of course, that won't get rid of the neighbors' yard guys.

Go gasoline prices! Come, Peak Oil!!!

[JaneV2.0]

Along similar lines, this is the time of year, apparently, where the lingering stench of woodsmoke mingles with the ear-splitting whine of chainsaws out here in the suburbs. It's almost sixty degrees. Give me a break.

[Florence]

I don't know why I haven't found this thread before now. I have at the very minimum one peeve per day. So for today: those loose subscription cards that are placed in magazines so that they will fall out onto the floor and you'll have to pick them up. I sincerely hope that the morons who came up with that idea do not think that having picked up the card from the floor, I will be more inclined to subscribe to the magazine. Hardly!

I'll be back tomorrow and the day after and the day after....I have lots of peeves.

[fidgiegirl]

BAH!!!! We can't find our closing papers from the house purchase (packed somewhere "safe," I suppose) and need them for the taxes. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!

[ApatheticNoMore]

Ok so the cleaning crew threw away the walnuts I had on my desk. Do you know what a never ending PAIN IN THE REAR it is to try to keep healthy food stocked at work? No decent stores nearby that I can walk to, no way to drive anywhere from work due to the traffic situation here all day long, nothing but hideous chain restaurants (what I would give for a restaurant I like here), I HAVE TO bring food from home if I want to eat decently. I risk being late to hit the store on the way to work if I haven't planned. And then the idiots throw my food away. I give up you know ... impossibility ... maybe I'll just let the hunger knaw at my stomach a little more ... before I don't know, eating my lunch for breakfast? hitting the vending machine? Healthy eating is an obstacle course.

[Jemima]

I don't know why I haven't found this thread before now. I have at the very minimum one peeve per day. So for today: those loose subscription cards that are placed in magazines so that they will fall out onto the floor and you'll have to pick them up. I sincerely hope that the morons who came up with that idea do not think that having picked up the card from the floor, I will be more inclined to subscribe to the magazine. Hardly!

I'll be back tomorrow and the day after and the day after....I have lots of peeves.

Those really irritate me too, to the point that I seldom subscribe to magazines except for 'Backwoods Home', which doesn't use them and confines most advertising to the back of the magazine. I also detest the half pages included with supermarket flyers, especially since they're usually for "special" junk food for (pick one) superbowl parties, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine's Day, Easter, Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Kentucky Derby Day, the Indy 500, or add your own.

[mira]

There's a guy on my bus most mornings who looks over his shoulder every two minutes throughout the journey. I hate this. It's as if he's a fugitive expecting to be captured at any moment.