Stories Collected While Living in France
Okay, I know I said three, but I have one more…. the toilet seat left up.
What about you? What three things don't you like? (Top of the head sort of stuff, not heavy duty sort of things… like injustice, war, senseless anger, ALS, poverty … because that list is endless and frustrating beyond measure.
I do not like how my husband loads the dishwasher.
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Hi Poppy
LOL!!!!!
and it hurts!
C
…oh and those chenilles processionaires, yuck, I don’t like those either.
I do like anchovies, and my husband btw 🙂
ps I hope your rib is better soon.
Cara Corey,
Povera ragazza! Hope you will recover soon! My husband broke six (6!) ribs last year. He was an inch from a wheel chair.
There are lots of things I like. Finding dislikes are più difficile. But here are a couple (N.B. you could always turn these three ino positive opposites):
1. Negativism – using words like “never, no way,doubt it…” and yawning.
2. People, treating animals badly.
3. A stiff upper lip.
Bacione, Ingrid
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Hi Ingrid
Just hearing Italian makes me feel better!
C
Have to agree with the toilet seat. Here are my 3:
1. bad manners
2. bananas
3. mushrooms
I do like anchovies ! Jx
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Hi Julie
I guess banana bread is out of the questions? And Mushrooms stuffed with blue cheese and walnuts too?
C
People who refer to me(aged 80)as:
Young lady;
Young at heart;
80 years young.
That’s my three, no need for any more! Why should I want to deny my age? It’s taken a lot of time,effort,and learning to achieve.
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Hi Judith!
Bravo!
I hear you. My friend who is 89 is treated like a child sometimes. It is rude and sad. She has a hard time hearing, but she is NOT a child!
Corey
gosh.. this is hard.. to name just three is hard.. hehehehe coz I got long list of things I don’t like.. but my top list would be bad manners..
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Hi Fitty
Let them out, let me hear them. It makes my broken rib feel better. 🙂
C
Let me see…
I agree with your number 2. So:
1. Letting a baby cry for any reason
2. A certain soup out of eel and pears
3. Looking Sports on TV
I could easyly continue this list
😉
Rabenfrau
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Hi Rabenfrau
Eels and pears!! Quick pass me a chocolate!!
C
1. Ungraceful people at self serve resturants. It’s not nice to nearly throw the serving utensil back into it’s serving dish causing the food contents to splash all over the place and on others! :/
2. Bathtubs left unclean for the next person.
3. Judgemental people. They always want to be the judge, jury, lawyer and even the
executioner! :~
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Hi Sugar
Ditto!!
Corey
Doors left open, drawers left open and chairs scraping on the floor ( I adore anchovies though ). So sorry about your rib – such a handicap for so many things….
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Hi Christine,
You must leave your link to your website about your winery on the URL!!!
Christine has a winery, and it is wonderful.
C
1. For sure letting a bay crying for any reason
2. champignons de Paris (I ate too much at once… )
3. when you smile at people and they don’t do the same…very rude!
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Hi Catalina
BIG SMILE coming your way 🙂
C
1- people not picking up after themselves
2- people who look at other things while you’re talking to them
3- thin people who complain about how “fat” they are
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Hi Susan
Number three is a dandy.
Especially when they talk about it in front of people who battle with their weight!
C
1,people talking while I watch something, or while I try to write,
2,real life friend’s jalousy and competion over blog friends
3,rude people, anywhere anytime any age..
ps1-I don’t like celeri and okra to go with the anchois..
ps2… if you press your palm or a cushion over your hurting rib, you can sneeze and cough a little bir more comfortably..
love and best wishes for your healing sooner than possible ..
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Hi Pinar
I’ll try it…but just touching my rib HURTS. I cannot beleive how many times I have sneezed! It is like a bad trick of fate.
C
1 French who speak to me as if I am a tourist, rather than a longtime resident.
2 Parents who insult their very own children.
3 Waste- Of time, recyclable items, money, food and missed opportunities
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Hi Jend’isere
Children being mistreated is unsupportable!!
C
being away from those I love especially my son
sickness
heartache
3 things I do not like
But I love and am blessed with so much more
Love you
Jeanne
I hope your rib heals soon.
Love you
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Hi Jeanne
Does your son like New Zealand? I guess it isn’t any closer than when he was in Korea.
I know you miss him.
C
After I agree the leaving up the toilet seat part:
1. Constant gloomy skies
2. Being cut off in traffic
3. People who ask a question and don’t listen to the answer
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Hi Sue
Do you live in a sunny place?
I hope so.
c
1. Students who don’t pay attention.
2. Students who don’t ask questions.
3. Grading!
Ok, so I am a teacher! 🙂
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Hi Kristin
What grade?
C
ok, my home one…
1. Cabinet doors left opened.
2. Cat Hair. ( I love cats…)
3. Cleaning dirty dishes…
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Hi Kristin
Cat hair made me think of fingernails. Why you ask? Well Cats like birds, and I had a bird named Fingernail, and fingernails on the floor bug me, like cat hair bugs you.
I have a off beat way of thinking I must admit.
C
Spiders, olives, public transport.
Do you know if you want to stop a sneeze, and you can catch it in time, concentrate on the nape of your neck, just below the hairline. It works!
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Hi Deb
I am going to give that advice a try. I have sneezed five times. Why? I rarely sneeze.
Five times I nearly died.
C
I´m definately with you on the toilet seat thing!
also don´t like the goopy stuff inside tomatoes
or being so far away from friends and family when they could use some help.
Ina makes a mean bone-healing tea that tastes absolutely horrible.. should I send you some?
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hi Stacey
Yes. Please do.
C
Still laughing at Poppy Fields answer…I don’t like when anyone else loads my dishwasher (except for my mom, because I learned the skill from her).
I really detest the faulty fire alarm that goes off randomly in our set of flats.
People that try to hard to be better than everyone else.
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Poppy’s response was a good one wasn’t it!
C
talking with food in ones mouth
people being framed
bad coffee
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Hi Cindy
The injustice of people being framed. We have a dear friend, and she has been framed. It is unbelievable how justice has NOT served her. It is appauling. Endless torture. Unforgivable.
Yes you have named one of the worse misfortunes around.
C
1. For me, as bad as the toilet seat left up, the toilet seat lid put down (particularly cringeworthy in public toilets) – because you have to touch the thing to use the loo. I usually use my foot.
2. Seafood in general.
3. My mother suffering in any way.
What I do like is this blog and all the people who are always so warm and caring towards you from all over the globe. I hope your rib heals soon.
Colette
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Hi Colette
I think the people who read Tongue in Cheek are the nicest in the world. The sweetest too. In fact I think all of you are wonderful, I am one lucky duck. Thank you! Thank you Colette for noticing too.
xxx C
Corey, I’m going to name trois things that irk me. (while living in Hawaii)
1. Seeing children not in car seats/seat belts, people hitching a ride on truck beds and motorcyclists not wearing helmets. So dangerous! (oopsy, I’ve named 3 already)
2. Cars not making way (going to the side of the road and stopping)for emergency vehicles.
3. Store employees conversing on their cell phone during working hours.
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Hi Hasmin
Hawaii is perfect isn’t it? 😉
Those things bug me too, and happen in France as well.
C
1. People who pull out in front of you, only to go 2 MPH
2. When people talk to you when they SEE you are on the phone
3. Possums (they freak me out)
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Hi Melange
Possums?
C
1. Fish Soup (but I love calamari, etc)
2. Lost dogs
3. Living with chronic pain
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Hi 1eyemonkee,
The other day their were two dogs running, lost on the highway. They looked so scared. They didn’t have any tags either.
C
1. lima beans
2. being late
3. dirty fingernails
And I just tried anchioves for the first time this weekend at my sisters house. The jury is still out about anchioves.
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Hi Beverly
Just say no to anchovies, really let my vote sway you!
Dirty fingernails, mark that as one of mine too!!!
C
p.s. the lost dogs make me sad not scared.
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Me too.
Bad coffee
Neighbors who don’t care about their property
Public toliets
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Hi Becky
My loud neighbors have a junkyard for a yard. It is so depressing.
Did you ever see the episode in FRIENDS when Monica goes to the neighbor’s house and asks if she can wash their car because it is dirty and bothers her?
Well that is me… I am soooooooooooo tempted to clean their yard. Crazy but true.
C
1. Seafood
2. People who park too close to your car,
3. snow, christmas time is fine after that it needs to go away
Kelly
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Hi Kelly
Does it snow after Christmas where you live? It snowed in Provence for a day and stuck around for several. White snow is only white and pretty for a very short time isn’t it?
C
1.Hot chocolate served lukewarm.
2.The smell of stale houses.
3.Open toilet lids.
xoxoxo
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Hi Irene
Stale houses! That is why I sleep with the window open. Though I promised FH that during Dec- March I would not open the window…. ugh.
C
1. dirty dishes piled in the sink
2. Dirty bathrooms
3. Getting in a messy bed
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Hi David
A maid, we all want a full time maid.
Dirty bathrooms, that is the worse.
C
!. weak coffee
2. gale force winds and dust storms
3. and I guess I’d have to go with the toilet seat lid
This was hard. I guess I generally like things.
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Hi Candy
I have a long list of silly things I don’t like… I am willing to share some with you?
I’ll give you:
Stepping in gum-
Stepping in dog poop (common in France.)-
Hang nails-
Nylons that run the first time you put them on-
Cracked heels-
Taking something out of the oven and burning one’s hand-
Ketchup bottles that are gooey on top-
Stale chips-
Flat, warm beer-
Mosquitoes-
… I must be trivial I have a ton of little pet peeves. I hope you will take these off my hands!
😉
c
I do not like the wind howling at night.
I do not like it when people make noise when thy eat.
I do not like not being able to think of a word when I need it.
Hope your rib is better soon,too! 🙂
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Hi Julie
Did you ever see that old film about the wind howling? Oh what is it’s name? The wind drives the woman in the film mad???
C
1- rodents
2-squash
3- clowns
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Hi Shea
Clowns?
C
I do not like people using their cell phones in public restrooms – very gross
I do not like smelly garbage
I do not like armadillos that tear up my garden
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Hi Patty
Patty has a very creative site, full of interesting designs of ju-ornalling, scrapbooking, mixed media art… you might want to check her blog.
I have never seen an armadillo in my garden!
🙂
C
1.gossip
2.snakes
3.rudeness
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Hi Laura Ellen
Snakes they give me the creeps too!
C
So, I didn’t look at other comments. I may be repeating.
I do not like:
1. The smell of Tuna in a can.
2. Being taken for granted.
3. Seeing someone eat with their mouth open.
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Hi Michelle
My brother Mark cannot stand when people eat with their mouth open. He does a comedy act about it, well actually he just talks about it and it is hilarious!
c
I do not like…
1. People who talk on cell phones while driving (and hit pedestrians crossing in the crossing zone! This really happened to me a couple of years ago and it broke two ribs and dinged me up pretty badly. I so sympathize with your rib injury.)
2. Anyone to talk to me for the first hour I am awake ~ not a morning person!
3. Chocolate
Hi Sandy
Hey whenever anyone sends you chocolate you can send it to me okay?
C
1. Fish
2. Mushrooms
3. Wasting anything – energy, water, time, money etc.
Get well soon!
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Hi Jeanette
Your list and Sacha’s are exactly alike!
C
Hi Corey!
I can understand the rib part. Last summer I had an injured rib (not broken though) and only in november I had the doctor telling me what to do. It felt like a chest or breast pain, but it was actually from the rib underneath. I took some pills for the inflammation and a topic pain killer, and then I got so much better. I hope your rib gets better quickly too so you can sneeze and laugh at your ease!!! 😉
Well… things I don’t like:
1. The smell of a butcher’s shop.
2. Bad book translations.
3. Feeling too cold or too hot in restaurants or any public space where temperature does not depend on my wishes!
Love*
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Hi Suzanne
Butcher shops freak me out.
C
Just 3 huh?
1. Liver
2. Lima beans
3. people who don’t put their shopping carts back into the storage bins.
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Hi Darlene
Did you know that in France you must insert a $2 dollar coin in the shopping cart to use it. When you are done with the grocery cart, if you take it back you get your $2 dollars back too.
Good deal, and carts are aways put away.
C
1. A cold bath
2. Loud negative people in a cheerful restaurant.(it kind of defeats the purpose)
3. Sticky labels on books.
I have several footed tubs. I will be careful and learn from you. Hope you heal fast!
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Hi Jeni
Oh the luxury of hot water. I say thank you every time I turn on the faucet. Water, and hot water especially is a luxury.
C
burnt cookies
people who talk behind your back
falling asleep when I am trying to watch a show/movie that I really want to see
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Hi Seb
Yeah Burnt Cookies! I forgot about that one!
C
Other peoples dirty socks, ick!
People who smoke in front of their children
Cleaning the refrigerator
Those are my pet peeves (there are more – apparently I am quite disagreeable!) I hope your rib is on the mend and you will soon be able to sneeze in peace (another dislike of mine is a trick sneeze – when its coming and then it disappears! – but I hope they stay away from you for the next couple weeks at least!)
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Hi AmandaMay
At this point I think I would hug a fake sneeze.
C
1 – Cheese
2 – Silence
3 – Cranky people
Hope you get better soon!!
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Hi Isabel
Really you do not like silence?
C
1. Toilet seats left up.
2. Restaurant servers who ask, “Do you want your change?”
3. People who gossip (using names),particularly in a public place where they can be overheard very easily.
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Hi Carolyn
Did you know that in France the tip is included in the bill?
C
Oh, never leave a baby crying! That’s horrible!
My simpler list would be:
1. Dishes in the sink.
2. Laundry/linens on the bathroom floor.
3. American football
I love your blog! The colors in your photos (and of you Blog) are fabulous!
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Hi Sarah
Oh the joy of not having a TV is not having to watch or hear sports!!
C
1. Smoking
2. Rude people
3. Incorrect syntax…. you hear it all the time, even broadcasters use it… the singular verb with the plural subject. Am I too picky?
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Hi Annette
Please feel free to correct me when you see mistakes on my blog. I have a ton of errors…sorry.
C
1. People wearing sunglasses inside.
2. Nosy neighbors.
3. Messy house.
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Hi Mrs B
You wouldn’t want to know my neighbors!!!!
C
1. Touching newspaper- it’s like fingers down a chalkboard for me.
2. Migraines – I’ve been a sufferer for years.
3. Popcorn- I’ve never been a fan!!!!
I had a broken rib while pregnant with my second son. Some of the worst pain I have ever experienced! Hope yours heals soon.
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Oh Gosh Emily
I compare everything to childbirth pain. Or I should say childbirth pain that I had with Chelsea. And to have a broke rib on top of that?????
GIve me drugs!!
C
I love to see what others have written. It is an interesting peek into everyone’s life.
My pet peeves are-
1. The smell of cooking shrimp. Stinks!
2. The way my husband sneezes. Much too loud and for too long.
3. The snobby moms at preschool. Save me.
I am sorry that your rib is broken. Nothing is worse. I broke mine in the 2nd grade. I was walking across the top of our fence and fell. Philip from next door hit me with a stick. Little jerk. I remember the pain until this day.
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Hi Julie
Your husband and my husband must have learned how to sneeze from the same school!
Lately, when Yann sneezes I scream. I do.
His sneezes are so loud it is as if he is screaming.
So sometimes I scream back… I am a brat like that.
C
1. cold rain
2. negative attitudes
3. rude store clerks
I just found your blog this past weekend from an article in an old Victoria magazine of mine and I’m really enjoying it!!! Thanks!
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Welcome Ellen and thank you.
C
1. hair left in the tub from previous occupant
2. dishes left in the sink all day
3. having to clean before the cleaning lady comes to the house!
feels good to let it out – thanks
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Christine
LOL cleaning before the cleaning lady!!
I loved that.
C
I agree with you. I don’t like to have the toilet seat left up, what a rude awakening in the middle of the night when you sit down. I don’t want to cough with a broken rib or when I cracked my sternum, oh how painful. The sternum pain lasted about 4 months before it got better. I did this last summer after taking a bad fall and also cracked my wrist at the same time. Oh what fun it was trying to recover and take care of my 91 year old Mother. But life goes on and things get better as time goes on. Take care and have a wonderful day. I enjoy your blog so much. Jan in Texas.
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Oh my Janice!
I cannot imagine your pain. What love can do to push a person forward, You cared for your Mom with that pain? Amazing love. Makes me feel better already.
C
1. Disrespect of humans or animals.
2. Eggplant
3. People who don’t leave their phone number when they leave a message on the machine.
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Hi Martina
Okay so when you come to France I will not prepare Aubergine!!
C
1- phoney people
2- bras
3- the minute details of daily life (i am a BIG idea kind of gal)
i do like anchovies tho
feel better…i will refrain from hugs until you can endure them again…rebecca
Hi Rebecca
Oh my without my bra I am not wonder.
C
These are my 3:
1. Type 1 Diabetes
2. Drivers who don’t yield to the right of way
3. You having a broken rib 🙁
I hope you heal up soon!! I had a bruised rib once and can’t imagine the pain a broken rib gives.
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Hi Shannon
How is Brendon?
If any of you ever want to know about Type 1 Diabetes in children you need to contact Shannon. She has a wealth of information.
Thinking of Brendon xxx
C
1) clutter
2) coffee grounds left in the sink and everywhere
3)having to constantly re-arrange the bathroom hand towel
I fixed the toilet seat up dilemma by declaring that every time it was left up, it drained our money/energy/good chi right down the drain…
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Hi Lea
This is off the subject, but did your cousin win the contest??
C
(1) Fox News
(2) Kids in cars without seat restraints
(3) People who interrupt when your mid-sentence
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Hi Kylee
I am guilty of interrrupting. Maybe I will give that up for lent.
C
I am so sorry to hear that your beautiful new/old bathtub broke your rib. I hope for a quick recovery for you and that you don’t get a cold.
About the three pet peeves…hmmmmmm!!! I am not easily ruffled…but, with prompting I came up with this.
One: Servers in restaurants who say “How are you guys doing?” It does not matter how upscale the restaurant, they all say that.
My Father 94 and Mother 85 are always startled and at a loss for words when they are asked that question.
Two: People shouting into their cell phones in a public place.
Three: Well I shall jump on the bandwagon. Toilet seat covers left up…Why do toilet seats have covers? To prevent germy spray from covering everything in your bathroom when you flush…learned that from TV recently…although the habit was well entrenched in my family already. I told them the kitten would fall in the toilet and drown if they did not put the lid down, that was 35 years ago…it worked…they still put the lid down.
I love anchovies and all things fish…due to my Scandinavian blood I suppose 🙂
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Hi Mo’a
Ah that is one thing I do not miss in France…. servers never ask you “How are you guys doing tonight.” Thank God.
C
1.Sausages.
2.The smell of cigarettes on children, from their parents..!
3.Crowds.
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Hi Sheila
Add those to my list too!
C
1. Thick crusted gooey pizza made with no love
2. When people try to sell me Avon, Pampered Chef, Amway or others
3. When my husband leaves dirty laundry on the floor beside the hamper
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Hi Alena
Oh dirty laundry on the side of the hamper? I would throw it away. I am tough like that. Well Actually I would pretend to throw it away.
Luckily Fh doesn’t do that… but if he did….
🙂
C
1. spiders
2. How I procrastinate :/
3. clowns! (There is nothing on earth that is creepier!)
I hope your rib feels better soon!
xo Isa
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Hi Isa
Sheala dislikes clowns too. I never thought of that as crepy before. Of course the Joker in “The Dark Knight” was pretty creepy.
C
1) Eggplant
2) Negative people
3) Talking during a movie or theatre
Only three??? SO many good ones . . .
1. Rude or critical people
2. Drivers who pull out only to go 2 MPH
3. Smoke detector beeping because it needs a new battery – especially in the middle of the night!
Sorry about your broken rib! Heal soon.
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Hi Rosemary
I just realized that is something we do not have… a smoke detector… I guess that is because the houses are made of stone or cement bricks?
I cannot imagine how scary it must be to have one go off in the middle of the night.
C
1. mismatched silverware – it’s okay if different place settings have different patterns, but I want a fork, knife and spoon that match!
2. good books that end too soon
3. being cold
Hope you feel better soon, Corey. I had a couple of broken ribs once and was taped up like plumbing pipe – it was then I learned that I was allergic to adhesive tape.
Lorrie
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Hi Lorrie
Oh no…. I am guilty of mismatched silverware!! Totally guilty. Big time offender. Sorry.
C
PS How did you tape your ribs, did you go around and around your body? I broke the one right underneath the middle of my breast.
C
Hi, Corey. No, regarding my last comment, I haven’t been to your mom’s shop yet, but it is on my to-do list.
Pet Peeves:
1. Sudden loud noises like thunder, fireworks, balloons popping (my poor kids never had balloons at their parties)
2. Paper cuts, and even worse, file folder cuts! Ouch!
3. People who talk during theater/movies. This is one reason why we now have Netflix; the last time I was in a theater, someone was actually TRANSLATING the movie for the person next to him!!!
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Hi Trudy,
Hey the person translating at the movie, might have been me to FH or reverse 😉
Corey
1.People who think they are better and/or smarter than everyone else.
2.People who waste my time.
3.People who lack a sense of humor.
May it take half the time than normal for your rib to heal. Got any good books to read?
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Hi Alina
Responding to comments is my good book today.
C
1. powdered “creamer” for coffee
2. flies
3. paper cuts
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Hi Mary Kate
Just the thought of a paper cut sends shivers up my spine.
And creamer, I cannot stand the stuff!
C
C
1- Having a child with diabetes type 1.
2- Telemarketers who won’t take no for an answer.
3- People who talk loudly on their cell phone
right next to me… and just stand there.
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Hi Nancy
A very good friend of mine and a faithful commenter on this blog, has a young son with type 1 diabetes too. Her name is Shannon. You might want to talk to her…mutual support. She wrote diabetes too as one of the things she dislikes.
C
C
Hi Corey,
I’ll have to agree about the toilet seat one. My husband does wonderful about this one, I almost never find it up. Unless my father-in-law has been here:-( Grrrrr.
Other things that bug me – off the top of my head
1. Shoes left lying around
2. All the allergies/colds/flu/
sore throats/etc. that early spring in Ohio brings. {sneeze, oh excuse me}
3. everything under the sun piled on my dining room table!
Just the 3 that popped into my mind right now!
Have a wonderful day,
Jill
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Hello Jill
Note: Fh and Sacha are experts at putting the toilet seat and lid down. But the other men who visit are not.
The other night I fell in, and it grossed me out.
C
People letting their children have temper tantrums in public places.
Teenage grocery store baggers complaining about how much they have to work. (3 hrs a day, OMG!!)
…and, I do not like shoes left in the middle of the kitchen!
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Hi Linda
Shoes… Oh that is a pet peeve of mine too.. count it as number five for me.
C
l.Gossip
2. Childish behavior in adults
3. People who are always right!
1. My husband or grandkids leaving clothes, shoes, toys, etc. laying around for me to pick up.
2. The fabric softner dispenser on my washing machine always filling up with water so that I have to mop up the water before I can put fabric softner in for the next load.
3. My husband never putting the new toilet paper roll in the toilet paper dispenser. Why is that? Do men have some sort of disability that they can never manage to do that?
Ariane
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Hi Ariane
Number three made me laugh. The bathroom is a sore subject…
Toilet lids
toilet paper
and bathtub rims.
Your three things are also on my list. I’m so sorry about your rib, it is the worst not to be able to laugh or sneeze without clutching yourself in agony.
1. Cleaning up cat sick first thing in the morning.
2. People leaving the door wide open, when a hot wind is blowing.
3. Greasy saucepans
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Hi Kit
Having a broken rib is a whole new experience. I find I am breathing shallow, it hurts to sneeze, have hiccups and laugh. Going to bed is a challenge, laying down is awful.
C
Corey
1 People mistreating their pets
2 Gossipy intrusive people wanting to know ones business
3 Ignoring their children -example: young children crying
Sorry to hear about your rib sending positive prayers for speedy healing, try an old farmers recipe a Poultice of Comfrey root and leafs wrapped in cheese cloth worked for my sons broken collar bone from a sports injury he also had a sling but he didn’t wear it right … too busy being a kid
joanny
From the top of my head?
Righy-O, here we go:
Snow!
More Snow!
Snow again.
🙁
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Hi Merisi
Sending you Provencal blue!
C
1. Constipation … I can’t believe no one has mentioned that.
2. The raw edges of cardboard rubbing together … gah!
3. People who want to try food off my plate. How about a fork in the back of your hand instead? It’s primal.
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Hi Dear Cousin
I wondered if you would add your two cents… I had my fingers crossed that you would… Thank you for the constipation mention. I haven’t that problem but it rates high in France…
I think it starts with the fact that as a child you cannot leave class to go to the bathroom when you want. And at recess when you can go there isn’t any TP.
Prunes are useful… no???
C
Hope you are taking it easy and there is some good chocolate, cheese and wine nearby!
Or at least a good pain pill!
I have a few things to add to the list:
gunky tubes of toothpaste(because no one re-caps), toilet paper installed the WRONG way, people who are loud in public places and know it!
Be well and avoid anchovies at all costs.
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Hi Bramble
Okay please tell me the right way to install TP????
C
piles of paper
unkept laurel hedges
doggie dew in my house (new puppy!
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Hi Patti
Laurel hedgesI Now I would have never guessed that one in a million years.
C
1. trying to watch T.V. with someone who channel surfs.
2. being around someone who is smoking a cig.
3. hearing someone chew something crunchy… I know, but it drives me crazy!
p.s… I don’t like babies crying either for any reason… or animals.
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Hi Angela
My mother, like you, cannot stand anyone to eat when she is not eating. The sounds drives her mad.
The last time I flew home a man who sat by me and ate one M&M at a time. I swore it nearly did me in.
C
Hi Corey
1.Housework, because it never ends.
2.Wind and rain at the same time.
3.Nut allergy, because I loved nuts until the allergy came on and now I cannot even smell them!
Remedy for sleep: perhaps you could try lying on a pillow, one that moulds to your body, sometimes that has helped me when I have been in pain and could not get comfortable.
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Hi Ana
I am off to find a pillow. Maybe I can use Yann?
C
I found this really tough….
1. the person who keeps puttting plastic nappy bags down the drains and blocking the sewer..monday night ..I can’t tell you !! Ugh…
2. ‘Dog lovers’ who don’t pick up!!
3. People who talk to my Mum as if she doesn’t matter because she old? May they be old and slow some day…
Hope the rib mends quickly..xx
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Hi Kay
Yes your list speaks truth.
Number three especially!!
C
1. Rude people
2. Lima beans
3. People who abandon animals
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Hi Jeannie
I wondered when LIMA BEANS when enter the list!!
C
3 things…how do I narrow this down?
1. Empty Tea Pitchers put back into the refrigerator(yes I live in the south and we drink COLD sweet tea)
2. My little boys not putting the seat up to use the potty, ugh!!
3. folding clothes, need I say more?
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Hi Angela
Anything to do with laundry is on the bottom of my list.
Unfortunately it is a daily must do….
C
1. Bad body smells.
2. Unbrushed and unflossed teeth.
3. Unflushed toilets.
How are you!!!!???
Lovely photos as usual, I’m going to scroll down and catch up Blondie!!! xox
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Hi Gillian!!!!!
Un-flushed toilets…now that is a list topper!
C
I’ve been away and started catching up from the top. I’m so sorry about your ribs! My husband cracked his sternum (sp) a couple years ago. He was in pain! The doctor suggested clutching a pillow to his chest when he coughed, it really helped. He was kinda cute carrying his pillow around! I am praying for a quick recovery!
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Hi Patti
Thanks for the advice.
C
1. Sprite or other lemon/lime carbonated beverages
2. Watching a fishmonger prepare seafood for customers
3. The smell of cigarette smoke
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Hi Christy
The smell of cigarette smoke. When I first moved to France Cigarette smoke was consider as beautiful as Chanel.
Finally the TIME has changed and cigarette smoking is not consider so cool.
The smell is less, but still ever present.
I agree with you cigarette smoke stinks.
C
I don’t like:
1. Heidi Klum
2. fingerprints
3. black coffee
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Hi Emily
Double ditto on the black coffee!!
C
1. Telemarketers
2. Rudeness
3. Letting a baby cry. When I’m in a store and this happens I feel
compelled to go pick the baby up.
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Hi Cindy
Oh gosh yes!! I have to slap myself, to remind myself that I cannot pick up someone’s baby if they do not know me!!
C
I love this topic!!
1. Loud cell phone use,or using a cell phone
in a restaurant,movie,any other performance
2. Sales clerks that are too friendly and follow you around a store trying too hard to “help” you….are you listening Nordstrom sales people?
3. people using the word”anyways”
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Hi Marsha
The saying that really bugs me is:
“Been there, done that.”
Grates on my nerves it does!!
C
Corey,
I have just read your last two posts and I am so sorry about your rib. You need to have that looked at, if it is really hurting you. Please do not wait too long.
Nancy
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Hi Nancy
I have had it checked out.
It is broken.
And there isn’t a darn thing to do except ride it out.
Sneezing doesn’t help.
And for the life of me I do not know why I am sneezing SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much!!
c
1. leering men.
2. when your cutting board still smells like onions and you cut strawberries on it. (need new cutting board!!)
3. when coffee grinds get into the pot. (haaaate!)
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Hi Chelsea G.
Onions, or garlic or far worse ANCHOVIES and strawberries!!
Good one Chelsea!!
Just grossed me out the thought of it!
C
Bonjour Corey,
voici:
1. Garlic (garlic powder is even worse)
2. Long phone calls
3. Vacuuming
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Hi Louise
I’ll trade you ironing for vacuuming?
Corey
I am very particular about kids who say “yuck” at the table or any variation of bad manners that their parents have allowed.
I really dislike it when people speak on their cell phone while they’re checking out of a store when they ignore the clerk.
Texting while in the Theatre.
I hope your rib feels better.
Your Blog is one of my favorite things…ever!
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Oh thank you!!
That makes my rib feel better already.
C
1. Leaving the seat down, someone else tinkling on it and me sitting in it.
2. Someone talking on the cellphone in the line in front of me and not paying attention to the clerk.
3. Someone having to find the EXACT change and spending 5 minutes to find $.10.
Nancy N
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Hi Nancy
LOL at the .10 cent comment!!
C
1. Being cold
2. Cilantro, just hate it.
3. Laughing with a broken rib.
…and seeing a sold tag on as antique that takes my breath away.
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Hi Feathers
Oh the “sold tag” that is an awful feeling isn’t it!
C
1) I hate what I call “whisper nightmares” …that uneasy feeling you get when you wake abruptly from a deep sleep and you can’t remember what you were dreaming but you know it was something bad.
2) I hate it when you watch your kids waiting patiently in line and the clerk ignores them and helps an adult behind them first.
3) I hate it when I can’t remember people’s first names. The name will be hovering there in my mind…teasing me…”I start with a T”, I rhyme with “Jim” Agh! It feels like you are trying to catch mosquitoes in your mind.
PS. I pray you heal up quickly!
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Hi Clichy Rose
Oh that name thing happened to me the other day. I could not introduce some friends to friends because I could not remember any of their names!! I couldn’t believe it. The names just disappeared from my memory bank.
C
1. Mean People
2. Sharing Food
3. Winter
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Hi Evelyn
FH pet peeve is someone sticking their fork into his plate too!
I do not know who that someone could be…..
C
1. Guilt trips
2. Righteousness
3. really, really wilted lettuce stuck to my vegetable drawer
Denise
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Hi Denise
You list hit the nail right on the head.
C
Only three things …well let’s see!
1. Fish …I hate fish! (The kind you eat …not the one’s in fish tanks!
2. Junk Mail
3. Lot’s of noise …I don’t like noise!
Fun post …it’s great to see all the different things people don’t like!
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Hi Alice
Junk mail such a waste of energy and resources.
C
1. melon and grapefruit (either/or)
2. people with no self-awareness who think they are sooo cool but in reality are terrible bores (some former colleagues come too easily to mind, sadly)
3. subscription inserts in magazines
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Hi Kim B.
Inserts, I never liked them either.
C
1. front loader dryers when you open them and stuff falls out on to the floor.
2. picking up dog poop, I love my dogs but I do hate picking up their poop. and yes I carry a little bag with me and pick it up on walks too.
3. emptying out the paper shredder because the shred goes everywhere!
Praying for a quick recovery. Blessings, Kimberly
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Thanks Kimberly, thanks for your prayers.
C
Hi Corey!
You always have fun ideas to encourage blog participation!
1. People who think their pets are disposable
2. Reality TV shows
3. wrinkles
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Hi Carol
Wrinkles are a hot topic on this list today.
C
1.Dead Battery in the Motorcycle when you’re all amp’ed up to go for a ride.
2.No Fava Beans or Lungiuca in the Fridge when you have “That” craving.
3.The 364 days between the Benevolent Portuguese Brotherhood & Touring Club Honda 90 Ride.
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Hi Chris
The brothers would be proud of this list!
C
1-movies with sad endings.
2-controlling people.
3-inconconsiderate neighbors.
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Hi Ann
You might not want to see “Revolutionary Road” it is more than sad.
Well acted, brilliant camera shots, but sad is just the beginning of a long line of adjectives that describe it.
I left feeling worse than sad.
C
1. nylons
2. shoes
3. dressing up
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Hi Heather
Your list fits perfectly together, one after the other. All it needs is a corsage!
C
1. Getting all set up with my threads and materials, needles and scissors to settle in and do some embroidery only to hear a little voice saying… “Mummah… can you help me please Mummah”
2. Summer time and people not using enough deoderant….ewwwww
3. Anything with the words Hershey’s and chocolate in the same breath
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Hi Courtney
Send all chocolate to me.
C
headaches
pickled beets
electric guitar music (sorry to the musicians!)
Interesting reading, Corey, as usual!
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Hi Laura
Pickled beets made me laugh. Headaches are really a bum deal. I would rather have a broken rib than a headache.
C
1. drunks
2. arrogance
2. young girls acting ‘sexy’
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Hi Diane
Good list !
I bet Britt-Britt scores high on your list.
C
Corey,
I live in Indiana by lake Michigan so we get what is called lake effect snow so over night we could get 4-8 inches in no time. I miss my flowers and shoveling is not fun at all. tonight we are to get 3 inches…..oh JOY
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Hi Kelly
Shoveling snow. I have never lived where it snows like that. I cannot image it.
It sure makes hopping in the car to go run a errand sound depressing.
Sorry.
C
HI Corey,
Hope you are feeling better!
My 3 pet peeves (Only three, I have MORE than 3!)
1. Anyone that’s cruel to any animal or child.
2. Clowns
3. BIG bugs (I HATE BIG BUGS!)
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Hi Joanie
Clowns are a big no no in this group.
C
I cannot eat an anchovy but I do like things flavored with them dissolved….But my one real cannot do is coconut … altho, I do like Vietnamese dishes made with coconut milk.
When I was a small child I went to a birthday party and they had this beautiful fluffy cake and I just didn’t expect the coconut texture.
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Hi Stljoie
I must agree with you on the anchovy taste…at least is Cesar Salad.
C
Corey,
Sorry to hear about your rib- it sounds very uncomfortable- hope you are on the mend and feeling better soon…
Things that I dislike :
-mean spiritedness in people – there is no reason to be hurtful to others
-driving in freezing rain
-pudding and other such textures in food – just don’t like the slippery feeling in my mouth – (I know it wierd…:O)
Fun post Corey..
Regards,
Anna
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Hi Anna
I’ll eat the pudding and you can have my anchovies!
C
1. Dealing with menopause.
2. Being too far away from my grand daughter, Iris.
3. Mean spirited people.
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Hello Paula
Menopause. I was rendered menopause when I was 35 due to having cancer. It was a roller coaster ride. A real trip.
I read once that “hot flashes” burn off cancer cells. I loved that idea! After that hot flashes never bothered me again.
Do you have hot flashes?
C
The three things I don’t like:
1) Dates (the fruit, of course I like dates!)
2) Balloons (I am terrified of popping sounds)
3) Steak Hache, sorry cannot get myself to eat raw beef.
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Hi Antigona
Steak Hache is disgusting I must agree.
C
1) unkind people
2) broccoli and spinach…yuck
3) leaving the toilet seat up…I live in a house of boys where this is a constant nag of mine..need I say more
I do hope your rib feels better soon.
love and hugs
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Hi Tammy
Broccoli and spinach? Really. Do you like anchovies?
C
1) coconut
2) loogies ( is that how it is spelled, not sure), how about when people spit their snot.
3) opening the top of a morton salt tub, you know the medal piece that you pop up, argg the sound of that gives me shivers.
Hope your rib is healing nicely. Wrap it up tight! 🙂
Big hug,
Teresa
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Hi Teresa
Wow, yes the salt container sound! That is a good one! I could literally hear it in my memory and cringed at the thought of it too!
C
Three things, right? Okay, top three….
1. Bad manners (covers a world of sins)
2. Selfishness, not giving back to the community.
3. People who can’t savor the moment or see the humor in every day life.
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Hi Elaine
Humor is a darn good medicine isn’t it!
Corey
-People who are mean/rude to animals or children
(there’s just no acceptable reason)
-paperwork clutter (I’m glaring at my husband as I type this one)
-dog slobber on the floor when I’m wearing socks. Gyahhhh….lol
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Hi Amy
Clutter don’t you feel like taking a match to it?
I am sorry I am projecting my wishful thinking to paper clutter;
C
I have to add one more, because I just walked into the kitchen….AAAAAAAAAAA……okay….somebody who puts something on any cleaned off space of counter. WHYYYY!?!?!….it’s a nice cleaned off space that I cleaned off with the intent of doing something in that space and……am I ranting? Maybe just a little, but it drives me CRAZY! LOL
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Hi Amy
I hear yah sister.
C
1) Bubbly toothpaste residue on the faucet after my kids finish brushing their teeth (and with four kids, they each say “it wasn’t ME!”).
2) Messy beds!!!!!
3) All the food my hubby leaves in the fridge (he and I have a difference of opinion regarding “expiration dates”). lol
These all actually sound pretty lame to me now that I type them. I guess I really do have alot to be grateful for and shouldn’t complain! =)
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Hi Beachy
None of us are complaining we are just expresses ourselves 🙂
C
Hi Corey
1) Cigarette smoke smell in my hair or on my clothes
2) People that drag their feet, making their shoes scuff along the floor
3) When someone fiddles with something, making unnecessary noise.
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Hi Kel
My list just grew longer after reading your response! Dragging feet, that one gets me too!
C
1. Those wrinkles between my eyes.
2. Belching in public.
3. Water retention!
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Hi Donna
Belching oh yes I forgot that one! Stinky ones are the worse.
C
Three things I do not like:
1) Thumping music from cars and apartments.
2) coat hangers that defy my will
3) rebellious eyelashes (little buggers are always mounting an attack against me poor peepers)
The smell of burnt toast
Tangled telephone cords
People who make noises while they think (tapping, tongue clicking, sucking air, humming)
Don’t know why – they just drive me crazy
Oh la la… I’m so late !!!
1- People spitting in the street.
2- Cleaning shoes (my husband is such a wonderful shoe cleaner !!!)
3- Misbehaving children – especially at the table or in shops – and above all their parents letting go or giving in.
PS- I have another one. Mind you, it’s not a N°4… It’s another N°1+ (“ex aequo” in French)
People who can’t get their fingers off their cell phones at the table, while eating or chatting with you… (as bad as spitting in the street)
1. Liars
2. Fat on lamb
3. People who don’t know how to hold a proper fork & knife while eating
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Hi Linda
Your responses having me shaking my head in agreement.
I no longer eat meat, but I remember the fat being the part I really didn’t like.
C
1. People who think that their conversation is so witty that everyone in the restaurant should hear it.
2. Telemarketers.
3. People who throw litter on the ground, or emply ashtrays from cars in the parking lot.
I just discovered your blog!! Great post.
Three things I hate:
1. English peas (Can’t even look at them)
2. Passive/aggressive store clerks
3. Buttons (It’s a long story. . .)
Cathy
1. Cigarette smoke.
2. Misuse of the word “awesome”. Finding the perfect parking spot is not “awesome”. It’s nice. Not awesome.
3. The combination of ignorance and arrogance.
I don’t like shoveling snow!
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