Pet Peeves

Do you have a pet peeve? You know what I'm talking about, right? Things that people do or say that might annoy or frustrate us. Things that we will probably never stop from occurring, but that we wish we could stop for our own sanity. Here is a list of my personal pet peeves in no particular order. I would love to hear your list.

1. 43 check out lanes at Wal-Mart but only 2 open.


2. Duke University


3. News reports on Brittany Spears or Paris Hilton (unless they spontaneously combust).


4. Moore Boys Car commercials on the radio


5. Cell phones ringing during worship


6. The Trent River Draw Bridge being closed.


7. People who pull out in front of me in traffic, slow me down and then take the next turn.


8. Grocery carts with one bad wheel or any other non-working parts


9. Installing a toilet paper roll so that the tissue unwraps from the under side of the roll


10. Having a drawer full of unknown cords, re-chargers, adapters at my house.


11. Clothes hangers... how they get all tangled with each other.


12. Radio advertisements with the sounds of sirens, horns or screeching tires.


13. Sand


14. Getting the wrong order after waiting in a long drive-thru line


15. Getting behind someone in line who needs a "price check"


16. The thought that Albert Einstein would probably have a hard time getting a job if he were alive now, because he had messy hair and wore ratty sweaters.


17. The fact that the worst pro baseball and football players will make more each year than the best teachers and nurses.


18. How the nutritional value of any given food is usually inversely proportional to how good it tastes.


19. "Air dry" machines, instead of paper towels in public bathrooms


20. Tennis, golf, bowling or racing on TV


21. Having to balance a plate of food on your lap at a picnic or reception


22. Teachers who misspell words and/or use incorrect grammar in homework assignments and letters to parents. (I love H. J. MacDonald's "weakly calendar" that they gave to all the students this year. I prefer a strong calendar.)


23. Hearing a song you hate and it mentally replaying in your head all day long (We're soaring...flying, there's not a star in heaven that we can't reach)


24. When no one will decide where and what we are going to eat


25. Christmas tree lights that fail to burn.

Thank you, God, that we can bring our burdens, our failures, our anxieties and our frustrations to You, no matter how small or large they may be. Amen.