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Rant Day
Too Much Rain
I’m not sure what it is? Maybe it’s because it has been raining almost non-stop where I live here in Oklahoma and I am getting a wee bit tired of it all! I don’t know exactly why, but I just feel like ranting a bit here today. Have you ever had those days where things get on your nerves? Here is a list of some things that get on my nerves.
1. It upsets me when people try to get on the elevator and I am trying to get off at the same time without giving me any room to get off the elevator. Don’t they know it’s a common courtesy to let someone get off first. It would sure make things easier on everyone if they would just give you maybe 3 seconds to get off the elevator without piling inside and bowling you over tying to get on.
2. I get upset when someone starts talking over me when I ask a question. At least let me finish the question and then you can start talking. That just tells me you don’t really care about what I am saying and aren’t really listening to me.
3. I don’t like it when someone rides so close to the back of my car that you can literally only put a few sheets of paper between the bumpers. I know you’re in a hurry, but come one!
4. I can’t stand it when someone asks me if I’m okay and they don’t really want the truth. They just want to speak those words and make conversation. Don’t ask me if you don’t really want to know!
5. I don’t like it when someone does not plan properly and then it somehow becomes an emergency for me to help them out of the jam.
6. I can’t stand it when people just throw their litter, cigarette butts, gum, and whatever on the ground for someone else to pick up. Clean up after yourself! Good grief the world is not your moma!
7. It really gets on my nerves when people with dogs do not pick up their dogs messes and leave them for someone else to step in or on. That is just rude and inconsiderate to the extreme dimension! You should just post a sign on your back that says I don’t really care about other people!
8. It bothers me when someone talks so loud in a restaurant that everyone in the entire restaurant can hear their conversation. Either they must be drunk, don’t care, or just naturally have a loud voice. If it’s the latter, try putting on your inside voice instead of using the outside one okay!
9. I can’t stand those kind of people who are always sarcastic when they talk to you. There has to be something mentally wrong going on there for that to always be the case.
10. I can’t stand those know-it all types either who think they know everything about everything when in reality they know nothing about nothing. They enjoy the game of one upsmanship and can’t wait to start playing.
11. I can’t stand it when right after a loss of someone dear to you someone says ” Well you know they are in a better place.” That may be true, but right at the moment I miss them and that somehow does not comfort me. I just want to talk about them, what they meant to me, and to know you care about me and my feelings and what I am going through.
12. I can’t stand those people who sit next to you on an airplane and never shut up the entire flight. Come on, drink a coke, eat some peanuts, sit back and enjoy the ride so that I can!
13. I can’t stand when people are consistently late to appointments they make. That just tells me one thing, either you are so disorganized in your life, or you really don’t care about me and my time!
14. It gets on my nerves when you use all the toilet paper and leave an empty roll for me to use. Come on, changing the roll out is really not that hard to do. If you need instructions, I will gladly show you how to do it.
15. I really can’t stand it when people start talking or texting or playing games on their phone in the movie theater. Go outside if you need to do that!
16. I can’t stand it when other people steal something from someone else. The other day I was in a major store – I won’t say which one. I went into the men’s bathroom and there on the floor were several stickers that looked like someone had taken off clothes. I am sure they stole them. I told the janitor that it looked to me like someone was stealing clothes in the bathroom when I was leaving and this is what he said. ” Oh yeah – it happens all the time, at night mainly – they steal clothes, pregnancy tests, and whatever they can hide.” I recommended in jest that they start putting cameras in the bathrooms to catch them and all he did was smile when I walked out.
Okay so I guess I have done enough ranting for today. If it keeps on raining, I may come up with some more to share with you. So what about you, is there anything that gets on your nerves?
SHARE YOUR TROUBLES
Dinah Shore
” Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.”
As men, sometimes we tend to keep things all bottled up inside of us and try to handle things on our own. We try to be macho and see sharing as a weakness of sorts I suppose. That is really not a healthy way to handle things and can create a lot of stress in our lives. Some just don’t want to trouble others with their problems.
Women seem to be better than men about sharing the issues of their life with others. I suppose it is just a part of the nature of women to talk things over with others sometimes in circuitous dialogue. I do think there has to be some common ground in sharing in that we don’t want to weigh others down too much with what is troubling us, but it is always a good idea to share.
SOME THINGS MEN WISH WOMEN KNEW!
- Sometimes I just don’t feel like talking, so don’t even try to make me. You’ll know when I just answer with barely audible grunts and growls.
- Give me some space when I first get home from work, then you can tell me about your day. I need to decompress just a little. Hold it on those rapid-fire questions for a while.
- Can you please just get to the point in your conversation? You circle like an airplane until you finally land on the point. I’m waiting for you down here on the runway.
- You know you really don’t have to go to the bathroom with all your girlfriends at the same time when we go out to dinner. It’s really okay if you go in there on your own you know!
- Make me feel important. It’s okay to tell me I’m a great guy! Really!
- I like it when you cook for me.
- I do like just holding your hand sometimes.
- I care about how you look so try to look your best when we go out.
- Don’t ask me any trap questions about how your hair looks or how you look in that dress!
- Sometimes I don’t like to go shopping with you. I want to get in and get out of that store. I am not one of your girlfriends you hang out with all day just browsing the aisles.
- Make-up is a bit overrated. Some make-up is okay. I like you for who you really are.
- Try to be on time when we need to be some place at a certain time. Don’t make me have to keep telling you. “We need to leave or we’re going to be late!” That really gets on my nerves, and don’t tell me it takes you longer to get ready because you have more to do since you’re a woman.
- Let me have my sports time and time with the guys and I’ll give you your time with the girls! There is a good reason they call it a man cave.
- Did you ever think the reason I don’t stop to ask for directions might be because I want to spend more time with you?
Tony A. Smith 