40 More Things That Bug Me

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This is, again, not an exhaustive list. It’s also not serious, so calm down, Debbie.

1. Traffic. This requires no explanation.
2. When the Trader Joe’s check-out clerk asks about my “fun weekend plans.” This type of small talk is not only pointless but emotionally laborious. Maybe my fun isn’t your fun, and I don’t feel like explaining my fun or lack thereof.
3. The way jeans are too small and then stretch out too big after you wear them for 90 seconds.
4. Vocal fry.
5. Soggy fries.
6. When people argue about politics online, double hate for spelling errors, triple hate for the dick who points out spelling errors.
7. Cat hair: love my cat, hate his hair. This will never change.
8. Those who are easily offended by jokes. Life is short, lighten up.
9. Rules. I just don’t agree with most of them.
10. When you mishear someone four times in a row and just give up trying and the conversation enters linguistic purgatory. Would it have been a good conversation? We’ll never know.
11. Those pop-up Halloween stores that sell plastic butterfly wings and toxic, Crayola-adjacent makeup.