I have had a terrible cold. I lost my voice for a few days, and felt like a meteorite was dropped on my head. I couldn’t sleep because of the congestion and I was miserable. As my cold slowly got somewhat better I had time on my hands, so I started to think about all the other things that make our lives miserable. No, not the big things. The little things.
What got me thinking about small annoyances, was a sneeze. You know the one, it announces itself but never comes. You prepare and prepare for an awesome sneeze and then nothing. It leaves you with a “what just happened” kind of feeling and it isn’t nice. It’s actually pretty annoying.
Then I decided to look around for even more first world problems, I turned to the other BLUNTmoms and asked them to share their “favourite” most annoying little thing. Here’s their very inspiring list.
1) When you’re typing and your cursor suddenly jumps across the screen and you finish your sentence in a random spot.
2) Biting your lip, and then because it’s swollen, you keep biting the same spot for a week (is that just me??)
3) Returning home to find that you had something stuck in your teeth/or a booger in your nose, for God knows how long.
4) Writing a lengthy email, just to have it magically delete itself as you’re about to send it.
5) Putting in the last load of laundry and two seconds after the washing machine door locks, you find a mystery pile of laundry that was not there before.
6) when the straw goes missing on the juice box.
7) Dropping something once, then dropping it AGAIN.
8) People who realize the public bathroom is occupied and then jiggle the handle.
9) Getting to the cash at a mega grocery store and realizing that the one key list item I inevitably forget is at the other end of the store, and then realizing my children aren’t smart enough to navigate all the way there and back with the right thing.
10) When you post something with a really glaring typo, but as soon as you find it your internet goes on strike and you just know hundreds of people are looking at it and judging you and the stupid page WONT LOAD!
11) Skinny bearded men in bad shorts socks and sandals. (There should be a fine).
12) People who make me nag them.
13) Empty tampon machines.
14) The word “twerking”
15) Miley Cyrus
16) Pumpkin spice everything
17) Wearing tights as pants
18) Fad Diets
19) People who post articles that make you read them like “The benefits and risks of eating Broccoli” where you think OMG there’s RISKS to eating this food? and then find out that the “risk” of broccoli is gas
20) Upworthy
21) Moms on parent council meetings who make sure that every meeting takes 4 hours
22) Husbands who complain about your lack of cleaning, then proceed to clean by putting everything in a pile on the table
23) Same husbands who make piles and then complain that the bills didn’t get paid.
24) Complicated Starbucks orders in a long line ahead of me
25) The guy behind you in the left hand turning lane who honks because you took a millisecond too long to turn when the light went red.
26) Spitters
27) Men who aren’t janitors with giant loud keychains
28) Hair caught in the tape of a beautifully wrapped gift
29) Dog eye snot
30) Walmart
31) people who clip their nails on public transport.
32) tea bags who have strings and tags but you barely pull on the string to get the tea bag out and the tag falls off and string goes in hot tea. (oh and there are no clean utensils to fish it out so you stupidly think you can really do it with your fingers quickly, like a ninja, but you aren’t a ninja so now you have burned fingers, too strong tea with a string in it.
33) Finding that the last person has crammed in just enough garbage so that when I pop the lid open, a bunch of stuff spills on the floor. Actually that doesn’t annoy me a little, it makes me want to commit homicide.
34) picking at that skin on your finger and/or lip and knowing you should stop because if you don’t stop you are going to pull off too much and it will hurt like a bitch but then you can’t help yourself and you think, no this time I can control it and it will just be a little bit and WHAM, the evil sting/pain begins as you tore too much off.
35) burning the roof of your mouth/tongue
36) Constipation
37) Pooping with a sunburn
38) feeling your hair curl and your nails grow
What about you? What little thing is making your life miserable?
6 Comments
When the kitchen rag gets stinky after ONE. DAY.
Hi Sarah, that’s so annoying! I should have thought of that one!
I’m listening to it now – people who type lengthy messages with the keystroke sound on. Great list!
Thank you, Tara! I have the keystroke sound turned off, for a reason!
I laughed through this whole post. Hilarious!
The Blunties are wonderful, aren’t they? The list is hilarious indeed! Wow, what a little sneeze can do!