Fed-up Fridays

Okay I thought about making a Thankful Thursday post, but I was too late this week. So I decided to start my own tradition instead. On "Fed-up Fridays", I will list all of the little things that annoy the living heck out of me. So here goes:

1. Contests under the lid of a 20 oz soda bottle. It used to be, that you could find out if you won right away, and then simply take the cap to the store to claim your prize. But now you have to go online and type in the code, after providing your email address. Only one in five wins a free Pepsi, but everyone gets to enjoy the junk mail from the soda company that will be clogging their inboxes for all eternity.

2. People who park SUVs in compact car spots. This may be a result of illiteracy, and I can sympathize with that- after all, not every one can be a super-duper speed reader. For this reason, I propose that instead of writing the word "Compact" in the spot, they should illustrate the meaning, by painting something like this:


3. Pennies. Or what I like to call, "Satan's Sales Tax". Most of the time I throw them in the trash. But every now and then I feel too guilty to waste the money, even if it is stupid pennies. So I put them in a jar, vowing to take them to bank one day, while in actuality, I save them for a few weeks untill the guilt fades, and THEN I throw them away- along with the jar.

(My current penny jar. It made me happier back when it still had pickles in it.)

4. Taking out the trash- A job intended for a man, but for lack of one I must perform the task myself. I hate it when the bag bumps against my legs and it feels kind-of wet. I know what kind of nasty things I put in there, and there is a reason I put them in the trash and not on my legs. On a related note however, there's this Navy chief who lives in the same neighborhood as me. I knew him from DLI. He was the guy that decided which language you got to be put in. I used to be quite afraid of him. But the other day I encountered him at the dumpster, and he asked me to help him throw away his toilet. It's interesting, how much more human someone seems once you have seen their toilet, particularly if you have helped them carry it.

Well, that's all I can think of for today. Stay tuned for "Wishful Wednesday", which is where I list all the things I don't have, but want, and also "Masochistic Mondays", which is where I list all of the things I hate about myself.

(My apologies to the creators of "Thankful Thursdays"- this is just a parody, no harm intended.)