Gripes, Part 1

OK. Enough of the sweetness. : ) Today I am going to vent a little and list some things that really get to me... so hang on...here go my "Gripes, Part 1"

1.) High humidity

2.) Getting home from a grocery shopping trip and finding: broken eggs in the carton, rotten places on your fruit, smashed fresh bread.

3.) Coming home from the grocery store and finding that you have forgotten the thing you went in there for!

4.) All of those subscription notes that fall out of magazines when you are reading them

5.) Perforations that don't 'perforate'.

6.) Prejudice

7.) Wars of any kind

8.) guns

9.) When low fat foods taste like something major is missing (like flavor?!)

10.) Movies that end abruptly leaving you clueless.

11.) Reality Results Shows that fall on the same night, same time!

12.) Finding out that the program you thought that you were taping didn't actually tape

13.) The Jerry Springer Show

14.) Any show that makes the contestants eat bugs or lie in beds of worms or snakes.

15.) Infomercials that keep saying, "Set it and forget it!"

16.) When pieces of my pottery blow up in the kiln

17.) Losing a signal in the middle of a cell phone conversation.

18.) When someone's cell phone goes off in the middle of a play or movie.

19.) Meanness (is that a word?)

20.) Hazing of any kind.

21.) Second-hand smoke

22.) Computer glitches

23.) Hurtful words

24.) Children's beauty pageants

25.) Paper cuts (ouch)

26.) When the power goes out.

27.) Abusive people

28.) Service people who don't show up when they say they will.

29 .) Bargains that turn out to have hidden costs.

30.) Alarm clocks

31.) Spilling red wine on a white outfit.

32.) Lawyer advertising on tv.

33.) Quarreling.

34.) Finding something way in the back of the refrigerator that has been forgotten and is now growing green hair.

35.) Going online and finding that all of your emails are advertisements.

36.) Losing an earring.

37.) Losing a sock in the dryer.

38.) Weeds.

39.) Jellyfish and other unpleasant things found in the ocean (like sharks!).

40.) Tongue piercings.

41.) Muscle men who can't even put their arms down at their sides because of their bulging muscles.

42.) Pulling away the husk and finding a worm in a fresh ear of corn.

43.) Not being able to sit in the sun anymore without slathering on tons of sunscreen.

44.) Poison ivy that hides in a healthy bush

45.) Having a bird fly into the glass in my sunroom.

46.) Barking dogs late at night or very early in the morning.

47.) Being put on hold and then having your phone answered by a voice prompt

48.) Having the volume on the tv go way up when a commercial comes on.

49.) Political signs in the medians of public highways.

50.) People who gripe!