Pet Peeves

Now we all have pet peeves - those little things that just irritate us to no end.  One of my biggest pet peeves used to be when my dad would sit down with his bowl of ice cream every night and clank the spoon against the glass bowl to scrape up every last indication of ice cream...CLINK CLINK CLINK CLINK....I wanted to scream "Enough already....just lick the bowl clean..."  The other night, after suffering through a scorcher of a day, I sat myself down with a nice heaping bowl of frozen yogurt (double fudge brownie) and was working on some homework, listening to TV, and I look up and my husband is staring at me.  I'm like, "What?"  and he says "Really?"  Yep...you guessed it...I was clanking my spoon against the bowl...determined to get every last drip.  It dawned on me then how much I really miss that spoon clanking against the bowl, amongst other things...which leads to a whole new topic.

I would consider myself a very patient person.  My husband and kids will tell you otherwise, but it really does take a lot to get on my nerves.  Getannoyed.com lists about 500 of the top pet peeves including everything from leaving the toilet seat up to people who don't use turn signals to people who put their cellphone on speaker in a public place.  After looking at the list, I laughed because I could put a name of someone I know with each item on the list.  My philosophy is everyone has a bad habit, but that does not make them a bad person.

However, bad grammar is my biggest pet peeve ever...especially when it appears in a newspaper, magazine or a textbook.  I have frequently seen grammar errors in our local newspaper, one recently had the word Principal spelled Principle on the front page headline.  Today, I was waiting for an appointment and was reading my textbook for an assignment I have to complete this week and discovered a grammar error in the book (the book had cultural-cultural instead of cross-cultural).  This prompted me to use the topic for this blog.  But to make it a done deal, I got home and found this picture in my email....How Perfect!!