I’m a cranky kind of person, always have been. On the one hand I’m like an overly-enthusiastic Pollyanna who only sees good in the world and on the other hand I am a curmudgeon who finds Pollyannas immensely irritating. It’s hard being me, no doubt about it.
I’m irritated by something (generally myself) on a daily – often hourly – basis. I try to keep it in, because lord knows, the minor irritations of life should be the least of our problems, especially if they are things being done by other people that really have nothing whatsoever to do with me.
But then again, after writing about how much I hate mum shaming yesterday (because that’s probably the thing that irritates me the most, every single day), I realised that we are human, we judge, we can never escape that fact. Other people just irritate us with their everyday ways of doing things that are just plain wrong.
Here’s what I mean:
- Why do people stand right on the edge of the footpath when they are waiting to cross? Do they have a death wish? Do they enjoy irritating every driver that has to drive extra carefully around their bits that are hanging out onto the road?
- Why do people stop suddenly in the middle of the footpath? Why can’t they move over and then stop? Because there I am, barrelling along and knocking them down unexpectedly because I am of giant proportions and they are not. It’s like trying to stop the Titanic, people! (With apologies to the lady at the supermarket yesterday. I trust you are recovering well.)
- Why do people park and leave their wheels at an angle that sticks out onto the road, making it near impossible to drive by because the streets are so narrow and that errant wheel is taking up 25% of the road?
- Why are women so mean to themselves? Why do they focus on all the shit they get wrong rather than all the wonderful things they get right? Is this why they are mean to other mums too?
- Why do people worship ordinary people and turn them into demi-gods for no good reason? Can’t they just like them a lot and leave it at that?
- Why can’t PR people see that PR is kinda dead online. If you want me to mention your product in an article, that’s kinda what they call a sponsored post and that costs money.
- Why are my kids so messy when I have tried to train them since birth to pick up after themselves, respect their things, be orderly and nice? It is slowly killing Pollyanna and then they will be left with Cranky Pants Mum forever. Is that not enough motivation for them? How can that not be enough motivation?
Uarghgh! Yes! It actually feels good to get today’s irrits out. I highly recommend making your own list. I am considering adding an “Too Much” list to my standard “To Do” and “To Don’t” lists. Life is really all about the lists, don’t you think?
What’s irritating you today?
Jennifer says
haha! I was actually going to check in and see how you were as you’ve been a little quieter than normal.
On the bad parking – recently a car had parked almost two foot (yes showing my age) from the curb. Of course, I had to drive past just as an oncoming truck was at the same time and I swiped their side mirror – and mine – right off. I, of course, left my number to pay (begrudgingly) and turns out the poor car was only two days old. Silly woman.
Maxabella says
Silly woman! I wish you didn’t have to pay. It’s a bit like the person who parks outside the lines in the parking lot and then complains when someone’s door bangs into their car. It is going to happen!!!
Erin says
Drivers who toddle along doing 80km on the (country) highway and then when we hit town continue at the same speed, doing 70km+ down the 50km street.
Maxabella says
Ugh! I can’t stand people who speed in built-up areas. I speed quite a bit when it’s just me and it’s not where someone lives… confession!
Mother Down Under says
This is slightly embarrassing but I hate bad car parkers so much that I have started taking photos of cars that are poorly parked. Usually for me this means parking 1m away from a yellow line and making what should be a two car space into a one car space. Perhaps I should make an Instagram account, Shitty Parkers of Brisbane, and shame them into better parking behaviour. But for the moment just taking a photo makes me somehow feel better.
Maxabella says
I think such Insta feeds exist, but not for Brissy. Get in there, Caitlin – just like the gutter-to-car ratio of these parkers, it’s wide open!!
JF Gibson says
It’s good to get it out sometimes Bron.
The weather is really irritating me at the moment. Such a futile thing to be irritated about, but I am so over the cold and wet winter we’ve had. I just want to see the sun and feel the sun. I want to feel warm again. Yesterday we had a taste, but today it’s grey again and tomorrow we are expecting another 20mm of rain. I mean, we’ve had enough already? Seriously, why can’t mother nature balance it out a bit? There’s bloody drought in other parts of the country and they need the rain. We don’t need anymore! Urgh. See you got me started.
Maxabella says
I think the most futile things are the things that get to us the most. There is nothing more irritating than being powerless to change something.
Lynda says
My husband is irritating me today. He thinks I do nothing all day, even though we have 3 kids (1 is ours the other 2 are our foster kids). I am also studying, working on 2 businesses (1 of which is his), and homeschooling our daughter. He is lucky is usually a good guy and also a bit of a spunk, otherwise I might lose my shit at him.
Maxabella says
FFS, what does a woman have to do to fulfil the ‘what do you do all day?’ question!? You sound amazing, Lynda. Amazing. Your spunky man is lucky to have you. x
Breharne says
The last point is my ultimate irritation… Really kids, IS IT THAT HARD?!
Maxabella says
It is that hard. Sigh.
Corinne says
Oh at the moment I’m hating cyclists who ride on the footpath. It seems to be a thing here in Brisbane to do it and it drives me mad, especially when there are plenty of designated cycle lanes. The amount of times the kids and I have almost been bowled over….
In the same vein as your mum shaming post, people shaming on FB about what we eat – if I have another ‘high fat/low carbt’, ‘Paleo’, ‘vegan’, ‘no sugar’, Isagenix, whatever post I think I’ll quit FB. I don’t care what you eat and if you think it’s the only or right way to eat, just eat it and don’t tell me about it. I don’t care.
Slow drivers in the fast lane. Another very Qld thing. People will sit in the fast lane on expressways/highways and refuse to move over and let faster traffic past. Drives me mental.
People telling me it must be good to be “home”, when in fact I’m living in a city I’ve never lived in before and have zero friends and family. Also, men telling it me it must be good to be back in a country when I’m respected and not discriminated against, then talk loudly over me when I try to reply.
Being unable to write at the moment. Every time I sit down to write, it’s like there’s too much there and I can’t get anything out.
So, yeah, just a couple of things irritating me at the moment!!
Maxabella says
You’re definitely going through a patch of the justifiable irrits, Corinne. Every single one of these things would make me go AAAAARGH!
I think you need to write about it. Start there. x
Shari from GoodFoodWeek says
Oh man, today I was running late for aqua and as I went to pull into a car park… like the only one left in a short walking distance from the pool {remember I am almost 36 weeks pregnant and I’m pushing two toddlers in a double pram and I’ve been single parenting for a week and this is my 1hr of peace when I pop the kids in creche}, I notice that there is no way my car is going to fit into the spot as the lazy BMW driver has actually taken up both parks. I hate people who are so inconsiderate.
Maxabella says
Grrrrrrrrr… Inconsiderate people get me going every time.
Lorelei says
I like you a lot so let’s just leave it at that!
Hahaha
Maxabella says
🙂
Shannon @ Oh Creative Day says
People who get off a travelator/ escalator with no clear intent and faff about trying to decide where they are heading, thus creating potential for a deadly pile-up of people and trolleys.
People who do not stay to the left when walking in public. I spend so much of my school day lecturing kids about why it’s considerate to stick to the left, but I fear it is all in vain.
And lastly my cat. I SWEAR TO GOD she pees outside of the litter tray to spite me. It’s definitely personal.
Maxabella says
She’s peeing AT you for sure. Darn cat.
I have actually experienced a 17 person pile up at the bottom of escalators and it was NOT PRETTY. It happens. MOVE people!
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