100 Things I Hate

1. When people are slaves to fashion.
2. When people are judgmental and won't admit it.
3. People who stand too close.
4. People who talk too loudly.
5. When people call me "sweetie" to create a false sense of closeness.
6. People who are phony.
7. The capri/knicker dress pants paired with knee high boots style that so many people are rocking now.
8. Patchouli.
9. When all of the milks at the supermarket are expired and nobody who works in the dairy department is anywhere to be found.
10. People in the grocery stores who don't know how to bag properly.
11. When I have to enter my account number in order to reach a live person and then the first thing the live person asks for is my account number.
12. When people in stores have proven they're not capable of helping me but then get angry that I ask to speak to their managers.
13. When people flake or are late.
14. When I forget my watch.
15. When I get dirty.
16. When I expect I'm meeting specific people and they show up with other people.
17. Sudden change.
18. When my cell phone doesn't tell me I have voicemail.
19. When a store is closed but the store hours in the window say they should be open.
20. When people don't listen to me. Really listen.
21. Liars.
22. Being used.
23. When people speak in response to a question I've asked them but they don't answer my question.
24. Tuna fish.
25. Bugs (even though they're good for the ecosystem or whatever).
26. That my brother's girlfriend will scream at him that he needs to be a calmer person.
27. That I can't slam people over the head with a frying pan when they frustrate me.
28. My mother (right now).
29. My frizzy hair.
30. My (lack of) memory.
31. My learning disabilities.
32. When people make snide comments about my lack of drinking. Let it go already.
33. When people say "Oh, you'll LOVE ________!" when what they mean is that they love it. 34. My thumbs.
35. The fact that I don't have a dog.
36. Worrying about keeping my job.
37. Dreams when family members die.
38. Feeling like a failure.
39. People who are superfluous.
40. When people don't walk on the right.
41. When people drop doors on people (me) behind them.
42. When people don't say "thank you" after I've held the door for them.
43. When my roommate makes a mess and doesn't clean it up.
44. When I stick my foot in my mouth (often).
45. The fact that I have so many things I hate.
46. Having to do my own filing at work (I got spoiled from having past filing clerks).
47. Getting lost when I'm by myself.
48. My ineptitude in using computers.
49. When people don't respond to e-mails I send them.
50. Feeling like it's an obligation to call family members.
51. Being unable to express myself.
52. That some people see my refusal to engage in arguments with them as an admittance of some sort that I think they're right, when in reality I've just decided preserving the relationship is more important to me than being right is.
53. Onions.
54. When people act shocked at all the foods I dislike.
55. When people step on my feet or bump into me and don't apologize.
56. Having arthritis. Sure, it's cool that my body tells me when it's going to rain, but I'd give up that magic in a heartbeat and be content with weather.com.
57. My horrible eyesight.
58. Not understanding answers to questions I ask.
59. That I can't learn other languages.
60. Feeling like I'm coming from so much further away then everyone else is.
61. Being interrupted for having said "shit" while telling my mother something important.
62. When I get (electric) shocked.
63. When people act like I'm an idiot for not understanding things they talk about.
64. Carbonated drinks.
65. Forgetting to put a bottle of water in the fridge to get cold.
66. Forgetting to defrost dinner.
67. Not having air conditioning in my apartment.
68. When people say something they're doing to me doesn't hurt (waxing or blood tests, for example).
69. That my face turns red when I'm embarrassed.
70. That I have to spell-check so many words.
71. Not knowing more of San Francisco.
72. How my shower curtains billow INTO the shower while I'm showering. It takes all my self-control to not wash my body all over again each time they touch me, for I'm convince that they're disgustingly dirty despite the fact that I spray them with Tilex Shower after each shower.
73. That I live as far away from Target as I do.
74. When my coworker screams into the phone, but then complains that I listen in on her calls. 75. That I haven't been out of the country.
76. That I'm scared to travel to countries where English is not the predominant language.
77. That I'm not perfect.
78. That I'm not independently wealthy.
79. That I don't have a name that shortens to a cuter nickname.
80. Being scared that if I had kids I might pass on all (or even any) of my learning disabilities and all the many things I hate about myself.
81. That I probably won't ever have kids.
82. My addictive personality.
83. Being uncomfortable with people.
84. That there are two hours and ten minutes left until I can leave work.
85. People who talk too much, and never shut up. :)
86. When I lose respect for people.
87. When I feel myself putting people on unreasonably high pedestals but can't stop.
88. When people act in such ways that it makes me not want to do things for them anymore. 89. Stupid questions.
90. That at Bath & Body Works the sales people accost you multiple times telling you the exact same things the four trillion signs say all over the store.
91. Poor table manners.
92. When people shield themselves from anything less than rosy, but then act shocked that someone did something less than honorable.
93. That despite the fact that my mother knows I read (and embraced) Fast Food Nation, and saw and liked Supersize Me, she still felt compelled to send me $35 worth of coupons to Burger King.
94. Seeing people pick their noses.
95. Seeing kids exhibit bad manners and seeing the parents ignore it.
96. When people know me better than I know myself.
97. When I don’t listen to good advice.
98. Iceless water with lemon in it.
99. Servers who don’t believe me when I say “No really, I like it PLAIN.”
100. I hate the looks people give me when they hear that I don’t own a DVD player or any DVDs, or an IPod. Fuck you – I’m not rich and don’t have rich friends. If you want to be my rich friend and give me an IPod as a gift, I’m open to that.