These Are a Few of My Least Favorite Things...

It's been forever since I've posted, so what better way to reacquaint myself with the blogging community than with a list of things I hate? I've had so much time to think about this list, so without further ado, here's "Things I Hate," in no particular order:

1. People who over dress. It's not that cold, so why are you wearing a damn scarf and coat? Today was 70 out, and I saw a girl in a full scarf wrapped around her neck like a boa constrictor. It's called weather.com or the news. I know it's not always accurate, but they usually get the degrees right, just not the precipitation involved. Study it. Learn it. Live it.
2. In a similar regard, people who use umbrellas when it's not raining. If it's just a few drops, what's the big deal? Will you melt? Using an umbrella when it's not raining is like not wearing a seatbelt in a car: you can do it, but it just makes you look like a dumbass. Also, I don't need my retina ripped out by those oversized beach tarps which have spikes on the end like barbwire.
   
3. Not moving over to the window seat when getting on a bus. Are you entitled to two seats? Did somehow your monthly pass give you the right to take up two seats? I really hate that people do this, then have to move over anyway when the bus gets packed. I know how great it feels to have no person next to you, but on a 5:00 bus, that's just not going to happen. Why don't you move over in the first place and we won't avoid this unnecessary delay? And don't act like you're inconvenienced when I tell you to move over. Having a window seat is better anyway.
   
4. Fat people sitting next to you on the bus. I don't mind if it's a skinny person or a really good looking woman, but why is it every time I get on, the Nutty Professor always plops right next to me? Then I'm forced to be pushed into the corner (because I always move over) like a damn sardine in a can. For some reason, I'm getting more and more sickened by overweight people. Honestly, this may sound shallow of me, but how hard it is to just not eat that 5th piece of chicken? How can people look at themselves and be happy with what they see? It baffles me. And I know, I'm being insensitive, it could be a variety of reasons, but I still have yet to find one that sways me.
5. Repeating myself. I find that people just don't pay attention. Ever. I have a friend who consistently zones out whenever I talk to him. I find myself saying the same thing twice, in rapid succession, just so I don't have to say it again. Take some concentration pills, and listen, for God sakes.
   
6. Not re-racking weights or cleaning off machines when done with them at the gym. Do you leave your house like this? Do you just open the peanut butter jar and leave it sitting out when you're done with it? This gym is terrible for this. Not only do you have a bunch of muscleheads trying to impress each other, but you have a workout facility that looks like a pig sty. How hard it is to put your dumbbells back onto the rack you found them on? Obviously you can lift them up.
   
7. Cover letters. Why isn't a resume good enough? How about if you like that, you call me and I'll tell you everything I'd write in a cover letter? That is the hardest part of the job application process, and I just never have the time to do it. What do they want me to say?
   
8. Commuting. Sucks, plain and simple. Especially from another state. Why doesn't NJ Transit run later? Because they are bitches, that's why. I can't wait to move out.
   
9. Gas prices. If we're supposed to be in this justified war to get oil for a cheaper price, where is the payoff? I'm still paying like $35 a week for half a tank. While NJ is still the cheapest, almost $4 a gallon isn't exactly getting it for free.
10. Women. I don't get you. You're interested one minute, then something happens and you never talk to me again. And don't even get me started on women who are unavailable but still give off this air of being available and interested. I find this particularly applicable in the workplace. People there just aren't human. More like Terminators. They talk to you, but give you the cold shoulder the next day. Maybe it's the job, I don't know, but I realized you can't pursue people you work with. It just never works out.
    
11. Work. Still sucks, I know. Blink 182 was right. I really feel like I'm getting dumber by being there. Was I really put on this planet to do this mindless crap day in and day out? Punching a clock and then doing it all over again the next day? I really hope not.
12. Idiocy. I seem to encounter this mostly at work. Whether it's people who think what they do somehow matters, to people who clearly only got their job because they couldn't work anywhere else, stupidity seems to run rampant. Since I ceased caring a long time ago, it doesn't affect me as much. But it has made me incredibly jaded, as you can tell.
13. Stalemates. I'm not at the crossroads of my life (I'm way too young for that), but I feel like I'm floating. I know what I want, but I just find it harder to attain. I'm coming up on a year here. A year! I can honestly say I didn't picture myself doing this last year. I know I should be happy I have a job, making money, etc, but really, if it feels like you're losing who you are, your identity, what did you gain? It's tough.
14. Weekends. Don't get me wrong, I live for these days now. They're the only days I can relax. But I find they've just been moving too fast lately. I blink my eyes and it's Sunday night already. Like I always say, "Lather, rinse, repeat."
    

That's about all I can think of now. Hopefully I can keep this up again. But with the way things are, that's a tough call.