Pet Peeve Thursdays: Better Eat Your Trix

(1 Cent): Door Number Two?

You know what really chaps my cheeks? My own unluckiness. I don't know if my own bad fortune counts as a pet peeve ... but use your imagination. In this instance, I'm talking about my constant choosing of the wrong drive-thru lane at the bank. I thought about this being a pet peeve of mine just last week ... while I was waiting, yet again, because I chose the wrong lane.

Every time (no, really) I drive up to the bank and have to decide between Lane 1 and Lane 2, I always pick the one where the car stays for 10 minutes. It's astounding. If I was at Vegas, this is where I would double down on my bad luck -- it's that much of a sure thing.

I choose Lane 1 ... Lane 2 gets open. I choose Lane 2 ... Lane one becomes available. Even when I choose the lane that has one car, while the other lane has two ... it doesn't matter. My lane's car takes my whole lunch break.

I even try to psych out my luck. For example, maybe I was going to choose Lane 1 but to fake out my unlucky streak, I'd actually just go to Lane 2. Nope. Doesn't work. The Pagan Lane Gods still bestow the gift of waiting. It's utterly spectacular.

Does this sort of thing happen to anyone else? Anybody?

(2 Cent): Gimme Something New!

Another pet peeve of mine is getting the same freakin' thing in box after box of cereal. Yes, I am 25 years old, a college graduate, and don't even care what's inside. But, still. I don't want 4 "Sallys" and 4 "Doc Hudsons" and zero "Lightening McQueens." I don't want to see packs and packs of "Barney Rubble" stickers, while I don't see one pack of "Fred Flintstone." Would it hurt to have some variety? You (cereal makers, companies of the trademarked characters) know the main characters are the most popular ... so why keep force feeding us "Screech Powers" when we want to see "Kelly Kapowski?"

I suppose this rant is about 18 years too late (meaning, I cared about this a lot more when I was younger). But, I still eat a variety of cereal and would like for once in my life, no matter how postponed, to see a variety of the prize ... or the most popular character.

(Yes, I'm stretching this week for my second pet peeve).

(1/2 Cent): From A Reader ...

So, I was sent this link by reader "Crash N. Burnett" for a pet peeve article. It is from TheRegister.com. I read the article but do not know if Crash's pet peeve is the U.S. government's policies on space ... George Bush's ways of doing something ... or whatever. Either way, it's a funny read ... hey, the U.S. is not just going global ... we're going intergalactic, baby! Shoot, since Pluto isn't one of the "standard planets" anymore ... can the U.S. now claim it as a territory? Like Puerto Rico and Guam?

http://www.theregister.com/2006/10/19/us_space_policy/



Thanks for everyone's input and for reading. Check back tomorrow for Grab Bag Friday! Keep those comments and questions coming!

P.S. Sorry that this wasn’t posted sooner … I guess there was some sort of planned outage by Blogger.com that I didn’t plan around.

HCP