Pet Peeve Thursdays: It Peeves You Too

(1 Cent): Hell’s Bells

You know what really chaps my cheeks? The incessant ringing of those little bells by people waiting for you, like vultures, in front of any store around Christmas time. I’m not knocking the actual donating or foundation itself – but the last I heard, 98.93% of the general public is not hearing impaired. At least, until they hear those high pitched bells clanging nonstop. I’m pretty sure I would be able to see you standing near that cool looking cashbox – you know, the red one suspended in air by a weird metal contraption – without you trying to draw attention. You’re like that 8th redheaded stepchild that everyone now ignores because he makes too much noise all the time. Just sit back, chill, and say ‘hello’ once in a while and I bet you two quarters that you would receive larger, if not more frequent donations. In fact, the constant ringing makes me not want to donate; it makes me want to just grab that cowbell and stick it in a region of yours so that it would never see the light of day again and then run off with the three quarters, six nickels, eleven pennies, and wet food stamp enclosed in that crummy tin.

(2 Cent): How Can You Be Out Of That?!

A couple of weeks ago, I was forced to go to a fast food restaurant (and by forced I mean I was with a friend and didn’t feel like cooking anything … and it was close by). I won’t say the name of the quality establishment, but let’s just say their advertising campaign is centered on this idea of a meal between third meal and fif meal (yes, “fif”) and it rhymes with Paco Hell. Anyways, we were at the drive-thru ordering food and they informed us that they were out of beef. Out of beef? Are you kidding me, or are you effing kidding me? How can you be out of beef? It’s only 6pm! That’s like, half the menu!

This is a pet peeve because this was the third time this has happened to me by the same “restaurant” and I was also told of another time from a different friend. The other times this happened to me they were out of cheese and “vegetables” – in other words soggy, stringy lettuce and mushed up tomato squares. Yum.

So … uh … I’m far from qualified to be a restaurant manager for such a huge food chain, but I think I’d be pretty prepared by having enough food – or what I would call necessary condiments – so I wouldn’t be forced to tell people I’m out of cheese. That’s like going into a bridal shop and having them tell you that the're all out of white bridal gowns, but they have lovely black, beige, and maroon gowns that are just as good. Not cool.

Has this happened to anyone else by anyone else?

(1/2 Cent): New Year’s Glasses

After seeing the 7th New Year’s celebration in a row with people on TV wearing those glasses where the two zeros of the year are your “lenses” … it turned into a peeve. I guess they’re kinda fun … but they’re kinda ridiculous looking as well. It might have been the hip thing to do back in 2000, when it was original … but now I have to wait until 2010 before I never have to see them again adorned on below average, drunk faces? It’s always the gap-toothed ones that get the most TV time. What a shame. What a crock!

Well, here’s to 2008 and 2009 … with our luck, they’ll still make face glasses out of the two zeros of 2010 …

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