Playing off the list I recently made of things that make me happy, my mind started swirling with things that do quite the opposite. It was nothing too intense or traumatic, it was just things that irk me. The things, to put it lightly, I’d just rather not come into contact with in my day to day life. For example:
- Spoilers (i.e movie endings, sports results, etc.)
- Unwarranted rudeness
- Hidden pickles in hamburgers
- Chewing noises
- Lack of decision making
- Decision making
- People who don’t use their blinkers
- People who walk slow
- Clothes tags
- Nuts in chocolate
- When lotion dries out and hardens
- Crooked or off-center picture frames
- Online articles that promise you lists but give long paragraphs or glitchy slideshows
- People who cheat-merge on the freeway (a.k.a wait way longer than they should to merge and then cut you off)
- Dictionary definitions that tell you nothing (for example: if you looked up “protagonist” and it told you something like “the opposite of an antagonist”)
- Autocorrects that make no sense (I’m looking at you “haga”)
- A dirty kitchen
- Static
- When socks slip off inside your shoes
- Being unable to think of anything else to say to someone besides a vague comment about the weather
- Car commercials that trick you into thinking they’re advertising something else
- Car commercials in general
- Wind
- The fact that it never seems to get any easier to wake up for work on time
- Finally mustering up the energy to go to the doctor, only to feel 100% fine when you get there
- Stores with too many scents
- My sensitive stomach that gets motion sickness from EVERYTHING
- People who say “you look tired.”
- TV episodes (especially season finales) that end with “to be continued”
- Getting sunburned in the ONE spot you managed to miss
- Tea
- Loose fitting shoes
- Inconsistency (for example: when the first edition of this post was 34 items long, but this one is only 33…
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Kimberlee K. 
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