Annoying.

I get annoyed a lot. I'm not really sure why and I've sort of given up trying to figure it out. I just try to realize that much of what I get annoyed about it petty and to let it go. That strategy usually works well. Lately I've realized that I get annoyed at people doing things that I do. One would quickly say that I don't like those behaviors that I do, so when I see it in others, it reminds me that I am hoping to change. But, you see, that isn't really the truth. I have good (or not so good) reasons for doing the things I do and want to keep doing them even though they totally annoy me when others do it.

For example:

Biting my nails. I've always done it. I like doing it. It's my only real habit (other than eating too much). But when Parker puts his hand in his mouth or Miranda does it, it drives me up a wall.

I admit that I tailgate. I think my father taught me to do it when I was 16 and it has just stuck with me. But man, when someone is tailgating me, what jackasses.

When other parents make there kids say "Good bye" or "thanks", I find it so annoying. I don't need those 2 and 3 or even 4 year olds to be polite. Whatever. But I still do it. I think I realize how antisocial (not in a psychotic way of course) Michael and I (and Amy) are and are hoping desperately that are kids turn out different. Life is easier when you like being around other people.

When people let their kids wander aimlessly in stores or even on the street as you are trying to pass by and then grin at you cutely like, "So sorry...he is just a little kid", I want to rip their head off. Control your damn kid! But then, I do the same thing. Often. Sometimes because I have no choice and sometimes because I just forget that other people exist and sometimes because they are just little kids who like to wander aimlessly.

When people have cell phones and then don't answer them, I find it very irritating. Isn't that the point of the cell phone? To allow other people to reach you all the time? But me? I don't even know where my cell phone is. True, I don't give the number out to many people since I don't really answer it, but to those rare few that do call me, generally don't get me to pick up.

I could probably go on and on, but when people talk about themselves too much, it totally bugs me.