Welcome to the Not Just a Mom Link Up hosted by myself, Adrienne, Jen, Joanne, Lauren, and Sarah! This month, we are talking about our pet peeves. I have to admit, I’ve been thinking about this all month, because I can think of about a million things that annoy me enough to be called a pet peeve! I saw a few people posted on this topic last month already, and that just made me more excited to share my pet peeves here today.
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Let’s start with the little things – Pet peeves at home.
– When my husband gets water all over the bathroom – why does he get out of the shower on the side farther away from the towels?
– The fact that all of my kids leave their drawers open after taking out clothes. And Gabbie’s super full t-shirt drawer.
– The fact that Simon never hangs up his towel after taking a shower without me telling him to.
– The fact that Simon would never take a shower at all if I didn’t tell him to.
– Having to repeat things over and over again in general.
– When they wait till the last minute to get things done.
Moving on to pet peeves about people I deal with.
– When people don’t accept a “no.”
– When people constantly ask for things.
– When I have to make a phone call instead of texting or doing something via a website.
– When people drive very slowly in front of me.
– When people are impatient and think they need to be first (yes, I see how I’m being impatient if someone is driving too slowly!).
– And I also dislike having to wait in long lines.
– When people block the way. And when people walk into me even if I’m not in the way.
– Being told what to do.
– When I can’t get a word into a conversation or feel like whoever I’m talking to isn’t listening to me at all.
– When people ask questions that you know they already know the answer to just to make conversation.
– Close talkers.
Here are some pet peeves I have about myself.
– That I’m so lazy and every day I think of things I really should take care of and I still don’t do them.
– That I get easily overwhelmed and feel behind when I always get things done in the end.
– I hate being late.
– My metabolism.
– When I take forever to read a book that shouldn’t take forever.
And some random ones.
– When Hanukkah gets lumped together with Christmas and called “the holidays.”
– When people assume everyone celebrates the same holidays.
– Voice memos. I never want to play them!
– Spoilers on TV shows or books.
– When you’re checking out and they ask if you found everything ok. What do they do if you say no?
– When people come to work on something at my house and they park in the driveway.
– When you look at a website for a minute and then you get like 10 emails reminding you to buy whatever you were looking at.
– When you’re in an Instagram engagement group and you’re meant to comment on each other’s posts, but people share their posts every day and only comment once a week. This means I get a ton of comments in a row from them and defeats the point of the group.
– When people write a long review of a book and don’t leave any questions for you to comment on and I just have to keep saying “glad you enjoyed it” on all of their posts.
I guess you can say I get annoyed easily!
If you wrote a post about your pet peeves, you can link up with us here and come back next month when we share how we became moms!
What is one of your pet peeves?