New Thing: Challenge # 21

Challenge 21 – List 100 things that annoy you

This is my second attempt at this challenge. It wasn’t easy the first time, and it wasn’t easy the second time. Although I managed it this time. Eventually.

It’s ridiculously difficult. I’m one of those people who is very easily pleased, and also very easily annoyed. Yet I couldn’t list 100 things that annoy me. This annoyed me, as you’ll see from item # 38 in the following list:

1) Nightmares
2) Having no internet
3) Hot, muggy weather
4) Bright, cherry, retina-burning sunlight
5) Cats who break into the trash bin overnight and spread it everywhere
6) Rabbits who eat shoes
7) Scents that don’t smell anything like they’re supposed to
8) Working all day on a pattern and having to restart it at the last minute
9) Finding a really beautiful frame and not being able to add it to my collection because it’s a stand frame only
10) Sour sweets that are that tiny bit too sour
11) Mobile phone networks that can’t maintain their SMS services
12) Ebay sellers that don’t post the items you buy from them
13) Rabbits who chew through phone chargers
14) Chairs that collapse underneath you
15) Running out of chocolate
16) That itch in the middle of your back that you can’t quite reach from any angle
17) Not being able to sleep
18) Finally falling asleep after hours of trying, sleeping for an hour and then waking up and being wide awake
19) Undiagnosed shoulder pains
20) Getting down to 10 mahjong tiles and finding you can go no further
21) People who are inconsiderate
22) People who are narrowminded
23) People who are rude
24) People who are cruel
25) People who mistreat dogs
26) Headaches
27) Animals that go running across laptops, closing the windows I have open
28) Not having enough bookshelves for all your books
29) Having too many outgoings for your incomings
30) Stitching calluses that haven’t reached callus point and are just sores
31) Scouse accents
32) Brummie accents
33) White boys pretending to be black
34) Having to miss quidditch games because of having no internet/computer
35) Companies who can’t give me the same information twice
36) Companies who put typos on forms and try to charge me £80 when I’m actually still under warranty
37) Boyfriends who live too far away for instant cuddles
38) Being bugged by everything but not being able to pinpoint it to a list
39) That Subway doesn’t deliver
40) That KFC doesn’t deliver
41) People who make assumptions about me and my life based on their own
42) Having to tidy up for strangers
43) Not having the cojones to follow my own advice
44) Stupid Miami crime scene investigators and their annoying habit of stating the bleeding obvious
45) Losing a slipper
46) Beds that fall apart when you’re sleeping on them
47) Not having a decent functioning sewing machine
48) Facing the possibility of failing the same challenge twice
49) Feeling guilty for not being able to think of 20 things I love about my boyfriend and my best friends
50) Craving a food you can only get in another country
51) Knowing a million good medical, physical and emotional reasons for having to lose weight, and still not wanting to
52) Father’s day
53) Shops that incessantly harp on about father’s day
54) Father/daughter movies and tv shows
55) Landlords that don’t make repairs when they say they will
56) Being afraid to ask landlords about said repairs because of past rent issues
57) Owning a beautiful blanket box that I was given for free, and it not closing properly but not knowing what to do to fix it
58) Bad tv signal
59) Bloody huge trees preventing me getting Sky cos it blocks the signal
60) Not being in a cabled area for Virgin TV
61) Gas companies that insist they’ve been supplying you and try to charge you while another company is saying the same thing
62) Waiting months for an important medical appointment, then going to the wrong bloody place
63) Doctors who tell you that your physical issues are “growing pains”
64) Doctors who tell you that your physical issues are “cos you’re fat”
65) Writer’s block
66) Finally completing a series of books to find out there’s a new one and you can’t afford it
67) The itchy burn of leg hair growing back
68) Constant ankle pain
69) Horatio Caine’s sunglasses
70) Not spotting the cat puke you’re about to stand in
71) Depression
72) Dehydration headaches
73) Spending more time on the loo than off it
74) Settling in for a long hot bubble bath, and running out of hot water
75) Not seeing your boyfriend for four months
76) Being bored
77) Horror movie characters who just accept that the bad guy is dead
78) “permanent” ink that’s not permanent
79) Hating the mess of your house but having no inclination to tidy it
80) Having no “oomph”
81) Fat sores
82) Chub rub
83) Reformatting my PC and forgetting I don’t have Microsoft Office
84) People who don’t get back to you when they say they will
85) Having to wait for anything
86) Itchy knees
87) Not knowing when something will be delivered
88) Waiting in for a delivery due between 9 and 5 that arrives at 4.50
89) That my baby sister is getting wed before me
90) Temperatures above 10°c
91) Typos in published books and magazines
92) Anne Robinson
93) Idiots who get easy questions wrong on game shows
94) The over-sensitivity of my laptop mouse-pad
95) The under-sensitivity of my bottom mouse button
96) Only remembering to wear my glasses when it’s too late to stop the headache
97) Treacle
98) Waking up early and not being able to get back to sleep
99) Getting 30 emails in a day and not a single one being from an actual person
100) That floss spindles that are cardboard get tatty quickly, but the writing doesn’t stay on plastic ones

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