Top 10 Peeves + 2

Be angry, and do not sin: do not let the sun go down on your wrath, nor give place to the devil.

According to Ephesians 4:26. From the easiest to do, to the hardest. In ascending order.

12) Clutter. It takes up space. It is disorganized. You can’t move about freely when there is a lot of clutter. And you can’t find things where you want them.

11) Things not working when you need them the most. Sometimes it’s the car. Sometimes it’s the computer. Sometimes it’s the internet. Sometimes it’s the printer. Sometimes it’s the DVD you just bought. Etc.

10) People who talk in cinemas. Especially those who spoil the show. Or give commentaries, ruining the effect of the scene. You’ve paid good money for a show you’ve been looking forward to watch for a long time. And someone takes it away from you.

9) Being forgetful. You forget one small, simple thing. And it becomes a very big inconvenience.

8) Deliberate anonymity. See long story at http://hastenministries.blogspot.com/2007/04/whats-in-name.html

7) Getting interrupted when you’re talking. You’ve been interrupted, but you don’t want to give in to the interrupter. So you go on talking, hoping that the interrupter gets the hint. But the interrupter keeps on talking too. He goes on talking louder and louder, hoping to drown you out, oblivious to the fact that he was interrupting. So both continue talking, and nobody listens. The one who can keep on talking the longest, wins.

6) Getting told how to dress. Or, getting told what kind of clothes to buy with your own money, when you didn’t ask for advice. I believe dressing is somehow incorporated with a person’s identity. If you change the way a person dresses, you change that person’s identity. So, please don’t try to change a person’s identity. If he looks dorky, he was loved anyway when he was dorky. If he looks old, people respected him more when he looked old. If he’s a conservative dresser, he is “safe” in any occasion he goes to. When you try to change someone’s dressing, it’s connected to something deeper too.

5) Getting told what to do with your hair, when you didn’t ask for advice. I believe the person on whose head the hair is growing has the right to his own hair. I’m already balding. At least let me do what I wish with whatever I have left.

4) Getting late. You are usually on time, because you do everything that is necessary to be punctual. It’s your way of life, your philosophy. But someone else makes you get held up. You turn up late. And it wasn’t even your fault. Or, you arrived on time, but someone else turns up late. Whatever professionalism you have put into your work made no difference anyway. Because things still turned out late no matter what you’ve done.

3) Bad debtors. When it is a small amount, you don’t want to ask for it and look like a scrooge. When it adds up to a big amount, you don’t want to ask for it and come across as heartless. Because it’s clear if he can’t pay up his smaller debts, there’s no way he can pay up the larger ones. Even if he wanted to.

2) Getting told why it’s a bad choice to be a school teacher. He comes and tells you how to make more money if you leave the profession. Or how to make more money inside the profession. And he doesn’t know when to back off. On a good day, I’ll laugh it off. On a not-so-good day, he will hear some straight-talking about worldliness and materialism. Friend or foe.

1) Ending the day with an argument. Your mental gears are still whirring. You’re still feeling hot. You can’t sleep properly. The next morning, you still feel worn out as though you haven’t rested at all. You’re already grumpy even before the day began.


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