I’m absolutely new to the world of blogging and knowing how intolerably lazy I am. my big brother CRD is doing all it takes to make me feel miserable about not posting after my first disaster of a post. http://www.scriptedinsanity.blogspot.com. Thats the link to his blog. He’s written wonderful stuff. So he’s told me about this thing called “tagging” where a regular blogger helps an amateur with topics that he’s written on so the fresher can blog his take on the same. Well, this is what I got from what my bro explained to me. Hope I haven’t messed it up.
I picked this one out of the three or four topics he tagged me with. Hope it doesn’t turn out to be more nonsensical than the previous post.
Major Peeves:
Everyone gets annoyed with certain things. I also have many peeves. But my major peeves are as follows :P
- Bad network: It irritates me to the CORE when I can’t hear the person I'm talking to over the phone or if my jokes get wasted cause the punch line has gotten lost with the network bars. Especially with the shitty Tata Indicom phones that we use at my office. It’s IMPOSSIBLE to be able to speak or hear even ONE sentence without those wretched noises screwing your happiness.
- Rickshaw meters that run too fast: Ok, I’m sure most of you have gone through something like this. When meters run faster than the ricks themselves. I mean, COME ON, its not even ten centimeters run and the meter's gone ahead by one digit! I’ve lost count of the number of rick guys I’ve gotten into a verbal brawl with, over their hyperactive meters. Yes, it is embarrassing for anyone who’s in the rick with me at that moment (INCLUDING the driver, of course) but I just can’t help it!
- Lumps of rice: I CANNOT stand a plate full of white, granular, iceberg-like lumps for lunch or dinner. And for some reason, my mom LOVES giving them to me. I actually spend about 10 minutes of my lunch/ dinner time destroying those lumps. ANYTHING to have independent grains of rice as food, man! (Even if they’re going to enter my digestive system in groups of fifty.)
- Pleasure: Ok, just before you think I’m weird; let me make myself clear, I don’t like the sound of the WORD, Pleasure. I don’t know why, but it just gets to me when someone says “It’s a pleasure meeting you” or “It was a pleasure talking to you”. I mean, aren’t there better words you can use to express how glad you are that you interacted wit me??? Like “It was NICE meeting you”, or “Talking to you has made my day!” or maybe “Knowing you has made my life so much better” or “You’re the best thing that’s ever happened to me!!” Ok, I’m getting carried away now. :P
- 7.45 p.m. (Monday to Friday): This is that time in the day, when I have to gather the guts in my body to “ask” my boss whether I can leave for the day. It takes a HELL Lot of courage to ask him that, coz what follows is a one-way questionnaire, that evokes from me, some honest confessions, some made up crap, some sentences in Caps lock, a few exclamation marks followed by LOTS of whining and abusing, coz more often than not, I’m asked to stay back and complete my work until my boss thinks its late enough for it to be unsafe for me to go home alone (which is usually around 8.45 p.m.)
- 7.00 p.m. (Saturdays): Refer to previous point for reasons.
- Public mein body-liquid discharging: This includes spitting, urinating, defecating (this may be in semi-liquid or solid form as well) and blowing noses in public. Seriously, don’t you have a bathroom??
- Online “Friend” Notification: This is only when a certain irritating person comes online …AGAIN & AGAIN & AGAIN & Again. People who know me, know who that person is. For those who don’t, just get that this person cannot be removed from my Google talk list.
- Orkut FRAND Requests: This one is common for almost all females on Orkut. On an average, we’re flooded with 10 friend requests, each day, from guys who have either zero friends, 50 female friends or 12500 male and female friends. Most of these guys think we’re “beautifull” and have a very nice name or think that our “smile is very nice” or think we have a nice “orkut bio data”, have John Abraham, Shah Rukh Khan, Shahid Kapoor, Hrithik Roshan etc. etc. in their display pictures, and want to make fransheep with us. I mean, seriously, do people actually think they can add random people and be friends with them??? I definitely don’t!
- Orkut FRAND Requests Part 2: You reject the frand requests thinking they’ll get the hint. Guess what, YOU’ RE WRONG. They will ACTUALLY send you a friend request AGAIN. You reject it yet again and this time they send you the request AND a scrap asking you why you rejected them and justifying their “need” to be your frand. And the cycle continues until you put them on your ignore list or something.
- Aaj Tak and Star News: Don’t think I need to comment on these. Ekta Kapoor should take over these channels.
- People who misspell or mispronounce my name: Quite a few people pronounce my name REALLY weirdly. I’ve been called everything from “Shir-lay”, Sheryl, Shali, to Sheela, Shaarli and Sarli and almost EVERYONE omits one letter or jumbles up the letters of my name while spelling it. While I understand that mine IS a relatively unconventional name, I think people should be more willing to spare me AND themselves the embarrassment and ASK me how my name is spelt or pronounced instead of dissecting it so mercilessly.
- Unstacked books or papers : Ok, this is a new finding and has been pointed out by someone close. Except my own things, I can’t stand to see books or papers which aren’t kept one above the other, neatly stacked and pushed to one side of the table, bookshelf or wherever it is that they have been kept. I will try and see that this is done no matter where I am. Did someone say Obsessive Compulsive Disorder??
- Mis-spelt or misframed written material: Ok, it’s not that much of a peeve actually, more an obsession with correcting spelling or grammatical errors. It turns out to be embarrassing for some people, but this is something I cant resist doing.
- Peas, Cauliflower: I don’t like these and if they do come into any of the dishes I’m eating, I actually spend time in separating them from what I’m eating.
- Woh Paanch Din: The monthly reminders of our femininity that us females get which end up making us curse men even more than we do during the rest of the month. I mean, why do women have to go through all the shitty things in life?? But its ok, We’re great…EVERYONE knows that, right???? ;)
- Animal Haters: CANT stand people who ill-treat animals. Feel like burying them all alive.
Ok, I’m experiencing a writer’s block. No seriously, there are a LOT more things that annoy me but just cant recall them right now. This post may have a second part, for all you know. Hee hee.
Anyway, congratulations for making it through this post. And, yeah, I know most of you now have one more addition to the list of YOUR major peeves :P
