November Challenge -- Day 7

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November Challenge: Five pet peeves

I'm feeling especially peevish, post-election. So I'm sorry that this was asked today. But here goes ...

1) People who don't acknowledge gifts. I don't expect a formal thank you note, but if USPS or Amazon tells me my present has been delivered, it would be nice to know it actually was received.

2) My neighbor manages to knock on my door at the worst possible times. (I'm in my underwear or I'm grilling a piece of something on the old George Foreman or I'm literally "in the bathroom"). How does he do it?

3) People who come into my space and are negative or rude. Example: Wednesday morning, my cousin Rose sent a joint text to me and a friend of hers in Texas, asking us "childless cat ladies" how we were feeling after the election. Now, I have never met this Texas friend of Rose's. She responded with a tear drop. I said I was sad but I quoted Abraham Lincoln, also a cat lover, and said I hoped the "better angels of our nature" guide Trump. I followed with prayer hands and a cat emoji. That bitch told me I should "learn Russian." Oh, for fuck's sake. Who are you and why are you in my life? Also, I simply refuse to be negative and angry for the next four years.* But more than that, again, who are you and why are you in my life?

4) That my glasses are always dirty and smudged, yet I don't notice it from my side of the lens. 

5) Dayforce, the scheduling software used by the card shop, is different on Android than it is on Apple and my screen looks so different from that of my coworkers'. Frustrating! However, I'm not going to invest $1,000+ on a new phone to facilitate my minimum wage job.

 

 

 

*I handwrote and sent 250 GOTV postcards and nearly 50 more for Ohio's Sherrod Brown. That was more than $150 in postage out of my pocket, not to mention time. I also donated money every month to first Biden and then Harris for President. I'd wager while I was doing all that, Rose's Texas friend was scaring her cat by yelling at the TV, but doing nothing more.

 Photo by Andreas Rasmussen on Unsplash.