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NOVEMBER 2, 2011 10:37AM

Feeling Peevish

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Sorry, I know I've been a bit remiss about keeping you up-to-date and generally providing you with my brilliant insights. I have a life you know, and I'm terribly sorry you don't. We should probably work on that. Email me. We'll make a plan and hopefully spare the world from having to listen to your tales of woe.

Speaking of tales of woe, I know we're all heartbroken about Kim Kardashian's divorce. Dave and I were really looking to them a beacons of hope and role models in our marriage, but alas we're shit out of luck there. And to think she had found a grown ass man who spells his name with a K. How could that not last?

In the realm of things that should not last, Gloria Allred has her own TV show now. She's dolled up in judicial robes and doling out justice. Well sure, playing a cheap imitation of Judge Wapner was the next obvious choice in the quest to be the Queen of Legal Television Whoredom. It's currently neck and neck between her and Nancy Grace. I believe the final phase of the competition involves mud wrestling. If it's on Pay-Per-View we'll show it on the big screen in the backyard with an open bar. Keep an eye out for my e-vite.

I've been thinking a lot about my pet peeves lately. Being a surly bitch, odds are I have a few more than you do. Or at least a few more than you're willing to admit to publicly because you're still too concerned about what people think of you. They don't think much, so pop a Percoset and move on. Take a look at my little mental list for this week and tell me you're not putting a tick mark next to damn near every one.

1. "What gives?" - This is not a proper or polite way to ask "Can you please explain this to me?". If you say "What gives?" my first instinct is to say "Fuck you. That's what gives." "Please advise" is another phrase I don't enjoy hearing. Actually anything that is a two word sentence starting with "Please..." is basically being rude and if you graduated from the 3rd grade you should be able to construct a better sentence.

2. "I'm going to sue..." Really? I love that people think this is a legitimate threat for every little transgression real or imagined. Our court system is already bogged down with frivolous suits. You really wanna hire a lawyer you can ill-afford and take my ass to court because I told you to shut up and leave me alone or gave your kid the stink eye in the market or thought "God you're a lazy ass bitch" outloud? Oh. Wait. Maybe if you wanna get us on Gloria's show I might be willing to go toe-to-toe with your crazy ass.

3. The fat woman in the super-sized eco-terror SUV who is camped out by the parking space next to the entrance of Target on her cell phone and is willing to wait 20 minutes for someone to come out of the store so she can take their parking space rather than waddle her fat ass 100 yards. This is why you're fat and your husband is hitting the local Rub-n-Tug joint 3 days a week.

4. Women who inject their faces full of all kinds of chemicals until they are disfigured. How in God's name can you look at yourself in the mirror each morning and think "Yeah, that was so worth the pain and money. Oooooh... I need a refill 'cause I'm starting to look human."

5. People who type in ALL CAPS. It does not make it easier to read, and frankly, after the first sentence I stop. This also goes for people who can not use proper capitalization. Sentences start with capital letters, so do proper nouns, and the personal pronoun I. Please also note that excessive use of auto-correct makes you look like a moron. Check your texts, IMs, and emails once before you send them. Twice if you're related to me.

6. People who click those dumb ass links/videos on Facebook and in their emails that get their accounts hacked. Really? It's 2011. If you don't know better by now you need to get off the internet and go back to getting your porn at the adult bookstore.

7. Parents who wander through the market, Target, or Walmart oblivious to their screaming child who is pulling shit off the shelves and making that noise that makes Surly's brain bleed. You wanted the kid- you pay attention to it or put it on a leash and get it a shock collar if you can't get it to behave. Better yet, stay at home and shop online. Yeah, I know, I bitch about that a lot. You would think you'd learn.

8. People who talk while they are on the toilet - either on the phone or between the stalls in a public restroom. Really? There's nothing you have to say that is so important I need to hear it while you're taking a shit. This also goes for people, like my mother and sister, who leave the damn door open. Going to the bathroom is not a group activity.

9.People who speak out loud in acronyms. The phrase is "Oh my God!" not "OMG!". If you're really laughing out loud, I should be able to hear you. It's not cute or clever. Half the time it's annoying in a text. There's nothing more tedious than receiving a message from a grown adult that reads like a crystalmethagram from a 16 year old. You're a big person, use your words.

10. Ann Curry. I dunno what it is about her, but she sure does get on my last nerve.

 

 

So that's where I am today. I'd really love to care what's new with you, but I don't and we both know you don't want me to pretend.

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Just good to see that you're still surly . . ..
I'm with you with the talking while on the toilet - I'm usually not paying attention to a word the person is saying because I'm too busy hoping they drop the phone into the whole hot mess
I was going really well until : "... what's knew with you ..." & this confusion happened, like it was intentional but Californian, or it was unintentional but it was making me conflicted.
Honestly, I don't know what to do, but the last thing I need is for you to pretend like how I feel matters.
Walmart is a great place to be surly.
I have a list of people on TV that annoy me. The Kardashians are there!
Who is Ann Curry? She has nice teeth anyway.

OMG, LOL, and Have a Nice Day :-)
Check, check, and check. Well, except for Ann Curry. Her, I can deal with.

~R~
heh heh :-) Thank you for this. :-)
I don't care how peevish and surly you are - I think you're marvelous.

I don't know what you have against Ann Curry, though. She may be in her 50s, but she's a voracious and inspiring lover.
I'm glad you are not guilty of my pet peeve: passive aggression.
With you on everything from 2-10. I will admit to sometimes using "What Gives?" To me it denotes a certain level of disbelieving exasperation.

But Kim and Kris.... I know, I know. After all they spent on their wedding, too! I was so hoping they'd be a beacon of wedded bliss for all the rest of us.

I never HAVE got the point of Legal TV. I've never been sued, I've never been MAD enough to sue, and spending a nanosecond more time in a courthouse is a nanosecond too much of my life. So why would I want to come home and WATCH bad courtroom TV?
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This is a wonderful list surly.
@aim; Add to my version of the list people who describe things, such as notes left on the fridge, as "passive-aggressive" without a clue as to what that means. When I post a little placard on my front lawn that says "To the woman with the corgi: If your dog shits here again I will follow you home. So will the dog shit." that is not passive-aggressive, that's serious. And probably liable to get me sued.
I feel much better Surly, thanks :-)
My fear was it might have been another Californian joke I didn't get, like Kim Kardashian ( no relation, but she's here in Sydney at the moment selling underpants.) I'm not up to googling Ann Curry just yet, but already I feel sorry for her eyebrows.
I will now concentrate my prose toward opportunities to use "crystalmethagram."
Ha! I agree with every single one, except for in #3, I've been annoyed by just as many skinny women clogging up the lot and chatting on cell phones while spending a fortune on liposuction...what gives? er, no, what the HELL? Damn, er, "hell!?"....
I tried to like Ann Curry, I really did, she grew up around here, local girl makes good and all ("and all" -- that's another annoying one), but her annoying interview style, hunched over and emoting like Barbara Walters but worse...highly irritating.

(The Today show national morning news, Kim, NYC-centric mix of fluff and "news")

I enjoy Matt Lauer's suits, mostly, and his shoes. : )
The men around here are all Teva or boot shod men. Easy to live with, suits the lifestyle, but -- Zzzzzz.
Thank you. I needed someone to affirm my own surliness. You are my role model.
for some reason reading this really cheered me up - thanks!
I like how you refer to a kid as "it". I wrote about some of my bizarre pet peeves, and I challenge anyone (after they think long and hard about it) if they claim they perturb them, as well.

I have no idea who Ann Curry is, but if she smells like her last name or is anything like Ann Coulter, I am with you all the way.
Ther is no excuse for rudeness...on any level
CAN'T TALK - I'M AT THE RUB AND TUG. NOW, WHERE DID I LEAVE MY CHILD?