Overheard and Pet Peeves

OVERHEARD

Are there tid-bits of conversations you’ve heard while standing in line at the grocery store, serving a table, or walking down the sidewalk that make you smile, cringe or laugh out loud?

“Learn to resist. Grow a sense of shame.”

“I could be talking to a 30-year-old guy but all I can picture is a stupid, giggling 10-year-old girl.”

“Are we horrible or do normal people do this too?”

“I hate when my dogs wake me up by ganging up on me and standing on my frickin’ hair.”

“It’s either chocolate or condoms.”

PET PEEVES

Is there something that really irks you, gets your goat, rubs you the wrong way, drives you up the wall, gets you bent out of shape, puts a stick in your craw, or makes you want to throw in the towel?

The growing use of the ugly bureaucratic word “utilize.” More people are using it because they think it makes them sound more professional, but it just sounds silly when there is a perfectly good, one-syllable word they could use.

Those mysterious long hairs that, after shedding from your head, somehow manage to sew themselves into your clothes or wind their way into the inside-front of your sweater.

“Cutesy” terms that dominate Internet headlines and articles, including (but certainly not limited to): baby bump, totes, bae, just sayin’, om nom nom, random, awkward, methinks, preggers.

People who still refer to Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge as “Kate Middleton.” I know you remember waking up at 3am to watch her get married in 2011!

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