Thanksgiving is exactly six months from today. On Thanksgiving, we spend time reflecting on how grateful we are for all the wonderful things we have in life. And then we pig out.
But I like griping and complaining, too. So I think today should be celebrated as “Anti-Thanksgiving Day.” Wouldn’t it be special if we spent this day fretting and moaning about the things we hate? And then we can eat a bologna sandwich.
In honor of Anti-Thanksgiving Day, I’ve come up with a list of my pet peeves.
It wasn’t all that hard. But that’s the power of negative thinking. It really comes through like a tidal wave after too much positive thinking has kept it at bay. Nature abhors a vacuum.
Here are my pet peeves:
Christmas shopping (which generally begins about now)
Counting calories
Cuckoo clocks
Dogs that piss on the floor (literally a “pet” peeve)
Dresser drawers with broken rails
Evangelism
Knickknacks
Missing TV remotes
Most TV shows
Nagging from my wife about blogging too much
Scatter cushions
Spoiled bananas
Tailgaters
Unwanted gifts
Long lists
Happy Anti-Thanksgiving Day! Got any bugbears of your own?
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That’s an interesting list of gripes. Feel better now?
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I do. I’ve been waiting six months to get these things off my chest.
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My gripe is negative people who make a list of gripes! 😛
Spoiled bananas – don’t let them spoil
Dog pee – take them outside to pee
Wife nagging – Give her more compliments and things to praise you about! 🙂
Counting calories – Don’t count them
Cuckoo clocks – Don’t buy them, Cuckoo!
Broken dresser drawer rails- Fix them
Evangelism- it may help you! 😇
Tailgaters- Ride a bike or walk instead
Scattered cushions – Don’t scatter them
Unwanted gifts – 🎁 Be nicer and you may get gifts you want!
And now I will just go into my hole that I probably just dug with my golden shovel. I don’t like holes. 😉
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I will add the following word to each item on your agonizingly long list: Pffffffft!
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😂😂 I enjoy making you speechless!
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Uh, sorry to burst your bubble, but “Pffffffft” is a word.
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Close enough! I started this day off good. Now to go make some coffee. You forgot to add that to your list.
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I don’t drink coffee, so self-poisoning is not a pet peeve.
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Pfttt!
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It is kind of sobering to read
Thanksgiving is six months away – helps me have perspective on the year !
And ou pet peeves were funny
I can’t stand tailgaters too
And one of my pet peeves is when someone uses a bed pillow without a pillow case!
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Yes, sobering, the year is moving too fast!
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It’s about time you sobered up.
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“Haha!”
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That’s a terrible thing to do with a pillow. All pillows must have cases. If any guest did that with one of my pillows, I’d replace it with a cinder block.
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Hahahaha – a cinder block is a tough replacement – lol
My other pet peeve is when someone “marries” items in the kitchen
Don’t add the old mayo at the bottom to a new jar that is freshly opened
We make doggie chicken (for pet food) and don’t add the little bit left from Monday’s into the weekend fresh batch
I told my family I was going to make them sit down and watch OSHA videos if they kept it up – hahaha
Oh and no defrosting meat on the counter – people! Please stop
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Sounds like a recipe for food poisoning. Marrying items in the kitchen could lead to a quick divorce, in my house. But I hope you keep a stomach pump on standby, in your house.
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Well
It has stopped – hahaha – esp when I mentioned why we should not mix the old with the new –
Funny how giving the reasoning usually hells with behavior change
For example – when we had a teen still here – those towels on the bedroom floor – ugh!!
Then a mini lecture about damp towels and carpet health and odor – it led to change – towels were hung up
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That’s good. It’s nice when the people you live with are willing to listen to reason.
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😊
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And one more thing – regarding the evangelism? Well I am a Christian but try to be respectful and share when asked – anyhow / your pet peeve with that reminded me of a time my husband was invited to lunch – out of the blue – by this guy we thought was pretty cool. Anyhow – at lunch – the young man decided to have the “baptism talk” with my husband and when he came home – my husband was just shocked at how the guy went about this “schooling”
So what is worst than aggressive evangelism? In my view it is a Christian trying to correct you – or being mean and snarky in their dogma!
Sigh
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That’s aggravating being around someone like that. I have nothing against anyone’s religion, as long as they don’t pester me with it. There are little ways people share their beliefs with me, that don’t bother me at all. In fact, it can be good food for thought. But when it becomes a sermon or lecture, I just get bored and turn them off in my head.
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Yup! Turn off in the head is the way to go
– and wishing you a great rest of the week
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Same to you.
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With this posting you again won my heart. Lol xx Michael
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Thanks. I’m not sure what I will do with it, but perhaps I’ll set it on my fireplace mantle, next to my Fantasy Football trophy.
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Thanksgiving may be ok as just a day, but for Anti-Thanksgiving, can we extend it to a week? 😁 You can add to the list each day, then…
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Sounds good, but after about a week I think I’d start getting tired of bologna sandwiches.
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Not to worry, I have a solution AND an improvement! Make it 50 days and https://www.saveur.com/best-sandwich-recipes/ one sandwich per day!
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Those look like good sandwiches. But if I could eat one of those every day, I’d have nothing to complain about. This would render Anti-Thanksgiving Day moot.
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Not to worry, I can supply you with complaints via THE Complaints Choir, make sure you listen at least until the toilet paper bit… after that, you’ll be hooked, methinks…
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I got to the toilet paper part, and a little further, but I forgot to mention that another of my pet peeves is long videos. This choir seems to have quite a long laundry list of complaints. I’m sure glad I don’t live in Helsinki.
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Your list works for me. Sorry, you might be uncomfortable with how much we have in common!
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Not at all. In fact I’m comforted, as there’s strength in numbers.
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LOL!
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