Just think.....all of the grumpy, curmudgeonly, bellyachers of the world have a day set aside just to honor them. Well, maybe not honor but, most certainly, it gives the rest of the world reason to ponder grouches, curmudgeons, and bellyachers......which is what I have been doing.
To begin, allow me to ponder what makes a person grouchy?
I cannot speak for anyone other than myself but here are some things that make me ornery and grouchy:
- Calling a national customer service number and being connected to a service representative that cannot communicate effectively with me
- Hiding a cookie in the freezer and having someone else find it and eat it
- My feet finding cat litter on the floor
- My cat trying to bite me when I brush her long hair
- People who are too lazy to properly prepare their paper recycling on a windy night. In the morning, their paper has blown all over everyone else's property.
- The fall smolderers. These are the people who do not know how to burn leaves properly and who have never heard of the wonders of what water from a garden hose can do to put out leaf fires. And we wonder why burning ordinances have to be enacted?
- People who park diagonally across two parking spaces
- Not standing when singing hymns in church
- Not having printed music to sing to during praise-music services
- People who pronounce "Illinois" as "Ellinois". Let's get our vowel sounds correct
- Yard-care workers who do a haphazard job of removing leaves. No, it is not OK to leave leaves all over the shrubbery.
- Over-sized boxes filled with too many packing peanuts that some companies use to ship tiny contents
- The incorrect usage of the asterisk in a church bulletin
- Spam email
- Spam snail mail
- Growing older. I am becoming my grandparents, who were not reserved when it came to expressing their opinions. Very scary.
Ancora imparo
