I'm a wife and mother living in Houston, TX. I have three children, Soli, Alex and Sara. I work full-time and my husband, Marty, stays at home with our children and goes to school at night. Please, don't ever call him "Mr. Mom".

Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Pet Peeves

1) When someone calls you on the phone and the conversation goes something like this:

Me: Hello?

Caller: Who's this?

Okay, now I understand if you're calling your own home and hear a voice of someone you don't recognize on the other end. But, if you are calling a house that is not your own, it's presumed that you know who you are calling. I don't care if there are 14 people that live in the house. Ask for the person that you want by name. My answer to the above question:

Me: Once you figure that out, please call back. *dial tone*

2) PLS’s or, Parking Lot Stalkers:

These are the people that are so lazy they’d rather wait in their car for someone to pull out of a closer space then drive for another 2 seconds to a space a couple of places further from the store. Usually it’s a giant gas-hogging SUV that places itself in the middle of the driving lane, so you have no choice but to wait for their lazy asses to park so that you can continue to drive to find your own parking space.

We were at “the store that is the devil” this weekend, and we were lucky to get the first spot near the store. As we walked back to our vehicle, a woman decided to wait for us to load our two cartloads of purchases, our toddler and ourselves into our vehicle so that she could have our spot. This took about 10 minutes in total. The amusing thing about this is: the spot in right in front of our vehicle (hidden by our minivan, I’m sure) remained unoccupied until right before we drove off. It wasn’t like it was a busy day at the store and she didn’t seem infirmed in any way; just lazy.

3) Male Chivalry

Being that I’m originally from Missouri and have only lived in Texas now for about 4 years, I’m not really used to some of the “polite” male gestures to women. I suppose I don’t have an issue with it in general, but there is one act in particular that drives me crazy:

I’m in the back of an elevator with a couple of men towards the front. We’re all getting off at the same time. When the elevator door opens, they wait, IN MY WAY, for me to get off the elevator. Dude! Get out of my way already! Is it really that chivalrous to force someone to walk around a maze of men to get out of the elevator just so that you can say, “Well, we let her off first”. Give me a break.

4) People who live in your house for free, eat your food for free are over the age of 20 and not married to you, but who argue with you about things involving your house:

Such as whether or not they should be able to cut their toenails on your dining room table.

Dude! I don’t care how much food my toddler daughter spread all over the table and left to dry, toenail pieces on my table is gross and I said STOP IT!