I hate people that...

• insist on speaking another language to me when I've stated multiple times that I do not understand the language
• insist on disagreeing with something
• are close-minded
• people who dismiss my choices

I guess what I'm trying to get at is that sometimes, people really fucking annoy me.

Take an example that happened - oh, maybe two minutes ago? Probably three.

I've carpooled with this one girl for the past two years. I have not liked it.
To be more fair than I feel like being, it's probably not her fault. Mostly. I always feel unreasonably intimidated (not physically.) when I'm with her, because she seems to just be better.
Actually, who knows? Maybe those kinds of people do go out of their ways to cultivate their reputation like that.
I don't particularly care.

Anyway, her mother has been calling mine. (I'm out of town in Boston for a program, so I've been really busy.) My  mom just called her back. It turns out that she wants to carpool next year AGAIN, despite the fact that she (the girl) has a car and was supposed to be getting her own ride to school (again, really don't care.).

What she says now is that she wants to carpool, for reasons unknown.

She then proceeded to promptly dismiss one of my elective-electives (it doesn't even count as a class; it's a PSAT prep class that's an hour before school actually starts.) as 'stupid and pointless, it won't help [her] at all'.
Now, granted, I am in a fairly rigorous out-of-school SAT prep class (it's freaking good too.), my auto-response was 'what the fuck?'.

I think I'm granted to it.

What the fuck? Who the fuck is she to judge anyfuckingthing I want to do?!?!?!?!

Yeah.

It's really fucking annoying though, not to mention that it hurts. I guess it's something between 'do I really deserve that sheer lack of thought before blurting some random shit out?' and 'are my decisions really that bad?'.

Buuuuuuuuuuut anyway. On to dinner.

Stuff that pisses me off.

Number 1: certain types of parents.
My main rule (and this is me not having been in any sort of relationship or anything, and I'm from a loving household- you don't have to come from a broken household to appreciate the values of parents, believe it or not xP): do not have children if you will not be there or do not want them.
^this above does not in any way, shape, or form put forth an opinion on sex before marriage, young (consensual) sex, or children born out of wedlock. This just puts forth my opinion based off of what I've seen, mainly married couples that (in my opinion) should not have had children.

1. People who foist their children off onto others, be they kids or parents. I know at least two people (different families) that do that, the first with two kids (mostly the baby) and the other with three kids (one is three-ish, the other two are 1.5 year old twins), and this always strikes me the wrong way.
Is there any other way to take it? I mean, really.

2. People who are never at home. I know one family who I carpool with where the mom is a doctor, the dad is some high-ranking business-man-type-thing for a company, and the sister's in her freshman year of college (she just got back yesterday, as the college school year just ended. Mine will be ending sooooooon...). The son is the one I carpool with (although that's ending this year, gladly), and he seems to always be un-monitored.
Apart from this being a really crappy way to 'take care' of your children, this very effectively lets them get into who-knows-what kind of bad things.

Yeah. I hate bad parents.
That being said, I love my own very, very much.

Birthdays.

I'm so conflicted about these.
On the one hand- it's just simply nice.
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I'm sure there are more reasons, that will hopefully be coming soon...


Why I don't like them:
They're awkward. Unpleasantly, uneasily, awkwardly awkward.
I get the requisite phone calls (from across the world, three or four countries, actually). I do not like phone calls; I mentioned it earlier. I severely dislike phone calls, because THEY ANNOY ME. I am painfully awkward over the phone, and when it's a giant mass happy birthday whoo call, I freeze a little and stammer thanks and all that stuff.

I get the cards, mailed in from again, all over the world. They are all always generic, with a signature and maybe a little message. Oh, wait- sometimes it's not even a card. I got an EMAIL as a happy birthday wish. Not an e-card, either, which might have been remotely close to passable. I got a lovely three-line email, signed 'The ------ family'. I thought it was a little substandard...but who am I to be vaguely affronted?

Cake-cutting. Let me just say it again. Cake-cutting.
:sigh:
Again, how must I put it...it's awkward. People sing (and 99 times out of 10 [quoting a teacher of mine!] they're out of tune, offkey, or both), you stand and smile and pose for the cameras (because there have to be cameras), and if you haven't picked out the cake yourself, it won't be to your taste.

I know this for a fact, since mine is today :]
I had a horridly surprising yet well-meaning surprise cake-cutting on Saturday with a picnic of family friends and- hold on. Wait.



Never mind. I like birthdays.

Chatting About Precal- the epic love saga of two nerds.

Okay, so the title's sort of misleading. It's not a love saga so much as it is a huge pot of drama and side-long glances mixed in with a few over-analyzed texts and faux-death-threats.

My friend (let's call her K. I hadn't used my middle right finger for a while. I would've used 'I', but that would not have worked.) K liked this other guy (let's name him R! Left index finger time.) R. He, however, is a bit of a player (as much of a player as nerds can get -oh, ha ha ha.). Really though, he is/was/sort of. He chats up at least three girls, not including my friend, on a nearly daily basis.

Girl 1: she's actually already in a relationship- SHOCKER-. She is one of the two confirmed (nerd circle, again. Remember that.) couples we have. Oh wait- she's in the ONLY confirmed couple we have, since the other two broke up for some reason. Anyway, she's in a relationship. R knows her and the guy she's with. For some reason, he flirts with her all the time anyway. In front of him.

Girl 2: he supposedly really liked her, but...what can I say? He screwed it up. She has/had an on-off boyfriend, by the way, so I'm not sure whether he thought he actually had a chance or not. Anyway, (and this is from K who heard it from [apparently] Girl 1 who supposedly got it from R.), when he was trying to say 'I love talking to you', he said 'I love you'.
Understandably, she freaked out.

Girl 3: this isn't even really confirmed. He's just very talkative with her.

K: she finally asked him for help with precal homework. Eventually, she got his number and started texting and talking over Facebook. After his major ILY-screw-up, she tried to make him feel better, after which he indirectly called her a 'random person'. This made K 'not like him' anymore.
Despite this, when chatting with her, I used 'that you like him' in various different phrases, and she did not protest the tense.
Sadly, most of my friends have not matured mentally- they're going to get it bad in college.

Things I Don't Like AKA Hate

In no particular order:
Long fingernails.
Especially on guys. They look bad on girls too when girls don't do anything to them- in the sense that there's no polish, there's no design, there isn't really even cultivation; it's just growing. That's what looks disgusting to me. It's the same with toenails >_<
I myself almost never paint my fingernails, but I do always trim them. I occasionally paint my toenails.

THIS one really bugs me.
People who use 'yet' instead of 'but'.
I know a girl like this; she's in a lot of my classes, she was my science fair partner, and I think we're technically supposed to be friends [I mean...we are, but I don't really like her.], but she uses 'yet' in almost every sentence. Example: I think we should go to the mall, yet there could be people there.
The kicker is that I've never heard her use 'yet' properly ever, and I don't think I've ever heard her say 'but'.

FORGETTING THINGS.
Okay, that wasn't my actual dislike: I forgot this, and I had a really good one to put here too.

Replacement...replacement...let's go with phone calls.
I absolutely, positively detest phone calls. Everyone sounds weird on them, it's awkward as hell, and it's almost impossible to get off the call once you're talking.