Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Top 10 List of Annoyances and Irritants -- Letterman Style


Fellow Grouches,

As promised a week or two ago, I am posting my Top 10 List of Annoyances and Irritants.  If these look familiar, you'll find that many of them have been the subject of my postings over the past years.  See if you can find one or two you agree with or write me with any others of your own.

Here they are in reverse order:

11.  (This one is a bonus.)  Those slick little bags used in the produce department of your local grocery store to bag fruits and vegetables; you have to rub them together at the top just right to get them to open.

10.  Sports events (read: World Series games) that last until midnight

 9.   Gas service stations that are unable to dispense a receipt at the pump

 8.   Kinky garden hoses

 7.   Daylight Savings Time

 6.  Pill bottles with print too small to read

 5.  Items purchased in packaging that can only be opened with a blow torch

 4.  Trains without cabooses

 3.  Remote control devices

 2.  Battery-powered home smoke detectors that beep only at night

 1.  Mercants who display their Christmas goods before Halloween (this year's prime culprit: 
          Walmart (for the 3rd consecutive year)

There you have it.  Not sure ol' Dave could have done better. Next time, maybe the gg will post a Top 10 list of reasons to do away with Top 10 lists.

gg


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Welcome, fellow grouches. Come in, put on a frown and make yourselves at home. According to my family and friends, I've been a grouch for quite some time. I turned 65 a couple of years ago so now not only am I a grouch but an official geezer to boot. A Grouchy Geezer! (But truth be known, I'm a grouch only on days ending in a "Y").

My purpose here is to share some of the things I've observed and experienced over the course of my life that have peeved, annoyed and irritated the crap out of me. Things that helped make me into The Grouchy Geezer. As fellow grouches, I feel sure you, too, have encountered similar things in your lives that have peeved, annoyed and irritated the crap out of you as well. If so, you'll have the chance to share them on this site.

The format is simple. From time to time I will post a pet peeve based on a particular life experience or observation or something currently in the news or in the culture that makes me grouchy.

This will be a free and open board and anyone is welcome to comment. You may comment on my peeve or relate one of your own. Any topic is fair game as long as it is something that makes you grouchy. The only requirement is that you use good taste and refrain from personal attacks. Use of profanity will make me even grouchier and bar you from further access to the site. That means you will have to grouch to your wife, not on here.

None of this is to say that uplifting banter is not encouraged. By all means, if you have something to say that is inspiring or that might force other readers to have to suppress a smile, let us hear it. But don't overdo it; after all, it's our grouchiness that defines and unites us and makes this blog possible.

GG