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12 hours ago, MitchW said:

Is that a vocal "tic," or just using language in a way which annoys you?

Because I think of a vocal tic (for instance), as the way a whole generation or two of people say the words "Thank You," with some weird inflection when they say the word "you."

It's not literally a vocal tic at all, but just a way of describing people constantly, and in this case totally unnecessarily, using a word or phrase without even knowing it. "So I was like..." is notorious. But please go ahead and disagree of course.

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Sadly, Merve Emre, a New Yorker writer, professor at Wesleyan and podcast host chose to use the term "cringe" as an adjective several times in a recent podcast. I hope she stops because I like her work.

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I think its a later generation's resurrection of Germain "thanks".

52 minutes ago, small h said:

I knew that, but I'm still confused by "dank."

I was recently amused by an 11 year old grand-sprog snidely explaining to me that his peers had developed a language unintelligible to older generation.    So they can talk behind our backs while in earshot.   While I understand the vital importance of staying in touch with youth's thinking, I had to bite my tongue to refrain from telling him that most of their chatter was of little/no interest to me.    Hard to walk the tight-rope.

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Just trying to open a bottle of hoisin sauce and my knife skips off the foil wrapper and I stab myself.

Not badly. Really trivially. But I sit here in the odor of tea-tree oil, pressing the wound, and thinking thanks universe.

But the dirty secret is that I used the knife because I didn't want to mess up my nails.

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The self-stabbing was pointless. I reached into my jeans pocket to grab a handkerchief today and broke a nail on one of those little rivets.

Manicures are $20, so there's two bucks down the drain.

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I begin by saying that this happened in the country that invented logic.

Before we left for Athens, I bought noon entry tickets to the Acropolis, one of them a "senior" ticket (not for me, 'cause I'm not quite there yet). I presented the tickets to the gate agent, and he said senior tickets were only for EU members. Okay, no problem, happy to pay the additional cost. Nope, I have to buy a whole 'nother ticket. Well, not super thrilled about that, but fine. Ah, but they are sold out of noon tickets, and the next available entry is 6pm.

I immediately went into WTF mode. I have two tickets. There is already space reserved for us. How can the noon tickets be sold out, when I am holding two of them, and one can simply be exchanged for another ticket at a higher price? The gate agent wouldn't budge. It took us about 40:00 of arguing with two other people before we were finally ushered in, past the gate agent, who started yelling (luckily, I understand almost no Greek).

Behold, the Acropalypse!

The crowd thinned out once we got through the entrance, thank Athena.

 

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Went to my Whole Foods this morning to restock after a long stretch of travel. Arrive to find a completely full parking lot @ 7:15 am. And no available carts. No way this is people shopping for Mother's Day. Did someone announce the apocalypse and for get to tell me?

Close. The store was clearing its inventory to move to a new location this coming week. Place was an absolute zoo. Shoppers thinking they are audtioning for the Hunger Games. All the "good stuiff" already stripped from the shelves. I thought about leaving, but nothing fresh in the refigerator at home. And the produce depsartment relatively calm. I am glad I didn't leave. Even with the 45 minutes spent waiting to check out. Every single item in my cart was 50% off. If I'd known that, I might have looked to see if there was anything else shelf stable I needed/wanted. Oh well. Saved $72. (which made me think their margins are a lot higher than I even thought...)

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Your experiences at the Acropolis sent me into a deep depression as I recalled our visits with our then pre-teen son.   We waltzed onto the Acropolis at our convenience, often returning after dinner to enjoy its moonlit magic, spur of the moment visits to museums throughout Athens and Crete, Florence's Uffizi and Pitti, a dozen Roman sites including the Vatican museums, all without need much less thought of reservations.    And even then, seasoned travelers taunted us with stories of  old days when travel was so much easier!

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