Sunday, November 1, 2009

Likes and Dislikes

At the beginning of this year I posted my list of likes and dislikes. It is a working list so I thought I would share it again.

Things I like:
• Going to the bathroom and finding the toilet seat already up
• Uninterrupted sleep
• Unlocked doors
• Playoffs
• Good salsa
• Bunting with runners on first and second with nobody out
• Eating a home-cooked meal, especially one cooked by someone else
• Competition
• Straight-forward women
• Kings that hold up
• Good stand-up comedy
• Beer
• Getting put to sleep
• A drying rack for dishes (drying dishes is the only household chore I can think of that I can not do, and come back later and find it done)
• Forever stamps
• Having the weather warm enough that I can open a window during the day even in the winter
• Days off work
• Assigned seating on airplanes
• Non-stop flights (let's not be too greedy: short layovers)
• Air-drying after I shower
• Spanish Language Schools in other countries
• Wheat Thins
• Web Gems

Things I Don't Like:
• People driving slow in the fast lane
• Having to unlock the dumpster to throw away my trash
• California cell phone laws
• New versions of Microsoft Office
• That high-pitched really annoying noise made by certain old sinks and showers if they're at a specific water pressure.
• Showers and sinks that make that noise
• People wearing handsfree devices in public talking on their cell phones
• People wearing handsfree devices in public and not talking on their cell phones
• Clocks that tick loud enough that I can hear the ticking
• People being inconsiderate
• Students that sit there in class not doing anything
• Losing
• Getting put to sleep
• Getting my impacted wisdom teeth out
• Drive-thru's
• Listening to "commercial free" radio tell me who sponsors their station, and then listening to them asking me to donate. (I'm sure the rest of the audience, besides me, would be outraged if they went to commercial advertising).
• People with joint blogs that give no indication of which person is writing the blog.
• People that call, "shotgun"
• People that write, "thanks for the add" when someone adds them onto their social networking site
• When I e-mail myself and then 30 seconds later my phone beeps and I check to see who contacted me
• The fact that I have a phone that beeps when I get a new e-mail
• People on their cell phone at a baseball game waving to the camera, please don't do that
• Interviewing athletes during the game

6 comments:

Jeremy said...

Maybe you could indicate with an asterisk which items were new? Not to make you do more work.

Vickie Musni said...

I like that you had "getting put to sleep" on both lists. I'm sure that one depends a lot on the circumstance!

Anonymous said...

If you hate "Shotgun!" now, just wait until youhave kids between 8-16...Dave

Kevin said...

Jeremy, it has been 10 months since I posted it. If you don't want to read them all again just read a couple on the bottom of each list. Vickie, thanks for noticing. It was fun being put to sleep for the actual act, but the side effects that night were awful. Dave, not looking forward to it.

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Anonymous said...

Things you dislike but just don't realize it:
1. Listening to people rummage through your trash for glass bottles and aluminum cans.