We all have our pet peeves. There are those little things in life that really push our buttons, and they often tend to be small or insignificant to anything and everything. Some of these pet peeves we have actually serve no purpose in our lives other than to make us angry. Some of them tend to have no impact on how we live our daily lives, while other have a constant influence on the way we do things.

Over the last two weeks, I have been narrowing down my list of pet peeves to my top five. It took me two weeks because I realized that while I was trying to think of what little things pissed me off, I had WAY more than I thought. This literally became a research project of my mind, almost like a brain scan for all those little things that drive me insane.


Here are my findings in a top five list:

5) Sinus Headaches – I have been getting sinus headaches a lot. I don't just mean in the last month, but I mean since I was 16. The first time I had a sinus headache, I thought I was having an aneurism. To have that kind of pain in the front of my head… clearly I was dying.

Come to find out later that it was nothing more than compacted snot in my face that was causing me such pain and displeasure.

Not only did I find this gross, but it made me angry. I used to think the worst part about snot was when you'd have a cold and it would decide to only plug up one nostril at a time, constantly switching back and forth from nostril to nostril throughout the day. Or perhaps the worst part was when you were an eight year old kid walking down busy Harlem road in Cheektowaga, New York and you sneezed super hard only to later find out you shot an astonishing amount of booger onto the bare skin of your leg.

But while those were annoying, I've realized that having snot pack itself up in your head is far worse because it's more than an annoyance. It a pain. A bad fucking pain.

Thanks to the roller coaster weather patterns and ridiculous amounts of pollen which tend to grace the wonderful air of Charlotte, North Carolina, I have been getting two or three sinus headaches a week.

I'm seriously about ready to stab myself in the face in hopes that the pressure will be released through one of my opened puncture wounds.

At least right now I'm feeling good, but tomorrow is a new day and possibly a different story. I'm actually almost convinced that sinus headaches are God's way of punishing me for doing something wicked that I shouldn't have done. If I'm getting them two or three times a week… I really should consider changing my ways a little bit.


4) The Baywatch Theme Song – This song pisses me off for the sole fact that it becomes embedded in my head for about three days after I hear it. In fact, it becomes embedded in my head when I haven't heard it.

The truth of it is that it's already embedded in my head, it just depends on when it chooses to rear its ugly head that I notice.

This has been happening since my first year of college. I fell asleep one night with the TV on (which I do every night anyways), but there was a Baywatch marathon on TV that night. As I slept, the folds and crevices in my brain recorded and stored this theme song as it played for what I believe to be at least eight goddamn times throughout the night, and then stored them deep inside the core of my brain to torture me for years to come.

For no reason whatsoever, I now find myself every once in a while singing this theme song without even realizing it. It's like my brain is the oven, the Baywatch theme song is the batch of brownies, and one day those baked goodies are done and I take them out to cool off.

It's when I realize that there I am, yet again singing the Baywatch theme song to myself that I lose a little self respect. It really sucks to know that Pamela Anderson, The Hoff, and that crack whore Yasmine Bleeth have had that big of an impact on my life.


3) Comment Beggars (this really only applies to MySpace)– This one needs to stop. While I'm actually believing myself to be half retarded for even letting this get on my nerves, I cannot stand it when someone posts 14 bulletins in about five hours on MySpace telling people to go comment on their new pictures.

The way I see it, one bulletin will suffice. Simply make a post that informs people of your new pictures, and leave it at that. If for some reason you have hardly gotten any comments within that first day, then go ahead and leave another bulletin. After that, it's simply annoying.

If people don't comment after the first time you post a bulletin, there's the chance that they missed it, but if they haven't commented after the second bulletin, that means your pictures were one of three things: Not good enough to comment on, look exactly like all of your other damn pictures, or you've simply annoyed that person so much by posting repeated bulletins that they've simply boycotted you and refuse to leave comments.

If you want more comments, stop posting so many goddamn bulletins begging for it and take more interesting pictures so you don't have to bug the sh*t out everyone.


2) My Memory – This one had me super pissed today. I don't think it could have happened at a worse, yet better time.

As I stated earlier, I have been narrowing down my list in my head for the last two weeks. I had my list compiled and ready to go in my head and I sat down to type this blog.

As I sat here and numbered my top five list. I could only remember four of the things that annoyed me. I had forgotten what the hell one of them was.

I distinctly remembered what order they all went in, but number two was missing. It was after much deep thought, swearing, and the phrase, "Goddamnit I hate my f**king memory!" that it finally dawned on me what number two was on the list. I was actually going to use a completely different example to place emphasis on my bad memory… but this example was just too fitting. And too ironic.


1) Guys with Long Fingernails – This one is the icing on the cake. This is the sort of thing that has the power to make me literally leave a room out of anger because of how much it bothers me. I won't be surprised if one day I'm driven to violence over this issue.

Men, listen to me and listen to me carefully. The reason it is socially acceptably for women to have long fingernails is because it's long been attributed as being feminine. Even though I personally enjoy short fingernails on women, I find it acceptable when they have long nails because it's a F**KING FEMENINE QUALITY.

But for males… there is no excuse. I don't care if you play guitar or do cocaine, you need to cut that shit. It's disgusting and it looks lazy when you don't cut your fingernails, and I'm sure that most women will agree with me when they say that on a scale of 1-10 attractiveness, this ranks at a "I can't even rate this because it's making me sick to my stomach."

Not only do I think it looks gross, but when I see long fingernails on a guy my immediate first thought is "what does he do with fingernails that long?"

I believe that about 90% of guys with long fingernails use it for "picking at stuff" purposes. I don't care to elaborate on what those things are, but you can use your imagination to finger it out. OH GOD! I mean figure it out! FIGURE IT OUT!

And in keeping with the tradition of short fingernails, I should also make a mention of toenails. I actually tend to hate feet as a whole, but didn't feel the need to mention that on my top five list because usually they are covered with shoes where as hands I have to see on a constant basis. However, if you have long fingernails and your toenails are anywhere near as bad… just go move back into your mother's basement please. If you're not already there.

It literally takes all but two minutes and twice a week to keep those cuticles in check. So please for the love of God… do something about it and stop being lazy and long finger nailed. I swear to God hat if this trend doesn't ease up soon, I'm going to start driving around with syringes and I'm going to inject every one of these dudes with pure estrogen.

Now I think some of you out there should share some of your pet peeves. What annoys you the most?

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