Pet Peeves

Pet Peeves, I have a few, I bet you do too.  Let’s see if any of them match up to move from pet peeve to pain in the tush status.

I love pump top lotion bottles, but the problem comes in when the pump no longer does its thing and there is still a quarter of a bottle of lotion left.  Couldn’t they make the tube just a bit longer, say actually reach the bottom of the container? The handy pump on top effectively prevents you from turning the bottle upside down unless you balance it against your toothbrush holder and the wall.  That is a rather tenuous position and seldom lasts for long.  It is annoying when  you have to unscrew the pump top and smack the lotion into your hand and attempt to stand the partial bottle upside down again.  I’ve even tried to stand one partial bottle on top of another partial bottle but that pyramid never holds up.  

I’ve heard of people cutting the plastic container in order to scoop out the lotion,  I see that as an accident waiting to happen.  I’m sure the slippery lotion and a butcher knife are not compatible.  My solution:  As soon as the pump stops working I store the container and  open a new bottle of lotion, when the new one is about half empty I pull out the old one, toss the pump, and begin the tap dance.  Tapping both partial bottles together.  Initially that feels like it might work until the top bottle burps and lotion spews all down the side of the second bottle.  After spending 15 minutes trying to get the last drop of lotion I finally toss the first bottle.  I’ve usually saved about 2 tablespoons of lotion.   

Grocery shopping is always a chore and on my last trip to the store I picked up a four pack of Kleenex, at least I thought they were Kleenex, turns out I grabbed the store brand by mistake.  In my defense the boxes  looked very similar, and were stacked right next to each other.  Who would guess Fry’s would be so devious?  When I pulled out the first Kleenex wanna be it was still attached to the second tissue.  I said to myself, ‘Oh well, it’s just an anomaly’, then it happened again and again, over time I realized all of these tissues are attached in one long string.   You shouldn’t have to use two hands to pull out a tissue. Not to be deterred, I opened another box and exactly the same thing happened.   I’m a relatively patient person  (NOT) but I could see this was going to be an ongoing frustration that was not worth putting up with.  I sent two unopened boxes of wanna be Kleenex to the Goodwill and added KLEENEX in bold letters to the grocery list.   

The age old question: does the toilet paper roll from under the roll or over the top?  I’m assuming most people have a preference and if you are like me the preference is important.  There will be no willy nilly toilet paper rolling at our house.  It always rolls over the top.  Might be something to check out before you say ‘I Do.’  No sense each of you changing it back and forth every day for the next 50 years.  

While we’re on the potty topic, should the lid on the toilet be kept up for easy access or down to hide the potty bowl.  I’m not talking about the gentlemen lifting the ring and forgetting to put it down, that is a deal breaker.  I like the top lid down, after all why do they make those cute fuzzy lid covers. I admit I find myself checking the potty after a guest has left, I detest seeing that yawning toilet.  I mean why would the potty have a lid in the first place if it wasn’t meant to hide the bowl.

Is it just me or does it annoy you that Costco moves everything around at night while we are sleeping.  Wouldn’t it be easier for them to simply restock the shelves just the way there were on Tuesday? I realize Mr. Costco wants us to wander around the store searching for a familiar item that was on aisle 5 last week but is now on aisle 16.  He anticipates we’ll discover something on aisle 16 that we can’t live without and toss it into the cart while the Costco devil smiles with glee. 

Do you ever wonder why cereal comes with those crummy bags that require a scissor to open and then never close again?  Maybe we could introduce the Mr. Kellogg to Mr. Steven Asnit, the guy who invented the Zip Lock bag.

These life annoyances might be just the tip of the iceberg.  Quick what annoys you!