Monday, September 20, 2010

I hate

  • When people think I'm lying.  I'm a very honest person.  And perceptive enough to tell when someone thinks I'm not telling the truth.
  • When adults think it's okay to ask really inappropriate personal questions because you're a kid.  Questions such as "You look heavier then last time I saw you.  How much do you weigh?" "You're twelve now, have you started menstruating yet?" "You're a little old for fifth grade.  Did you get held back?" People, would you ever ask another adult that?  And yes, these are actually real questions that adults have asked me.
  • Drinking something, feeling refreshed, then realizing you just drank out of a dirty cup.  It's just so gross!
  • Songs that require "audience participation".  If you're song is so lame it needs people to do hand motions or yell stuff at certain parts, you probably shouldn't be sung in front of anybody.  Besides, it makes us feel like we're in preschool.
  • Not having cheesecake.  Because I just read someones post on facebook about how much they wanted cheesecake.  And after reading that I really want some now too.  But I don't have any.  :-(
  • Cruelty to livestock.  I don't think eating meat is wrong.  I believe it would be healthier both for us and the environment if we ate less, but I believe meat can be a great source of protein, vitamins, and tastiness.  What I think is wrong is how much of the meat we buy in stores come from animals who never got the chance to go outside, but instead were stuffed in cages or stalls with so many other animals there wasn't room to move.  I also believe animals should get the chance to grow into adults before they die.  Not killed as babies, or fed hormones that speeds up the growing process.  And they should never be killed in long, painful ways.  They should be treated gently.
  • When people think I can't handle something because I'm young.  You make me even more determined.
  • Middle school girls.  I've met some that are amazing, but for the most part I can't think of any group of people who are more catty, two faced, or shallow.  Not all of them.  Maybe half of them at least though.  I never liked them as a kid, because they always acted so superior.  I didn't like them when I myself was a middle school girl, because they were plain mean.  And I don't like them so much now, because even though middle school girls now are different people then middle school girls I used to know, who are now high schoolers or young adults, the new middle school girls now aren't much different from the old ones.
  • Heavy vibrato.
  • When people way thinner then you complain about how fat they are.  Especially when they do it about people who are actually overweight.  Could you possibly be any less sensitive?
  • People who make false assumptions because I was homeschooled.  Yes, I have friends.  Yes, I know how to socialize.  Yes, I graduated.  Really I think somebody ought to write a book titled something like "Answers to All the Frequently Asked Questions About Homeschooling".  Maybe a little shorter though.  And then it should be required reading for everyone.
  • When you can tell your doctor is trying really hard not to roll their eyes at you.  It's not my fault I hate needles!  How would you feel if I stuck a huge spider on your arm and said, "Oh, when it bites you, it'll just hurt for a second."  Because I bet a lot of those doctors don't like big spiders.
  • When people are so flustered over that crying kid.  You know, the one in the airplane.  Or grocery store.  First of all I want to say there are certain parents who spoil their children, and train the children to be complete brats.  I get annoyed when I see that.  But lots of times there will be some mom who is doing a fine job as a parent, but nevertheless her child will still cry once in a while!  Maybe that baby has a bad cold.  Maybe that little girl had a bad day at preschool because nobody would sit with her.  Maybe that little boy's dog died yesterday.  Or maybe the kid is being a pill, but it's not because he's spoiled, it's because he's a little kid and doesn't know better.  So please people, stop glaring at that mom who is already probably embarrassed enough.  What do you want her to do, stick duct-tape over her child's mouth?
  • Mullets!
  • When people driving nice cars cut me off or try to wildly pass me just because my car is crappy.  I know my car isn't a ferrari, and I really don't care.  It's a car, and it gets me where I need to go.  And by cutting me off, it's not showing me how much cooler your car is then mine, it's just showing everybody you're a jerk.  Besides, driving aggressively to show off will get you in an accident, and do you really want an ugly dent in your shiny mustang?
  • My last name.  I mean no disrespect to my ancestors, but why couldn't you have picked something nicer?  It's hard to spell, and I'm tired of all these complications with banks and drivers-licenses from people spelling it Strangland or Strangeland or Stanglind.  And the sound of it.  It just makes me think of some body part.  Stang-gland.  Just think of some doctor saying, "Sir, I've reviewed your blood tests and it seems like we are having a problem with you left stang gland.  It's secreting pus and seems to be infected, but it's good we caught it early on.  If we had waited any longer it would've started to fester."  I guess most people wouldn't think that, but I always have.  I really want to marry someone with a nice last name.
  • Asian people getting eyelid surgery to make their eyes more "western" looking.  Ever since I was a little kid and saw an Asian person's eyes up close for the first time, I've admired the beauty of that almond-shape.  Why on earth would anybody in their right mind want to mess with that?
  • 80s music.
  • Mozart's music.  I'm not denying he was a genius, (I mean who could write something that complicated that would sound like a song still even if you played it in reverse?) but his music sounds so mathematical and inexpressive.  Not beautiful or moving in any way.  Plus my piano teacher used to make me learn all these boring songs from him when I was a kid, and I always hated learning them.
  • Little boys that burn bugs alive with magnifying glasses.  Okay I don't necessarily hate those little boys but I hate what they do to those poor bugs.
  • Out-of-tune sounds.  Like this one kid in band who always sat next to me and played flat no matter what.  And never fixed it.
  • Vomiting.  Is there anything more gross?  Painful?  Weird?  Uncomfortable?  Freaky?
  • Those tapes made for kids that have children singing along to tacky, synthesized background music.  They would play that kind of stuff for us church kids.  Little children with auto-tuned voices singing the same worship songs I heard adults singing, but without syncopation.  It didn't help me learn more about God, it just made me want to punch something.  I love Veggietales, because they make music for kids that's not all watered-down dumb and auto-tuned or sung by voices that make me think of horror movies.
I have a lot more things, but I can't think of them right now.  Soon I'll make a post about things I love.

1 comment:

  1. You hate being poked too. And how I don't always adore my freckles. (P.S. Fun word to say. Freckle. Frackle. Pretzel freckle frackle..)

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