Just some things that drive me incredibly crazy. Peeves of the pet variety, if you will.

1.Knives blade up in the dishwasher. No good. It’s like “Are you trying to kill me? Is there something I should know?”

2.When the dishwasher door is left open, and you are walking by and bam! Bruise on the leg.

3.Not a pet peeve of mine, but my friend Goochie here hates it, and I mean HATES IT, when people drive in the left lane with no intention of passing.

4.When you are walking around your house in socks, and you go into your bathroom, and you don’t know it, but your bathroom floor is wet, and then your socks get wet, and you have to go find another clean pair, and yada yada yucky.

5.When your windshield wipers are getting old, and they don’t quite wipe off all the rain that’s coming down, and leave that mushy fuzz in the middle of your windshield which is almost worse than if you hadn’t turned on your wipers at all. Ew.

6.When people assume that Utah Mormons are somehow inferior/superior to non-Utah Mormons.

7.When you go the whole day without spilling a single thing on your white shirt/pants, having braved enchiladas, poopy diapers, and the ever-staining Spaghetti-O’s, only to spill toothpaste on yourself when you’re brushing your teeth that night. I now only brush my teeth in jammies.

8.The phrase- “Can I ask you a question?” Um…I think you just answered yourself there.

9.When people say “I hate to say this, but….” Then DON’T say it! I don’t want to be the recipient of gossip that you “hate” so much that you must spread it around.

10.Menus that don’t explain what’s in the food. I do not like ordering something that I’m really looking forward to, only to have to endure an evening of picking out, or eating around, the demon weed of cilantro. I’ve learned to ask if it’s in anything beforehand. It bugs me that I have to do that. Restaurants should be clear on their policy of adding demonic herbs to food.

That’s mainly it. I am sure I can think of others as the night wears on, but I’ll let MMW readers take it from here.