10 Things That Frustrate Me – Part I

I decided that I need to break away from the geeky stuff and post something else.  Below is a list of things that frustrate me day-to-day.  Some are work related, other things are just the environment that we live in today…

1. People who claim they know a lot more than they really do
2. Drivers that drive less than the speed limit when the weather is perfect
3. Pigeons – do I need to explain?
4. 90 degree weather in April – Arizona was not the only place this year!
5. People who come to a garage sale and offer $2 on an item marked $20 that is worth $50
6. Having to press 2 for English… having to look for the English section on instructions… going to Wal-Mart and seeing everything written in Spanish… driving down I-17 and seeing all the billboards in Spanish… American schools teaching English as a SECOND language!!
7. Most unions – Especially teachers unions…. one of many things destroying America’s education system
8. Lotus Notes – only 9 steps to flag an email for follow-up, 4 to remove that flag.  What, search by email subject?  That’s silly…
9. Taxes – we get taxed on the gas that fills the car that we got taxed on to get to work earning a paycheck that has taxes removed so we can pay for a house that gets taxed and to buy food that gets taxed… chewing gum that was taxed… watching cable TV that is taxed… using water that is taxed… electricity… just to die and have the money that we wish to leave to our children taxed.  I am surprised they have not found a way to tax the balance on revolving credit accounts!
10. People who are afraid to be told they failed or did not do well or as well as others… I can write a book about this one!  Get over it!  America (and most of the world for that matter) was built on the many who failed and the few who succeeded.  We would not have the great technology and scientific knowledge we have today if it were not for those failures that motivated another to push forward.