It's been about 1.5 years since I graduated, and I've learned a lot about doing things for myself, but that doesn't mean I haven't gotten increasingly annoyed along the way.
1-People who are dumb making my life more difficult. I shouldn't have to explain things to people about THEIR job. I also shouldn't have to spend 20 minutes calling you because you make a mistake.
2-Health Insurance. No, actually I didn't buy health insurance so you can call everything a "pre-existing condition" just because I switched health insurance. No, its going to be a little difficult to get you continuing coverage letters for the last year since the laws say that I had to have separate health insurance for the 3 months of summer before I went back to school last August as a full-time student and then was able to switch back onto my dad's. I literally shudder at the thought of how much more messed up it will get in Obama's hands. Let's hope we can stall him for the next two years.
3-Car Problems. I really find it a big imposition to even put gas in my car. I wish a little leprechaun would jump out and do it for me while I sleep at night (I hear from certain individuals that I essentially can get this service once I obtain a husband, especially if I drive circles around the neighborhood until it's low enough). You can thus imagine how annoyed I feel when something actually goes wrong with my car or it needs service. Even more inconvenient is the fact that I have to take it in on a Saturday morning. I'm hoping this improves now that I have rid myself of my high maintenance car.
4-Landlords. I could write a novel on how awful ours is, but at least she fixes our problems (even if they are always "our fault"). I can't imagine how awful some people have it with the slumlords who leave your apt flooded for a week etc. Let's just say it'd be really helpful if mine had an American accent and I couldn't see her back fat from her open sari whenever she came over.
5-Grocery Shopping. I actually really like picking out food cause, duh, I love eating, but I wish I could increase the laziness factor expontentially and just pick it out from say my living room. I try to make a point in going at off hours, but who wants to carry groceries to your door at night. I get frustrated at the annoying people who leave their carts in the aisle, or look at the food by standing exactly in the middle of the aisle as if no one else is around. In my part of town, there are also the fan rats who smell, look a mess, and complain about the lack of vegan food and ask their friend if "they can just go to trader joe's". Yeah, cause trader joe's is reallll hipster. Then there is the self-checkout, which I prefer because I avoid human interaction and, in the case of
Ukrop's Martin's, the awkward walk to my car with the bagger. However, self-checkout technology has not accounted for the reusable bag. This is annoying and makes me feel retarded when really it is the incompetency of the system.
6-Street Parking. This one is unique to me because I live in the city and have to park on the street. I'm a pretty fearless parallel parker at this point (just creep until you feel a tap, then you know its times for the opposite direction), but as usual its the OTHER people that annoy me. Mainly the fan rats who are living 8 to a
tenament apartment and have their beat up, decal ridden hoopty's leave little space for me to park. It's also sad when the best time to get a space is about 4:30 and 10:30 at night cause that it either when they go to their restaurant jobs or go "out" to do Lord knows what.
6-Paying Bills. No, not the actual losing of the money. That's obvious. I mean the actual act of paying the bills. It's time consuming and annoying. I need a leprechaun to do that too (or someone with a Masters in Accounting who will also put gas in my car). Know of anyone?
7-No Summer. Seriously summer, you mean nothing to me except you make me feel hot all the time and raise my AC bill. I haven't gone on a bonafide, legitimate vacation in two summers. I had a total of three days laying out. My "tan" is what most people look like in, ehhh, October. This also includes lack of time off. No more "mental health days" after college. Or if you do take them, it's gonna cost ya (and probably only worsen your mental health)
8- Cooking. This is especially hard when you have a non-functioning kitchen. I pretty much stick to boiling water, oven use, and microwave use. I long for the days of my kitchen being clean, new, full of counter space, and containing a big, beautiful mixer. It's a hard knock life being in between a real house and college dining hall. Let's just say that my view of what constitutes a "dinner" has changed.
9-Making Appointments. Dr's appointments. Dog Appointments. Car Appointments. Repairmen Appointments. Meetings. Making them and keeping them-I'd rather not do it, thanks.
10-Responsiblity. I feel like I have a pretty good grasp on this one, and this is the one that is truly the worst. I've noticed that a lot of people my age have still not really gotten ahold of this concept yet, and there's no sight of them really grapsing it in the near future. It's the whole notion of being accountable for your actions and actually taking the reigns on your life. It's not waiting around for other people to do things for you, but doing them yourself. Most importantly, it's DOING THINGS YOU DON'T WANT TO DO. It kills me when people complain about this (ok, I
sometimes often complain, but I complain and then do it anyways. See the difference there?). I see it so often. People who would literally rather live a horrible life than do anything they don't want to. How much longer til they figure it out? It's a lot harder, but it feels pretty great.
