Petty Annoyances

This is it. We've had a good run here on Petty Annoyances, but I'm bringing this journal to a close. Not permanently, maybe, but for...

I hate you, ice cream man. Every day, for two full hours, the ice cream man makes his rounds outside my bedroom window. He's there from ...

101. The insane difficulty of the average text adventure. 102. The black Chuckle. 103. Someone walking in front of you - just fast enough th...

Purchasing a Small Quantity of Toilet Paper Why would anyone ever not buy the absolute largest package of toilet paper available in the stor...

I think I may be having a rare change of heart. I use to be an enthusiastic supporter of these monolithic, ginormous cookie cutter planned r...

Camping Let me try to make the case against camping as succinctly as possible. Imagine that you go to the zoo one day. You have a great ol...

An excessive number of fictional protagonists in film, books and television are named Jack. Way more than there should be. But so what?, one...

We're all aware, surely, how commercialism keeps creeping deeper and deeper into baseball. We've all seen the slow roasting spit of ...

"When analyzing a marketing opportunity," said the professor on the first day of my new marketing class, "you want to stay go...

This post has nothing to do with potpourri. I love potpourri. Put out a bowl of it next to a bowl of Terra brand chips to delight and confus...

Do you know how often I get shaken down for cash by all the schools I've ever gone to? College, high school, even grade school . I get l...

Let's venture out on some thin ice. I've been annoyed for years at the way race is handled in commercials. I've never said an...

81. A 5 way intersection 82. Ghostwritten autobiographies 83. When someone you're sharing food with covers the entire portion with...

On December 25th, I made an interesting observation. It was about Christmas music. You know by now I'm sure how much I hate the annual a...

Time Magazine's Person-of-the-year award just annoys the hell out of me. And for so many, many reasons. It's POTY season just about ...