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   Okay, it's late. It's 2 AM, and I should call it a night. But, for some reason I'd rather write this silly post just for kicks...

   I've got quite a few pet peeves. I admit it. But not too long ago I saw something that just make me smile... and maybe it shouldn't have. Maybe.

   I hate texting. 

   I really hate it. It is the single most time-wasting, and destructive habit a person can engage in that threatens the preservation of written language, and communication in general. (I don't think I'm overstating it.)

   But nothing beats the irritation I feel when I see a person walking down the street while texting. Oohhh man, that gets the blood pressure up.

   The other day, however, while I was maneuvering through the rush hour streets of Manhattan on my way home, I saw a woman pulling a wheeled suitcase in one hand while texting with the other, and just as I was passing her, I happened to glance in her direction when "WHAM!", she walked right into a wall.

   My first instinct was to laugh. Not out loud, but surely inwardly. But after I though about it- the embarrassment she must have felt, the potential injury she could have suffered, or her severely limited attention span she must be suffering from that causes her to text while walking in the first place- after I considered all these... I laughed some more.

   And you know... I'm still laughing.

   I'm sorry. but that was pretty funny, but it's also sad that this is where we've come to as a culture.

   So, for the fun of it, what are some of your pet peeves? I'm curious.

   Here's another one of mine: When a man sits with his legs crossed so that his pant leg is hiked up higher than his sock exposing a bit of his hairy leg. ...Gyah! Man, that will make me get up and move to another seat on the train, thank you very much.

   How can I read with that thing staring at me?! 

   Wow... okay... anyone else?

   (Hmm.... on second thought, maybe I should have gone to bed.)