I'm not overly cynical or critical. The surrounding world just repeatedly fails to meet my standards and expectations.
Please don’t print this e-mail unless you really need to! - You are trying my patience.
The statement at the end of e-mails Consider the environment before printing this e-mail has is now being rephrased as Please don’t print this e-mail unless you really need to! (Like I need another exclamation mark in my life…)
Well, exactly […]
People not paying attention to the movie you’re watching – you are trying my patience.
When watching TV it’s somewhat acceptable to pay less attention. It is after all a machine of perpetual unintellectial superficial - imagined or real - entertainment.
When watching a rented video you paid for it’s stupid. You wanna pay and then not […]
Easy Iron shirts, and the clerks in the store that you retail - you are trying my patience.
I’m out shopping and I see this white shirt with an Easy Iron sticker on it.
I’m curious as to if this means that the shirt is easy to iron or that it needs no ironing.
I’m sincerely hoping that […]
News headlines that aren’t news - you are trying my patience
From today’s paper’s front page: “7-year-old run over by schoolbus - died“.
How is that news? How?
“7-year-old run over by schoolbus - lived“. That would have been news!
And immediately following the headline there’s a highlighted quote from a representative from the bus company saying “It’s […]
E-mail senders enclosing the phrase Consider the environment before printing this e-mail at the end - you are trying my patience.
OK, you sent me an e-mail. OK, I’m considering the environment. Now what?
Maybe if you sent me shorter e-mails without unnecessary additions to your already abundant signature, it wouldn’t take so many sheets to print […]