10 Things I Don't Like

a lighthearted post inspired by the Facebook "challenge" asking friends to comment with something I don't like

Things I Don't Like (in no particular order)*

1) Pesto

2) Quotes from other things at the beginning of book chapters

3) When people don't understand when to "answer like Jeopardy." If you're playing a question-and-answer game and you're asked a question, like "What is 2 + 2?" you don't say, "What is 4!" The only reason you have to give the answer backwards in Jeopardy is because they are giving you the answer  and you're giving the question: "This simple addition problem feature two of the same number to equal four." Response: "What is 2 + 2?"

4) Wearing "real pants" (i.e., any pants that aren't athletic or sweatpants)

5) Most female characters**

6) When people pronounce the plural of process as "processeez." To me, that is only the correct pronunciation when the "eez" is the only indication of the word's being plural. Thesis/theses. Parenthesis/parentheses. Hypothesis/hypotheses. You can add "es" to the word "process" and we know it's plural because it already sounds like it's plural. Stop it with your pretentious eez.***

7) When drivers slow down before putting their turn signals on. It goes signal, slow down, turn.

8) The smell of flowers

9) Stepping in water when I'm wearing socks

10) Lists with a number of items that is one away from a multiple of 5

~Stephanie

* This list is NOT to be confused with the list of Things I Hate, which is far, far longer and more impassioned.

** Recently realized that what I might actually dislike is "poorly written female characters," which is, unfortunately, most of them these days.

*** There's a chance this should've been moved to the Things I Hate list, but see #10.