Things I "Hate"

These are the items that I had a visceral reaction against putting on the Things I Don't Like list because I feel like I more than "dislike" them.

Things I "Hate"
1) When people stop at parking lot intersections when they aren't the ones who have the stop sign

2) Physical touch when I'm frustrated. If I'm in pain or mad, the WORST thing you can do is put a "reassuring" hand on my arm.

3) When people try to "type" other people with the Enneagram. That's like the #1 Enneagram faux pas. You do not type other people. You tell them that the Enneagram exists and point them to resources if they're interested and THEY figure out their type for themselves.

4) When people take an online quiz and think they know their Enneagram type. Nope. It takes some research and reading and soul-searching. For the people I know who already know their Enneagram type, online quizzes guess wrong like 95% of the time.

5) Spoilers. I don't care how long the movie/show/book has been out. Spoilers are never okay. I can tell you the names of people who have spoiled things for me. I don't care for them a whole lot.

6) When people say "the reason being is." You don't use both forms of the verb "to be." The whole point of using the first is to avoid the second (e.g., "reason being, he was late").

7) The word "utilize." About 1% of the time is this what you mean. Ninety-nine percent of the time you mean "use" and you are trying to sound smarter. You know what you actually sound like? Someone who is worried he needs to sound smarter.

8) Having to repeat myself

9) Spelling and pronouncing the word for determination as "perseRverance." There are only two Rs, people. Stop slipping in a third.

10) The word "mansplain." There was already a word for that. It's "patronize," and it even comes from the masculine word "pater" for all the feminists.

11) "So-and-so and I's." You do realize that there's a possessive form of "I," right? IT'S "MY."

~Stephanie