Some pet peeves

1. I hate the glee with which so many people pass along information they themselves got secondhand with total disregard for the damage or havoc it creates in others' lives. Gossip is gossip, rumor is rumor.....let it stop with you.

2. I hate to hear anyone say, "It's not my job." Things can, and will, run smoothly if people contribute towards a common goal whether it's in their job description or not.

3. I hate whatever prompts others to refuse to learn the simplest of tasks, leaving them at your mercy, which interrupts your own job, and then complain to you when you can't get it done on their timetable.

4. I hate litter. That bag of fastfood leftovers can stay in your automobile for a 30 minute ride to be discarded properly just as well as it can sit on the side of the road. I also hate to see 10 people step over the same piece of trash without giving it a second's thought.

5. I detest deliberate rudeness whether it's entering my office while I'm in the middle of a phone conversation and standing there or shoving past me while I'm minding my own business and manners while shopping.

6. I hate the assumptions made that everyone white from the South (US) must be a bigot or racial segregationist and ignore the fact that prejudice exists everywhere within every race, religion, sex....etc., etc., etc. Study history and read the current newspapers, please. I don't give a rat's ass what my state's history might include; I live by a different code.