Pets ….. Seems an awful lot of people have pets in my neighborhood . Diagonally across the street from us is a cat while directly across the street live three bulldogs . Their next door neighbor has some kind of baying bloodhound along with a silent mutt . Our next door neighbor has a little Yorkshire yapper while on the other side of him is a beagle and nine chickens have suddenly made an appearance at the house behind .
I too have lots of pets and they are all known as peeves . One pet peeve of mine is noise and that’s funny considering I married a South American woman from a place that in all likely hood doesn’t even have a word for noise . I recently complained as over the past ten days a wood pecker has taken to ratatatatting on my metal fascia just outside my computer room . Dead on 6:45 a.m. every morning like the little prick owns a Timex or something .
In response to my bitching about it the wife informed me
” That is not noise … it’s a woodpecker ”
Have ya noticed how many people don’t drive off when the light turns green as they are too busy staring at the phone ? I notice it a lot as it’s another one of my pets , as in peeves . Just the other day as we were leaving the house I said to the wife ….
” Let’s count how many times we have to tap the horn today to get someone to drive off from the green light .” and she said OK
Exactly ten seconds from the edge of our drive we found ourselves at the corner where I found it necessary to tap the horn to get a phone user to move along ….
” That’s one ” said I to the wife but she disagreed
” Doesn’t count… that’s not a green light . It’s a stop sign “
