Life's Little Annoyances - Like Waiting at the Doctor's Office When you Made an Appointment

I like to think of myself as an easy going, mild mannered type of fella but I have to tell you there are a few things in life that drive me absolutely crazy. I'm sure I'm not alone in these feelings and hopefully many of you will agree with me so that I don't feel quite so intolerant or easily aggravated.

1. The doctor's office - Why do they even bother to take appointment's here. You arrive 5 to 10 minutes ahead of your specified time, sign in and then sit in the waiting room for an hour. It is kind of fun to watch everyone's heads pop up from their "Forbes" or "Golf Digest", or whatever horrid publication that no-one reads they have laid out there, when that door opens and they wait for their name to get called. It's like chicks in a nest when momma brings home a juicy worm. Finally your name is called and what happens then? You are escorted to yet another room where you sit and wait another 20 minutes until the doctor comes in, talks to you for 30 seconds and hands you a prescription. If they are spending so little time with every patient, how do they get so far behind when the clinic has only been open for 20 minutes?

2. The movie theater - Going to the movies is one of the things that I truly love to do yet there are so many things that I find aggravating about the whole experience. Let's begin with the concessions. How is it that a regular coke and popcorn cost more than the actual movie? Instead of calculating box office receipts, they should do it based on concessions....you can just hear Ryan Seacrest now, "Die Hard 4" opened this weekend and took in a whooping 500 gallons of coke, but the buttered popcorn receipts were way down from what analysts expected". It's bad enough that you have to shell out that kind of cash for goodies but I always seem to get stuck behind the person who just can't decide between goobers and junior mints and will go back and forth before settling on twizzlers. The theaters should lighten up and let these people bring in their own food. You finally get to your seat, the lights dim, and the movie begins and it's at that exact moment that the ditzy schoolgirl sitting behind you decides to start talking about all her ex-boyfriends and how horrid they are and she also seems to develop a terrible case of restless leg syndrome judging by the number of time she hits the back of your chair or, worse still, the top of your head. The whole experience makes me yearn for the vigilante days of the Wild West.

3. In the car - I may have missed it on 60 Minutes or CNN but I'm sure there has to be an entire population of people out there with palsied left hands that are completely unable to work the blinker on their vehicle cue to their horrible affliction. Worse still are those that have a lead foot to go with it. They will tailgate you for miles even though there is no traffic on either side of you. Again, the palsy hand must make it difficult to steer. Amazing though that the hand seems to work just fine as they flip you the bird when passing, or maybe it's just permanently frozen that way. I'd ask that these people seek medical help but that would only further the waiting time at the doc's.

4. Waiting in line - The media is rife with reports of high levels of unemployment yet any time you go to a government building or a superstore there never seems to be enough people actually working to serve the people who are waiting in line. Seems to me we could kill two birds with one stone and get the unemployed working at these locales. It really shouldn't be a half hour wait to pay for your container of milk.

I could go on and on as more things are actually springing to mind as I write but then I would just look whiny and pathetic and that is another thing that annoys me.