Annoyances

1.       When people do song covers and change genders of things so they apply to their sexual preferences. E.g. Big Yellow Taxi by Counting Crows (original by Joni Mitchell).

2.       When people give away important or exciting plot developments in TV shows because they watch it online.

3.      When people write ‘a lot’ as one word.

4.      When predictive text doesn’t recognise long names that you’ve spent ages typing.

5.      When people watch the Harry Potter films without reading the books.

6.      When you wait half an hour for friends and then realise they’ve been waiting too the entire time, just out of sight (like behind the statue of Queen Victoria at Town Hall).

7.      When nice clothes are ruined by huge brand names across them – they should be paying you to wear them, it’s advertising.

8.      When clothes, especially jeans, have huge rips in them so they’re more holes than actual material.

9.      When there’s just one song you like on an album and you have to keep listening because there are other people with you and they’d think you weird if you just kept replaying it over and over.

10.   When you start telling a story to someone and they wait till the very end to tell you that you’ve already told it to them before.

11.    When books on a bookshelf aren’t in alphabetical order … I have a bit of a thing about that.

12.     When politicians stick to party lines even if it directly contradicts what they believe.

13.   Ads on radio stations.

14.   When shops don’t stock any shoes in your size (happens to me a lot, unfortunately).

15.   When you’re sitting around a fire and the smoke keeps following you, no matter how often you move away from it.

So fifteen is enough for now. Perhaps one day I’ll be all positive and write all the things that make me inexpressibly happy. Although a lot of them are things like books in alphabetical order, when politicians don’t stick to party lines and say what they think, when you love all the songs on an album, when people do brilliant song covers (like Charlie covered by Sophie Koh – originally by Split Enz), and when you find shoes the right size in two minutes, especially at a second-hand store where they never have shoes your size … :D like my Tess of the D’Urbervilles boots J

Alright well … here’s Charlie by Sophie Koh. Isn’t it brilliant?

Love you like all those things that make me happy, multiplied by each other and added to one of those massive infectious smiles.

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