Monday, December 16, 2013

Things That Bother Me--OP #1

Things that have Happened that Bother Me
            Before I start, I just wanted to say that on this paper, for the most part whenever I’m saying the word “you,” I’m really talking about myself, but using “you” instead of “I” or “me” made me feel like less of a basket case. Moving on. There are certain things that just bother me, like bees. I hate bees. They are tiny, yellow and black striped insects that swarm around you, driving you crazy with their ceaseless buzzing. Kind of like freshmen, except for the stinging at will part. Spiders are just as bad. Whenever I see one of those furry monsters, I flip out. A few days ago, there was a spider in my bathroom. At first look, I could have sworn that it was a black widow (Not that I know what they look like or anything, I just assumed that if you were a poisonous spider, you would look like the one in my bathroom). After tripping over my hair dryer cord and knocking a mirror off my counter, breaking it in my struggle to get out of harm’s way, I realized that I’m being ridiculous. I decided to work out my problems, so I made a deal with the spider, whose name is now Theodore. As long as he stays out of my way, I will not have my mom kill him. He kept his promise, or so I thought, but then I realized that he hasn’t moved for 3 days and that he’s dead. Which is annoying because if I had known that he was just going to bite the dust, I would’ve saved him from the pain.
            What really gets to me is when my people just die. One of them was a fire fighter and he really enjoyed putting out the flames, obviously, and chopping down doors to get people out of harm’s way who were too stupid to leave their house in the first place. At the firehouse, there was a vending machine in an isolated dark corner, which I always thought was kind of creepy, so I avoided it completely. However, he did not, so instead of being a good citizen and paying for a candy bar, he decided to slam into it, in hopes of snagging a free snack. This then promptly caused the vending machine to fall on top of him, pop back up, and leave his blunt force trauma ghost curled up in the fetal position while the grim reaper stole his soul. His family was in a depression for days, which worsened whenever their brother was trapped in a small room with no windows or doors, only flammable rugs and an overabundance of cheap fireplaces. Since he could not escape, he inevitably burned to death, followed by his ex-wife, who drowned in a pool with walls around it, making it impossible to save herself. The most tragic part about this is that the firefighter was my favorite sim and his death was completely accidental. The other two were of no use to me anymore, so I killed them off out of rage for his unjust death.
            Some people just make me want to move to a different country. Justin Bieber is a great example. He sometimes honestly causes me to just sit there with my mouth open, speechless, blinking like an idiot. I thought Canadian’s were supposed to be nice. “Nice” doesn’t include trying to start a fight with the paparazzi to make you seem tough because let’s face it, even if he was a man, he would never be threatening. Peeing in a bucket in public does not help either. It is gross and I don’t think he should be allowed to cross the border anymore. Where does he live? Is he an American? But seriously, Canada, send us more great hockey players, maple syrup, moose, yaks, and killer whales, but be selfish for once and keep Justin for yourselves. Ceilings that come crashing down bringing the second great flood of death and destruction are so not my piece of cake. Especially when it decides to interrupt your art class and you were almost done stapling canvas into wood with a stubborn stapler who didn’t like shooting pieces of metal into a former tree, when all of a sudden, it’s just like BOOM! Water is everywhere and this primal instinct to grab your stuff and run for the door, not caring who falls over in your wake, just as long as you get out of there alive, sets in. Your adrenaline crazed mind takes control and you can’t get rid of this horrible urge to shout, “It’s called Natural Selection, slow pokes,” at the stragglers who didn’t get to the door fast enough and had pieces of ceiling and water all over them. While the more civilized side of your brain is thinking, “You know, maybe you shouldn’t have been the first one out the door.” What’s even more annoying is that whenever you leave the art room for safety and go into the back of the auditorium and someone goes, “Oh my gosh guys, look at the ceiling, you can see water stains. They’re spreading. It’s definitely going to cave in on us.” First off, in that type of situation, you are already so paranoid that if someone drew cracks on the wall with a sharpie and said that water was going to come bursting out anytime now, you’d think it was the end of the world. Second of all, if the ceiling is going to become a water spout, don’t take pictures of it. There were people taking photographs of the ceiling where the supposed watermarks were. I wonder how they’ll feel when they realize that they just took pictures of a dirty, old ceiling. I guess that some people have an automatic flight or Instagram reaction. Then it is in the cafeteria and everyone is like, “Oh my gosh. This is crazy! We are all going to die. Why can’t we go home?” People just get to me.  
            In conclusion, I think I should get out more often so that maybe I’ll get used to these things that annoy me so that I can begin to like the human race and make real friends instead of having to have imaginary ones.


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