The things I hate the most

I am a very loving guy, and most people would agree that it's really hard to make me angry or mad. That being said, I was over at Meg Fowler's blog, and with my newfound freedom, I proceeded to take the time to actually reflect on the things I hate. All my friends know that I hate cheese and Chinese food, but ... did you know I also hate this rainy weather?

So, without further ado, here is a list of the things I hate. You may find some surprises, you may share the same hate for some things, or you may actually love the things I hate. Everything is fair in love and war! By the way, the list has expanded from what I commented on Meg's post ...

The original list of the things I hate...

• Cheese
• Chinese food
• Celery
• Rainy days
• Pushy panhandlers
• Idiotic people
• Bureaucracy and red-tape
• People who aren’t flexible
• People who only follow rules
• Stubbornness without respect
• Improper attribution of ideas
• Drivers in Vancouver (generally speaking)
• Politician’s lies
• People who talk out of their … pretending they know something they don’t
• My upstairs neighbours
• … and their kid
• … and his tantrums
• … and their callousness and lack of respect for my and my next-door-neighbour’s sleeping patterns
• Telemarketers
• Arriving late
• Having lost my cell phone
• Sleep deprivation
• When someone stands me up
• When someone changes pre-existing plans without consulting with me first (and those are our plans)
• Not being able to blog when I want to
• Not having good ideas to blog about
• Self-pompous people who think they’re all that and a bag of chips

And more recently (e.g. within the past few hours) I remembered other things I hate...

• Living in a different country than my parents and my brothers
• Forgetting friends' birthdays
• Double-booking myself
• ... and triple-booking
• ... and booking myself multiple times
• ... because I don't have a Palm Pilot to keep my Google Calendar organized
• Missing wonderful Christmas and New Years parties because I spent mine 6,000 miles away from my dear Vancouver friends
• Not being fully fluent in French (even though I'm fairly conversant)
• The smell of cigarettes
• ... and second-hand smoke
• Having some people take me for granted
• Dry martinis (I know - shocker! I should get my bartender license revoked)
• Not being able to leave trackbacks in WordPress-powered blogs because I am still with Blogger.
• Running for a bus only to have it leave me behind for a fraction of a second
• Buses filled with drunken kids who tend to grab my derrière
• Losing a block on the net because I was too distracted looking at how cute the power hitter was (despite the fact that I did indeed have a good position to block the spike!)
• Missing serves (both in tennis and volleyball). My serve used to be my best weapon.

Wow. That was a long list... But honestly, I swear, I love lots of things :)