Aaaargh!!!

At times when I'm already stretched to my limits, trying hard to cope with life’s major problems and disasters, it’s the little things that can annoy the hell out of me, such as…

… motorists who tail me, road hog style, but once they manage to get in front of me slow down to a crawl…

… people with nothing to do, standing at the kerb of a zebra crossing without any intention of crossing…

… toilet paper and kitchen rolls that refuse to cut in places they’re supposed to cut…

… my dustbin greeting me in the middle of the road five doors down from my home after garbage collection…

… English television documentaries that are voiced over in Maltese on the local channels – while Italian ones are left in their original language…

… the lady in front of me at the supermarket checkout line who gossips with the cashier, then pays her bill of LM 2.98 with her VISA card…

… the first heavy rain of the season that always chooses to fall just before and during rush hour in the morning…

… those telephone callers (and there are a lot!) who answer my polite ‘Good morning, XYZ Company, how may I help you?” with “Hello? Hemmhekk XYZ Company?”…

… people who insist on a meeting to be scheduled at 11 am because noon is “way too late” – and then show up at 11.45…


What do do you think? Did I leave anything out??