Circle Quirk

Oh, quit groaning at my title.  Venomous Kate wrote an entry about quirks, and finished up with a list of things she hates.  Mine won't be as long as hers, mostly because I hate a lot of the same things she does. 

As for quirks, I don't have any.  'Cept for that grammar thing, maybe. 

• I hate people who walk RIGHT IN FRONT of my car (and in my way!) when I am looking for a parking space.  Move your butt over!
• I hate hearing people talk about the price of things in francs.  The franc is dead.  Get over it. 
• I hate cheesy circuses.  I especially hate cheesy circuses that let one of their employees drive around town, broadcasting showtimes from a loudspeaker on a truck.
• I hate colored, scented toilet paper.
• I hate flossing my teeth. (Oh, the horror, Alison!  Your manfriend is a DENTIST! How can you hate flossing?) Let me tell you why: I have really tight proximal contacts, which basically means that it's very hard unpleasant a bitch to get the floss between my teeth. 
• I hate that the American exercise/yoga DVDs that I wanted to buy here don't even have the option of watching them in English.  I am NOT watching an American exercise video dubbed into French!
• I hate that the cover model on the latest issue of Natural Health looks like a toothpick. 
• I hate when Americans complain about the high price of gas.  Last time I filled my tank I paid 1.20€ per LITER, or 60€ for a full tank.  That's about 74 bucks.  Granted, Americans are paying more for gas these days.  But at one point, we were paying the same price for a liter as Americans were for a gallon.
• I hate having to sift through lots of internet dreck in my job search.
• ...
• I hate trying to come up with things to gripe about.  I must be mellowing.
• Oh yeah: I hate teaching English to 26 (or more) hormonal middle-schoolers. 

Comments

[Venomous Kate]

Ewww. I hate hormonal middle-schoolers. Period!

[Amber]

I bought sented loo roll once. It had a pretty pink rose print on it. The girls loved it and asked me to buy it again, but I've never been able to find it. They bugged me about it so much I asked them why they liked it and they said it was because it smelled like my friend Josianne! Heeeee! I never told her though!

[Margaret]

I don't floss either and my grandpa the dentist always yelled at me. I too have very tight contacts; the floss gets stuck up there and it's not fun to extricate it. Here in the US we have been spoiled and have become accustomed to driving behemoths that get 10 MPG. We will have to change our ways.

[Allan]

My Diesel VW Jetta gets 30 in the city and 42 on the highway.

I'm all set.

[Heimo]

your:
"I hate teaching English to 26 (or more) hormonal middle-schoolers."
- before you got a new job - wouldn't it be a nice idea to give private lessons - these middle-aged schoolers in single-dom are much nicer & easier to controll.. - & they really appreciate it if you work succcesfull with them (at least the parents who pay the private lessons..)
& to your:
"I hate colored, scented toilet paper. "

much worse are scented handkerchiefes (like I bought recently) - on this part of body you really have to smell them - I don't care about scented paper on my rectal part

[J. Star]

You know they make scented tampons now too? I'm not making that up, unfortunately.

Also, I'm with you on the grammar thing, yo. Then again, I'm a proofreader.

Here from Allan's blog.

J

[Thomas]

I am NOT watching an American exercise video dubbed into French!

I can imagine the translated dialogue going something like this:

"First, you must stretch before you begin because I am an American who lives in a size obsessed culture where we all are fat. When we somehow manage not to be fat, we inflate baloons in our chests with saline or silicone so we look like cows ready for milking. This arouses piggish American men into giving us money in exchange for bad sex. We save that money to travel to France on holiday to meet men of substance and insight who will make love to us properly."

Or perhaps I'm still bitter about the French embassy ignoring my High School class' request for information on France, leaving us to take Madame Joubert's word for it when she described the beautiful ex-pats that live there.

[Heimo]

to the dental floss thing: I apparently live in land of hygiena barbarians - 'dental flossing' is to the most of Germans still unknown or at least seldom or never used - first in my life I heard of 'dental floss" was when I was about 23 by a song of Frank Zappa: 'Montana'
"I might be movin' to Montana soon
Just to raise me up a crop of Dental Floss Raisin' it up
Waxen it down
In a little white box
I can sell uptown
By myself I wouldn't
Have no boss,
But I'd be raisin' my lonely Dental Floss
Raisin' my lonely Dental Floss
Well I just might grow me some bees
But I'd leave the sweet stuff
For somebody else...
but then, on the other hand
I'd Keep the wax N' melt it down
Pluck some Floss N' swish it aroun'
I'd have me a crop
An' it'd be on top
(that's why I'M movin' to Montana)
Movin' to Montana soon
Gonna be a Dental Floss tycoon..."

I thought then: What the hell is dental floss - another american hygiena perversion? - Some years later I really bought some floss ( 'twas not too easy to find here around)), because I had a gap between 2 teeth - but after my dentist cemented this gap totally - & my other teeth are too narrow to allow flossy intruding.. - It would interest me how much the dental flossing is spread & known in France

[bee]

Oooh, isn't this sad? I looove flossing! Miss Baby even said the other morning "I want to floss also because Mama is so happy when she flosses!"