Well everybody is talking about lists from the past year and decade so I will tell you a few things that annoyed me in the past decade. There is no order to these things they are just all annoying things to me.
- Bailing out banks and companies that should have been left to either survive or die. After all that is capitalism is it not. Along with this is hearing people try to explain why some of this needed to be done. There is no explanation for this at all, just should not have been done.
- Being attacked by terrorists. This was probably about the most annoying thing that happened this decade for me. I know I said there is no order to this and that stands, it is just that this really did annoy me. I was living overseas when this happened and had to travel back stateside a few months later. That trip was extremely annoying.
I think I must look like a terrorist as I was checked, extra checked and double checked at every point of this journey. Let me tell you going through this with a near one year old that just learned to walk and run is real annoying. For some reason the security had no interest in the security of my child but seemed to enjoy telling me I could not go after her myself that I must stand still while my child runs off and out of sight. They knew it was only her and I.
- Invading foreign countries. While there seems to be some strong arguments as to why we should have gone into Afghanistan I still see no reason we should ever have entered Iraq. Needless to say we are still in both countries with no exit in sight.
- Not being elected President in 2000. To think I could have served my time and been retired with a pension by now.
- Any moment in time I ever had the misfortune of hearing the voice of either Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh. These two guys are some of the most annoying people I have ever heard.
- Any moment in time I ever had the misfortune of hearing the voice of Nancy Pelosi or Barney Frank. These guys are like the anti Hannity and anti Limbaugh and just as annoying.
OK that is not all that annoyed me, but I do not have time to write more at the moment. Maybe I will add to this later as there really was so much more that was annoying in the past ten years. Hopefully things will get better and less annoying in the next ten, but I am not sure.
Happy New Year and decade to all!