Thursday, February 12, 2009

Irritations By my Family

My family irritates me the most. There are three things about my family that irritate me. First off my mom, she somehow gets under my skin almost every day. She will call me constantly throughout the day. Maybe constantly is an understatement. She tends to call me at least ten to fifteen times a day. In some cases she calls me back to back. We will be on the phone talking and then hang-up, like five seconds later she calls and says oh I forgot to tell you this. It seems to be the dumbest things. She called me once and left a message saying hey my debit card expired, has yours. I didn’t understand the point of this phone call because mine does not expire till 2011. It’s the little things she does that irritates me the most. Another time she called me to tell me she was eating a bowl of soup and my weenie dog was standing on her back legs and she didn’t have a treat to give here. Although the story was cute, the phone call could have waited or she could have told me in person. When I’m home, she will call me constantly to check on me. My family says she just misses me a lot now that I’m in college. When i was at Ole Miss my freshmen year, she showed up during finals to help me. I didn’t ask her to come and I didn’t believe she was in town. When i drove by the hotel, her car was there.
Second is when I’m around my brother. The older i get the more protective my brother comes. When i get a boyfriend now he tries to be my dad, this irritates me. When i want to do something he always has something to say. We don’t seem to be able to have a civil conversation.
The third thing that irritates me is when people pick their nails. I don’t know how i can hear the noise but i do. It’s like someone scratching their nails down. It sends a chill down my body. My sister use to pick her nails all the time just to annoy me. When im in curch my dad always picks his nails. He does this because he knows I can’t say anything during church. He sits there and laughs at me. I can hear this picking noise over music and the TV. I don’t know why this noise annoys me. But as time goes on my family loves to make it so i get mad. I guess it bothers me so much because it’s like hearing water drip, someone scratching their nails down a chalkboard, or a weird noise you hear that you can’t stop. I love my family to death but they irritate me.

1 comment:

  1. My favorite part of this piece is the examples you use to illustrate the ways your mom's phone calls annoy you. They're funny, but also a little bit sad, and that combination makes them easy to relate to.

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