Daily writing prompt

What’s a word or phrase that annoys you?

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This response definitely won’t be as long as the last one I did, (a book that I find overrated,) but there are quite a few phrases that annoy me.

1. Time to get up Jeff (my first name is Jeff,) when I’m trying to sleep in’
2. You call me too much Jeff
3. I need a break from you Jeff
4. You have an appointment and you need to take the bus there. I cannot drive you.
5. No don’t call your mom right now. When we’re here you’re not supposed to be on your phone. (this is typically said from the staff where I live.)
6. Would you mind if we went out somewhere on (insert day)? (Usually this will annoy me if I intended to stay home on a certain day.)
7. I don’t want you sitting around the house all day even if you don’t have a bus booked.
8. You need to/should eat downstairs, (as opposed to my desired location to eat which is in my room.)
9. You need to do (insert activity/outing) during the day rather than at night
10. Don’t be rude to (insert person but usually staff,) by means of being abrupt when they try to give me service at times when I want it later. Occasionally I will say just what needs to be said and that’s it depending on the mood I’m in. This comes across as rude in the eyes of both mom and my staff. Also I will refuse to properly greet them in those circumstances.
11. Wait for me to call you and don’t try to call me as I will be busy. This is usually said by mom when she feels like she may not be available when I try to call her until she finishes something she is doing. This often eventually leads me to frustration due to me wanting to talk to mom and the phone not ringing for long periods of time afterwards.
12. You know Jeff, they’re your friends and they’re family too. This phrase often gets under my skin and it is said at times when mom tries to convince me to consider my best friend’s wife and sister in law as family despite me having an up and down relationship with his wife due to our opposing views.
13. Maybe (insert name of my friend’s sister in law,) will be your girlfriend. This also gets under my skin for the simple reason that she is not what I would consider to be a valid girlfriend.
14. I’m going to (insert name of place.) Maybe you can meet me there but I also invited (insert name of my friend, his wife and sister in law.) This gets under my skin for two reasons. The first one is because despite them being related to my friend, I never desire to be around them because they annoy me and would never opt to have them around or do anything with them. Also it is believed that mom never intends to do anything with just me present despite her desire to do things with other people. It always seems like anytime we do things, it always has to include a third party be it just my friend, or my stepfather or the aforementioned four of us.
15. What do you say to (insert person who has done something deemed as nice for me,) when I have failed to show proper gratitude in mom’s eyes.
16. Call me back when you are finished your service or (insert engagement with someone other than mom.) This phrase is said at times when staff or anybody else arrive to give me care while I’m actively on a call with mom due to my belief that nobody is as important to me than mom is and that everybody else should wait until I’m done with mom. The actual reason for me having this feeling is because of how hard it is to reach her when I call. I fear that if I wait patiently for my engagement to end that I will not be able to reach her once the engagement has ended and therefore I’m presented with a missed opportunity to talk to her. If a situation such as this one occurs, I will often give mom an order to stay by her phone until I’ve called back and not take any other incoming calls until after I’ve called her. Also, there have been some instances where I will rush my service along and get annoyed if it takes longer than I believe it should as I feel like the longer it takes, the harder it will be to reach mom once it finishes. It may also result in me being rude to the person unintentionally by saying things such as, “Ok now what do you want?” or “Come on will you just hurry please.” ETC. As expected each one of these occurrences had lead to issues when mom has found out.

These are just many of the phrases that annoy me. As much as I worship the ground she walks on, most of them have been said by mom but this is ok. It just means that we have very opposing views on how to live life properly. I’m pretty sure there are a lot more but I can’t think of those right now. My life has been filled with people telling me things I don’t like and I have wasted no time in complaining about those things.

To make a long story short, there has been no shortage of phrases that have annoyed me over the years.

By: Jefferson Bert