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Written by: o2bnfrance 7/17/2006 1:26:47 PM
I had a wonderful mother. Always speaking to strangers, always polite, and always willing to assist others. Well, almost always. When I was a young boy, I found it amusing when Mom sometimes announced that she had the “Don’t wannas.”

I soon discovered that she meant she had had enough of being nice, friendly, and helpful for one day, and that was about as long as it lasted – just long enough to let others know she was no pushover. I had to laugh recently at the TV commercial that shows the woman watering her plants and suddenly turning the water hose on the newspaper delivery boy. My mom actually did that when our carrier threw the paper into her cherished flower garden.

I don’t know if I have inherited some of Mom’s traits or if it’s something that just comes at a certain time in life (read: getting older). But lately, I’ve found myself frequently suffering from the “Gettin’ tired ofs.” For example, I sometimes get tired of

1. Holding doors open for people who can’t say thanks;
2. Standing in a 15-item express lane behind people with 20 items;
3. Pushing a grocery cart into the store from the parking lot, because someone else left it in the only available parking space;
4. Listening to loud phone conversations in the dining area of restaurants;
5. Speaking into phones to a recorded voice that is programmed to redirect my call to another recorded voice;
6. Pushing “one” for English;
7. Hearing, “When I was a child . . . .” (They were probably just as dumb then!)
8. Reading, “Get your Masters Degree in six weeks.” (And to think that I wasted six years of my life!)
9. Seeing big-name musicians and sports figures with no acting ability with starring movie roles;
10. Drive-in bank customers who haven’t made out their deposit slips when it is their turn because they have no pen and asks the bank teller to send them one in the little vacuum tube.

This short list is only the tip of a very long sword. I just wonder if I am the only person with such occasional and trivial complaints, or, do other people feel the same way. If you do, please share some of your “Getting’ tired ofs” with me.

Thanks. I feel much better, now.

o2bnfrance
 




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