1. My Top 10 Pet Peeves by Danika Hoffman All photos courtesy of apimages.com

2. 1. Wind The cold becomes biting and the rain starts to sting. You really can’t escape the elements of the Earth once they team up with wind. It makes things unmanageable, for example, hair and umbrellas. It’s an extra unnecessary annoyance.

3. 2. Being Late Running late means I’m rushing, and rushing sucks. I forget things, my heart rate and blood pressure are way too high, and then I’m in a bad mood.

4. 3. Bad Texters You know those people that text you, but then take half an hour to ever respond to your texts. I have one friend that usually does not text back for hours at a time. Why are we even talking if you don’t respond for six hours? Unless you are sleeping, why even respond after six hours? SMH.

5. 4. Oblivious, Loud Chewers Oblivious, loud chewers take the fourth spot on the list. I am sure you can imagine what I am talking about. You’re sitting somewhere fairly quiet, in a lecture room for example, and you just hear crunching. You are forced to look around for the source, only to find that the girl a few seats down is eating a Nature Valley granola bar, the hardest granola bar known to man. She just munches away as your eardrums feel like they are also being crushed between her teeth. Try focusing on lecture with that going on.

6. 5. Stinky Things That Other People Think Smell Good Perfume and you…and me? Great for you that you want to smell nice, but I do not want to smell like you. Plus, some perfumes do not smell nice and then I am just confused why you would spray yourself with that. The same goes for Febreeze and other air fresheners. Overpowering artificial fragrance is probably worse then whatever you are trying to cover up.

7. 6. Dry Skin I have dry skin, and it is not very comfortable to deal with, so I take care of it and moisturize. There is nothing more annoying than being itchy. When other people have dry skin, it looks painful and itchy and I feel really bad. I just want to rub some aloe on them.

8. Whenever it rains, I refuse to wear pants that may come into contact with the ground. I absolutely cannot stand when the bottom of my pants get wet, and then I have to walk around with heavy, wet pant bottoms. They take forever to dry and usually keep my shoes all wet too. Not okay.

9. 8. Littering Littering doesn’t just annoy me, it actually pisses me off. Trashcans are everywhere, and even more importantly, it is so easy to recycle these days! I do not understand how people can have so little regard for the Earth that they leave their trash everywhere. How do they not see that the more they do that, the sooner they are going to be surrounded by their own trash instead of plants and animals?

10. 9. Large, Noisy, Monster (like) Trucks People drive them around obnoxiously, polluting the air and really just acting like self centered assholes. If you need attention that badly, just run naked wherever you need to go. Everyone will look at you and the ozone layer won’t thin. Win – win.

11. 10. Autocorrect Whenever I type some normal word, it changes it to something that makes absolutely no sense, like a proper noun. The most recent time I tried to type “are my” it changed it to “Aretha.” Who’s Aretha? I don’t know, and neither does the person I’m texting. I have to proofread my texts now because it changes so many of my words. Why do I not just turn it off? Well that is because my texts would probably be even harder to understand without it. It is the lesser of two evils. But it’s still annoying.