The Festivus post started a couple of years ago when I had a few grievances and thought maybe some of you could use a place to air yours without hurting anyone's feelings. Continuing in this tradition, leave your grievance comment here on my blog by midnight on Festivus (December 21) for a chance to win a three skeins of Berroco Linus with a pattern booklet from Berroco (both are from my stash), and as second prize a choice of one of my patterns. If you are lucky enough not to have a grievance you can post your Feat of Strength, or Festivus Miracle. Did you knit twelve pairs of socks over the last few weeks? Well, we want to hear about it! I'll be drawing the name by random number generator. Please reply within 48 hours or I will have to choose another winner. You can email me at my name at aol dot com if you would prefer that I post the comment for you so that you can remain anonymous.
I'll get things started with a grievance.
Dear Crazy: I've had enough of you this year to last me a freaking lifetime. You come in many forms and show up in many ways and I'm sick of your shit. Are you some sort of poltergeist that jumps from being to being showing up just when I've had enough time to relax and let my guard down? Move the hell on and don't show up in 2105. Enough is enough.
To my mother-in-law, please don't phone me to ask how my children are when you have already spoken to them. If they don't tell you the truth, they have their reasons!
ReplyDeleteTo my dog, You're a corgi, not a mastiff for pete sakes. Stop trying to fight everything!
ReplyDeleteDear ebay seller, don't list the 40" 2mm(0) Chiaogoo red lace fixed circulars for sale when you don't have them in stock and then try to sell me the 32" ones, it's rude and unprofessional, if I wanted the bloody 32" ones I would have bought those! UGH!
ReplyDeleteTo my family (and my partners family too) when I spend the entire festive season travelling round the country to visit you all, and you know I suffer a chronic pain condition that is made worse by travelling, don't be surprised when I spend most of the visit out of my skull on morphine. Would it kill you to at least offer to do the driving one year??? Oh and when you suggest I'm doing too much maybe you could be the one who doesn't through a tantrum at the mere whisper of you being the visit I don't do this year?
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ReplyDeleteTo anyone responsible for designing coach class seating: I wish you an eight hour flight in a center seat with a linebacker sized person to your right, a parent holding a wiggling two year-old on your left, a fully reclined passenger to the front, and a squirming-seat-kicking eight year old to the rear. You'll need a drink of course, but that fully stocked drink cart is for business and first, good luck reaching your wallet for an $8 plastic bottle of wine with all that elbow and leg room you have to maneuver in.
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DeleteWow, thank you. Actually, the best part about this was that I really had to think about what annoyed me. Of course I have pet peeves like anyone, but it was a pleasant realization of contentment that I had not been consciously aware of. Perhaps it is that we are having a stay-at-home Christmas and all our family are far away, allowing us to wistfully miss them from afar while not experiencing any of the typical family annoyances of having them close by.
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