Life's little annoyances...

I will be the first to admit that I no longer enjoy my birthday.  As a child you wait and wait for that special day that comes only but once a year.... you know... YOUR DAY! Alas now it only represent yet another year passing and another digit being added onto your fading youth.  And yes I am well aware this is vanity at it's finest!

One of the only saving graces I have observed with this ever so unfortunate aging process, would be my virtue in patience growing ever so slightly.  Mind you, I do reiterate slightly.  That being said... I will admit I keep an ongoing list of little things in life that truly test this very important quality that one should process.

So far... little things in life that I find extremely irritating:

• Trying to plug a cord into an outlet and having to flip the cord cause the fat and thin metal prongs don’t match up.
• Filling out a form online and the cursor doesn’t automatically go to the next box on your social security or phone number.
• People who insist on putting their change back into their purse or wallet and therefore making your wait in the grocery store line that much longer.
• People who insist on examining their bank receipt and then have to put their money away while you're in the line of the ATM and in turn, make your wait that much longer.
• Someone sitting in your usual unassigned seat in class or church.
• People who don’t know how to use the passing lane.
• Dropping a piece of toast and always having it land butter side down.
• Waiting for nail polish to dry.
• Those who take the elevator for anything under 2 floors.
• The sound of dogs licking their paws!

Mind you the list could go on and on, all depending on my mood.  But all this being said, one of the greatest sensations in life is being able to surprise yourself.  My patience is not one of my greatest virtues but when I do catch a glimpse of a slight improvement I get a sense of accomplishment... and with that just being said, I have  something else to add to this list... feeling older!

“Patience is a virtue, Possess it if you can, Seldom found in woman, Never found in man”