Pee Pee, Poop and Not So Puny Pet Peeve Ponderings
Pee Pee, Poop and
Not So Puny Pet Peeve Ponderings
ActiveRain pal and pie provocateur Kathleen Daniels in her No Fooling Around, Let’s Get Real Contest has proposed we put our thoughts about pet peeves in writing. I wondered about her motivation(as I often do). Hmm...For posterity’s sake? Or perhaps as incriminating evidence when the straw inevitably breaks that camel’s back. Hmm, I digress. And then I ponder....
Let’s face it...we face a certain amount of “stuff” during a day...let alone over the course of a career in the real estate industry. Don't get me wrong...much of life in real estate is good -- in fact for me, an overwhelming amount of good but, let’s be real - there’s some bad stuff that happens on occasion. In fact, Kathleen founded and moderates a group here on ActiveRain
Crap-tacular where we have the opportunity to share the cringeworthy stuff we encounter.
Yes, although there is some pee pee, poop and puny pet peeves that may cross our paths...in truth...most of these types of occurrences are rare. Come on...really...they are.
Yet I nodded in agreement as I read many of the pet peeves already shared as entries in Kathleen’s contest. I had more than a few examples I could share as well:
- Toilet seats up in photos...come on do we really need to see a toilet at all -- we can ass-u-me that a bathroom has this fixture in place.
- Finding lockboxes in the most unusual of places where some Simone Biles-like moves to pivot are necessary in order to open.
- How about the property sign rider that states “I’m Gorgeous Inside” yet rarely, if ever, is?
- The mls remarks that insist there’s No Need To Preview a listing --- yeah, right... because if you do...you will never...ever think of showing this home to a prospective client. I find that particular line a real red flag.
- The listing agent who states “easy to show” in the mls remarks only to have confusing and contradictory instructions that makes Linda Blair’s performance in The Exorcist look like a nun’s visit to the confessional.
As you can see I can get easily miffed...if I allow myself. I admit and I know...my biggest pet peeve is me. And I’m in control of this...I suffer from a malady widely known as impatience. I can’t stand waiting. Waiting for people. Waiting for responses. Waiting for decisions to be made. Waiting. You don’t want to see me in traffic...or rolling my shopping cart down the aisle of the grocery store. Dammit! Just hurry up. Yes, real estate often involves a lot of “hurry up and wait”.
Yet I have learned to manage. Medication helps err I mean meditation. Focus too. Think of solutions...not problems...I may not always be in control of the situation(dammit again) but I can be in control of my reaction...if I continue to repeat that...it becomes truth...right?
But waiting still bugs the Hell out of me...
As I’m prone to do...I ponder...and then I digress and then I search for an answer that perhaps could be found in the words of others. So here it goes...on the subject of pet peeves I share some quotes --- I can relate to these...how about you?
I don’t have pet peeves like some people.
I have whole kernels of irritation
Whoopi Goldberg
Peeves do not make make very good pets
Bo Bennett
And perhaps my favorite:
I don’t have pet peeves - I have major psychotic f#*$!^g hatreds!
George Carlin
Here’s to managing pet peeves...it really is possible...now, I think I’ll go on a walk. Or engage. In an adult beverage for example. Or maybe take this as an opportunity to channel George Carlin. And the seven words you can’t say on television. Have a f#*$!^g amazing day. Thank you for allowing me to ponder.
Published: April 23, 2017
Pee Pee, Poop and
Not So Puny Pet Peeve Ponderings
Michael Jacobs
Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage
CalBRE # 01165532
2065 Huntington Drive
San Marino, California 91108
Cellular: 818.516.4393
Office: 626.685.5246
Office Fax: 626.568.9507
michaeljacobs@coldwellbanker.com
www.camoves.com/michael.jacobs
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