Things I dislike

Cancer

my sister-in-law

order entry

ignorance

swim parents

 

Day games after night games.

Gimmicky public address announcers.

Night games at Wrigley Field.

Eggs.

The ubiquity of pubic baldness.

 

Thread heds in all caps.

Tumors.

Not being able to communicate truly important things.

 

Flaky people
Spam
100-degree heat
People who lack common sense
The Boston Red Sox, especially 2004-present

 

1.) Poor customer service

2.) Raw onions

3.) Army civilians (see no. 1)

4.) Monty Python and Blazing Saddles

5.) Poorly cooked steaks

 

Drivers who don't use turn signals

Drivers who respond to my turn signal by speeding up so that I can't move over

Organ meat

People who sit on the outside seat on the streetcar and leave the inside seat empty when it's busy

 

News programs that spend more time teasing what is "coming up" than actually giving to the story they've spent so much time teasing.

"buzz"

small-talk

trying to fall asleep at night when it's 80 degrees at 11 p.m.

 

Eggplant.

Waiters who interrupt.

People who say 'I could care less.' You could. Trust me.

Ballplayers in baggy pants.

The 16,000 plastic carryout containers in my mother's basement.

Mayonnaise.

Underpants.

 

Onions
Most cheese
People with no common sense
The word "tender"
People who talk and talk and talk either because they love the sound of their own voices or because they are too insecure to stay quiet
Sugar in my coffee
Murphy's Law (the tendency, not the hardcore band, although I didn't really like them either)

 

Even thongs?

 

1. shopping carts left in parking spaces because people are too lazy to return them
2. cellphones in movie theaters
3. no fiction writing in once-fine American general interest magazines that have now become celebrity-cover story promoting dreck
4. deli in LA
5. 25 dollar bottles of wine marked up to 90 bucks
6. rhubarb
7. but not Brussels sprouts any more, especially sauteed with bacon
8. being confused by the hundreds of models of LCD/HD TVs i think about buying, but then back away from ... afraid
9. most mainstream country music since about 1985
10. when it takes longer than 15 minutes to get seated at my local card room