1. People who use "literally" all the time. Today on the news, a woman (who was standing in a busy restaurant kitchen) was broadcasting a news story and she said, "We are literally in the kitchen . . ." No. Really? I couldn't tell that it was a kitchen. Thanks for using the word "literally." Really cleared things up. Literally.
2. Winter capri pants. Capri pants are a spring-summer-warm fall fashion item. Not for winter. Not for business. In the summer, just about anyone can wear capri pants with a pair of cute sandals, but in winter with a pair of boots? Not unless you're tall and thin. And even then, not to work. Literally.
3. People who walk around public with a headset microphone, talking on their cell phone. At first glance, they look like they're talking to themselves. Literally. Then you think they're talking to you. Just when you're about to respond to the question, "How are you?" you realize they're not talking to you. They are also not paying attention to where they are pushing their shopping cart.
4. Waiting on hold for several minutes for customer service, only to be told that all representatives are currently busy, please leave a voice mail and someone will get back with you. When you attempt to leave a voice mail, you are told the voice mail box is full and then you are disconnected. Literally.
The above pet peeves were brought to you by the word, "literally."
Thursday, November 17, 2005
My Pet Peeves, Literally
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2 comments:
hey, cool blog
I was flip'n through them randomly, and yours came up, finally it broke the cycle of crap. Anyway, cool!
My *favorite* use of the word literally: Picture some obnoxious, BMW-driving yuppie describing to his oh-so-hip buddy his latest golfing adventure. "Yeah, Tad, by the time we hit the 12th tee box, it was LITERALLY raining cats and dogs." No, genius, it was FIGURATIVELY raining cats and dogs. Literal raining of the cats and dogs would no doubt have broken your neck when that Bichon Frise landed atop your rogaine-enhanced head from about 35,000 feet up. Actually, that'd be kinda cool. Literally.
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