So you know what really annoys me....

Well, I know a lot of things annoy me, like when people stand in the middle of your walking path and feel that it is your fault you can't get through or when people snap and me and then there's when people repeatedly tell me things I know (not stories, cause I know I annoy people with this, facts- like 2+2=4...although what is a fact anyway). All this is besides the point and mostly comes from growing up with the two parents that I was sent to. I love them (you) dearly but they both have their neurotic tendencies, which have now become my neurotic tendencies that I curse them and bless them for almost everyday.
But back to what really annoys me. Why do people get all frustrated over something so quickly? Now I understand there are sometimes circumstances out of your control, which automatically makes humans mad, but there are many things that you do have in your control before you have to throw in the towel.
Now for a specific example. Say someone had to shred carrots for their son's teacher one day and they waited til the morning of to do it. Now this could never happen in my family since my mother would have bought a prepared things like 5 days in advance with a written map on how to do it. Or maybe a bunch of whole carrots would have been sent with a grater and a note saying, "Sorry my daughter didn't tell me until 8:45 this morning." Whatever way, there would have been some exhasperated sigh and life goes on.
Ok, now say these carrots had to get done by not my family. Well, of course you could use the food processor that comes in handy for quick preparation. Three minutes into grating you hear a snap and there is plastic in your perfect carrot shavings. Ok, stop the processor, dump the carrots and move on. (This can be done with a lot of swearing...although this is what starts annoying me.) So now you try again. But something inside the processor is broken. More swearing, more annoying. You pick up the blender and take it to better light to better assess the situation. Good move. You take it apart, swear at the pieces and without really looking at what needs to be in place for this to work you reassemble the pieces and try again. Bad move. Do this a couple more times...take apart, look mad, put together, turn on, curse repeat.
So, we all know by now that this has gone way past hypothetical and is totally about my morning. I was just dumbfounded at how many minutes a person can waste not doing anything about their situation, not even thinking, well at least appearing to be not thinking. I think this annoyed me most of all, the not thinking part. If you stopped swearing and moving pieces and really looked and thought about what occurs when you turn on the processor and press the carrot onto the grater you might have seen the way to put it together. Now granted it was still broken after this, but let's at least TRY for some intelligent grating.
And when you see it is not going to work, what do we do next? This simple question, taught to most first graders when reading stories and problem solving, saves a lot of time. So why not look for something else that will grate a carrot, use your frustration and grate the carrots before someone punches you in the face.
And this is the end of the lesson on how not to annoy me, or how to do it perfectly.