2. I will agree with the iPod. It made me fall in love with music again. But lately, the Snuggie has been gaining momentum as a pretty righteous invention.

3. I have seen otherwise mild-mannered teachers flip over a few desks in fits of rage.

4. People who don’t realize that their personal happiness or unhappiness is a direct result of the choices they make. They still blame everyone else for their problems.

2- The i-Pod, as now I have my entire music collection with me all the time.

2. Shamwow!! I don’t own one, but I love it for the jokes that it enable me to make. Scamwow!! They put the “sham” back into Shamwow!!! I could go on.

3. Whenever my English teacher wanted to make sure we understood that he was trying to make a point, he would say “right?” At first I thought it was funny, but then I started to catch myself doing it. Oh well.

4. People who aren’t nice. I’m not talking about having a cheery mood at all times, but it doesn’t cost you anything to hold the door for someone, or to help them when they’re lost.

2. Google and Mental Floss!

3. I had a Social Studies teacher who used to get stoned before class. He would toke up right behind the football field. Sometimes he would share.

4. I live on one way thru street that is the only way to get from one Boulvard to another (a distance of about eight blocks). The northern blvd is the entrance to a Parkway so there are hundreds of cars that use my street. It bugs me that the garbage men have to pick up the trash at 8:00 on collection days. The street is narrow so no one can pass them; there can be up to 20 cars lined up behind them. They are SOB’s about it too. They won’t pull over when there is a spot and when they get to a corner they block the intersection. Why can’t they wait until 9:00, when the kids are in school & most people are in work?

3. My high school Chemistry teacher was completely off his rocker. He graded people based on how much he liked them, and I do not know of one person that passed a test of his. Every night he would assign homework, and he didn’t care what you put for the answer as long as you put something. At the beginning of class he would come around and check your homework, and if you left an answer blank he would say to the class “that’s a bummer!” if you had more than three “bummers” he’d proclaim “that’s a bumerinski!”.

4. I can’t stand when people refuse to control their kids in public. They are your responsibility-do it!

3. I don’t know if it’s exactly quirky, but my 7th grade math teacher based his exams on Mets games. If they lost a game, which they did a lot that year, we got an exam that he made up that was always sooper hard…half the class always failed. If they won, we got an exam that came with the book we were using, which was always ridiculously easy — an interesting tactic that always left us praying for a Mets win.

I also had a history teacher in high school who had us write everything in pen. Mistakes were of course inevitable, so instead of messily scratching them out, he advised us to “draw a positive picture” over the mistake. Still makes me giggle thinking about him saying that with such earnestness — he was an adorable old man who had taught all of my siblings as well.

4. Walking is my main mode of transportation, and it drives me absolutely nuts when I see stupid pedestrians. Biggest peeve is when people walk across crosswalks without even looking to see if there are oncoming cars. Yes, a crosswalk gives pedestrians the right of way, but that won’t stop a speeding car from barreling into them. That said, I also hate it when drivers are oblivious to pedestrians. Look out for us walkers, especially when making right turns!

Also, sometimes it seems like there are people who think Facebook is the only resource on the internet. Like when someone mentions a moderately famous person in their status, and someone comments on it saying “Who’s ____?” I always think to myself, it’s called the internet! Ever heard of a google search?

A lot of things bother me, actually.