A Couple Pet Peeves. . . Just gotta get this off my chest

Okay, if not through a blog then where else can I vent these frustrations? Here's a couple for you (can I hear a "Amen!" in the chorus?!?):

1.) People who abandon their shopping carts literally two spaces away from the cart corral in a parking lot. . . This is a true symptom of laziness. I mean, come on people!

2.) People who are obviously looking at their GPS or i-pod or what-have-you (as it illuminates their face in the darkness) and drive 30 mph in a 55 mph zone on the back roads towards home. Seriously: Pull over!

3.) Major Halloween pet peeve is all those parents that drive their children around for trick-or-treating. Do you want to know what contributes to obesity in our country? Teaching your children that it's easier to drive around the neighborhoods rather than walk and making sure that they get a lot of candy and sugar for their "efforts." Remember when we were kids and you pushed yourself to walk a little further just to see if you can get your candy basket a little fuller. Granted, we rarely had candy at our house and so it was worth the extra effort. Fruit snacks weren't common place at my house and we had limited "treats" -- Halloween meant walking for a couple of hours to get a candy stash to last you for awhile. Additional irritation? Those parents driving their kids around mean that my kids are waiting on the curb to cross the street because they see on-coming headlights and we end up waiting just to have the car stop with their kids about 10 feet away: Seriously, you're slowing down our progress! Final irritation? SAFETY RISK!! Tons of little kids wearing dark clothing and, in their excitement, they're running across the street to the next house. We're in the suburbs -- blocks & blocks of houses and here's these parents driving their children and about to run over mine!! Thankfully, we've completed our annual Halloween trick-or-treat session and I survived this years' heart attack with the cars about to hit kids.

Grrr. . . .

Anyhow, just had to share. Note, I accept the shopping carts abandoned in the parking lot when your child has just throw up in the backseat, I accept the people driving 30 mph as they slow their car to the shoulder of the road because they just answered their cell phone and are receiving bad news, and I accept the parents driving their children in monsoon or snow-storm weather. However, for the rest of you: Get a clue!

Seriously!

Okay. . . I'll climb off my soap box now.