I live my life spontaneously and I try my best to be happy as much as I can.
Butttttt with all of that having been said, there are some things that just truly get in my craw and make me annoyed.
So with our first newspaper edition of 2026 here and with not much else for me to talk about, I have a few pet peeves I’d like to discuss. Some of these will bother you too. Maybe others, you’ll say that I need to take a chill pill.
Heck, I do take chill pills — two a day to be exact.
But that’s another story for another day, so here goes.
My first pet peeve are people who allow their pets to soil other people’s yards – This happened to me last week. I do not own an animal. My neighbors’ dogs do not come into our yard. They are courteous and I couldn’t thank them enough for that. But as I walked out of a friend’s yard (who also does not own an animal,” I got that squishy step of shame that let me know that I had a big mess on my hands. Pet owners, take care of your own animals. I don’t own one for a reason … because I don’t want to tend to it. So do better.
My next pet peeve are people who bring their pets … everywhere – Look, I am not being disrespectful to people who need service dogs. If you have one or need one, take your service dog with you everywhere you need to and I will not say a word. But there are people who think that service dogs are just pets and they think that it’s trendy or cool to bring their actual pet dog to the grocery store or to a restaurant. And it’s gross. I saw a dog in the produce section of a local grocery store sniffing around the vegetables. Yeah, needless to say I did not buy any produce that day. That’s gross. You’re ruining it for those who actually need the dogs by their side.
Next on my list are people who do not use their blinkers – Oh man, this one irks me to no end, and frankly, I wish that this were policed more heavily because this is more dangerous, to me, than someone going 52 mph in a 45 mph zone. People somewhere along the line have decided that it’s just not cool to use their turn signals, so they just don’t. If you do, I tip my cap to you. If you don’t, I hope your fast food order is always served wrong in 2026. That’s harsh, but I don’t care.
Now it’s time to talk politics. My next pet peeve are people who cannot acknowledge the good a person does — no matter what it is – Look, I will not give my own political affiliations nor biases. Anyone can go to my social media pages and see how I feel about things. But there are people on both sides who CAN NOT and WILL NOT EVER say anything good about the other side. Joe Biden cures cancer? Some on the right say it’s bad. Donald Trump saves a nation from war? Oh, that’s terrible. Pay attention to America. I say this often. Life is lived in the middle. And we are losing middle ground in our nation rapidly. And that is not a good thing.
The same can go for sports where it irks me to no end the armchair quarterbacks – Look, as a radio host, I am sometimes guilty of this myself. But it irks me to no end the people who wait to see how the game unfolds, then starts with the “I told you so” predictions. I made College Football Playoff predictions on social media and went 1-3 last week. Everyone trolled me after the games. Guess what? I would have gone 4-0 if I wanted until after the game to pick like you clowns did. Get off social media.
Ugh, let’s move on.
Cauliflower is a pet peeve of mine – I am tired of seeing it. People use it for rice now. People use it to make pizza crust. We use it for everything. Let it be what it is: a tasteless vegetable that has no use. We have stretched cauliflower too thin.
It is a pet peeve when people do not have grocery store etiquette – There are certain things you should never do in a grocery store. You should never check out with a full buggy if a person behind you has just 1 item. You also should never park your buggy in the middle of an aisle, making it impossible for traffic to move around you. And you should never touch things that other people might eat — except the one you’re buying. I don’t need people feeling every, single piece of fruit. That’s for the dogs … in some cases literally if you read above.
If you’ve made it this far, it’s time for my last pet peeve, prevent defense – I will never understand prevent defense. A team goes the whole game stopping an opponent with ease. But then it’s a close game late and they change the entire way that they play to avoid giving up a 80-yard play. You have not given up an 80-yard play ALL GAME. Why are you convinced you will give up one now? It makes zero sense.
I started off 2026 whining. New Year, same me!
Kidding aside, next week, we get back to some fun and tell stories about our community.
