1. What is your biggest pet peeve? Why?
People who hinder the group when they are late. I hate setting a time to go somewhere and not actually leaving until 30 minutes afterwards. I arrive early when catching rides to church retreats. They always say we’ll leave at 5PM, but we don’t actually leave until 5:45 or even later. Drives me up the wall. Why can’t people be on time? I’m sure I have wasted years of my life waiting on people.
Another pet peeve of mine is people’s behavior at church worship services. Sometimes during the Lord’s Supper, perhaps the most serious part of worship, people will talk to their neighbor. If anyone does this, they’ve pretty much landed on my blacklist. I know they aren’t serious about worshipping God. Plus when people don’t sing it is frustrating. We are all commanded to sing. It doesn’t matter if you can’t carry a tune. We’re there to sing. When people just sit there and not sing, they again aren’t serious about worshipping. Argh!
2. What irritating habits do you have?
Worrying too much. I always find myself worrying about something.
Piling up papers and junk around my office. For some reason I seem to get a stack of papers on this on particular spot right beside my desk. Usually my To-Do stuff. I wish I didn’t pile it up there. Kinda gets annoying. But where else would I put it?
3. Have you tried to change the irritating habits or just let them be?
I haven’t really tried. Just part of my personality.
4. What grosses you out more than anything else? Why?
Fear Factor usually has some pretty gross stuff on it. All that nasty stuff they have to eat. Somehow I do believe Fear Factor will soon run its course. There’s only so many stunts you can do. There’s only so many gross “foods” you can eat.
Vomiting grosses me out. Watching people vomit is pretty nasty. They seem to be showing it more and more on TV these days. Johnny Knoxville and Road Rules both had episodes recently which included vomiting. I guess MTV had run out of shocking stuff to show.
In elementary school it grossed me out when kids would throw up. Usually it was at their desk. Halfway embarrassing for a kid to throw up. Sickening for the rest of us. I guess during that time a kid couldn’t control their vomit. They couldn’t hold it in until they got to the bathroom. Afterwards the teacher would call the janitor and he’d come with some bleach to clean it up. All the while the kid was sent to the office to call home. I remember it happening some in the early elementary school years, but it seemed to stopped happening later on.
On a side note, I knew a kid in elementary school who would get these massive migrain headaches. He was out usually at least one day a week. Said the migrains made him throw up. I think it had to do with his parents being divorced. Emotional problems.
Like the storyline from a Seinfeld episode, I went 19 years without throwing up. My streak which started in 1980 ended in late 1999 when I developed a stomach virus right after Christmas.
5. What one thing can you never see yourself doing that other people do?
This question is really random. It has nothing to do with the rest of the questions.
I don’t like to be trendy. Just because everyone shops at Old Navy or the Gap, doesn’t mean I shop there. I have to be my own person when choosing clothing, music, TV shows, etc…. I don’t like to be trendy.
Just surfing around I found some webpages of people I know at Stoner Creek Elementary:

• Nick Nance Nick goes to church with me. This webpage appears to be more comprehensive than the ole regular standard format template. It appears this webpage is updated semi-frequently. The best part of the webpage is this quote: “Your child is being prayed for every day.”
• Melissa Cobb I went to elementary, junior high, and high school with Melissa.
• Katy Whiteaker Katy goes to church with me.
• Laura Smith Laura also goes to church with me.