Things that bug me.

Thankfully each of us are very different.  We are not bothered by the same problems.  What things bug you? 

One of the things that bug me are people who brag, especially the one who are obviously exaggerating.  On Tuesday evening I went to the Angel's baseball game with my son.  He does not exactly look like a son any more because he is fifteen.  He is six feet, 3 inches though, that is why he looks so much older! Anyway, we were at the game, the Angels were playing the Detroit Tigers.

Shortly after we sat down a family came to sit behind us.  One of the boys, probably in high school, started bragging, he hardly stopped during the whole game.  He said that in order to make the home team look better the person operating the radar gun for the pitchers pitching speed cheated.  He said they measured the home pitchers when the ball left their hand and the away pitcher when the ball crossed the plate.  How the person with the radar gun managed to measure two different points which are separated by one third of a second (.33) I don't know.  In fact it seems impossible!  So that's how he began.  He continued when he made the home team's batting averages seem not as good as they were.  He would say, "Oh, .295, that's not a very good batting average, and his slugging percentage is only .395."  Seriously!  Okay, those numbers are not Babe Ruth or Hank Aaron numbers but they are very good.  Anyone who has to demean others in order to look good has lost a lot of credibility in my book.

What bugs you?

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