hey say it's the little things that make life worth living. They also say the devil's in the details. Here's a short, whiny list of little things that have been bothering me lately.

- Starbucks must have it in their training manual to completely disregard the phrase "room for cream." Every time, every store I go in I ask for the same thing, and when they hand it back to me there's not enough room for me to spit in the cup without it overflowing. I could hand it back to them to pour some off, but then they pour too much, or I could dump a little of it in the trash, but that just seems rude to make them haul a big, gross, coffee filled trashbag. As a former trashbag hauler, I have some sympathy there. But it's gotten to the point where I have to hold my arms out to the sides like I'm telling them about a trout I caught or I'm pretending to be Jesus.

- Whole Foods is a great store. I love it because it has all kinds of cool gourmet food I wouldn't be able to find anywhere else except Trader Joe's, or Henry's... but I still like Whole Foods better. Except for the people who shop there. Bunch of aging hippies so wrapped up in their organic food self image that NO ONE watches where they're going. I've been backed into, walked into, nearly ran over, bumped into, and all around molested by my fellow customers every time I go there for something.

- I realize that the above two posts, about Starbucks and Whole Foods make me look really yuppie-ish. I'm okay with that.

- I really miss swimming. I love running, but it's getting to the point where I have to ice my knees and shins every time I go out... but swimming. Well, that's a post in and of itself.

- It shouldn't bother me because they're just crazy teenage kids figuring out what they want in life, but there are WAY too many "scene" type kids with hair-in-the-face emo haircuts in my classes and at my school. Ooh, your jeans taper at the ankle? When did it become OK to start wearing the kind of jeans my mother wore when I was growing up? Hah, my mom was scene before scene was scene.... what?

- What's the deal with airplane food?
posted by MAtt D. at 3:45 PM