Bothersome Things

1.  When you wake up to a beautiful sunny day, but by the time you get your “work” done and go outside to enjoy the weather, the sky has filled with clouds and there’s no sunshine to be found anywhere.

2.  When you sacrifice your evening to drive one of your kids to (and then back again) a party/school or church activity/sporting event/etc.,  and at the end of the evening he/she says he/she had a rotten time.

3.  When you carefully nurture a favorite euonymus shrub and a little stinker of a dog named Cambridge comes along and tears it to bits.

4.  When you plant ivy in the front yard in the hopes it will grow down the hill and fill in the spots where the grass looks like the top of a bald man’s head, and it grows up the hill instead.

5.  When you sit down to watch a certain movie you really wanted to see, but you just can’t keep your eyes open.

6.  When a cashier acts like he's/she’s doing you a big fat favor by ringing up your items.

8.  The fact that people vote even though they haven’t attempted in any way to learn anything about the issues and where the candidates stand on those issues.

9.  When it takes two years for the next book in a beloved series to be published.

10.  When people complain about “bothersome things” when they live such a blessed life that they should thank God every day that they have it so good!