Wiki borrows from Webster in defining "A pet peeve (or pet hate) as a minor annoyance that an individual identifies as particularly annoying to them, to a greater degree than others may find it."
That's about right in as much as words can put it. Sometimes, not always, things that people do or say rub me the wrong way, and in my mind a battle line has been drawn. Either I take them aside and politely put it in words which I hope would get through to them, or sometimes find the best way to deal it is in their own terms, confronting it by handing them a dose of their own medicine.
For instance, one of the first few impressions of a person for me is always through not what they look like, or sound like, but based on how they carry themselves..... The things that they speak, the things that they take liberty in doing, how comfortable or uncomfortable they make others around them feel, are to me some of the things that either impresses me or in a way insults or offends me. Wrong foot, first fault, first strike or whatever you call it, it starts there in my mind. I don't close my mind about these folks, but won't miss an opportunity to confront my 'pet peeves' with them to understand why they feel they have the right to trample around.
Many a times this causes agony to the other party, when they might feel that I might have unduly insulted/injured them, but in my mind I am right since, 'you drew first blood'.
The above has been an extract from Chapter 1 of the upcoming 'Book of self destruction - how not to make friends, and/or how to make enemies' (working title), authored by Yours Truly.
Hey there! started this blog as a place to pen the thoughts of my mind or lack of it. Will try to stick to reality.. Oh, and lack of frequent posts is not due to lack of thoughts in my head.... just the lack of clarity. Try blogging when you have different and contradicting viewpoints about the topic.....that's usually the case for me on all topics!! Warning: My blogs are mostly impulsive, so hope no permanent misunderstandings occur as a result of them. That usually happens in person.
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Experience at work place teaching you a lot. Hmmmm...memoirs of a workaholic who'd rather be an alcoholic..now that could be a good book title.
Title sounds great.... so when r u going to give a preview of your book in your blog? :)
The book might be more scandalous than Pachauri's and more titillating than Corporate :-). Don't know if the world is ready for it yet :-)
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