Well, Dear Readers, it’s time to talk about the most annoying and overused words of 2013 which will be totally awesome and amazing and, like, whatever!
Michigan University has a website where people go throughout the year to vote for the words they think are the most annoying. This year “selfie” “twerking” and “hashtag” topped their list of 2013’s most annoying words.
Well, Dear Readers, I’ve taken the liberty of coming up with my own list of annoying verbiage that I’ve managed to glean this year from conversations I’ve eavesdropped on while browsing through magazines at Barnes and Noble. The first one is:
“Babe”
Couples who call each other babe is fine. But when you’re trying to concentrate on a Mad Magazine and the annoying couple standing next to you thumbing through Dwell Magazine are beginning and ending every sentence they utter with the word babe, as in:
“Babe, look at this, Babe!”
“Babe, we should totally do that with our kitchen, Babe!”
“Babe, yeah we should totally, Babe!”
Babe, yeah, yeah, yeah, Babe!”
. . . well, Dear Readers, hearing so many babes in rapid succession like that makes me want to leave and go upstairs to the Barns and Noble snack bar and eat two stale Toffee Crunch Blondie Brownies as a way of making it up to myself.
Another phrase I find extremely annoying is:
“Stay off the technology!”
I remember a time last year when I was at the Barnes and Noble Magazine stand catching up on my Royal Baby news when I overheard a mother tell her children they could go upstairs if they promised her they would “stay off technology.”
I don’t know why, Dear Readers, and maybe it’s just me, but that phrase made me want to throw up stale Toffee Crunch Blondie Brownie right onto the pages of Babe’s Dwell Magazine.
But the phrase I find the most annoying of all is:
“Not a problem.”
I have a big problem with “not a problem”. Okay to be fair, I’m not annoyed when someone uses “not a problem” when responding to actual problems, such as:
“Excuse me. Would you mind helping me with this bank robbery?”
“Not a problem.”
or
“Listen, don’t bother returning my plumber’s helper to me after your are done unplugging your toilet.”
“Not a problem.”
But what I abhor is when “not a problem” becomes insidious and starts leaking into my very own conversation against my will — like, say, when I’m ordering goodies at the Barnes and Noble snack bar:
Me: Yes, I’ll have a Lemon Crumb Bar.
Girl: Not a problem. That will be$3.75.
Me: Not a problem, thanks.
Girl: Not a problem.
Me: Oh, I’m sorry but this is stale.
Girl: Not a problem. Here’s another one.
Me: Alright not a problem, thanks.
Girl: Not a problem.
Me: Oh can I have a bag?
Girl: Not a problem. Oh, sorry, we’re out of bags.
Me: Not a problem.
Girl: So sorry.
Me: Not a problem! Thank you.
Girl: Not a problem!
Me: Not a problem!
Anyway, Dear Readers, this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to annoying verbiage or whatever but for the life of me I can’t think of anything else that’s amazing or awesome. I hope that’s not a problem.
Until next time . . . I love you