Fruss like that!

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-Standing in a queue and the man behind me doesn’t care to give distance.
-Locking keys in the car, desperately watching them dangle in the window – no spares at hand.
-Giving a kid directions to fetch something and watching them turn every which way except...
-Sitting in the foldable chair of a taxi, furiously being tapped because the person at the back wants to exit. Hey! I know. The taxi stopped, didn’t it? I heard you say “masaawo” didn’t I? – what now?!
-In the middle of bathroom business when a kid knocks on the door claiming it’s an emergency.
-Person claims to have an urgent message but never gets to the point.
-Power cut in the middle of a favorite soap.
-Chewing aloud.
-The smell of raw onions on bread.
-Settling down to eat a snack I labored over only to hear “please give me some”.
-Misplacing the tickets to the show
-Wrapping up for the day when the boss arrives with extra urgent work.
-Forgetting my purse - just then, the conductor stretches out his hand for the fare.
-Someone allegedly trying to sing along to the music on a walkman/ipod, whatever. Listen in silence - dance, bob your head but don’t sing, it doesn’t sound the same – to rest of us that is.
-Food runs out just when I’m next in line.
-Running out of battery in the middle of an important phone conversation.
-Snobs from that school.
-No network.
-Cell phone rings in the middle of a sermon.
-Asking lots of questions when a sister is hungry.
-A fidgety, antsy, complaining, chattering human being on a roll. Stop already!!

Comments

  1. Robyn.K.Y2:10 AM

    you are a very creative writer,,
    you know that?

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  2. petesmama2:32 AM

    Gosh, I hate the smell of raw onions on bread - or in fresh juice. It sucks when people are careless with the way they use knives.

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  3. jny233:14 AM

    I concur with yu on all this fruss moments.
    The taxi moment is so annoying.

    The kid with an emergency and the one about the snack are too hillarious.

    Abt food running out, its happened to me on several occassions. Nowadays i sit strategically when i go 4 functions with food. lol

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  4. sleek8:02 AM

    socks mortals...

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  5. sleek8:10 AM

    you nailed them...
    basically,cell phone going off where it shdnt;in the cinema,at the wedding (in church)..
    now that standing in queue thing?totally with you there..u can almost smell the dude's breath!

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  6. Roc6:01 AM

    Raw onions on bread???
    Like f'real?

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