Sarah's Hate List, Volume 3

1. The US Postal Service. It was stupid back in 2004 and it's still stupid now.

2. SC4. For the following reasons:
a) My networking teacher is awesome, thus proving that 95% of OA teachers are horrible.
b) We are not in high school anymore, yet some teachers still choose to treat us like we are. I did not pay for my high school education and so the teachers treated me like a kid. I am paying for my college education and I think the teachers, since I'm paying them to teach me, should show me some respect and not threaten to kick me out of the class just because I don't know what page we are learning about filing on, since I already know my freaking alphabet.

3. Airport security. I understand that it's there to protect me from terrorism but seriously...16 ounces of conditioner is all I can take with me for 14 days of high altitude and humidity?!

4. Bugs. All of them. There is no need for this.

5. The fact that a month ago, gas was just pushing, if not exceeding $3 a gallon (and that's where it needed to be, according to our lovely government) and now, all of the sudden, in the midst of hurricane season, it's $2.38. Idiots.

6. The fact that there are rules for filing. Seriously, if you don't know the alphabet by now, then you probably shouldn't have passed kindergarten and you definitely shouldn't be pursuing a career that requires you to be organized and thorough.

7. Ebay. And since nobody answered my question about it in 2005...who came up with that freakin idea?

8. Teachers who I've had for the past 5 semesters and yet still seem to think that just because I don't write down every word that comes out of their mouth, I must not be learning anything.

9. Teachers who make up grades depending on how they're feeling. If you're going to grade stupid homework assignments that I do during your uber-boring lectures, at least grade everybody's assignment the same way.

10. Spiders. Although this could fit under the "bugs" category, I think they're nasty enough to deserve their own mention.

11. Apple for making iTunes to work the same way with Windows as it does with OS X because that instantly makes it the worst Apple program ever created.

12. The fact that since I got my macbook, Apple has acknowledged 2 problems with macbooks and agreed to fix them both, but both of those problems are not the problem I have been having.

13. The fact that Michigan expressways are some of the most dangerous ones in the country and yet, we have the highest speed limits and are constantly begging for them to be raised even though no one drives under the existing limits.

14. How sometimes you can get a headache that only hurts on one side of your head.

15. How commercials are always like 10 times louder than the TV show you were watching.

16. That Fall TV schedules can't be concrete:
a) We only get 6 episodes of Lost and then we have to wait until February sweeps for the rest of the season?! Who came up with that plan?
b) Scrubs doesn't premiere until mid-season! That's just not fair.

17. How coffee has to taste like dirt, but yet it's quasi-good for you and calorie-free and yet cappuccino is delicious and full of sugar and calories.

18. Wet dogs. They stink. Ammended 9/13/2006 at 5:35 p.m.: Wet dogs aren't as worth hating as the stupid idiots who decided that Pluto wasn't good enough to be a planet. Pluto lives! Who's with me? Anyone?

19. Microsoft. For being communists. Because now that I have a mac and can download awesome open source programs right from apple's web site for free, I truly see how horrible Microsoft is.

20. The US Postal Service. Because my hatred toward them is so great that it needs 2 of the 20 available slots on this year's Sarah's Hate List.


Awe-freaking-some.