I have many pet peeves; little things that make my skin crawl and my brain squirm. Things that make me want to go find a Louisville Slugger and take my frustration out on…someone…deserving.
Today’s pet peeve is those flyers or ads that they put in magazines. You know the ones; the little squares of paper which, as soon as you open the magazine, about a hundred of these things fall out. At least these are easy to deal with. I just grab the mag. and shake it good before I look through it.
The really annoying ones are the type that is actually glued in; where you have to tear the binding apart to get them out. It wouldn’t be too bad, but ever time you open the mag you open to these stupid things. They are so big now too that it is hard to flip through any magazine, because the ads keep stumbling you up, you can’t find what you are looking for. Is there really someone out there who thinks that these techniques work to ensure that people read these ads? Well they DO NOT!
It doesn’t help that each page isn’t numbered so you have to go page by page to finally find that the article on page 57 ends on page 202, but there is no page 200 and there are a dozen missing page numbers in between.
These things never used to bother me so, but since in this day and age my pleasure reading has decayed from novels and weighty subjects to magazine fare ( I read about a dozen mags per month, including National Geographic, Birds in Bloom – Lynns mag, Guitar Player, Astronomy, Scientific American, and Maxim – that last bastion of high-brow literature ), it has annoyed me so that it has become one, on a lengthy and growing list, of pet peeves. GRRR~!
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