10 Things That Irritate Me About You
And how all of them have to do with me
People can be irritating. It’s in our nature. No matter how well-intentioned we may be, we will always succeed at being irritating to someone at some point. There is no escaping it. Glad that’s out of the way.
What’s the good news? Most of the things that irritate us about each other are pretty funny. They are idiosyncrasies of our mutual existence, and together, we can love them, and joke about them. So let’s have a laugh, shall we? And while we’re at it, let’s actually get to the bottom of why these things irritate us so much.
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” — Carl Jung
The vignettes below are real irritations of real people, but their names have been changed.
1. It irritates me when you don’t fully finish a task.
Grayson likes putting away half-dry cutlery in the drawer. Or leaving a heap of clean pans in a tower on the counter. He will thoughtfully pour milk into Victoria’s coffee, but thoughtlessly leave a useless drop in the carton and put it back in the fridge, instead of emptying it and throwing it out.
