Causes of Immediate Distress

The top 20 causes of immediate distress as defined by people in Cape Town and Jozy, published in The Shaggy Dog blog. Makes for interesting rading, Maybe SA is not such a bad place after all:

1) Getting gravel in your shoe
2) Being kept awake by the sound of a Christmas beetle buzzing and bumping into your bedroom walls
3) Trying to open the seal on a new toilet roll and only succeeding in ripping several layers to threads
4) Danny K
5) Running out of staples when you only have one thing left to staple
6) Citizens who use the word ‘peeps’ instead of ‘people’
7) Overweight couples in matching Springbok rugby jerseys
8 ) Seeing someone throw litter from their car window
9) Construction company bakkies and pool service vans leaving large oil stains on your driveway
10) Those pointy Italian shoes for men
11) People who think Vodacom’s Dancing Meerkat is funny
12) Fear of crime
13) When a refuse bag splits open as you take it outside and the rubbish spills all over the place
14) Idiots in Hummers
15) Opening a Flake, Crunchie or Peppermint Crisp and finding it’s been broken
16) People who smugly proclaim “Oh, I don’t watch TV” when you tell them about a great new series
17) Spotting an obese person eating a waffle at Milky Lane
18) Middle-aged men wearing three-quarter pants. In fact, any man in three-quarter pants. The worst would be Danny K in three-quarter pants
19) Cyclists in coffee shops
20) When DStv gets affected by solar flares