I really need to work on my consistency. Here's last week's Friday Five:


What’s the most annoying sound in the world?

I'm betting a lot of people said their alarm clock, and I will happily jump on the band wagon. I actually am happy to have switched to cell phone alarms just to avoid that "ANGH ANGH ANGH ANGH" noise that my old alarm clock made. I no longer prescribe to the notion that the only way you can wake up is to have fear of God put in you.

Which of other people’s mannerisms do you find very annoying?

I hate when people phrase nearly every sentence in the form of a question, so all I ever hear is the pitch of a person's voice raising a bit at the end of every comment he or she makes. It just makes a person sound unsure of everything and that's really annoying.

What do you do that really annoys others?

I'm intensely forgetful and I often don't say anything when things bother me.

In what way has your own behavior recently caused you annoyance?

My forgetfulness comes back to haunt me pretty often, and I'm always very annoyed with myself when it does. I'll forget a deadline, or that I was supposed to run an errand, and then by the end of the day I'll realize that there was a pooch, and it has been screwed.

Who’s the most annoying person you know?

Larry the Cable Guy. I mean, I don't know him personally, but he's definitely tops in the annoyance department.

Zeebo Out.