Laziness, tardiness, etc.

Sure, I can be lazy sometimes, but I don't complain when I have to do something. Almost every single day for the past two weeks, I've gotten up early to shower and get ready for college. The first week of the two was for me, because I was a bit behind. Thankfully, that's all done now - I'm freeee! But last week, I only got up for my friends. They were more behind than me, so I offered some assistance with the practical work because I'm good at that. The only thing I asked for was that they had to do the written work at home, and that I get an extra hour sleep in the morning (so I'd turn up at 10am other than 9am).

Well. One of my friends decided they'd just go home and play games until bedtime, leaving the written work off another evening. This didn't just happen once, by the way. My other friend? Well, they slept in until noon, and showed up when I was getting ready to go home. I don't mind helping, but that just really irked me that I'd put myself out like that, just for them to mess up. I'm not doing that again this week.

Fakers, putting it on, braggers, etc.

People who constantly fake being sick to get out of something, to get something, or to get attention. I have faked ill once or twice, I know, but at least I space them out over a year. I've known people who have a new illness or disease every single day. What's even worse is when they seriously put it on to the point it's not even believable any more... but people still run around after them as if they don't have much longer. ¬¬

As for people who brag about illnesses... is it just me, or do older people really go on about their medical history as if it's a competition? You know, to see who has the higher chance of dying first? My grandmother, as much as I love her, goes on about it forever. When I escort her to the store, and she bumps into a friend, I'm left there listening to her (and her friend's) medical history. "You know, two years ago, I almost died because of a kidney stone," "Oh really? I had five kidney stones, and they put me on nil by mouth," "No way! Well, the year before that, I had phenomena, and was in hospital for a week..." and on. I wouldn't mind if they were showing any genuine care about it, but it's all just competition.

Ghetto kids, or chavs, or whatever you like to call them.

This isn't meant to be offensive, before I get hated. I live in an area which gets called "the ghetto", and... well, I look around and I don't see a ghetto. I see a bunch of kids making it that way. They graffiti everywhere, they drink, they smoke weed, they leave their trash everywhere BUT the bin, they spread their legs for the first boy they meet when they hit thirteen, they piss up walls, etc... if these kids were removed from the area, it wouldn't be a horrible place to live.

Our council had recently re-built some sheds that were falling apart, and already people have had to make their own repairs on them; new locks, new pieces of wood for the door, plastic sheets on the roof to keep rainwater out... it went to brand new and back to shanty town within a few months.

Then they grow up complaining that they have no money for this, this and that, when it's their own fault for dropping out of school, "getting up the duff", getting a crappy council estate flat with damp walls, spending money on repairs and food for the quickly developing ASBO kid, and living off the tax payers money.