I think many of my frustrations in my life can be chalked up to my analytical mind.
I am weird in this way...I get annoyed when people are dumb or illogical. But I forget it may just because they don't think things through the same way I do.
For example: My uncle just sent my mother coupons for tickets to Lagoon (the only amusement park in Utah, noted in the **Beach Boys' song "Salt Lake") because we are going for my grandma's birthday--a family reunion of sorts.
Now here is my issue: He sent 22 of them. 22. On each and every one of them it says "Valid for up to 8 persons". We can now get 176 people into Lagoon at the coupon price, rather than the 22 people we need to get in. 3 coupons necessary. THREE! Not 22.
Another time is when people are trying to put things together. It drives me crazy when I know how to do it correctly and they are screwing it up. (Control freak, control freak, la la la.) I read instruction manuals for fun! At the moment my bedroom bookshelf consists of "Harry Potter" 1-6, instruction manuals for my stereo, iPod, and iMac, "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus", and "HTML for Dummies".
Analyzing and understanding technical directions is easy for me. I enjoy it. I am such an oxymoron, hahaha. I am going into cosmetology yet I can take apart the VCR, find the problem, fix it, and put the VCR back together. I am the one who set the surround sound up on the bigscreen. I completely read the direction booklet, took all the speakers out of their boxes, found the accompanying wires, labeled them, connected everything in its proper place, programmed the dang thing, etc. ...it was fun.
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** Beach Boys - "Salt Lake"
Down in Utah
The guys and I dig a city called Salt Lake
It's got the grooviest kids
That's why we never get tired of Salt Lake
And the way the kids talk so cool
Is an out of sight thing
And the number one radio station
Makes the town really swing yeah
Salt Lake City we'll be coming soon
There's a park near the city, yeah
All the kids dig the Lagoon now
It's full of all kinds of girls
And rides and we'll be flyin' there soon now
And girl for girl
They've got the cutest of the Western states
They got the sun in the summer
And winter time the skiing is great yeah
Salt Lake City we'll be coming soon
Salt Lake City we'll be coming soon
We'll be coming soon
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