17 things, people, trends, or phenomena that make me want to punch a wall.

1. Listening to Will Shortz explain his puzzles on National Public Radio.
2. Models wearing rock ‘n’ roll-style clothing or shoes and holding guitars they do not know how to play.
3. Models open-mouthed singing while they do this.
4. Rollerbladers.
5. Astrology. Horoscopes. Tarot cards.
6. People with “their entire music collection” on their iPod.
7. Broken 8-track tapes.
8. People who stare at parents wrangling a crying child in a casual dining restaurant. You’re in a goddamn Wendy’s, what did you expect, French Laundry?
9. Having to read Caps for Sale ever.
10. People who think or pretend they have right of way to make a left turn into oncoming traffic when a light turns green; see Massachusetts left turn.
11. The terms lyric essay, poessay, povel, piction, fessay, pressay, nessay, novessay, proem.
12. Zydeco music.
13. Any used book for sale for more than $5 that has marginalia, notes, and underlining in it.
14. Useless “bizmaps” of resort or vacation areas.
15. Download torrented movies that, upon playing them, require viewers to register for an adult site to get a password. This never works.
16. Running out of things to put in lists for one’s website post.
17. People who take these sort of lists seriously.