Pet Hates

Pet Hates
        
 "I'm trying to"

Ever text, email or call your best friend?
Why are they forever giving me these
dubious defenses?
"I'm trying to......(fill in any activity).

I suggest do not answer the person at all.
Especially if it's a close friend or relative.
Ah, but that pet hate , throws me against
the nearest wall. 

I can't even enumerate the excuses given.
Some turn me purple and supremely livid. 
I don't fault the person just ye olde internet
And the funky bad manners delusion it sets.

I don't think even Poetry Soup could hold 
all the excuses.
It's just a way of vile internet pretense.
Cold to the core, and pure affectation.


****Poem entered into Kevin Shaw's Contest***
          " It Really Gets Me Going."
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Mchattie Avatar
May 4, 2019 at 2:33 PM
You have hit a nerve my friend but such are the times we live in. Have a great day.
Romios Avatar
May 4, 2019 at 3:41 PM
PS. Just so you know..I have been a protestor I guess most of my life. It's led me to refuse to ever be a "sheeple". Protested the Vietnam War, etc and any injustice. We are all worth something far more than technology dictates.,I am not one to toe the line. I see when people hurt and can't blow it off.PR
Romios Avatar
May 4, 2019 at 3:17 PM
Yo! There is a Contest for this, David, but I cannot locate it. I am one of those oddballs who live in crude and rude times, but I am far from accepting such unmitigated rudeness. Others are far saner! Or, So they think? I don't think slaves dug having masters~ as "oh it's the times we live in." PR
Krutsinger Avatar
May 4, 2019 at 3:22 AM
Whoa! Hold the ponies! Panagiota is on a roll here. And it is scaring me! When I hear a child say "I am trying" I say, "stop trying and do it."
Romios Avatar
May 4, 2019 at 10:22 AM
LOL...am not scaring you.Just got over Mr. Cold! We are on the same page about "trying". I used that word just now in my comments, see! Duh.. Even adults say I am trying. I just ask them if they are going to do it or not.same with children. Try is a word to slip out of a promised conclusion. I did my best is stronger than I tries. Panagiota.
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