Micromanagers = Total Buzz-Kills

I have decided to write about the things that really bug me. So every once in a while, I'll dedicate certain blog post to a pet peeve of mine...

Are your friends and/or family breathing down your neck about SOMETHING? Do you feel like you are constantly being pestered to do something only to be bomb-shelled with something else?? Do you feel under-appreciated or mistrusted???

Well I feel your pain...

I don't know why we weren't friends in the first place... (Well, maybe not.)

So for those of you that didn't know, I used to carry a pet peeves list around in my wallet. I don't anymore due to a magical device called A COMPUTER. Yep. Like an online will, I have typed up my list of pet peeves (somewhere) and I add on to it when a new pet peeve surfaces. I usually use it when someone that I'm close to is acting obnoxious or just to put someone in their place.

Well, today I'm officially adding micromanagers to my list of pet peeves. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I present to you my reasons and argument:

So I'm going on a mission to Japan right? What can do to better prepare? Well I can study Japanese in some way and form of course! Well, this is where things get ugly...
I've got family members pestering me to learn Japanese differently; do this! Do that! How about 'shut up!'

Sorry about that!

Well to give ya details, one of my uncles is pestering me to learn how to Hiragana and Katakana. For those of you that don't know what that is, they're both writing styles/formats of the Japanese language. Hiragana is easier to recognize. It's where beginners and young students first learn the letters and all that before mixing it up with Kanji. Katakana is used mainly for borrowed words from other languages and even when written out, it looks like something a computer would type up. So my uncle gave me some Internet sources on learning how to write Kana. But he also imposes what he calls the "Favorite Uncle Challenge" and what that is he "assigns" a certain section of the learning process. What ever happened giving me the sources and let me have at it?!?!?! So there's one micromanager.

Want another text book example of micromanaging? Well, how about parents living their dreams through their children? How about parents making up for their mistakes and regrets through their children??? Both my parents took piano lessons when they were kids. But they never really committed to it and they don't have a clue about how to play it. My sisters and I however, took lessons (only because our parents got us a private instructor without our consent. We were little tots back then...). We turned out fine with it (so far). So I'd say, "There! Are you happy!? No get off of my skin!"

Got any other good examples of micromanaging? Drop me a line in the comments section and I'd like to hear all about it!

As for me, I'm gonna go do something productive!