When you say that something irks you, everyone relates. If someone is irksome, they tend to be pest-y or irritating...just enough to be a bother but not bad enough to be unbearable.
I like the word, it works.
Here is a list of a few things that I find irksome.
- A piece of food that becomes lodged between 2 of your back teeth and will not come loose, no matter how much tongue massage is applied.
- The morning newspaper thrown onto the only puddle in your yard.
- Dishes left in the sink, not in the dishwasher.
- Any tradesman who arrives either too early or too late.
- Wait staff who hover.
- Reading a really great book that has an ending that makes you say, What?
- Unfilled toilet paper holders.
- Beware of bump signs, why produce a sign, why not just fix the road.
- Hangers in a closet that are not all facing the same way.
- Anyone who eats food in a grocery store without paying for it first.
- Getting luncheon meat at the deli and having the price label placed across the ziplock.
- Empty ice cube trays in the freezer.
- People who say, "it don't matter to me."
- Unsolicited credit card offers.
- When you are just about to fall asleep, and your enitire body goes into some sort of shake awake spasm.
- Deck cushions made specifically for outdoors that fade to an unrecognizable color the first season you use them.
- Water bottle caps that are put on so tightly that you need pliers to open them
- Any telemarketer who leaves messages on voice mail.
- Waking up before the alarm goes off, only to remember that it's Saturday and you do not have to get up.
- Shoes that feel really good when you try them on in the store, but morph into torturous toe tweakers once you bring them home.
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