Not a Clean Cut

You know what really grinds my gears?

As I'm sure most of you know, we are approaching Christmas. If you were not aware, then get a calendar. Since it is Christmas time, most people are wrapping gifts. I enjoy wrapping gifts, but what grinds my gears is when you are trying to cut a straight line in the wrapping paper, and it is nothing like a straight line.

I like to be meticulous when I am wrapping presents, so when I try and glide my scissors across the paper to get a straight line, and yet it abruptly stops and leaves a rip or tear, my gears start a' grinding. I even have the wrapping paper with the gridded line to help guide my scissors so I can cut a straight line, but my scissors still snag on something and I get a tear.

My mom said, "Why don't you just cut along the line instead of gliding across?" Well that takes more time, and I already spend enough time making sure the presents look nice and crisp. If my sister can just take the scissors and quickly cut across, why can't I? They even have those special gift wrap cutters that are designed to just go straight across the paper, but I'm sure if I were to use those, I would only cause more errors.

And you know what else grinds my gears? When we get a nicely wrapped present that just looks pretty, we tear into it like a tiger tears into raw meat. I put all of my hard work into making the present look aesthetically pleasing, and then you go and rip it apart into tiny shreds of paper. Nice, that's classy.

Sorry my rant isn't so organized, but I just thought of this yesterday while I was having "fun" wrapping presents."

Let me know if you like these, and hopefully I will start writing some more posts and even publishing them in the Paw Print.

And that is what really grinds my gears.