Everyone has their likes and dislikes and we should also not forget that we all have our differences; what one likes, another dislikes and vice versa. There are things I strongly dislike and with passion that they irritate me when in sight. There are things that sometimes, I do not have an option except I am not there when it is being prepared. I would have a little relief when taking such a thing because it wasn't done in my presence.
Let me cite an example, when someone cooks and does not care about proper hygiene, you know it will be difficult to eat such food when cooked in your presence because you saw how it was prepared and the kind of environment the person carried such activity out. This is something that made me not like eating out, especially from canteens or bukas because most of them are dirty.
Now, let me talk about those things I dislike with passion with my experience with them.
The first on the list is dirtiness/disorganisation. You see this one, I hate to see a dirty environment or individual around me and it puts me off completely when I am a customer buying items from such a person. Right from time, I have been careful with local grinders. Before I take my pepper to grind outside, I look out for a clean environment, the owner and plastics being used to grind pepper. When I moved to this city, I didn't have an option at first other than to grind my pepper with local grinders outside and this is because I prefer my pepper to be smooth except I want to make a different stew for rice, spaghetti etc. I love using smooth pepper for my solid meal, hence taking my pepper out for grinding.
The first woman I knew was so dirty that I had to stop taking my pepper to her. I came across another one but it was worse. I had managed to endure seeing how my pepper was ground in a dirty environment by an unkempt and smelly woman and most of all, dirty plastics. I was pissed off with the last experience and I vowed to grate my pepper myself and manage what I prepare for solid meals than expose myself to an unhygienic manner. I couldn't endure it anymore. I have a blender but no electricity to make use of it. So, I rather grate my pepper than succumb to such a way of exposing my food to rubbish.
These are people that you want to turn back once you enter their homes because of how disorganised they are. When you can't take care of your body, there is no way you will be organised with things in your home.
The second thing on the list is bad odour. Oh God, I can't sit beside one who has a bad breath and smelly part of the body. This is something I take my time to take care of myself so as not to irritate people around me. I sat with a guy one day and I couldn't control my breath, I was holding my breath every time he opened his mouth to talk. I stylishly left the seat for another. Some people are not bothered about taking care of themselves and observing proper hygiene.
The third thing I dread and dislike is typecasting. I tried to look for one word to describe the experience and I got that word. Typecasting is the idea of pushing someone into a role because you think it is what they do or are identified with. For example, I am an English teacher at my place of primary assignment and whenever there is an event where one needs to speak and introduce the program, some corpers would point at me saying I should do it, after all, I am taking the English language subject.
"Who told you anyone cannot take the role?" This would be my reaction and question anytime they pick me to take the role because to them, I am taking a subject and I can speak English, so, they cannot? Being an English teacher doesn't mean I should always handle speaking roles. I dislike being pushed into roles based on assumptions.
This pisses me off a lot of time and it is what I dislike because I don't see why pushing someone to take up a role, thinking after all, it is their identity or what they do.
I am not saying it is not good but when it becomes a continuous practice, one where one is being stereotyped, then it becomes abnormal to have such thinking. Everyone can do it as long as you are ready but typecasting because you want to hide your face or are not bold enough to express yourself is what I see as foolishness. These people do not want to be responsible for a task and would look for excuses and ways to push the responsibility to others thereby typecasting them everywhere.
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