I have been working on this post for a while.  I just don’t seem to have time to finish these kind of entries!

A few weeks back I headed back to work.  My first night back I was instantly reminded of one of my biggest pet peeves of all.

Imagine yourself on an elevator.  There is a finite amount of space on that thing.  And outside of the elevator there is, well, frankly, the whole rest of the world.

So why do people try to board an elevator before they see if anyone will be getting off?

I really dislike elevators and do what I can to avoid using them.  But, in my later months of pregnancy, or when I have medical equipment, I have to use them.  And deal with these folks.  😛

On the ride home, I was pondering this and was thinking about my other pet peeves.  And, if you are reading this, you get to ponder them, too!

What is the “Subject” line there for on emails?  It annoys the snot out of me. 
It is the email version of call waiting, at best, and just plain extra work, at worst.

I am here to say that any email that comes to my inbox will get opened in the reverse order it came in, starting with the most recently sent one.  I will not pick and chose and decide which order I will open them in based on what someone may have typed in that box.  If I am going to my email, I am going there hoping to deal with all of the messages.  As I read one and delete it, or put it in another folder, I will then go on to the next one.  I don’t even look at the subject lines.  Taking the time to actually read the subjects and then selecting based on whatever someone wrote would actually take more time that just starting at the top and going down through them and making quick, click-y decisions as they open one after the other.

So, if you are one to send me an email, please know you don’t have to try to think of something stellar to put in that line, hoping I won’t miss your email.  I won’t miss it.  Honestly, I don’t really read the subject lines.

Now, I will acknowledge that I *only* get 25 – 40 emails a day.  So, perhaps if I had more, I might use other techniques.