What I Don't Love

One of my text conversations today went something like this:

Pete: I love DePaul girls.

Me: I love wearing my flowy skirt and flip flops and doing double dutch.

Pete: I love getting commission checks.

Me: I love hope and possibility... You are loving a lot of things today.

Pete: I love everything.

Me: Not true.

Pete: What don't I love?

Me: Girls who don't shave. The pitcher for the Sox. Clingy girls. See, I listen. What don't I love? Besides my class.

Pete: No idea.

I started thinking about what I don't love. And by the way, saying I don't love my class isn't true; I do love them all individually. So after school, I asked Michelle. "Can you name something I don't love?" Michelle replied that I love everything, but then thought about it and said, "Meat." And then we got deep and decided I don't love myself.

Then LaJoya joined the conversation, and we started discussing things Michelle doesn't love. People who act like administrators. PBIS. "Can you name something that's not school related?" Michelle asked. "Your neighbors," I said. "When Erin doesn't listen to you and you have to pinch her!" LaJoya exclaimed. But it was hard to think of things that someone doesn't love. It's much easier to think of what they love.

So here is a list of things I don't love.

• The sound of my alarm clock
• Three's Company
• Doing dishes
• Soccer
• Flying
• Math
• The word "tummy"
• The Little House on the Prairie books
• Meat
• George W. Bush, Glenn Beck, and Bill O'Reilly
• Designer knock-offs
• Textbooks, especially basals
• People who don't recycle
• The Sox
• Bad grammar
• Elmo
• Racist jokes
• Things that are tight around my neck- turtlenecks, chokers, etc.
  
• Butterflies
• Keeping track of money
• Toby Keith
• Movies that don't end happily ever after

This list is by no means comprehensive. But it was fun to think about while I was bored in class.