Whistling

[cjsmith]

Expanding on a comment elsewhere:

I totally suck at asking people to stop doing annoying little stuff. I get annoyed, so I lose all ability to think up a tactful way to ask, and then I just shut up and stay annoyed.

This is particularly true if the annoying thing is something I was taught, as a child, not to do because it could be really annoying. Whistling is in that category. I was about 25 before I realized there were people who hadn't been told about whistling. I thought it was like BO: if you've got that particular problem, you FIX IT.

Ah, life. :-)

Comments

[bigredpaul.livejournal.com]

I like to whistle - of course, I am an accomplished whistler, so people often compliment me on it.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I can certainly enjoy hearing cheerful or accomplished whistling. But man, it was SO outlawed in our house! (And tuneless random whistlers in the office when I'm trying to concentrate = FIST OF DEATH.)