My pet peeve- What really grinds my gears

My biggest pet peeve is male sports talking priority over everything else in the world. I would say just sports taking priority is a pet peeve but no that doesn’t cover what goes on in my house. I have 4 brothers and a father, and I’m a reasonable person I understand they are going to want to sit down and enjoy watching the game, but it should not mean the room is cleared of anyone uninterested in watching the game and a silence must cover the room and remain that way unless someone makes a bad play or a good play, then it is appropriate to hoot and holler like a pack of wild animals at the television set as if the players can hear you and by you yelling it will most certainly change what just happened in the game. Now don’t get me wrong I enjoy watching some football or soccer now and again but my life does not stop for sporting events, the way the male portion of my households does.

            If the boys are not watching sports they are playing them, again don’t get me wrong here I’m all about the physical activity but the Earths rotation should not have to stop and others should not have to be totally inconvenienced because of it. For example often I have to work after school starting at 4 o’clock and my brothers have sports everyday after school and my parents work. Doesn’t sound like much of a problem yet does it but wait there is more, Austin my youngest brother is 7 and needs to be picked up after school, who I ask you has the privilege of doing this task and having to run to work having not eaten or even began to do homework, if you guessed me you are correct. My parents are working so obviously they are preoccupied but seriously why do you have to practise set,spike,serve or dribble,pass,shoot 5 nights a week, you would think my brothers could share this responsibility with me but do they? Slim to never and the only time they do is if the don’t have practise never would they skip practise that would be unthinkable. In the event that I have track practise and not work, again who do you think misses practise Garner or Alex the basketball stars? I think not, Sarah the athlete that is “going no where” (quote compliments of my dear brother Garner) must pick up the slack and go and pick up Austin. I apologize to anyone who is reading this and thinks it sounds petty but this is the life I lead day in and day out, living in a world where male sports dominate my home.