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Hates or dislikes

Here are my top ten hates or dislikes,
Number 1. Dentists, I hate having to go to the dentist, first of all it's just sitting there waiting and thinking to myself what he or she is going to have to do to my teeth, then after sitting and waiting it's my turn and immediately I open the door the smell hits me and I'm told to sit down and then I look at all the instruments on the table beside me, I think I've come to a torture chamber not the dentist, then the dentist puts on clean gloves and mask as though they think I've got some sort of disease, open your mouth please they say and they reach for a mirror from their table and put it inside your mouth, you can feel it moving around inside your mouth and you wonder what they will find, is it taking a tooth out or a filling, which ever, it's going to be torture time and thankfully it's just a filling, first the injection then the drill, I think to myself there's no oil doctor there and then the scrapping sound, the mixing of the concrete and then filling the tooth back in and it's done but then as it's time to leave and they give you a date for your next appointment. Thankfully I don't have to go  anymore because of my hate for dentists I've got hardly any teeth left but I can still eat so I don't even think about going to the dentist.
Number 2 Doctors and Hospitals. I hate having to go to the doctor's firstly because I don't like having my blood taken but it has to be taken so they can start to analyze what's wrong, then after reading it, testing your blood pressure, listening to your chest and then touching all around your upper toureso, I'm sick I think to myself I haven't come for a massage, when they've finished they say that they're not sure so they send you to a specialist at the hospital, what's wrong with me if I have to go to hospital is it really that bad, so off to the hospital, the smell, the white walls and the cleanliness it's like being in a institution for the insane not the sick, it's your turn, in you go and go through the same procedure as with the doctor and thankfully they just give you a prescription for tablets to take and you don't have to stay in hospital with other sick people and cold horrible food, hope these tablets work.
Number 3. This is feeling sick and having to go back to number 2 which I've already said I hate so I do everything possible not for that to happen and then think about the causes of being sick and I think to myself that's it's only because I'm getting older and more likely to get sick but getting older is a natural process and they haven't found a cure for that yet, shame, you start losing your hair, you get wrinkles, you get tired more easily, certain items on your body don't work like they used to and then you go back to numbers 1 and 2, an ever ending story, not the film but reality. 
Number 4. The day before you get your monthly wages or pension, sitting down and working out your bills and you realise that it is a lot more than you expected but you have to pay them. The next day off to the bank to get the money that you need to pay all the bills and then realising that there's not much left which will probably lead to the next number on my list, it's almost enough to make you cry, one minute your rich, you feel on top of the world for a few minutes and then you come back down to earth, broke again so you have to wait until the next month when perhaps the bills will be less and you might have some money to spend on something that you want.
Number 5. This follows on from number 4, the whole month after your keeping hold of what was left of your wages or pension and hoping that nothing goes wrong and you need money quickly but as normal something always does, so you borrow the money you need from someone and agree to pay them back the following month which again leads back to number 4, that's life, I suppose a continuous battle with bills and money, it's enough to get you depressed which would lead back to number 2 for some tablets to stop you feeling down, when if ever will it get better.
Number 6. Winter time getting out of bed because you have to, you must light the fire so that it's warm when you're wife gets out of bed, from a warm and comfortable bed to a cold and empty room, but it has to be done, there's no pain evolved but it's just having to get out of bed that I hate, thankfully I prepared the wood the day before as I always do so I don't have to go outside to get it just open the door for the dogs to pee, close the door and wait for the kettle to boil, coffee's ready, open the door to let the dogs in and then sit down, drink coffee and wait for your wife to get up before she goes to work.
Number 7. When I get up in the morning the first thing I see is dirty dishes and I think that I washed all the dishes from lunch but I've got a mountain of dishes to wash from after I went to bed, oh well that's another thing I've got to do, one day I've got to buy a dishwasher which goes back to numbers 4 and 5, I hate washing dishes that I have not used. 
Number 8. Arguments, this one I really hate, it's only every couple of weeks that the whole family is at home for the weekend which is absolutely great until someone disagrees with someone else and that entirely spoils it until they all calm down and then it's back to normal, I always hope that arguments between our children will never occur but they always do and I think that is normal but I still hate the sound of raised voices.
Number 9. All my life I've had one or more cars and have never had to rely on someone else, for instance my wife or my children, but age creeps up on you and money isn't there to buy a car so it's hitch hikching or the bus so that goes back to number 5, you have to ask your wife or one of your children to take you to where you need to go, that's a terrible feeling as if you're heepless which in a way you are but of course you're not or that will go back to number 2.
Number 10. The fact that as you get older, number 3, people and family think that you are incapable of looking after yourself so they tell you what you should or shouldn't do, it's a terrible feeling when people think that you're an invalide or something, you're still the same person and well capable of making decisions for yourself, so stop doing it and I won't be so grumpy all the time. Well that's my top ten, I wonder if you have a top ten of your own or is it basically the same as mine. 

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