Pet Peeves And Frilled Lizards

We all have them, you know.

Pet peeves, not frilled lizards. I mean some of us might have a frilled lizard or two running about the house, but most of us don't. Some of us might even have named one our lizards Peeve so we might have a Pet Peeve Frilled Lizard. It's hard to say.

Hmm. I seem to have lost my train of thought. Ah, there it is.

While each of us have peeves, pet or otherwise, we also have tics or habits that can be annoying. It dawned on me that when a pet peeve in one person meets an annoying tic in another, it turns into a frilled lizard.

Frilled lizards, if you didn't know, are reptiles that, when threatened, can puff up flaps of skin on their necks to make themselves appear much larger than they really are. If your peeve meets my tic then you react to an annoying behavior of mine that seems larger than it really is. You're reacting to a frilled lizard, as it were.

And who wants to spend their lives doing that?

Git! Go on! Git out of here, ya dadburned frilled lizard! I don't need to make nobody's annoying habits no bigger than they already is!