Peeves and the Peeple Who Love Them

If you feed a Peeve, it will stay.

Peeve owners are congenitally unable to own just one. Peeves know this, and as soon as a person takes in a Peeve, the word goes out and other Peeves scurry to the scene hoping to be taken in, too.

The beginning Peeve owner may reject these entreaties at first. They delude themselves that they can hold it to just the one; however, as time passes and they begin to crave the company of Peeves their resolution dissolves. They find themselves gathering as many Peeves as they can find.

Owners of too many Peeves are called Peevish. Their obsession with Peeves make them poor company for people who keep a Peeve-free home. The Peevish are unaware of this fact.

The Peevish spend an inordinate amount of time nourishing Peeves, polishing Peeves, exercising Peeves, and facilitating their breeding. The Peevish become slaves of the Peeves.

The Peevish usually have one Peeve that they like over all the others. This one is designated as the “Pet” Peeve. Caring for it is so onerous that two people will often arrange to share a common Pet Peeve.

Happy Peeves exhibit behaviors of petulance, fractiousness, and irritation. A placid Peeve is a sick Peeve. The only tonic is to be exposed to their favorite nettle until their ill nature reasserts itself.

Peeves are so cherished that many of the Peevish contrive to take their Peeves with them to the grave. The problem is that Peeves won’t stay there. They can escape. This can best be observed in the graveyard at night when the Peeves can be seen shimmering in the moonlight as they rise up and fan out to look for new owners to enslave.

Cares may die and fears may wither, but Peeves… Peeves can live forever.

It happened again. I was commenting on  the Weekly Question by  wackjobmom of Mom’s Crazy Life over at HumorBloggers and I looked down and realized that I had diarrhea of the keyboard so bad that my answer was longer than her entire post. When I pressed send, the forum’s software just gagged. I don’t think it was programmed to handle 300 word comments.

I am now limiting myself to one word comments on the blogs for a week.  Its either feast or famine.

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