But I feel so mellow!!!

MSN.com reports on a recent study of the angriest cities in the U.S. Conclusion? Orlando is THE home of the most perpetually peeved people in our country. I don’t get it–I love it here!  So why the high rank? Here’s my top  10 speculations…

10.  People love trees.  So what do they all do?  They move to Orlando, and we cut down all the trees and build houses to accomodate all of them. Or turn our apartment buildings into “condos” (which doesn’t fool many of us).

9. The tallest mountain in this entire region just happens to be Space Mountain.

8. I’ve never heard of another place where you might be walking your Chihuahua and suddenly an indigenous creature walks up and eats it.  Granted, I’ve never seen this happen.  But I’ve heard of it.
7. This town only really got big when Disney arrived.  So it has no history.  When people here refer to “the olden days,” they mean before there was a Waterford Town Center. And since it’s a relatively new town…
6. …not many people here are really from here. So that means they came here from somewhere else.  And they each brought their own native road rules with them.  Result?  NOBODY HERE KNOWS HOW TO DRIVE.  Well, except me.

5. It’s really, really hot in the summer (Florida’s got 5 of the top 12 on the list–but we’re the only one without a coast.  We need to work on that).

4. Toll Roads.  I keep telling myself that our lack of a sales tax offsets this.  But that’s probably just the conciliatory part of my brain trying to talk the alpha-male part of my brain from exploding into a rage and ruining my Sentra’s upholstry (they often have a lot to talk about–I’ve heard it’s fun to watch)

3. South Alafaya Trail at 5 p.m.  You mean people live down there at the end?  And they choose this existence daily?

2. There’s no Del Taco here. I draw your attention to the fact that no southern California cities show up until #36 (and it’s L.A.–there are some problems even Del Taco can’t fix).

And the #1 reason…

1. When someone’s constantly trying to convince me that this is the Happiest Place on Earth, it somehow makes me feel less happy.

See? And now I’m irritated.  Have a nice freakin’ day!!!