if you do this, I judge you

So, yeah--little things sometimes annoy the fuck out of me, way disproportionately to the actual inherent level of obnoxiousness. I don't even know why, they just do. My pet peeves just seem to be especially peevish. One of the things I hate most? People who type or write digits for certain numbers instead of just typing out the word.

I learned this in school, but I honestly don't remember when or from whom. I'm reasonably sure it was an English class of some kind but that would be pretty obvious. I'm not even generally predisposed to wanting to cling so devotedly to something I learned in school, but for some reason I've decided that this is an immutable fact of the universe so it pisses me the fuck off when people don't obey my preferred set of rules.

Anyway, one of my teachers declared that the 'right' way to write numbers was to actually spell the word out for numbers up to twenty--and also that you should write out thirty, forty, fifty and so on. Only for numbers greater than that was it acceptable to use actual numbers. And I follow this rule steadily, even in online chats and text messages and shit. (I also correct people's spelling in text messages and IMs and emails. I realize this makes me obnoxious as fuck.)

Because of this, it really annoys me when people write something like, 'the dog just had puppies, there are 4 of them!' instead of 'there are four of them'. It pained me even to just write that example there. I wouldn't want to take the time to write seven thousand, three hundred, and ninety-six instead of 7396, or even fifty-nine instead of 59--but it isn't that hard to write 'two' or 'eighteen' or 'sixty'. And I find it very visually jarring and extremely, pettily frustrating when people do it.

Yeah. I'm sure this is why I turned to drugs and have high blood pressure.