Pandemic Peeves

Joanna Cohen
4 min readApr 29, 2020

Anyone feeling a little more annoyed lately?

If you ask my 10-year-old daughter what her pet peeve is she’ll say it’s power walkers. Something about people doing more than strolling but less than running drives her nuts. And the arm-pumping just sends her over the edge.

We all have our peeves. In the time of coronavirus, we all have a lot more of them. My shoulders tense daily when I’m trying to focus and hear loud chewing or slurping or tapping or breathing:

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Joanna Cohen

Writer, athlete, mom, sports fan. New York City native. Probably the only person on earth who has interviewed Derek Jeter and written dialogue for Susan Lucci.