PROMPT: Ban

Daily writing prompt
If you could permanently ban a word from general usage, which one would it be? Why?

I would replace all adverbs with a loud “HONK!”

Why do I do anything, because I think it would be funny. [Granted, only for a short time.]

PROMPT: Pet Peeves

Daily writing prompt
Name your top three pet peeves.

In no particular order: farting on the escalator, eating rotisserie chicken during the opera, and the shouting of “fire” during a flash flood.