February might just be National Irritation Month, because lately it seems that just about anything might make me scowl. Like people changing lanes without using their blinkers. Or leaving a dish in the sink without rinsing it out first so that now whatever used to be in it has hardened so completely it needs to be scraped off. Or computers functioning so slowly that you forget what you had been trying to do. Or discovering, perhaps, that you bought a non-refundable plane ticket to Fort Lauderdale, when really you were supposed to go to Fort Myers. And if you want to fix that — if there actually were any available flights left — it would cost you an additional $388.
So, in an effort to get over all that: I was very glad that the sun came out today; I did enjoy watching the wind try to push over street signs outside my office window and how the wind messed up my hair in just the right way so that whenever I walked inside buildings today, I somehow felt like I was in a Bollywood movie; and yes, Shantel’s Disko Partizani keeps making me incredibly happy and I keep trying to push it onto everyone else like it’s a drug; and I have researched fainting goats at the particular request of a friend sans access to the internet and look forward to mailing the photographs to him. And oh yes, that potato-cheese-bean breakfast taco this morning was indeed sublime. That, and the cafe con leche really should have been enough to carry me through the day.
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you should try playing my “things would be worse if…” game. it works like a charm. it goes like this: say you’re trying to get a clear answer about something from an impenetrable government bureaucracy (a recent example in my life). and you’re getting pretty grumpy. all you have to do is think, “hey this would be worse if I were not merely spending three hours on hold to annoying elevator music, but if i had to do that, and all the sudden i realized i had no legs! and then somebody walking by threw up downwind of me and i couldn’t get away from the smell cause i had no legs! and then my hair caught fire!” All of the sudden, sitting on hold seems like a not-so-bad thing, you know?
of course, sometimes a nice cafe con leche really is the best solution. here’s hoping you get less irritated as the month goes by.
Comment by Cheasty February 12, 2008 @ 9:52 pmYou are so right! Yesterday would have been a lot worse had I discovered that not only had I purchased a ticket to the wrong city, but indeed I managed to get the wrong state and instead of visiting my grandmother would end up in Nebraska. And then, it would be even worse if I didn’t realize it until I got there and then was kidnapped by corn farmers and made to hoe their fields all day long for the rest of my life!
AND, I’ve discovered proof that February MUST be National Irritation Month based on an entry I made LAST February: http://bluedragonfly.wordpress.com/2007/02/17/gods-take-on-things/ !
Comment by bluedragonfly February 13, 2008 @ 11:44 pm