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PISSED OFF
A very good friend of mine remarked to me today that I seem to have been pissed off a lot lately. I said that I would have to think about that and that it is probably a good perception.
Only a very good friend will say something like that to you--it's like only a very special friend will tell you that you have spinach in your teeth or that your skirt tail is caught up in your panty hose. I saw a lady that way in a hotel lobby in Colorado Springs one time and I casually walked up behind her and explained her situation to her. She thanked me and quickly corrected the otherwise embarrasing situation. My brother once saw a man walk across a hotel lobby with his foot stuck through his undershorts. Any man who doesn't pick up after himself sort of deserves that embarrasment.
Well, while all of this is funny it doesn't address my being pissed off so much. I thought about what has been going on with me and a few things come to mind.
Gasoline is now nearly $3 per gallon and while I realize that we folks in the good old USA have had a nearly free ride for a long time, it tends to interfere with the well being of those of us who from time to time enjoy a pleasure trip in the old sedan and don't feel like we can afford the luxury now. So I guess I am "stir crazy" as they say from staying home so much. Yea, I'd like to go someplace.
Then there is the fact that my mother, whose main physical disability is that she is 88 years old, has a doctor who doesn't talk to her. She went last week for a blood pressure check and he says her blood pressure is too high and to come back in a week. All week long her blood pressure has been below normal. Today she goes back and her blood pressure is high again and he wants to increase her med. He doesn't look at her while she is there and spends his time entering things into his laptop computer. She felt totally dismissed by him. I want her to get another doctor. She doesn't know where to go. I am frustrated. She is not sick but she will be if she keeps going to him. He has already changed another med that she has been fine on for years. Yea, I'm pissed!
Then there is the fact that I don't get to see my children as much as I would like. I love them and I miss the chatter and laughter that we experience together. I'd like to be able to have shorter visits more often but the cost of travel doesn't afford that. It is frustrating.
So, there are lots of things in our lives that we don't like and most of the things that bother us are the ones that we really don't have the power to do much about. Frustrating it is but saying that I am "pissed off" sure gives a more adequate description to my feelings.
A very good friend of mine remarked to me today that I seem to have been pissed off a lot lately. I said that I would have to think about that and that it is probably a good perception.
Only a very good friend will say something like that to you--it's like only a very special friend will tell you that you have spinach in your teeth or that your skirt tail is caught up in your panty hose. I saw a lady that way in a hotel lobby in Colorado Springs one time and I casually walked up behind her and explained her situation to her. She thanked me and quickly corrected the otherwise embarrasing situation. My brother once saw a man walk across a hotel lobby with his foot stuck through his undershorts. Any man who doesn't pick up after himself sort of deserves that embarrasment.
Well, while all of this is funny it doesn't address my being pissed off so much. I thought about what has been going on with me and a few things come to mind.
Gasoline is now nearly $3 per gallon and while I realize that we folks in the good old USA have had a nearly free ride for a long time, it tends to interfere with the well being of those of us who from time to time enjoy a pleasure trip in the old sedan and don't feel like we can afford the luxury now. So I guess I am "stir crazy" as they say from staying home so much. Yea, I'd like to go someplace.
Then there is the fact that my mother, whose main physical disability is that she is 88 years old, has a doctor who doesn't talk to her. She went last week for a blood pressure check and he says her blood pressure is too high and to come back in a week. All week long her blood pressure has been below normal. Today she goes back and her blood pressure is high again and he wants to increase her med. He doesn't look at her while she is there and spends his time entering things into his laptop computer. She felt totally dismissed by him. I want her to get another doctor. She doesn't know where to go. I am frustrated. She is not sick but she will be if she keeps going to him. He has already changed another med that she has been fine on for years. Yea, I'm pissed!
Then there is the fact that I don't get to see my children as much as I would like. I love them and I miss the chatter and laughter that we experience together. I'd like to be able to have shorter visits more often but the cost of travel doesn't afford that. It is frustrating.
So, there are lots of things in our lives that we don't like and most of the things that bother us are the ones that we really don't have the power to do much about. Frustrating it is but saying that I am "pissed off" sure gives a more adequate description to my feelings.
posted by dddonna @ 6/13/2006 08:36:00 PM
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