What's a Chim to Do?

By ChimmyBear · May 20, 2008 · 506 · 3
  1. ~ Have you ever had one of those situations when you just throw your hands up and say, "What the hell"? Yeah, you know the ones...it's that Monday morning when you wake up in desperate need of coffee, only to discover those little grounds in the bottom of the container. Now I ask, couldn't the last person to make coffee just throw away the evidence of his or her last pot? Perhaps it was that time you were standing in line at the local grocery store, you are already five minutes late for an appointment, and the person in front of you couldn't count ten items or less. I hate these moments.

    Too many times I am in a situation where I have to make a choice, I can either be nice and ignore the focus of my annoyance...or I can choose to tackle it, head on. This is where I get into trouble, because, most of the time I end up tackling it and then feeling badly for the person or persons I directed my hit at. Too many times I ask myself why I couldn't just walk away.

    The fact is...rude people annoy me. There is no nice way to say it. I am tired of apologising for it. Everybody has room to improve, myself included. We are always growing and learning.
    I wish I could ignore it...but I know the next time I am out shopping and the family reunion takes place in the middle of the store aisle, which I am trying to navigate through, I am going to not so nicely inform them that I have a life and they are holding it up. The rest of my day will be spent torturing myself for not being able to hold back my frustration...:redface:

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  1. Gone Wishing
    *breaks out the pom poms and chants*

    Go Chim! It's your birthday... :D

    Seriously, if you aren't rude about it, it's perfectly fine to assert yourself like that - power to you!
    Gone Wishing, May 20, 2008
  2. ChimmyBear
    Thanks Mack....I constantly being fussed at because I have said something, instead of simply walking off...(Which I do sometimes as well.)...but then there's always that one...:) lol!
    ChimmyBear, May 20, 2008
  3. Wreybies
    Chim, you are not alone.

    For reasons beyond my ken, standing behind someone in the express checkout line who has thirty-odd items brings a rage in me that prickles my skin. It is the most ungracious, rude, and inconsiderate of the things to do. The bloody express lane is supposed to be just that, the express lane! When I only have a loaf of bread in my hand the person in front of me has done a week's shopping, I just want to clobber that person over the head with my loaf of Wonderbread! Yes, God forgive me, even when that person is a little old lady.

    *deep breath, Wrey. You are not now actually at the grocery store behind said rude person*

    So, don't feel guilty. You are not alone. And yes, I have most definitely voiced my opinion in such situations. I am capable of a most heinous tongue-lashing without ever resorting to four-letter words.
    Wreybies, May 21, 2008
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