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September 15, 2006, 7:52 pm PDT
09/15 Dirty Little Secrets
Quote From: mswing10Gina - I feel the same way sometimes. In the store, driving, etc...
The difference is...I really make an effort to not take my sometimes crappy personality out on other people. One day however, you'll ram my cart (or someone like me) and you will absolutely regret it because you'll have met your match. Somewhere out there is another angry woman waiting for you to cross her - or worse yet - a man who will be violent.
You've got to chill out and work on not taking a rage dump on people. You've got no idea what they are going through that day. I mean, think of all the horrid things that can happen to someone to make them slightly thoughtless in the store: a sick child, parent that died, teenager who is buying food because their mom is too drunk to feed them, mother who is considering suicide because of depression and your act is the last straw. You've got no idea who and what you are touching in such an ugly way. One day I was experiencing a migraine while driving and couldn't see out of one eyes - I was trying to navigate off the interstate and someone raged at me and I missed another car by inches. They had no idea I couldn't see - all they could see was their own anger.
You make an excellent point! Some of my friends have been going through
some very rough things themselves in life and I know, for me too, there
have been times when the last thing I need is some self righteous jerk
in the supermarket trying to divy out some whacked out idea of justice.
The reason this post spoke to me is because a couple years ago I had a
baby, I had a c-cection gone wrong and it became infected, I was
basically walking around with an open wound. My husband and I decided
to go to walmart and pick out something for dinner. I thought being out
of the house would be a nice break from being in the hospital with my
daughter (she was premature)...I had no less than 3 comments made about
how slow I was walking. I tried my best to stay out of the way of
people, but I was in severe pain and on heavy drugs (7 different meds)
I didn't let it upset me, but I did with they could imagine my
circumstances.
Like I said, lately has been a hard time for a few friends of mine, one
of them lost a 23 year old nephew in a car wreck...the last thing she
needs is someone trying to teach her manners if, in her greif, she
forgets to not block the mac'n'cheese row!
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