What Pissed You Off Today?

[golddigger14s]

So far I think kurtm is winning. I'm not a "speeder" but I just didn't slow down soon enough when I entered the construction area. I have adaptive cruise control that I use regularly to keep me at the right speed. But this day no one was in front of me.

 

[golddigger14s]

Chiggers.........Fxxx!

 

[THAT Gurl]

Today, it was
My dad
& Then me.
Some may know that my dad & I work together. I know he has a short fuse & a temper.

This morning we got into it. I must have lit his fuse somehow. At the point that he pissed me off, He actually was in my face this time & said to me that he could see it in my eyes that I wanted to hit him. Then he invited me to do it, saying "Hit me".
But I refrained,
& now as lunch approaches, I am pissed at myself...
It's going to be a long day.

It doesn't happen often, but it does happen.

Don't be too rough on yourself. I had a mom like your dad -- never knew when she was gonna twist right off into left field. She's dead and gone now, thank goodness. My life is SO much better now. There is no reason to be mad at yourself because you have a relative who is impossible to deal with. Do NOT buy into the ******** therapists and do-gooders toss out there that you have to try and have a relationship with a relative who is impossible to deal with. It takes 2 to have a healthy relationship. If you are the only one working towards that goal you are nothing but a punching bag.

Don't feel bad for me. I have NEVER felt such a sense of relief as I did when I learned my mom had passed. And I've not felt one pang of guilt for feeling that relief. There was not a more mean, heartless woman on the planet. I hope things get better for you because I have been where you are. It sucks.

 

[Snattlerake]

Don't be too rough on yourself. I had a mom like your dad -- never knew when she was gonna twist right off into left field. She's dead and gone now, thank goodness. My life is SO much better now. There is no reason to be mad at yourself because you have a relative who is impossible to deal with. Do NOT buy into the ******** therapists and do-gooders toss out there that you have to try and have a relationship with a relative who is impossible to deal with. It takes 2 to have a healthy relationship. If you are the only one working towards that goal you are nothing but a punching bag.

Don't feel bad for me. I have NEVER felt such a sense of relief as I did when I learned my mom had passed. And I've not felt one pang of guilt for feeling that relief. There was not a more mean, heartless woman on the planet. I hope things get better for you because I have been where you are. It sucks.

I am so glad you have realized who was the monster in your life and have moved on.

 

[tRidiot]

Don't be too rough on yourself. I had a mom like your dad -- never knew when she was gonna twist right off into left field. She's dead and gone now, thank goodness. My life is SO much better now. There is no reason to be mad at yourself because you have a relative who is impossible to deal with. Do NOT buy into the ******** therapists and do-gooders toss out there that you have to try and have a relationship with a relative who is impossible to deal with. It takes 2 to have a healthy relationship. If you are the only one working towards that goal you are nothing but a punching bag.

Don't feel bad for me. I have NEVER felt such a sense of relief as I did when I learned my mom had passed. And I've not felt one pang of guilt for feeling that relief. There was not a more mean, heartless woman on the planet. I hope things get better for you because I have been where you are. It sucks.

I agree... I advocate you surround yourself with people who enrich your life. And people who frustrate you or drag you down, you can cut out.

I don't give 2 schitts about 'blood'. Just because we were born into the same family, directly (as in the case of my brother whom I haven't talked to in... I dunno... 15-17 years?) or indirectly, those people have no hold or sway over you. If they try to hold 'blood' over your head, they are using you. Period. They want you in their life for some reason - maybe they want financial help, maybe they want someone else to commiserate with, or maybe they just get off on the drama, who knows? But if they drag you down, you're not required to give them a toehold in your life, in my opinion. Life is too short to spend it trying to change other people, OR to spend trying to make other people happy.

I don't advocate treating other people badly, don't get me wrong - but some people have given up the right to demand or even ASK anything of me. I don't want or need that. I've significantly cut down on my relationship with my mother because she is all about drama, she won't let go of past hurts in her life and she continues to make the same mistakes she always has - and then wants to whine about them. I don't play the game, and I don't participate. She tries to pick fights, she tries to be a martyr, etc. I just walk away. If she wants to come over and have a good time and have dinner, hang out with her grandchild, etc., that's fine. If she wants to whine and complain, I get up and go to my room. She's gotten the hint for the most part. With my brother, well, we just had a falling out when I was young, I made a couple of overtures to try to repair the relationship in my 20s, he never seemed to want to, so I moved on. I'm not missing out on anything by not having him in my life - we just don't have ANYTHING really in common, so why would I want to force a relationship with someone I don't care for and who doesn't care for me, when the only thing we have in common is other relatives?

Anyways, that's my treatise.

Don't let others control you or dictate your life. Live simply and generously, but don't put up with BS, either.

 

[Snattlerake]

Like the old saying goes, You can pick your friends, you can't pick your relatives.

 

[THAT Gurl]

Like the old saying goes, You can pick your friends, you can't pick your relatives.

But you CAN pick which relatives you wanna mess with ...

 

[Profreedomokie]

Nothing so far but, the day ain't over yet.

 

[THAT Gurl]

Go to the pharmacy to pick up my prescriptions that are ready -- prescriptions I've been on for several years (this is important) ...

Pharm tech, who by all appearances does not identify with any biological gender: "Well you have 3 prescriptions ready, 3 you have called in and 2 that need to be reviewed and okay by your doctor right?"

Me, with a raging headache, literally so bad I am blind in my right eye, wondering why I don't just go ahead and blow my brains out and get it ovsr with: "No ... I didn't call anything in. My scripts are all on auto-refill. I have no clue about the 2 needing to be reviewed. I don't work here. I don't work at my doctor's office either."

Pharm tech: "Well let me have a chat with the pharmacist."

Me: "Sure" thinking to myself "Do I have a choice??"

Pharm tech: "Ok. I only have 3 prescriptions ready. Do you want to wait and pick EVERYTHING up in a couple of days? Come inside and wait for us to fill what we can? Or just go ahead and pick up the 3 that are ready now and come back in a couple of days for the rest of them?"

Me: "Let me just get what is ready to go. PLEASE."

Pharm tech: "Okay. If you will give me just a few minutes to gather them up I will be right back with you. Hang on ... It will just take me a few minutes to gather them up. There are 3 of them. Okay?"

Me: "That's fine."

Pharm tech: "Ok can I verify your address? Your total today will be $5. Is that okay? You want to pick these 2 (yes 2 not 3 that it has rambled on about for 20 minutes now) prescriptions today?"

Me: Handing over debit card to get covered in COVID germs "That's FINE."

Pharm tech: After it has my debit card "Oh wait. This has a pharmacist consult on it. I'll be right back. In just a minute."

Me: This is why Charles climbed the clock tower.

Pharm tech: "Ok. You do understand that you are not supposed administer this ketorolac to yourself, right?"

Me: OMG "FINE!"

It hands me back my card and TWO prescriptions, not 3 and with that snippy Karen voice says "Well! Have a nice day, ma'am!"

OMG ... I don't call in scripts. They are on auto refill. None of my scripts were out of refills and I haven't seen any docs lately so there was nothing to be called in. I got a notification from Walgreen's that I had ONE script ready -- not the 3 it chatted about at length or the 2 it finally gave me. And I am not sure why Walgreen's will dispense medication AND syringes and needles and then tell me I am not allowed to inject myself. Go figure ...

 

[Aries]

Like the old saying goes, You can pick your friends, you can't pick your relatives.

Is that how that goes? The way I heard it was, you can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose.