One of my pet peeves is when I ask someone do something for me and they decide to improvise on my instructions. On Sunday, I told my son to go to the store where I had a $20.00 coupon to use to buy a kitchen clock since ours died. When he came back, he had two clocks. He told me that if you bought one clock you got one free so that is what he did. The only thing was that the other clock was more money so he had to shell out some cash in addition to the coupon. I liked the other clock so I didn’t mind too much but I really didn’t need two clocks. Why is it so difficult to do as I say? I want nothing more and nothing less.
Then there was an incident today where I asked for help in making my oatmeal for the week in my slow cooker. I thought my instructions were quite clear. Seriously, how difficult can it be to make oatmeal? Again, just do as I say and don’t improvise on my instructions. Needless to say, when I came home today the oatmeal looked like something the cat threw up. I got to the bottom of why the oatmeal looked like that and I wanted to beat my head against the wall. There is a saying that you shouldn’t sweat the small stuff. I agree with that saying but if there is a lot of small stuff that upsets you on a continuous basis, it adds up.
I know I shouldn’t get upset about things that don’t really impact my life (well it does impact my breakfast). In the past, eating a pint of ice cream for dinner would have made me feel better. These days, I have found that the best way to get over my anger is to get some exercise. I just got on my treadmill and ran. After a good sweat, I felt so much better. I guess all those endorphins from exercising does good things for the body.
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