Frustration…I Love It!
“BEEP-BEEP-HONK-HONK! OH COME ON NOW! YOU CAN’T POSSIBLY DRIVE THAT CAR WITH BOTH HANDS FLIPPING ME OFF OUT THE WINDOW!”
Heh-heh… okay… that’s better, oh… uh… sorry I was… umm… just giving some driving instructions to the… uh… nice grey haired lady in front of me, who seems to be having a problem holding on to that steering wheel!
No really… I have been striving to curb my verbal road rage a little, since my buddy Brutus took notice and told me that “Anger is not the answer!”
When Brutus, the once king of verbal road rage, tells me something I listen, because when we first met he said he wanted to crush my skull and eat my brain, and not necessarily in that order!
Either way, I figured, it was gonna hurt!
So when he told me that anger is not the answer… well I listened, but I just don’t get it, but I didn’t tell HIM that!
I mean my verbal road rage doesn’t stem from anger at these people, but from utter frustration at their lack of driving skills. And nobody hears my verbiages, normally, so what’s the harm in releasing some of that frustration?
Speaking of frustrating things…
If I was to come up with a list of frustrating things the lack of communication would have to be one of the top ten.
Nothing like going on a blind date and not being able to think of one intelligent thing to say! Here’s this “hottie” sitting across from you and your brain can’t make your mouth move to start a conversation, sort of like ordering a bowl of hot soup with no spoon! It really looks good, and smells good too, but you ain’t gonna taste it or touch it!
Dealing with the State of Ohio agencies, any one of them, would also be listed in the top ten. After pushing 20 buttons as instructed by the robot answering system, you have to wait on hold for a half an hour, listening to their crappy elevator music!
When you finally do get to talk to a human it’s usually a secretary that can’t help you and puts you back on hold while transferring you to someone who MIGHT be able to help!
I thought that pushing 20 buttons was supposed to get me to someone who COULD help me… I just don’t get it!
Another of the top ten would be when trying to remove 28 screws to fix something and the 28th screw has a stripped-out screw head… damn I hate that!
Then when you finally do get it apart, fix it, and try to put it back together, the NEW 28th screw falls and disappears into the carpet!
How about when the “Check Engine” light comes on, you look under the hood, and the engine is still there, all the fluids are full, no broken wires or hoses… I just don’t get it!
The “Windows Blue Screen Of Death” has to be among the top ten frustrations also. Especially at press time when your article is only half done!
My favorite frustration has to be wasted time. This usually happens when someone who knows nothing about a subject, that you have over 20 years experience with, asks for your opinion, you spend 20 minutes explaining it to them, and then they spend the next 20 minutes telling you why it won’t work!
Go ahead smarty pants… do it your way!
~Snarp
www.snarpfarkle.com
