I'm in a bad mood tonight. I could blame my job, my cooking, my husband, the weather, the price of oil, but it's not really any of those. Rather, it's one of those more nebulous, everyone's-an-idiot kind of days that's just gotten to me. I can't shake it.
It started with getting up late. Never a good way to start the day. Then at work, one of my "overworked" coworkers won't let us help her, but we still have to sit there listening to her whine about how busy she is (she's actually just slow). Normally I don't care; if she doesn't want to pass it off, fine by me. But today I didn't have much to do and it was frustrating to listen to her.
At lunch H and I were both crabby--probably due to getting up late. So we planned to make a good dinner tonight. After work, I got stuck behind this idiot who wouldn't drive because talking on her cell phone was more important as she idled ahead of me and all the cars in front of her drove off. Then she ran a red light and I was stuck, fuming, at the intersection. Later someone in a Hummer flipped me off. They were in the oncoming lane and I was minding my own business, driving normally and sanely, so I'm guess it's cause I drive a hybrid. (Gee, my bad.) Then I undercooked the rice noodles and overcooked the tofu, but the coconut curry sauce was (fortunately) right on.
The world decided to oneup me in one day, put me in my mediocre place: My coworker couldn't deign to allow anyone else to touch her perfect work...the driver in front of me was more important than anyone else on the road. The hummer was bigger and burlier than my car. The tofu was...obstinate.
Then I got onto blogosphere and read a bunch of disgusting people's oneupmanship.
You've been to four continents? Well I've been to five. You've gone to war? Me too--twice. You believe in creation? Idiot! Evolution is for the enlightened. You've seen the Berlin wall? Me too, but from both sides. Your kid got an A in his class? Mine got an A+. Something our president did affected you in a good way? Well it affected me in a bad way and here's my sob story.
Gaaaaah! What is wrong with you people? I mean every so often there's an idiot out there who needs to be put in his place--but for you to leave comments like this in response to normal, rational, intelligent people's blogs just shows how disgusting you are as a human being and the fact that you have no respect for other people and their viewpoints, their status in life and their worldview. So you can take your oneupmanship and stick it up your--
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Yeah, definitely one of those kinds of moods.