What makes you grumpy? Do you avoid it?
Friday, March 14th, 2008 - 2:19pm
My job schedule changed a bit a few months ago, and I noticed I began to get really grumpo for no reason. I figured out why - my eating hour was moved about 1 1/2 hours later, and that really messed with my humor.
I now carry a protein bar or a sweet or something, but since I had never been like that, it surprised me that something so simple would bother me so much.
So what makes you grumpy? How do you avoid it? Do you make an effort to solve it or do you just get used to it?
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My job.
Haven't quite figured that one out yet.
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"What doesn't make me grumpy" is more like it. Just ask Chiggie, we're Anger Twins.
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I would, but I'd rather not be the inspiration to a "Letter to that guy Mex on the internet"
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People.
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Definitely hunger. When I'm hungry I get extremely grumpy so I carry some pecans or walnuts with me all the time.
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*Legion* recognizing greatness wrote:
All work and no play makes Pharacon a dull, dull boy.
All work and no play makes Pharacon a dull, dull boy.
All work and no play makes Pharacon a dull, dull boy.
All work and no play makes Pharacon a dull, dull boy.
All work and no play makes Pharacon a dull, dull boy.
All work and no play makes Pharacon a dull, dull boy.
All work and no play makes Pharacon a dull, dull boy.
All work and no play makes Pharacon a dull, dull boy.
All work and no play makes Pharacon a dull, dull boy.
All work and no play makes Pharacon a dull, dull boy.
All work and no play makes Pharacon a dull, dull boy.
All work and no play makes Pharacon a dull, dull boy.
All work and no play makes Pharacon a dull, dull boy.
All work and no play makes Pharacon a dull, dull boy.
All work and no play makes Pharacon a dull, dull boy.
All work and no play makes Pharacon a dull, dull boy.
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I would say I get particularly aggravated when someone tries my patience. For example, there's a I guy I work with in our little cluster of cubes. He has the incessant habit of clearing his throat, loudly and harshly, about every two minutes. I even wrote a program for me and my other cube mates to use to keep count of them, just to relieve some of the tension. It's amazing, he's been doing it for the full two years I've been here. I'm surprised he has a voice left to use.
Being tired, or woken up before I'm supposed to be up is usually an excellent catalyst for grumpiness as well.
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I see Pharacon is working on his novel.
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I think that covers it.
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Lack of sleep is number one for me. Even getting one less hour of a full night's sleep is enough to irritate me. The occasional time I suffer from insomnia, I become downright hostile.
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Fry's CD return policy.
Bought my wife a Beatles CD (Love, from the Cirque du Soleil show) the other day while looking for adapters to hook my 360 up to my computer/monitor. Turned out she already knew of the CD, and didn't like what she'd heard of it, so I took it back today. Unfortunately, I'd already taken off the shrink wrap, though she hadn't listened to it.
Had to argue with the returns supervisor, who got pissy with me, saying she couldn't return it to the manufacturer because of their contracts with them. "You mean you're not just going to re-shrinkwrap it and sell it as new like you do with everything else someone returns?" She didn't like that, probably because it meant her mind-control giant breasts in a tanktop didn't reduce me to a drooling moron, though they were spectacular.
Guess I've got to sell it on Amazon or eBay for a loss, and Fry's has lost my business for good.
I understand CD return policies, and the whole anti-piracy argument, but if I want to steal music, I'm not going to fight the copy protection, I'll just download the MP3s and save a frustrating trip to the store. I would've been happy with store credit, so they could keep their money, but she had to give me a BS argument that they promised the manufacturer they wouldn't accept returns. When I asked what the contractual penalty for accepting a return would be, she just said "we can't". Clearly, the boobs were her main strategy, and she never thought she'd need a backup argument.
In closing, and in summary, screw Fry's.
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My job, money, lack of sleep, property taxes, plateau'ing on my diet, my neighbors to the left, all make me grumpy.
Buying a new game (woe is me), playing with my sons, having a package or my next Netflix dvd's show up in the mail, my wife's cooking, losing weight, completing my taxes, finishing my workout for the day, all make me happy.
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Bonus, that's pretty standard policy.
Opened music and games are non-returnable, pretty much anywhere. There's probably a giant sign saying as much.
Only exception is for bad media, in which case they will exchange for another copy of the same item.
Maybe you were distracted? You seemed to walk away with a certain memory.
*Legion* recognizing greatness wrote:
Hunger. Even if I don't consciously realize that I'm hungry, if I find myself irritable and can't figure out why, it's because I'm hungry. It does make me pretty simple, which my wife appreciates.
Amusingly, my wife, who didn't used to be this way, has become so after being married to me. Well, sort of amusingly. She rarely takes it well when I cut her off mid harangue with a comment like, "Go eat something!"
MechaSlinky wrote:
-on L4DI think it's an age thing. Past 25 I started to notice just how much stupid sh*t I can do and say when I am low on blood sugar (i.e. hungry). It's not a minor thing at all.
Same here.
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2) The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. Reading.
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Mostly, it's disappointment. Yeah, I can get grumpy when things happen that I didn't want to. A subcategory of disappointment is denial of things I enjoy. My 360's still in the shop, for example. Also, I'm not allowed to drink whiskey at work.
On the plus side, the sun seems to have come back from its winter vacation. I like the sun.
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Sorry, that was a bit out of line. I was grumpy.
Still, her outfit was wildly inappropriate for a retail position, particularly for a manager.
Jesus, I never thought I'd write the first half of that last sentence in my life.
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When the sun comes out with a vengeance after an awesome rainy afternoon. That makes me grumpy. I love rainy days, the smell of rain, the clouds, the overcast skies, the sound of the rain, etc., etc. Just today we had a whopper of a rainstorm that was just great. Then the sun decided to get big in the britches and loom out of the clouds like a gigantic burning jackass. I actually leaned out of my window, looked up, and yelled 'you think you're pretty smart, don't you, you big flaming sh*tpile! That earned quite a look from my neighbor.
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Count me in for hunger. Unfortunately my girlfriend suffers from the same source of grumpy
People who always always complain and moan without any sense of humour. Probably because people like that drag me down with them, and I'm not sunny by nature as it is. And because they're morons of course
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Spectacular breasts can make one feel quite uplifted on an otherwise ordinary day. Their appreciation shouldn't make you feel grumpy.
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1) Hear hear! Not only the right not to think, they think it's some sort of badge of honor that they have brain cells in their thick skull that have never passed current. And they are mortally offended that anyone else would expect anything different. I've been working on an issue with my favorite in-house customer service person today. Can you tell?
2) A little light reading?
That's a good one, but I'll add the first chapter of "War and Peace". Patronymics are NOT our friends.
And for my own grump; LIARS. Particularly bad liars who expect me to let them get by and act as if I believe them even as I'm staring at the proof of their perfidy. I think the assumption I'm so stupid I wouldn't see their transparent crap is most offensive.
As far as avoiding them, no. No luck so far. I work with 1) so she can carefully continue dusting those last bits of bark off my nerves every single weekday. Not to mention my amount of forum time in various venues. My kids and their homework keep me up to date on 2). And all of the above plus my ex-husband figure into the last one.
Reading this makes it sound like I need a nap and a blankie.
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It wasn't so much appreciation as bonus' accusation that the manager was using her God-gifted form as a military tactic. Thus = grump.
Oh, also? 74 hour work weeks. Maybe that's the real reason why I'm so grumpy right now.
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Work. People. Lack of sleep.
I'm sure I could avoid the first two if I drastically changed my lifestyle habits. The third is something I've been fighting for about fifteen years.
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