Lately, I’ve been in a bit of an irritated state of mind. I jokingly called it 27 days ago my vaccine rage state of mind. And, yes this means I get my second dose tomorrow. Lord knows what my mood will be like. It’s not the vaccine. Let me just clarify that. I was making a joke to ease those around me. If I can externalize my irritable mood to a vaccine people feel better. They ease up on their own state of guilt wondering if they did something foolish to irritate me. I should clarify for the them, that indeed they did irritate me. But that will come later.
I haven’t talked of my pet peeves in a while and we are now fully into the new year. I must address a new pet peeve of mine.
Lately, there’s been one phrase in particular that has been especially irritating. While sitting and talking with a few people, I have found a few who emphatically insist as they are making a point that I need to look at them. This is occuring in business meetings of sorts. These people want an eye audience for their repeated point. We heard you the first and second time. Who are these people who outright demand to be looked at? You then look at them and you think “so what?”
I just want to state in the moment to just let me be. I will process the information as is best for me. You can’t force people to process information in the manner you would like. That is not how to win over people. So, says my vaccine brain.
Categories: Culture, identity, mental health, Psychology, workplace
psychologistmimi 
SMiles Often
A “Little Man And
Or Woman Trump
Napoleon Syndrome”
Demagogue
Wanna Be’s Two
Captains Of A Military
Installation i Had No
Choice Yet to Deal With
First One Early on When
i Worked Handing Out
Shoes At A Military Bowling
Center Little Short Captain
His Name Was Captain
Dick His Nickname
As So-Called Superior
His Underlings spoke
Of Was Little Captain Dick…
When He Wasn’t Around…
He Came in And Said He
Wanted A Lane For His
Family And i Said Sure
i’ll Put You on the Waiting
List And Then He Said
Don’t You Know Who i Am
i Am I’m The God Damned
Captain i Can Have
Your Job
Well No He
Couldn’t As He
Didn’t Realize i Was
A GS-5 Employee Protected
By A Union So i Did Not
Have to Submit to His
Majesty Trump Demand
Later When i Was Athletic
Director We Had A Similar
Female Captain Who i Worked
With in The Same Building
Who Came in Screaming
Like The Wicked Sea Witch
Of The West All Window Blinds
Must Be Turned One Way
And She Turned Off The
Heat In The Winter to Try
To Win An Energy Award
In Her Drive to Become
Admiral Public Works
Humanely Brought
A Space Heater into
My Office And She
Came
In Yelling
At Me How Dare
i Bring One in Yeah
Bosses Using Government
Money To Buy Themselves
Things Expecting Their
Family Members To Use
Facilities Privileged
Free Even An
XO that Lent Out
Government Generators
To Her Friends Otherwise
Dedicated For Emergency Use
There’s Always Someone
Wanting to Be
The only
God In The
Room Reminds
Me of Church too
And All The Priestly
Brown Nosing of Trump
i Witnessed in 4 Years
Making Excellent Dark
Muse For Poetry True
Like Claiming Authority
From God That God
Says Vote For Trump
No Different Than The
Nicene Council in 325 AD
That Made A Little Brown
Humble Teacher Into A Sun God
Man For Empires to Be Ruled
As Yes The Same Way The
Priest Was Still Using The
Story of A Man Who
Said
The Last
And Meek
Inherit
The
Kingdom
Of All Giving
For Giving Thanks
Giving Love Within
Yes i Actually
Read The Poetry
Of ‘The Book’
Yet Nope
Not Everyone
Has The Faculty
To Understand Metaphor
And Usually No
One Interprets it
The Same indeed
The Danger of Making
One Poem God Molded
Endlessly For Selfish Rule
Ah Freedom Of Expression
The Difference Between
Worlds Ruled
By God Men
And Rules
Led By Humanity’s Kindness…
The Tradition of Human
Demagogues Just
Another
Part
Of The Overall
Human Story Not
Everyone Shares Kindness
For
All Yet
Love Still Breathes
And Hope Still SMiLes
As Long As Faith
In Kindness
Doesn’t
Die
Happy SunDay…
Psychologistmimi…
-Inheriting
The Earth Since
6.6.60 Ain’t Gonna
Lie There
Are Some
Days That
Make It
Harder to
Be Humble Than Others
-Lucifred
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Excellent point about letting people process.
I think it’s called ‘lack of a theory of mind’ when someone is incapable of understanding that other people see the world differently.
Good luck with the vaccine.
Husband and I got our second dose last Thursday. My arm is still sore, and red at the spot, and painful if I push – so I don’t push!
We (in our 70s) had a day or so of reactions, not serious enough to do anything much, but uncomfortable, as did a lot of people here at our retirement community who had their second shot, and then it has been basically fine.
But be prepared in case it needs you to rest or take an antipyretic the next day – I was a little (extra) grumpy.
Also note: the dictionary in WordPress can’t handle antipyretic. That’s the correct spelling. It wanted to change it to ‘antipathetic’ (which made me giggle). The dictionary in WordPress also can’t handle WordPress.
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My limited experience is that “look me in the eyes when I am talking to you” is something said by someone who is scolding you. Or at least some absolute authority requiring detailed obedience, like a demanding parent. My instinctive reaction is to tell them to shove it.
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