sitio Every minute is a choice
Oh, did I do poorly this morning.
A woman has before driven up to the house across from ours and honked. This isn’t a beep-beep honk. This is a long and hard I’m getting very angry at the person who doesn’t come out on time honk. It gets worse and worse.
This morning she honks again and woke me up (again).
I got out of bed, went outside and calmly approached her and I said. “Please, listen, i know that you are anxious and late, but i was sleeping and you have started my day poorly too.” She said, “Oh my, I’m very sorry that I was thinking only of myself”.
Uh, yeah, no. That would have been me NOT taking things personally. This is how it really went.
I walked out and I said, “you’ve done this before. It is very loud.” She said defensively, “only once.” I said, well don’t do it. She said, I CAN IF I WANT TO. I said, no, get out of your car and walk to the door where you can be as loud as you want. She said, f**k off. I flipped he off and she said, “oh you’re bad” and i said, “and you are very loud and rude.”
That’s what actually happened and I have to say that the anger and confrontation was totally unsatisfactory. I have often wondered about the attitude of people who would, at 7:30 am, sit outside in a very densely housed neighborhood and honk, honk, honk. I have silently allowed my anger at the morning honkers grow and grow and when I had the opportunity to confront this one, I did it allowing her honking to trigger my personal storehouse of anger.
I really wish I could have seen how scenario 1 played out.
