{"id":2562,"date":"2008-07-15T17:45:54","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T00:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=2562"},"modified":"2026-01-31T21:55:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T05:55:34","slug":"nasty-drivers-and-spoiled-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2008\/07\/15\/nasty-drivers-and-spoiled-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"Nasty Drivers and Spoiled Fish"},"content":{"rendered":"

For reasons I don’t want to go into (mostly because they’re boring), the past couple days have been rough for me. I am raw and short on energy and patience. At a stoplight, I had my right turn blinker on. It’s an option<\/em> to turn right on red (unless there’s sign prohibiting it). I was about to turn when the driver behind me honked. So I didn’t. That’s the kind of mood I’m in — something mean within digs in its heels. She honked again, and I saw her gesticulating in the mirror. I waited until the light turned green and went, and waved at her as she roared past me all the distance of one block to turn left; she flipped me the middle finger through her sun roof. I know it’s not mature or honorable behavior. I don’t like it in myself. This all happened within a mile of my home as I returned home from a nice outing at the park with a friend. I know, I should have walked instead — except here there’s a risk we’d be run over by the same driver. Such is life in an overpopulated area. Grrrrr.<\/p>\n

I got home to cook the salmon I bought yesterday to find it had turned bad. It smelled fishy, which is a sign of very old fish. The whole fridge smells funky now.<\/p>\n

Bean is starting to arch her back and thrash and scream when something happens she doesn’t want, or when something she wants doesn’t happen. Toddlerhood tantrums already?<\/p>\n

I got NO time to myself this past weekend (except for one nap, but I’d like some awake alone time), since we had family errands and housecleaning and some social commitments. I also have very little say over my schedule as far as when things happen (nothing is much in my control), even on weekends. <\/p>\n

Something I started to knit I had to frog (“rip it” out) because I made a mistake and couldn’t figure out how to fix it. <\/p>\n

What’s so very bothersome to me is the way incidents such as those in the first paragraph stay with me, and how a sour hatred toward humanity rises up in my throat when I’m feeling this raw.<\/p>\n

Cranky, cranky, cranky. Will someone show me some love in the comments? If you need incentive, here’s one:<\/p>\n

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