Jul 18, 2007 17:44
I'm an extremely easy-going person. The only time anything can stress me out is when I have difficulties regarding the various responsibilities and obligations I have that involve other people, and I like it better that way, because it ensures that I work and put at least some effort into doing stuff.
When I schedule things, like meeting so and so people, I put effort into making sure things go according to plan. I do not like being late for meetings, (although as of late, it's been becoming difficult for me to avoid that) and being late stresses me out. What stresses me out even more is when I have to cancel on people.
I don't know about you guys, but I hate it when parents just jump stuff of their kids that make them cancel on stuff. My mother, for example, is very fond of texting me just a little before I head home from work to tell me to go home because no one's cooking dinner. That doesn't leave me ANY time at all to cancel plans, or any choice BUT to head off home because, well, no one's going to be around to do dinner. At least leave room for people to fix stuff, damnit.
Is it so hard to consider my own plans for a change? Granted, I don't usually tell them when I have to go somewhere after work, but the least my mother can do is ask if I can do it first before shoving the job on me an hour before my own plans. It really doesn't give me any time at all to cancel, or even work out a solution or compromise. And then she'll get hissy spitty fire mad when I tell her I can't do it and call me all kinds of useless.
Then, of course, on the rare occasion that it IS easy to cancel, I head off home and find out that the maid cooked something else entirely different from what I was supposed to teach her. Now I have to worry if I have to teach her tomorrow and stress out over that too.
musings,
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family annoyance