why I can be mean

Ok.  I have been called a biatch about 16 billion times in my life.  The funny thing is, most people think I am very nice.  And usually I am.  But sometimes people are so thoughtless, and self-centered, that I just flip out on them and I can be mean.  There are times when I refuse to rise above the situation and just be nice, which is why I really think that I am SANE.  I know, you would not agree.  Most of you think I am crazy.  But really, I have no problem pointing out when someone is being a total jerk and I won't back down.  Tom Petty rules. 

I verbally slapped two people this week.  One was a woman who kept interrupting my enjoyment of Guy's Cub Scout Blue and Gold Banquet by complaining that nobody ever calls her because we all have email and that is how we communicate.  She was actually crying, and I turned around and pretty much read her the riot act.  Not that I did not have reason to do so, she was complaining that I had not devoted every minute of my last month to calling her, and I pointed out that I busted my knee skiing, dragged cookies around for a billion people for a month with a gimp leg, and that after 4 weeks of a devastating roller coaster ride, my beloved father-in-law had passed away.  I wanted to smack her, so I think I did pretty well, becuase I did not smack her.  So, the next day I get cards from her with money and checks in them.  I have lots to say on that, but I am still trying to figure out WHY anyone would give John and I money when we really do not need or want it. 

The other one I was not so nice to was a woman who tends to overlook the fact that there are other people in the world besides herself.  She is nice, but annoyingly self centered.  She lives around the block from me.  Cookie sales ended nearly 2 weeks ago, and she blew me off the other night when she was supposed to come over, I waited 3 hours.  Needless to say, today, when I had things to do, she wanted help.  I blew her off.  She found someone else to help her, and I feel bad that someone else got stuck with it, but she was getting nothing from me!

Ok, not the meanest thing I have ever done.  But still, sometimes people kick the sand in my face and I simply have to be the person I am.  Which is not so nice!