I suspect that slamming the phone down during a conversation with your mother automatically makes you a bad daughter. I was just so fed up with her screaming at me as I was trying to give her advice that I gave up. I had to bite my tongue not to use language she would have screamed more about. Sigh.
Fortunately, I had an outlet to vent my frustration this afternoon. There was a Volksmarch in the Clarendon section of Arlington. It's an easy metro ride away and the weather was perfect. The walk was through residential neighborhoods and was, frankly, not especially interesting. I also ended up walking with three other people for the first half, one of whom chattered continously. I finally just slowed my pace to get away and enjoyed the rest of the walk more.
So, basically, today I was bitchy and unsociable.
Copyright 2006 Miriam H. Nadel