Annoyed, Irritated, Upset, Bothered Want to Vent?
By byfaithonly
@byfaithonly (10698)
United States
March 9, 2007 8:59am CST
Ok, it’s time for some fun. Come on, how about venting a little and getting it off your chest. What was the last thing that “got your dander up”?
Mine was this morning. I woke up and went about my morning routine but when I went to brush my hair guess what! I couldn’t find my hair brush. Now I have several brushes but this one particular one is a favorite. I proceeded to turn the house upside down, blamed my son for taking it, and refused to do anything else until I found that brush. And, was getting more and more annoyed irritated, and upset as I went.
Now I feel like an idiot. I finally convinced myself it had to have walked off on its own and went to make my bed. You got it; there buried in the blankets was the brush I’d just spent an hour looking for. It seems last night I brushed my hair before going to bed and had left it lying on the bed rather than put it in the basket on my nightstand where I normally keep it.
Ready, set, go – keep it clean, fun if possible but not required. The doctor is in the house lets see what we can clear up.
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26 responses
@charms88 (7538)
• Philippines
9 Mar 07
LOL...faith, that was good. There is one incident last Christmas that i can never forget. My girl's christmas vacation is fast approaching and I was needed to accompany them for a week for their christmas program. My supposedly 2 hours of laundry work had stretched to 3 days. The first day, I simply placed all the dirty clothes inside the washing machine and let it work by itself. The second day, I put fabric conditioner and let it stand for a day. The next day, I put the clothes in a dryer. Afterwards, I hanged all the clothes. Nighttime came, while folding the clothes, I got a little confused as to why I had only a few newly washed clothes with me. I kept searching my memory where I put the rest of the clothes. Since I was tired already that night, I didn't bother to look for the remaining clothes. My next schedule of laundry day came. Upon opening my dryer, LOL...there's my remaining clothes. I just kept laughing at myself but at the time, a little annoyed because I need to rewash the clothes again. I know...I'm getting old. :)
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@byfaithonly (10698)
• United States
9 Mar 07
LOL - had the same thing happen to me, son wants to know where all his pants were. We went back and forth, I had no idea what he had done with his cloths - try looking in his messy bedroom. Later that day I go to do a load of laundry and guess what's in the washer soaking wet - 6 pairs of boy's jeans :(
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@cjsmom (1423)
• United States
9 Mar 07
Last week I couldn't find my watch; I had placed it on our table by the couch and left it there, so I knew it should have still been there. The guys from work were over remodeling our bathroom at the time. They are great guys and I trust them (at least one of them) explicitly - The more I looked for it, I hate to admit, the more I had the thought that perhaps one of them had taken it. I asked my husband if he'd seen it; he always responds with, "I didn't touch it..!" I didn't ask him if he'd taken it, just if he'd seen it; geez louise...He had even sarcastically told me that, Ebner (one of the workers) had taken it - So, once again the same thought came into my head...Finally, after about an hour I found it; just where I had placed it (on the back of couch), after I'd taken it from table to check the time and reset our clock (electricity had gone out a few hours before). Did I feel like a fool or what? Thank goodness I didn't accuse anyone!
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@byfaithonly (10698)
• United States
10 Mar 07
Isn't it interesting that we lose something and our first response is to blame it on someone else rather than take responsibility for it ourselves. I thought about that this morning with my brush. I am determined to at least attempt to take responsibility for my own belongings in the future.
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@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
9 Mar 07
Yesterday I was feeling extremely poorly. Aching in all my muscles and joints and feeling tired and sleep deprived and I was worried that something might be wrong with me. I went across the road to my friend's place and told him how I was feeling and that I thought these symptoms were pointing to something.
His response...."John Benson wants a bale of hay."
I turned around to walk away and started to cry.
He called out to me and came after me and asked what could he do.
I said, "You could listen to me and give me some comfort or at least some feedback...not change the bloody subject and talk about you or someone else."
And I dragged myself home.
That's my "best friend". Sad eh?
@byfaithonly (10698)
• United States
10 Mar 07
Oh goodness I think I would be finding a new friend - if I reacted at the moment. I am guessing later I would think about it and realize possibly the friend was feeling stressed, presured, or annoyed himself. Sometimes we do need to remember we are not the only ones in the world with "problems". It just doesn't happen for me when in one of those "moods".
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@maildumpster (3815)
• United States
10 Mar 07
I know this is going to sound bad to some but I am being honest. It drives me nuts when my kids ask something, they are told no and they just keep asking and asking.
Thank God they don't do this everytime they are told no but still it can drive you up a wall.
Oh and I hate when they try to pit one parent against the other.
But I love em just the same....
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@webeishere (36313)
• United States
10 Mar 07
I made the mistake of giving my oldest grandson a dollar bill for a couple pennies. pennies. Now evertime he comes over he has pennies. I'll give him a dollar as I save pennies. But if he has say 8 he wants 8 dollars. Smart kid. LOL. That gets my dander up sometimes. But of course I don't vent it his way. Maybe to my daughters way. HAHAHAHA!
HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!
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@byfaithonly (10698)
• United States
10 Mar 07
I don't think it sounds bad at all but then I am the mother of a 15 year old "problem child" he does do the ask over and over every time I say no. Oh opps just happened 5 minutes ago, then he'll wait 10 minutes and try asking again. Like I'm going to change my mind or forget the answer I gave him. Just think though, someday they will be parents and their kids will do the same thing to them - then they will appreciate what you went through.
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@mssnow (9484)
• United States
10 Mar 07
hmmm, I am supposed to think of something to be mad about. Would it be a bad thing if i couldn't think of anything. OK OK. I get mad at drunk drivers. You know the ones who get into accidents and injure or kill someone else and they walk away with not even a scratch. I just think thats so wrong. That makes me madder than anything. As far as my life. Right now I'm not really mad just depressed because of winter.
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@webeishere (36313)
• United States
10 Mar 07
No not mad. Just something that got you dander ruffled. What ever a "DANDER" is. LOL. I'm going to check that out now. Hee Hee!
HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!
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@webeishere (36313)
• United States
10 Mar 07
Main Entry: dan·der
Function: noun
Pronunciation: 'dan-d&r
Etymology: alteration of dandruff
1 : DANDRUFF ; specifically : minute scales from hair, feathers, or skin that may be allergenic
2 : ANGER , TEMPER now don't get your dander up
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@sephiroth829 (113)
• United States
9 Mar 07
no offense to mothers here, but this is something i must gripe about. moms: when your sons turn 15, 16, 17, BACK OFF. i cant stand it that my mom treats me like im 5. im barely allowed to do anything during the week, and certain circumstances only allow me to stay at her house one weekend a month. i cant do anything then either, cuz she says to spend time with her, but then she ends up spending all day paying attention to my little brother. its so obvious she plays favorites. and dont say 'oh its just that your a teenager and your supposed to feel that way.' its really not. all he has to do is cry and whine enough, and he'll get anything he wants. this summer, thanks to his need to have everything, i might not get to participate in a student exchange program with china. hes resistent to school, but not like normal 8 year olds. he can barely wipe his own a$$ without my mom right there. i cant stand how she treats me. its like she doesnt want me to grow up, and ive told her this, but she avoids the question like the plague. i really dont like it.
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@byfaithonly (10698)
• United States
10 Mar 07
You know what sephiroth? I remember feeling the same exact way. My story was a little different but I 2 younger sisters and our Mom was always spending more time with them. I honestly felt like she did love me as much as them and for many years was resentful. Two things changed my feelings towards my Mom: first, I talked to her and told her how I had felt when I was a teenager. She cried! She felt so bad that she had made me feel that way. The next thing that happened was when I had my second son. I then realized that with a newborn and a 2 year-old in the house there were times that I had to spend more time with one than the other.
Now, think about what you said - first you want her to stop treating you like a 5 year old and then you say you are upset about the time your mom spends with an 8 year old.....
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@DavidReedy (2378)
• United States
10 Mar 07
Hmm... things I hate about my life.
1) that I don't have a woman as pretty as you are in my life
2) That when I do meet good Christian women they can't understand my own spiritual beliefs (a blend of Christianity/Buddhism/Taoism/Wicca)
3) Ulcerative colitis--not being able to enjoy good foods without suffering--and the fact that I persist in enjoying them good foods despite the risk to my health
4) The system--it doesn't work to help people out, only to hold them down it seems.
5) The extremism of the human race. It's always the liberal vs. the conservative or the secularist vs. the theocrat, oddly enough the majority of people, who are somewhat moderate in their beliefs fail to be represented
6) The fact that humanity has no plans for the future, and no one seems to care that our resources are going to run out and the population explosion... Why don't we look to the future, ways to protect the environment, space exploration, possible construction of underocean cities, etc... someway to confront the inevitable.
7) How namby-pamby in many ways mylot sometimes is, how people can rate your conversations not based on content, but they can blast your number down simply if they disagree with your point of view--I hate that.
8)Racism, sexism, and outright prejudice.
9)Ironically enough, (my own prejudice) ignorant people. Why does it seem they're everywhere? Why do people confront the effects of problems but not the causes? Why are we always looking for someone to blame, instead of all us admitting that we are equally responsible for the human condition and for the home we share?
Uhm, that's it. I must be sure to point out that I fit into the category #9, afterall, in a sense, aren't I blaming? Yes, I did... We must go forward though, and work together as a species, regardless of nationality, skin color, or creed...
thanks for the opportunity to post,
David A. Reedy...
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@freesoul (3021)
• Egypt
10 Mar 07
2 days ago I was having an early morning go at mylot and after a while my connection went down, I reset the router and still not working, waited for a while but it did not come back, I called the ISP and after being bounced around for a while they confessed that it was a problem at their end .. great, but it can not be fixed until next morning.. WHAT, 24 hours without internet??!! seemed terrible but that was the best they can do :(
One good thing it was a TV/reading night and it seems I still can remember how to survive without internet.. at least for one night lol
@kathy77 (7486)
• Australia
9 Mar 07
Ok, well I woke up this morning and I was feeling fine but I am connected to my computer via dial up and when I came online the speed of my computer is not right it is down quite a lot now I know that this problem is not my internet server but my phone line, I hate it when it goes so slow as I cannot get through the amount of work that I really want to and this makes me very annoyed. It has probably been caused to the storms that we have had recently so I hope by the time I come back on here this afternoon that I am back to normal speed.
@byfaithonly (10698)
• United States
10 Mar 07
LOL the other day my connection was so bad I ended up just dumping everything and shut the whole thing down. I can not stand waiting and it was taking 2-3 minutes just for mylot pages to load. By the time the window loaded I forgot what I was going to respond. Sometimes the worst annoyances are the ones we have no control over such as phone lines :(
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@gharinder (2044)
• India
10 Mar 07
it just happened to me two days before and thank God i didnt complained to anybody, otherwise i would have made a fool of myself. it happened so that i had put my sweater in the lowermost shelf of my almirah where i usually put my daily wear suits since it was a bit hot that day. finally in the evening when i felt cold i was looking crazily all over my room especially on the chair and the shelf where i had put my winter clothes, lol-----i was unable to understand where it has gone, finally when i lied down to sleep, it suddenly struck my mind and finally found it out
@Fishish (696)
• India
10 Mar 07
i had a bad time these last two days. i just felt so miserable and i did not see why. only later i realised that it was because of lack of attention from my husband who was out for long hours these two days adn i was home alone. so i spoke to him yesterday adn we spent some time togethre and then i was fine...
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@whimsystoryteller (1743)
• United States
10 Mar 07
Oh boy, can I relate! Now, I only have one brush and one comb and I always put them back in the same spot. However, I can easily relate to searching for something and getting more and more annoyed as I searched until my whole day is messed up. I have, however, learned that if I will stop and take a few deep breaths or just stop and determine to do something else and not allow the missing object to frustrate me, I will usually find it shortly. I also pray and ask God to show me where it is since He already knows. If I calm down, I will usually hear that still, small voice inside tell me to look in a certain place and there the item is. It happened just a couple of days ago, in fact. I kept hearing that little voice tell me that a tape I was looking for was in a particular spot but I kept looking everywhere else for it. I finally decided to look in the place that the Holy Spirit was telling me to look and sure enough, there it was. I could have saved myself all sorts of frustration had I just listened.
I tend to get angry with myself when I get bullheaded about things and don't stop to think or listen to God. Since He already knows everything, it just seems wise to shut up and let Him tell me things. It really annoys me when I don't listen. Or, even more, when I hear it and have asked God to tell me when I'm doing something wrong and He tells me and I still do it. Mostly, I'm talking about gossip. I'm really working hard to get away from that temptation because the Bible says we aren't supposed to do it and I never thought I was a gossip monger because I keep to myself so much but the Lord started showing me just how much I do gossip.
Anyway, that's my vent for the evening.
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@coolmailraj (2460)
• India
10 Mar 07
the same thing used to happento my purse ,shoe,tounge cleaner and a lot of other things but one thing that helped me is the reintigeration method it works like this when you forgot something go to the place where you were with it (in your mind) then go the place on your feet
@sherinek (3320)
• United States
15 Mar 07
I am now angry for days and weeks with me tenants. You may have seen my discussion about that. I still couldnt catch the fellow cos he is always, not available. I dont have any vent with that. I am just keeping my anger inside me which gives me insomnia according to some other discussion I saw on myLot.
@smartie1685 (450)
• United States
10 Mar 07
Thats a hard one, I get my "dander up" as you say very often on my work days. Generally its because of the stupidity of people and what they think they can get away with. I hate it when people think they can get away with stealing something and trying to return it. We're not stupid and if they come up with a dumb story about why they don't have their receipt, its a huge giveaway.
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@cttjj2312 (69)
• United States
10 Mar 07
I get so annoyed when I am on the phone and someone is talking to the person on the other end. Not just for 1 question either. A whole discussion. My sisters husband is quiet and then whenever she is on the phone he is so gabby! It is very annoying. Half the time she calls me when no one is there now. My mom has told me it aggravates her too.
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@browneyedgirl (1264)
• United States
10 Mar 07
I can't stand it when the sink is full of stubble! How much effort does it take to put a towel over the sink and shake it out into the garbage, or to rinse the sink when you're done?
@byfaithonly (10698)
• United States
12 Mar 07
Oh my yes that annoys me too - a 15 year old boy in the house can not seem to learn that but then we are still working on closing the lid to the toilet also :(
@Aryanbharani (209)
• India
10 Mar 07
u acted just like my pop and me, we are the 2 most short teperd people in our family(if u exclude my granny) poor mom and bro suffer cos our temper and mistakes.i get into row with my pop on a weekly basis, every week he also asks me to get out of house, and i do, then he feels bad and brngs me back to home, and I don't knbow what makes me return(maybe im a chicken in outer wrld)lol
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@carolmil123 (115)
• United States
10 Mar 07
I try hard not to get so upset over small problems. I find that sooner or later really big problems come along and I save up my energy for those moments. I have a habit of putting things always in the same place, even if it takes a little longer to do that. That way, I always know where things are.
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