Maybe it's just me but I'm finding a lot of people annoying/rude lately. Some I know, others are complete strangers but for the love of god people STOP complaining, especially about things you cannot change. Example, LD and I were in line recently at a store buying gifts, there was a family in front of us and a man behind us. As soon as the man got in line he started whining to no one in particular "ugh, they should have more than one register open at this time of year." (please note said store was NOT busy). He continued to sigh loudly, mutter to himself and we thought that surely his head would pop off when the cashier called for a price check. Eventually a 2nd register opened up.......now one would assume the next people in line IE us would be the first to enter that line.....nope....the big whiner made a run for it. Neither of us particularly cared as clearly the whinger was in a much bigger hurry than anyone else in the store. I felt like turning around and telling him to shut the fuck up! Pissing and moaning wasn't going to make his or our waiting in line experience any better and it wasn't going to accomplish a whole hell of a lot.

I've also been to stores with people who are rude to the sales people and it drives me bonkers. I get it everyone is tired, we're over worked, have a million things to do and very few hours in which to get them done. Maybe I've just become overly sensitive to such things but a lot can be said of someones tone and facial expressions and sometimes I find it horrifically embarrassing the way the sales people are being treated. Every now and again I'll point this out to the ill behaved patron and once in a while I'll get a "did I?" but more often than not they defend themselves, tell me I'm wrong.....ad nauseum.

I took a course recently which I won't get into but it had a lot to do with working on ones soul, getting to the nitty gritty of ones beliefs, where they come from and things like gratitude and really living life to the fullest. It did change me ever so slightly and I find I have less tolerance for negativity, I want to surround myself with light and love and positive energy. I just find excessive complaining/rude behaviour extremely draining and I don't care to be around it.

We're all going to have bad days and yes even yours truly uses her horn more than the average person whilst driving but if your pattern is to constantly bitch and complain, make comments about every single thing going on around you "he cut me off" "hurry up, what's taking so long" etc etc it's time to take a breath and just relax. I remember sitting at a light once in a car with a friend while this guy just stood on the corner. He looked as though he was going to cross in front of us (on his green light) but didn't. When our light turned green he decided to walk right in front of our car as if he had the right of way. We both stared for a moment, shrugged and continued our conversation. We even got a giggle out of the situation and such things have happened several times since. I'm not sure what hanging my head out the window screaming "it's not your turn!" or "can't you see the light!" would have accomplished other than raising my blood pressure. Hence why I did not tell the man in line to shut it, it just would have made both of us angry. Maybe I'm just mellowing out in my old age!

Please take note that I'm well aware of the fact that I'm complaining about how I dislike people complaining :) It would be much different if every post was me bitching and moaning incessantly.