Do you think women just get to a certain age and become super irritable?
I am so crabby at the moment I could make Lucy van Pelt look like Gwyneth Paltrow, all smiling and beautifully nice. I'm crabby about everything. I yelled at someone who phoned me about a mistake I made. I rejected a very nice colleague's advice, which I asked for, and I rejected it quite firmly, swinging round in my chair at the end of it to indicate that This Interview Is OVER. I bossed H the whole way to the real estate agent's office, telling him to "Move!" into the left lane. Then the receptionist told us the file manager was busy and we should have made an appointment and I sarcastically blurted, "Well then we should just have sent the file by mail!" I was possibly breathing fire because she sent a little office boy down the corridor to get the file manager, so at least that anger was not wasted, but the rest of the time, the anger just pushes my blood pressure up and makes H want to suffocate me with a cushion.
I feel it might be a general tendency though, because I remember my grandfather saying about my mother, "She used to be such a nice girl," and shaking his head slowly. And, my colleague told me about finally having a REAL man's conversation with a family friend in which each guy spoke of the iron grip their wives had on a tender part of their anatomy. She bosses me around all the time, is what he said in a nutshell.
So I am wondering if one just hits 35 and suddenly years of pent up anger start to simmer to the surface. If that's the case my sister should be about to turn into Ms Paltrow because no way has she been penting up any anger. You see, even in my closing I'm being bitchy. Dear reader, have you noticed any increased irritability?
My other theory is that women often think it's children. In my case, I can assure it's not. It's just pure crabbiness. Be very glad you probably live a loooong way away from me.
