posted 2006/09/09 at 22:22
Yet another example of how much I suck ...
A few days ago we ran out of bananas here at the house, and I've been making a point of eating bananas a lot since the potassium in them will help my muscles when it comes to my newly-resurgent dance game habit. My sister and brother-in-law said they were going to the store anyway, so they'd pick them up while they were out. I then went onto my diet Website and figured out what I was going to eat for the rest of the day, figuring that I'd be able to have a banana later.
Fast forward a couple of hours, as the store trip had been made, and I went downstairs to go work out in the garage. On my way out there I went through the kitchen, and at this point everyone was in the next room eating dinner. While I was in the kitchen my eyes were drawn to the fruit basket on the counter, which now had a bunch of those baby 2" long bananas in them. Upon looking at them, everyone at the dinner table started laughing. Mark had thought this would be a funny practical joke, and later he replaced those bananas with real full-size bananas he'd bought at the store and kept in his bedroom up until that point.
I probably should have just laughed along at the joke, no matter how lame it was. Instead, though, I went out to the garage seething with indignation. All I could think about was how I'd made such careful plans for my dinner, and now those plans were seemingly all ruined for the sake of a stupid joke. Looking back, this whole episode just seems to underscore how maladjusted I am, and how I tend to take things -- especially myself -- too seriously.
OK, but here's the thnig. You can see that the response you defaulted to was wrong. You see where the issue lies. Key things here: you didn't go and blow up at them, you can see how you take yourself too seriously. At least you know where you need to work.
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