Yes, emotions. I got angry at a situation in my condo building the other day. It involved constuction guys renovating a condo soon to be up for sale, and going in and out whilst leaving our security door propped open.

First of all, that door needs to be closed all the time. It is locked. It is a security door…duh. Secondly, it is winter. It’s cold outside…duh. These workmen don’t really care about the building HOA rules. They just do their job. And this group doesn’t speak English. So if they need to get in and out of the building they prop the door open and leave it. Period. In the meantime, we in the building are freezing. Plus we do heat our hallways. But if you try to talk to them, they don’t understand you. Swell.

So, coming in that day when they were upstairs, I saw the bucket of rock salt propping open the door. I got so angry (for the umpteenth time) that I attempted to pull the thing in and close the door. It is dead weight and I can’t lift that bucket. So I dragged it. Then I dragged it over the step into the building and immediately twisted my leg basically spraining the upper thigh/hip connection. A weight-bearing section of your body. So. My anger got me a sore leg for several days. I feel like an idiot. I could have just left the door partially closed and had the guys finish the job since they were coming down the stairs.

So where did my angry, belligerent, stubbornly independent attitude get me? A couple of days using my cane and trying to not put a lot of weight on my leg. As I write this the leg is very much better due to my heroic action to clear this up (Advil, heating pad, etc.).

Need I say more on this particular subject? Did everyone reading this get the point? Good.

Seriously. I’ve always been the “oh I’ll do it myself” stubborn person in life…since I was about 5. Yes it works most of the time because it has to but sometimes, well…you fill in the blank.

And then there’s the issue of who is around to help you? This makes me feel like the perpetrators are always getting the upper hand. Something else that makes me even more angry. Ugh.

I don’t know where I’m going with this. Hmmmm… But maybe I’m already there. If you got the point of this story then this blog accomplished it’s goal. But what do you think? What have you encountered if you’ve ever let an emotion make you do something stupid? Do tell! After all, I don’t want to be in this club alone. Ha!

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