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...or is it a 'me' problem? I don't think nine months of winter (and counting) is helping much, but I seem to be stuck in a loop of not getting enough exercise, not being able to finish stuff due to the unpredictability of the weather, and it feels like everything is pissing me off right now. I've never been great with 'normal' human [Mod] edited, but I near exploded at some idiots standing having a conversation at a pinch point on Saturday morning, when they could have just as easily had it two metres away and left the way clear for everyone. Anyone else, or do I need help? I'm not loving feeling like this.
Had a "significant" birthday recently? 😉
No, I'm not ****ing irritable AF. Now, off you **** and leave me alone.
Was for the previous few weeks. Seem to have escaped it for now. Will see how long that lasts
Yes
Yes. Everyone is a moron (apart from one customer who is lovely). I seem to be permanently broke / handing money directly to builders / builder's merchants / screwfix. I can't be arsed to ride my bike / I have no free time to ride and when I can/do the forests are full of gloop.
I've had my foot in a boot for the last month and not been able to ride since surgery. Am very irritable at times but think it would be a lot worse if the weather had been amazing.
Had a holiday lately?
I was probably getting a bit grumpy before, but a recent week in the Highlands with a lot of riding has perked me right up.
None of your ****ing business.
As Foretold?
Yes
But I am in sertraline withdrawal. Had a customer trying to belittle one of members of staff , who happens to be a Muslim , female ,teenager. No mate , it's not happening and could you please stop being a dick and wasting everyone's time by withholding pertainant information about your query that you know and seem totally unwilling to pass across, when you have already ordered what you want off Amazon.
Yeah. Well, bordering more on apathy to be frank. I've gone through the irritated at everything stage and into acceptance that a lot of things don't work properly and generally suck a bit and have lost the energy to be cross at it all.
Shoulder surgery 10 days ago, was hoping to beat the surgeon's estimate that I wouldn't be riding again until early Autumn but then my youngest opened a door into my face last night which demonstrated that I'm a long way off. And work is shit. So yeah.
That said, could always be worse!
Yes. Very. Winter, and prolonged period of illness, plus some HR stupidity making life hard for my team at work.... Any minor comment from anyone has me seething and very upset inwardly!
I’m not loving feeling like this.
Not just you, I get ridiculous angry about the weather. I ride pretty much regardless, but it's hard not to feel like like you've "earned" your sun after months of stripping off in the garden becasue of the amount of rain/mud shite you'd trail through the house otherwise, and it's just not happening. I'm fed up with having to wash my kit constantly, I'm fed up that I've worn a short sleeve shorts combo just once so far this year (in the UK) It's completely irrational obviously, but it must be some-one's fault, Godamnit
*shakes fist at sky*
Guilty.
Anyone else read the thread title as "Is anyone else irresistible AF right now"?... coz I am! Form an orderly queue ladies! 🤣😎
The bloke who said he would "****ing stab me" after I told him that not everyone would appreciate his dog going for a bite of their wrist (like it did to me) last week certainly was.
Yes and no.
A multitude of relatively small things all building up and seem to happen at enough of an interval to keep me highly strung at the moment. Things breaking (car/phone/washing machine/dishwasher) is really annoying me at the moment as money is (always) tight and repairing and replacing broken things doesn't help. Our TV currently has no image on the bottom 6 inches of the screen, can mostly be ignored until something with subtitles or sport like F1 with all the timings at the bottom is unwatchable. It's been like that since new year but everytime I think about replacing it then something else more important comes along to use up the money.
Then a shoulder injury a couple of weeks ago, doing something stupid to try and impress my kids at a play centre, means that I'm in constant pain which is enough to make me permanently grumpy on top of being angry at myself for doing it in the first place.
On a positive note, I'm (slowly) losing weight, I can still run with shoulder injury. And the constant shit weather means that I'm not massively missing out on outdoors sports time because of it.
Yup. Lots of stuff going on and the weather isn't helping.
Re-watching 'Dexter' more as an instructional video than escapist entertainment...
Yep, mainly people who bring their screaming toddlers into the pub and treat the place like a nursery where everyone's meant to be impressed with their offspring when we just want a quiet pint and chat. Secondly, quite a few of the dog walkers on my daily blast route, rude, insolent, and stupid in that there are footpaths they could be on. Apart from that, eternally happy.
Yes, about 10 years and counting.
Yesterday i found myself shouting at the rain as i got very wet, again, only 5 minutes from home. Today was better got home 5 minutes before it chucked down. Then got frustrated when I couldn't post this response straightaway as I'd been logged out and had to type it in again.
Not just me then! Not sure that's made me feel better or worse, tbh.
You sound like me at about 5pm every day when the medication starts to wear off, OP. Considered better living through chemistry? Or moving somewhere where the bloody Jesus-encrusted sun shines once every couple of months? 😠
Not "AF" at the moment but in my mind I'm frequently damning people and companies for lack of effort, incompetence, duplicitous behaviour, etc.
I get ridiculous angry about the weather. I ride pretty much regardless, but it’s hard not to feel like like you’ve “earned” your sun
This, especially when I've booked time off work to go away. Work all those weeks, looking at the nice weather out the window, seeing everyone share their ride pics, big effort the week before to get work under control. And then my week, it's raining and cloudy. Then back to work, stressful week straightening things out, and of course it's nice weather outside and in the place I was on holiday last week.
That was me 3-5 years ago. The successful Co I worked for for decades suffered a reverse takeover and they dumped incompetent indecisive clueless dickheads in senior positions whilst sidelining the good guys. Just trashed the whole ethos and behaviour of the Co, turned an always profitable Co into multi-million loss making one. Redundancies after redundancies, yet still morons at the top. Talk about led by donkeys. Led by complete and utter arseholes, more like.
Solution - many of us most experienced people left to join 3 or 4 other competitors, a couple went self-employed, and some retired. Some did multiples of those options!
Life is Sooooo much better.
Glad you posted this op as I didn't want to start a thread but as you have...
I'm a raging ball of anger a lot of the time now. I think I succeed in keeping it off the forum (I great at putting on a mask as it were) and in fact very few would notice it irl. It's there though, boy is it there. It's wrapped up with a festering dose of depression and I see very little improving anytime soon.
It's not aimed at anything or anyone specifically but I vent at those close to me on occasion, the very people that don't deserve it. Vent? I'm totally lacking in patience, dont talk much and get incredibly angry (verbally) at inconsequential stuff.
It's a horrible way to be and it's not what I consider normal for me.
I have some ideas of why I'm like it, some I can't change others I might be able to but seem unable to do so.
Been on a waiting list for near 3 years, get a call once a month to basically ask me if I'm going to kill myself or anyone else, well, that's the final question. Not a dig at the NHS, mental health services are ***** just like everything else.
No.... Really chilled... Until something comes along to, in the words of my 7yo son, ”ruin my day”.
I've cut two of the three things out of my life that make me irritable - alcohol and dating. Can't afford to do the same with work unfortunately. But as a consequence of removing two I have time for doing more of the things I really enjoy so I'm in a better place to deal with the third.
I agree with everyone on this thread.
I do wonder how social media is playing a part in this too?
Does cutting up your attention span generally make life trickier?
I’m firmly in the apathy camp now but some of that could be the meds. Too tired to be angry and have just accepted how things are.
Anyone else read the thread title as “Is anyone else irresistible AF right now”?… coz I am! Form an orderly queue ladies!
Why limit yourself?
Yep. Though its quite normally sadly. But stressed in work and not riding as I've somehow lost the routine is adding up to more apathy and less riding.
Plus I've an interesting hip issue that won't clear up
Irritable? No.
Angry when provoked? Oh yes.
No. I was getting frustrated with the weather, but I’ve been lucky enough that I can get out on my hardtail and I’ve started doing some longer groad rides since I’ve had my Garmin so that’s helped a lot.
The main thing that pisses me off about bad weather is having to clean my bike after riding it, and that’s not so bad when riding on road and gravel.
I’ve started doing some longer groad rides
I don't know if I'm more irritated that you used that word, or that I understood it.
@cha****ng if it helps, I’m a little irritated with myself for using it.