lonehael,

I almost didn't have it in me. I could feel myself boiling when the person told me around 2pm & others were scheduled before me. I figured the only way I could get rid of the boiling was to confront someone & the store operator put me through to the manager when I explained the situation. I am very easy going about things like that unless I have a commitment & then I expect things to accommodate instead of me always accommodating them (which is my usual case). I learned early in my life that if I speak up about something that I believe to be wrong or something that needs to be changed, I can usually make an impact rather than just sitting & stewing about it like my family did. My husband would never confront anyone....I was always the one that had to get him out of messes.....but that doesn't mean that it doesn't stress me going into situations like that....trying to word things diplomatically rather than attacking is always a trick. I have always found that in the majority of cases, confronting the problem DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE.....reinforcement for that action, so I end up getting braver each time.....even though it doesn't always work.

It was definitely an added stressor that I didn't need yesterday, but I'm glad I said something....it took me several hours to put the food from the old refrig back into the new one & clean off all the messy dripping food from the other refrig & sort out the bad food that I didn't want to put back in there (still sitting on my kitchen counter).....ugh.

Interesting thing is that I didn't always want to be the person confronting a problem...especially when it was my husband's problem & I felt he needed to handle it. He would either ignore it or mess it up even worse to the point where I had to take over to straighten things up anyway......ah, it's so much more peaceful only having to worry about myself.