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Originally Posted by Perna
I am reminded of when I forgot a bag with a couple cans of $0.43 cat food at the grocery store and called the store manager and yelled at him because the clerk had packed my 5 items in like 3 bags (and the one with the cat food, the "reason" I'd gone to the store in the first place, got left behind :-)
I laugh now because as annoying as it is to lose the $0.86 worth of cat food and have to go back out to a store to get some, calling the manager is a bit much? 
The other thing I get out of my odd "urges" that are over the top is to realize it's not about the cat food, for me it's usually a projection of some other anxiety and the "anger" at the cat food thing is easier than facing and fixing the anxiety situation.
Perhaps your new job is scary or being down to $12.39 is scary, etc.? Anger is what "motivates" us to do something else, it's an action feeling; I know when I get feeling helpless, that's when suddenly I start feeling the angriest about something completely different. It's energy producing. |
Hmmmmm.... I really liked this reply as it has given me something to think about. I do have some anxiety about the new job - since I work with very high-net worth people (and I'm from a low class/lower middle class family). The job is actually very simple though - and I don't have any anxieties about my performance (the anxiety focuses on my clothes not being as "good" as the people in the office, I don't have as nice of a car, I don't speak with the speech patterns of the other people, worried that I won't have as much class as the other people and make social blunders, etc). These aren't worries that are present all the time - and I've actually got really comfortable being there. I don't think it was the $12.29, since I knew I got paid the very next day for two weeks of work in my new job (which is A LOT more money than I had been making).
Perhaps calling the manager is a bit much; much like the cat food incident (I hope that one day I can look back and laugh like you at the situation). So what could I be angry or scared about now that I'm projected it into the situation and others at the restaurant?