Old, Petty and Pissed Off. Are you missing your ordinary trigger fuse of irritability in the age of Coronavirus? Are you too busy worrying about life and death and catastrophe writ large?
Make time for petty irritations is my holistic recommendation.
I am ‘exhibit A’ of “You can still be your old annoying self even in a pandemic.”
Two recent examples.
- I noticed the other day, maybe only the 2nd or 3rd day of staying at home, that adults talk to their pets like they are potty training toddlers. We are all walking daily when we can. Animal owners have been walking daily before the pandemic. I realized in this short walk that “pet talk” annoys me. Then, I thought, well maybe they are just lonely in the coronavirus and haven’t heard many human voices lately? So, they talk to their pet and nurture them.
Nah, they were doing this before the pandemic, it is only NOW that I find it irritating for some reason.
Oh, you good boy! We are going here just like we did before. You are such a good boy!
- Canada Goose makes expensive outerwear that has long irritated me because of its circular logo that is applied to the arm of most pieces and absolutely designed to stick out rather than blending into the clothing. Some people apparently like this branding. To me, it is like cattle being branded with a hot iron, CanadaGooseRanch. I belong to them not the other way round.
Anyway, my irritability was fueled this morning, 14 days into this stay at home period, by one of those carousel ads that popped up on Facebook. Canada Goose is charging $750 dollars for a Women’s Seaboard Rain Jacket that literally has their name written on one entire sleeve and a label on the outer back that could easily be read by a satellite.
I am hoping these labels are like copyright text I put on some of my photos and not on the apparel item. But, given that their ordinary label annoys me, I suspect they simply have now decided that it saves them marketing dollars if folks are willing to pay them $750 dollars in a pandemic to walk into stores with latex gloves and facemasks while advertising CANADA GOOSE.
Being my old cranky self is oddly reassuring.
Here’s what my chaos cloth looks like in a cosmetic bag and eyeglass pouch!
