Keep your rules off my psyche

I just got into a pointless and embarrassing disagreement on the phone with a person I actually like and respect. I realized mid way through the call that I was being a dickhead, which caused me to start apologizing gabbily, which made me feel like an even bigger dickhead.

This reminded me of thoughts I was having this morning driving my son to school while listening to the King's College Choir singing Christmas Carols (It just isn't Christmas, I mused to my husband, to his alarm, without English school boys and throbbing cathedral organs). The thought was that some people derive great pride and satisfaction from fitting into systems and some people, like me, have this compulsive resistance to rules.

So this morning, every time the person on the other end of the call said, "I just think we should play by their rules," I wanted to crawl down the line and strangle her. She wasn't even being unreasonable. It was just hearing those words "...follow...the ...rules..." It makes me want to run out into the streets and set cars on fire.

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[Elizabeth Ditz]

A bit of a subject hijack here, but I just wanted to say: Happy New Year to you and yours. I wish you all the best for 2007.