Industrial Maintenance and you

I was told I was rude tonight… Me rude… an asshole maybe, sharp tongued? Sure. Load abrasive ok if you are an idiot. But rude? Never.


I am nothing if not respectful and polite, at the very least silent. I know what the incident was about. I was asked to fix a swing arm case retainer. (An air cylinder designed to hold back empty cases so the counter can pull a box out with out a hassle.) I said sure and pulled the arm off, when I did this all the boxes went rushing forward, I said I can’t fix this AND hold the boxes back…

Was I rude, or just to the point that they need to play the part of the arm while I fixed the real one?

See this goes back to a bigger issue, a while back my wife said I was grumpy all the time. I said why would I be grumpy all the time?

But it made me think maybe I was grumpy all the time, my friends had made a comment to me about being depressed… So I went about trying to change myself, trying to be a little more positive, a little faster to laugh. Hell at times even silly. Hence my facebook update: I am thankful for my friends who can make me giggle like a school girl. That is just the most recent example.

So anyway, I have been trying for like 6 months, thinking happier thoughts, Not giving smart ass comments, taking a lot more in stride and keeping silent on issues I cannot change.

Last week in October my wife and I are talking about attitudes and how one person we know has really been grouchy lately (not me). My wife says: They keep going like this and they will become grumpier than you…

Now this hurt, really, cut me to the quick. Here I have been putting all this time and effort into changing and nothing… I point this out to her, I point out that I have been trying to change. I point out how I don’t let the little things get to me anymore… She starts to blush. I had done these things I was no longer the grumpy guy.

She was just so very used to seeing me grumpy she just thought of me that way… she felt bad, she had not noticed that I had been trying. She said she was sorry, but I understood. It was who I had been for so very long that the change was slow and not sever enough for people to take a big notice.

I will now try to not be rude, at work… where they seem to take great pleasure in teasing me with idiocy…



SERENITY NOW!