Random Things that Make Me Grumpy

Caution: I'm fragile! Do not drop, shake, or expose me to excessive heat. WRITTEN and ILLUSTRATED by PETER MOORE

IT HAS COME TO MY ATTENTION that I’m a bit sensitive.

Just this morning, a certain Sally A decided she’d had enough of The Road2Elsewhere, and demanded that I “stop sending emails.”

A knife to the heart!

And as I scraped her off my subscriber list—I’m down to 2,384 2,383, now!—I thought about all the other things that piss me off, make me sad, and or make me feel hopeless. There were rather a lot of them.

For instance….

1. When anybody calls me “Pete.” Aside from my wife, who can call me anything she likes. But otherwise…I am NOT Pete! Try telling that to the appliance repair guy, though.

   

   And then he’ll charge me several hundred dollars for swapping in a new washer. It’s Peter, dammit!

2. When any team I root for loses a game. I root for a lot of teams, and that means a lot of losses and a lot of grumpiness.