Tips for explaining things: be really vague and unclear, referring to parts of the objects in question as "the thing." Get annoyed when you are not understood. The other person is stupid.
If you are over 40 and have a teenage child, they are clearly the authority on all things pop culture. Question them at length. Ignore anything they are doing. Your questions on boy bands are more important.
Eye rolling and huffing are by far the most effective means of dealing with frustration. All criticism is constructive. Your child's friends are stupid and she is inconsiderate if you misunderstand her plans because you change the subject everytime she starts talking.
Gah! I get so on edge around my parents that listening to my stepfather breathing heavily while eating makes me want to punch walls. The man had surgery for a deviated septum, it's not his fault, but he's so aggrivating in the things he does delibritly that the things he can't help annoy me as well. Sometimes I feel like the most emotionally mature product of my entire extended family. That's scary enough on it's own, but then when I'm around them (or even on the phone with them, or get an email) I regress so much that I don't recognize myself. Or I do, it's all too familiar. I hate that my mom has the power to give me an anxiety/guilt attack from 1000 miles away. And I know my girlfriend hates it too, and it just causes the guilt and anxiety to spiral, because I realize I'm overreacting, but I can't force myself out of it. Not just when I'm around Holly, but when anyone sees me like that. Oh my god I'm so neurotic. I'm like those rodents who go into a frenzy when they feel threatened-my parents trigger my fight or flight mechanism.
I feel better now. I'd feel even better if my door shut totally and there was about 500 more square feet to our apartment.
Oh. Also, stating the obvious. That doesn't annoy me at all. GAHHHHHHHHRGH! Must...control...fist...of death....!!!!!
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