I’m really not the type of person who likes to hold a grudge…
But sometimes I feel like my friends are trying to drive me insane. It seems like nobody knows how to communicate these days, and everybody winds up getting into trouble when we make assumptions about each other. I do my best to be a clear communicator and to have good relationships with everyone in my life, but sometimes I feel like I am ready to strangle my closest associates. Even when it is over something as mundane as heating, cooling, and air quality control devices. For instance, last week I was talking to my friend about purchasing an air conditioning unit for his house. He has a single AC window unit, which does not adequately cool his apartment. Obviously, this is not my problem to deal with… Unless I am staying at his place. It was supposed to be so hot outside that I wanted to purchase a more high-powered air conditioning system for him. I talked to my friend about making the AC window purchase and asked if he could pick up the air temperature control device from the store for me. My friend agreed and quickly found a small AC unit that was available in his neighborhood. In the meantime, I looked up a different air quality control provider and found a more powerful AC device for a similar cost. By the time I contacted my friend, however, he had already purchased the cheap cooling system and installed it in his home. Well… now we have two extra AC window units, and I’m supposed to pay for both of them because we didn’t communicate clearly? This could have been a much cooler situation.