About Being Grumpy?

All the people that are important to me have told me that I am a grumpy guy.   Some of my grand kids have actually said that I am the grumpiest guy they have ever known! Considering they are eight and nine years old it appears a possibility that I have been grumpy for at least that long.

My wife has also told me once that I was a grumpy guy, actually what she said was 'grumpy ass' which indicates that I may have been particularly 'ass' like on at least that occasion.  Come to think of it she has indicated that I am 'ass' like on more then one occasion so I am either an ass or a grump, or both?  It gets confusing.

Grumpy and 'ass like' seem to go together at least as far as my mood swings are concerned.  I make no conscious effort to be an ass, or to be grumpy for that matter, but I find that on the majority of occasions those are the moods (if ass is a mood) that seem to make me feel the most comfortable.

That does not appear to make the people around me comfortable however. As a matter of fact it pisses most of the people around me off, especially when I respond to their, "Why the hell are you so grumpy all the time" question with comments like "I'm not grumpy, this is my personality" or "I know you are but what am I?" The later of which did not go over well and actually caused my grumpy ass(ness) to become contagious, which started a spiral effect that was, shall we say, undignified.

My kids also seem to think I'm grumpy all the time, they don't call me a grumpy ass though, at least not to my face.  Once I actually asked the kids if they thought I was grumpy all the time. That question was answered with what I would describe as hysterical laughter immediately followed by everyone vacating the immediate area.   I guess they were afraid that I would become grumpy and say something like, "I'm not grumpy, this is my personality so all of you piss off" which, I admit, sounds grumpy but can also be explained by other personality disorders, not all of which involve grumpiness, but which can probably be defined with the word ass.

My pets avoid me sometimes.   By 'avoid me' I mean they leave the room when I walk in and hide in nearby closets or under beds.   I feed these animals every day and this is how they repay me which I don't appreciate or understand.  It is feasible that THEY are the ones that are grumpy instead of me! Feasible but not likely.

I don't know why I am grumpy all the time.  I do know that when I am around the people I care about I enjoy their company and feel like I don't deserve them sometimes (I just realized that I wrote that last sentence while that movie about the dolphin getting a new tail was on so just forget it.  I bet that dolphin was grumpy as hell!) I get grumpy when I don't want to get all sappy.  So for the rest of you out there in (no one ever reads my) blog land, if you think I'm grumpy all the time you can just piss off and leave me the hell alone!

I'm going to write about being happy all the time some day. Right now though, the idea of being happy all the time pisses me off so I won't write about it any time soon, it's just my personality. Writing about being grumpy all the time actually made me feel good! This will be the last post I write about being grumpy...