Angry People

It must be extremely difficult to live angry and unhappy all the time. There is a woman in my building, who was quite friendly 4 years ago when we moved in, chatted often, said good morning. Now - nothing. No good morning, if you pass her in the hall and say hello she looks down and stomps on by. Nothing. Wow, it must be hard to hold in all that anger, resentment or unhappiness. The energy she is expending could surely be used for better purpose. She seems to live life by confrotation, which has apparently worked well for a number of years. She is also EXTREMELY judgmental and we did discover early on that she has definate opinions about what is right and wrong and man you'd best agree with her. Somehow, I don't think her stand of open toe slingback at church is a crime punishabe at the pearly gates - but she is convinced that is sacralegious. And don't dare ask her about strapless wedding dresses. Could be because she wouldn't look good in one - oops, there I go starting to sound judgmental.

While no one is the building is fond of her, and I will say some tenants go out of their way to speak to her for the sole reason that they know she won't respond. Which actually is kinda mean but really, who can't at least be bothered to say hey?

Her elderly dog died recently. the only reason we knew that was because her office mate told us "in case we noticed she was more cranky than usual". Hmm well I won't touch that one. Any way, we sent her a sympathy card. We're all pet owners/lovers and know how hard it is to lose a beloved pet. Her response? She got pissed at her office mate for telling us personal things about her.

Does she have friends? Work associates? Does she treat everyone like that or only the few of us in the building? There are only 6 of us.

I hope that I never get there.