this morning was a very sunny morning, and i was in a dreamy state after i got up, and i was vaguely attending to things as i became more awake and aware of what i had to attend to. there was not much to attend to.
as i was dreamily looking at the weather on the "weather" page, the phone suddenly rang and i was jolted out of my drowsy complacency. my most valued customer was on the other end of the line, and he was complaining that the chips delivered to him today were unacceptable, and his seated customers were not eating them and a few were complaining.
i told him that i would replace his chips within 3 hours. i could not prevail upon my driver to do this delivery because he had finished for the day, and i am fair.
i rang my supplier and told him about the situation, and he gave me an inadequate response and then told me that the depot was closed anyway, so there was no chance of me getting replacement chips until the next day.
obviously that would not do, so i rang my supplier's supplier, and organized to buy 16 x 10kg bags of chips. i then went directly there and put the chips in my car, and then i went directly to the shop. the shop is 100km away!! it took 1.5 hours to drive there. the whole trip took more than 5 hours.
i dropped off the chips, and then embarked upon my return journey to home, and i was then entrenched in traffic gridlock that was proceeding at a glacial pace. i was not yet at the point of "blowing a gasket", but i was being pushed toward that situation.
as i proceeded along the choked flow of the "expressway" at about 20 kph i thought "at least we are moving, and with every ensuing exit road, there will be a substantial bleeding off of traffic resulting in a more rarefied flow that can maintain the speed limit" .
the traffic dissolved after the final exit point for sydney metropolitan dwellers as i suspected, so my temperament was calmed by the fact that what i expected to happen happened, and also now i could drive unobstructed at 80kph+. that release was thwarted when the 4 lane highway merged to a 2 lane road by an imbecile who entered the road from a side street (forcing me to brake), and proceeded to drive at 30 kph in front of me. there was no one behind me, so i can not understand why he pulled out in front of me forcing me to decelerate substantially.
so the thing that tripped me in to unhappiness was having to suffer the saga of trailing a paranoid idiot who drives at 35 kph in a 60 zone. that was the final straw and i became angry then. thank goodness it lasted for only a few kilometers, because i was then able to turn into my driveway , and the situation was instantly diffused.