February has been designated COMPLAINING MONTH

February has been designated COMPLAINING MONTH.

It is important that we all stretch our self imposed boundaries and try to complain more, more bitterly, and at greater length. February has been chosen as likely to have weather that can be complained about as a fall-back complaint, in case of any distressing lack of other complaints. Although seemingly logical, I do not appreciate the choice.

News about complaining:
I’ll bet you have never gotten yelled at on the phone by an angry person (who was even angrier because, she claimed, there was something wrong with our phone at work and it kept hanging up on her. In the middle of her insisting this, and me contradicting her, we were cut off. She called back.) : “YOU gave a CITATION to a DEAD person!!”, but an angry person yelled it at me.

My coworker said the correct response is “Then he clearly should not have been driving.” I didn’t think of that, so I only said carefully “How did we manage that?” It turned out that it was an expired boat registration citation. Oh.