Type A personalities just make me feel tired all over...

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Today’s Mundane and Pointless Thing I Must Share:

So there’s this 20-something Type-A personality, mother of 2, who’s organizing this kids’ Sunday School clothing drive at church, to benefit the local unplanned pregnancy center. And all she wants, for some reason, is infant clothes and extra-large women’s clothes, no regular clothes. So she’s the gung-ho type that just makes me tired to begin with, and she loves to organize Sunday School contests, and so I present it to my 1st grade class in a fairly laid-back amnner (“oh, gee, look, another contest, you can bring this stuff in…”) and then we get on with our lives. And one kid brings in one (1) pair of kindergarten-size red rubber boots, and that’s it. So I leave it there in my room, in a Wal-Mart bag, because it’s my understanding that she’s going to collect everything on Valentine’s Day.

So I come in this morning, and my sweater collection is gone. I have (I had) some oversize, colorful, but extremely ugly (so no one can possibly take them home by mistake) men’s and women’s cardigan sweaters that I keep in a very nice new Rubbermaid laundry basket, for the kids to put on when my classroom is freezing, as it frequently is.

I go next door to her classroom and write a note on her E-Z-Rase board. “Um…”

She’s very, very sorry. She just couldn’t wait–she went around to all the classrooms and collected stuff. She said thoughtfully, “You know, I wondered about that. I saw the rug on top that said ‘Goose’ on it [my story rug, neatly folded], and I wondered…” But she took them anyway.

She’s going to bring them back next week.

Oh, and she was very sorry to have to tell me that it would mean my class’s score would go down drastically, and we wouldn’t be in 2nd place anymore, we would actually be in last place. Boo hoo. :rolleyes:

I gave her the red rubber boots.

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Type A’s bug me.

The one’s that really bug me, though, are the Type A’s that can’t/won’t deal with being Type A’s, and adjust their lives accordingly. You know them, too. The walking stress machines that can’t handle more than one thing happening in any given 30 minute period. They just freak out “Aaaagh! I can’t handle all this stuff at once!” It’s usually minor stuff, too. Like, kid A spills his milk. Type A cleans it up, then sits down to watch TV. 10 minutes later, the dog starts barking to go outside. “AAAGH!” they say. “Can’t I get a minute’s peace?”

And they’ve always got to rush. If they have to go to three different places in a day, they’ve “got a MILLION things to do!” This is usually minor stuff, too, like a doctor’s appointment, the grocery store, and the gas station. And they’ve got 10 hours to accomplish all these tasks.

[sub]yes, there’s a reason why I’ve got optional heart-attack insurance on my husband…[/sub]

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Well, the Type A kicker here is that she HAD to make a point of telling you that your class’s rating had gone down as a result of this “error”.

And, love the idea of using old sweaters to keep them warm. My wife’s classroom is a bit nippy, but she teaches music grades 3, 4,5. <cackle> Can you see her sitting there with 577 sweaters? I love it. "Well, we’ve lost our floor space, but each child does have their own music sweater. It does sound like this is a collection that YOU had put together on your own,right on. :slight_smile: A true teacher…

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Haven’t you ever thought that you relaxed types drive us Type As nuts too? Huh? Didn’t think so. :wink:

Okay, I know us hyper, gotta do everything and do it now and do it perfectly can be a teensy bit hard to deal with. I have to force myself not to do every little thing that pops into my mind and not to blow up at people who take a more casual approach to life.

But to be fair to us Type As, there is just so much stuff to be done in the world and somebody has to do it!

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Not a problem, tater. Just be sure to breathe every once in a while, okay? And quit worrying about us Type ZZZZZ’s. We’ll get stuff done, eventually. After we wake up, have coffee, read the paper, and fool around a bit…:wink:

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Oh yeah, after I’ve gone and done everything, then you’ll get around to it. Humfph.

:wink:

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Yep! And thanks, we DO appreciate your effort!

Now if you’ll excuse me, I must nap. :smiley:

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Poor DPR has to live with not 1 but 2 Type A, Anally Retentive people. It is a 3 ring circus to watch sometimes and they have just never got the message on why I bring pop-corn when I come and visit.