The topic for day 3 of the Blog Every Day In May challenge is
"What Makes You Uncomfortable....?"
My first response when considering this was "not much...!"
I kind of feel once you've been through childbirth & when you have children, it doesn't really matter if a situation or a person makes you uncomfortable, you simply have to deal with it.
As a mother I will stand up & deal with just about anything on behalf of my children, I am their advocate, their protector & their example.
Situations or issues that I might have previously ignored, I am now more likely to confront because I feel more conscious of doing the right thing.
But I thought hard and here are a few things that make me feel uneasy or uncomfortable....
1. Seating.....I always prefer to sit on the back row of the plane & I always take the aisle seat.
When my daughter was 6 months old we flew home from Spain once and my daughter screamed at full throttle for 60 whole minutes only stopping when we landed. We were in the front row of the plane & I could feel the furious and totally unsympathetic looks of the other passengers hitting my back! It's been back row all the way for us ever since.
At the cinema, I always take the aisle seat and make sure a friend sits on the other side of me....
maybe it's because we're in the dark but I don't like sitting next to strangers at the cinema.
More often than not, I cry at the movies....
I want to be amongst friends when that happens!
On the bus, my children always like to sit upstairs & front seat to get what they consider to be the best view....I always worry about who is sitting behind me, in case it just happens to be a knife-wielding maniac. I've read too many newspapers horror stories.
Actually, I am clearly quite uncomfortable about being seated in just the right place....
I never realised it until I wrote this!!
2. Being Overdressed or Underdressed - know the dress code & what an event requires, there's nothing worse than feeling you are wearing totally the wrong clothes for the occasion.
3. Violence - on screen or in the street
4. Rudeness - for example, in a restaurant towards waiting staff. I loathe this.
Everyone is just doing a job - and if you've ever worked as a waitress (I have), you will know that nothing is worse than being treated badly or talked down to.
5. Swearing - this makes me uncomfortable not just if I'm with my children but if I'm by myself too. There are many many words in the English language, do you really have to swear?
6. Drunkenness - by this, I mean total loss of control in a public place. It's not just embarrassing, it's very uncomfortable for those looking on.....no one wants or needs to see that.
And I say this as child who grew up seeing grown ups drunk....it's just not nice.
7. Speaking in public - I'm not good at it and, very possibly, it's only happened once in my life.
8. Being in a lift/elevator - I use them frequently but every single time I do, I have that split second thought of what happens if it breaks down.
9. Being unprepared - I do always prepare because I hate not being ready for things or having the things I need with me.
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