I am pretty sure I have written about my control freakiness before, so this should come as no surprise to anyone: I am a control freak.
I was watching Modern Family this week, and I totally identified with the mother character who ends up making cupcakes for her daughter because she has no faith in her ability to get anything done right; an awful trait which the daughter exploits to its full potential. I told my husband "that’s going to be me." Isn’t that awful?
The problem is that when I decide not to butt into people’s tasks, they seem to always let me down. At work, when the national leader of the affinity groups sent a message to our communications leader asking him to use the new branding banner for the organization (message in which I was CC’d), I fought the urge to forward that same email to the communications leader AGAIN immediately and just ask him to make sure it happens. Heck, the email was directed at him, and he MUST be responsible enough to comply, right? Wrong. He ended up sending out the exact same (old) banner in the following communication. And who got the reiterative email from the national leader? That’s right: moi.
Or it’s like today. I told my husband 3 times that the Basement Technologies guy was coming over at 4 and we should both be home for that. I told him while he slept, which was not fair, so I left him a written note, and then I called him and even told him to not even think of going to get a hair cut at 3:45, like I think he totally would. He thought it was funny. Well, I got home at 4 o’clock after having lunch with Tina Fey, and his car wasn’t there. So I called him and he said he was at Home Depot returning something, and next he’d be going to Walmart. I asked him if he remembered that he had to be home at 4pm, and he said he’d forgotten and would be on his way.
How am I supposed to stop being a control freak if other people just keep proving me right when I have no faith?
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