The title of this entry isn't actually a question, it's just a lyric from Alice in Chains' Would?, which I just heard on KROQ for the first time in years.

I needed to sing along with that in the car, though, 'cause I was starting to get a little frustrated.


Why, you ask? Because some days women drive me fucking insane. In general, I can't deal with people getting emotionally distressed on me and women are the people who do it around me more than most.

I understand stress. I understand not feeling well. I understand things not going the way they're supposed to and I certainly understand not having enough money. I get it, I do. But I simply don't get emotional meltdowns. I don't mean simple flare-ups on being whiney or angry or whatever. I mean the slow degeneration that leads to crying, depression, and angry outbursts that lead to more crying and depression.

More importantly than not getting them, of course, is not being able to handle them. I just can't. So I stand there or sit there and am just quiet. I can't say anything to make it better. I can't do anything to make it better, except maybe fix what I can fix in a given situation and that's a hit-or-miss proposition at best, because woe to the man who tries to fix a woman's problem with anything even remotely approaching logic.

I can't deal with it. I hate it, I hate it, I fucking hate it and nothing makes me think a given relationship of any type isn't worth the trouble than riding through someone's impending meltdown.

I think I'm done for the moment.