Dear Matt,
My husband is super passive aggressive. When I want to talk to him he goes to the bathroom and locks the door. What can I do to get him to be more direct?
Tiffany
Dear Tiffany,
A couple days ago, my daughter, Faith, and I were driving back to Jackson Hole, Wyoming (now know as Jackson), after visiting the Grand Tetons and watching Old Faithful blow her top at Yellowstone National Park.
It was still light out when the 98-mile ride into town began, and at the halfway point I recall seeing the words “ANIMAL MIGRATION” on a yellow sign. While reading it I wondered, Why not show an image of the animals that are migrating so that people who can neither think in or read “American,” which includes some Americans, can comprehend the threat?
About 20 miles outside of town, when it was now plenty dark, two trucks pulled over to the side of the road with their lights still on.
What are they doing? I thought.
That’s when we saw a small herd of about 30 bison, hanging out in an outdoor lavatory of green grass with fresh air.
A second after I passed by, the bison migrated – and fast. They went from dawdling to aggressively sprinting across the road.
My daughter and I were refreshed, alarmed, and grateful that these bison were passively aggressive toward us instead of confrontationally aggressive.
Animals in the wild are an awesome sight to behold, as far as human beings lives are concerned, when they are “passive aggressive.” In fact, I prefer that all the grizzly bears, mountain lions, moose, elk and bison act this way whenever I am around.
The results are much better when we stay out of one another’s way.
There’s so much more we can focus on and get done, and I suppose the same goes for the animals, when we leave one another alone.
Nature loves to vacuum what comes out of us in a restroom.
Matt Furey
