I have been scolding inanimate objects.

[snarp]

Because I'm tired and irritable due to disease, and I'm also covered in small poorly-trained dogs whenever I stop moving for a couple seconds, so I've been spending a lot of time engaged in scolding of small things.

So,

*I lose my grip on the jar lid and it falls on the floor*

"NO! BAD!"

*dogs rush over to look at me anxiously, jump on my legs; I leave the jar lid on the floor because I cannot bend over; dogs later deliver it to me in chewed-up form*

A second ago I noticed I was almost out of tea and thought about making more. I get dizzy when I reach up into the kitchen cabinets right now, and the tea stuff's up in the cabinets, so I thought in mulish manner, "Not until those cabinets learn to behave themselves."

Comments

[harvey_rrit]

I live with someone who does this.
I do not do this.
I do not have anywhere near the trouble with inanimate onjects that she has.
I conclude they A ) can hear us, and B ) hold grudges.