Calculate, verb: compute, work out, reckon, figure; add up/together, count up, tally, total, tote, tot up, intend, mean, aim, design, expect, count on, anticipate, reckon on, bargain on, figure on.
Dire, adjective: terrible, dreadful, appalling, frightful, awful, atrocious, grim, alarming; grave, serious, disastrous, calamitous, ruinous, hopeless, irretrievable, wretched, desperate, parlous, urgent, desperate, pressing, crying, sore, grave, serious, extreme, acute, drastic, ominous, gloomy, grim, dismal, unpropitious, inauspicious, unfavorable, pessimistic.
Erratic, adjective: unpredictable, inconsistent, changeable, variable, inconstant, irregular, fitful, unstable, turbulent, unsettled, changing, varying, fluctuating, mutable; unreliable, undependable, volatile, spasmodic, mercurial, capricious, fickle, temperamental, moody.
I calculate the mood
Of the people around me
Will they go off like powder kegs
Is it a dire situation?
Are they acting erratic?
For I have learned
That some people are volatile
Scary and overpowering
It is better to diffuse them
With kind words
Apologies meaning nothing
Though they know that not
Then to let them
Explode with anger
Harming me or others
©Sheilagh Lee November 2 2016
People like that are best avoided. However in a work situation it becomes unworkable!
ReplyDeleteQuite true Old Egg
ReplyDeleteThere are certain people who deserve to be ignored. But, sometimes it's difficult to ignore for they are close ones....what to do then, I wonder!
ReplyDeleteI find calmness works. If you're calm and gentle they are too
ReplyDeleteIt is better to diffuse them
ReplyDeleteWith kind words
Some people are just unreasonable. One would have to give way if the outcome is not material.
Hank
so true Hank
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