Mean Streak

I just want to say that seriously not everyone is mean. Getting annoyed and losing your temper is not something I would call being strictly mean. Meanness implies a kind of enjoyment or pleasure in treating someone badly, which I can honestly say I have never felt for longer than 5 minutes without experience terrible regret later.

That being said, I tend to lash out irrationally due to annoyance when I feel like people aren't listening to me or making an attempt to understand me. Like when people tell me what I'm thinking or feeling and they'll have none of my explanations. I also can't stand pride in the sense that someone really has contempt for certain kinds of people to the point where their behavior toward said people is intentionally uncharitable. This usually sounds something like, "so-and-so doesn't take care of his apparence, so he deserves to be treated like a second class human being." These are things that cause me to respond in a "mean" way.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Well, it's natural, yeah. I guess the difference between a "mean person" and someone who is occasionally mean is that the mean person really thinks that there is a situtation where meannness is actually appropriate or good behavior and will refuse to apologize for a certain act of meanness. Like, "he deserved it because he's a dick" or something.

There's nowhere I can't reach.