You know what a big pet peeve of mine is? When people say, "Well, if it makes you feel any better..." and then usually proceed to explain how they're going through a situation that is far worse than mine. Let me disclaim that I completely understand the rationale for saying that, and trying to show me that I'm not that bad off. But 1. why would it make me feel better to know that someone else is suffering? and 2. yo why you gotta trump me? I just want to wallow for a second, not have my problems trivialized in light of someone else's.

Let's take it up a notch to stress my point:

Person #1: "I'm hungry."
Person #2: "If it makes you feel any better, there are kids in third world countries who are starving to death."
Person #1: "Oh okay. I guess I'm not hungry anymore."

or

Person #1: "I have to run 11 miles this weekend I'm crying just thinking about it."
Person #2: "If it makes you feel any better, there are people out there with no legs at all."
Person #1: *cries*

Incidentally, I do have to run 11 miles this weekend, but the weather is proving to be a huge inconvenience for me. We got a real teaser of a nice few couple days - last night I ran a sixer in shorts and was outside til around 8:30 feeling completely comfortable. And tomorrow and Saturday the forecast is accumulating snow. What the hell.

So now that it's crunch time and I can't fall behind in training because the race is a month away, I have to constantly be rethinking my schedule because the FREAKING weather can't make up its mind.

And no, it will not make me feel better to know that anyone in the world is experiencing anything having to do with cold weather.