He becomes, on the next occasion, still more demanding or gracious, as the case may be. Still the play does not suit him. Admitting he may be somewhat at fault, he is sure that other people are more to blame. ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition (Kindle Locations 1010-1011).

When it doesn’t go right, we balk, wanting to rub the show,
certain we can. It’s not for lack of trying, for missing self-confidence,
surely we can do this, we’re smart, capable folk, but if it weren’t
for the people who get in our  way, who block our path!
Why won’t they do the tight thing? Haven’t we explained it well,
and often? Good grief! The answer is to give up! To surrender.
When we can imagine a power greater than we are and turn over
our ill and our lives, suddenly that power is ours and life works!