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< not taking the right medicine | posted at 3:01 pm on October 06, 2003 > i'm doing well, aren't i? updating and stuff? applaud, applaud...anyway i have been very sporadically email swapping with tracy, with whom the relationship i have is fragile and has a long history, but anyway. i still email swap her occasionally, is the point of that sentence. her last email had something about her 'unfortunate luck with fines', the fact that she got zero out of five on a test ('never failed a test before, and that's failing with style'), and who she wants to work for next year as part of her cadetship scheme thing. my reply had the following in it.. 'i wouldn't necessarily call your fine history 'unfortunate', i would just call it damn SILLY!!!i mean, i'm obviously a shit driver, i crashed the car for god's sake, but slow to 60 on those speed cameras and gittin the right lane for tolls... tsk tsk tsk ... nuh. i'd rather get 2 out of 5. but, if i were you, i'd say it was an absent fail. not like you couldn't DO the stuff, just that you had BETTER things to do. like sit at home, and watch passions, or whatever daytime soap was on at that time. now THAT'S the most respected 0. anyway, if it was out of 5 it shouldn't count for much, no?' is that insulting? rude? does the fact that i found it annoying that she calls everything her 'unfortunate luck' and never anything her fault come through? she always blames the things that happen to her to someone else. she got zero on a test. whatever, she didn't study, that's her own fault. she gets speeding fines, ok, well, slow down! and it annoyed me when she explained what some of the companies that she wants to work for does - i'm not stupid - 'Unilever (makes food and soaps and stuff), or Procter and Gamble (hair products, pringles, etc)' (DUH) so i reply: i'm insulted that you don't think i know what unilever and procter and gamble are! tsk tsk! huh! of course i know what they are..... '... again, again to the point: her next reply: 'sarah, where's your tact? sensitivity? do you think i wanted to get 0?? the others were trying to make me feel better. it quite seemed like your email was streaked with comments on how clumsy/silly/pathetic i am. have you forgotten what i'm like? these are all just normal occurrences in a day in the life of trace!' i haven't forgotten what she's like... i'm just a little sick of her blaming all her 'bad luck' on it being, well, bad luck. (and the only comments i made were the above anyway, which i kind of made some sort of dry joke about, but maybe she took it all the wrong way, or right way, depending on how you'd like to look at it). i might wait a bit before replying, her comment made me annoyed, only because she IS clumsy/silly/pathetic and if she wanted to stop getting fines or low marks in tests she could very well easily do it, she's a smart girl - it only just occurred to me how much she whined and complained and blamed all of her 'normal occurrences in a day in the life of trace' on everyone BUT 'trace'. i mean, the way we look at things is completely different - if i got low marks on an exam (which is completely hypothetical as i haven't done an exam since the hsc anyway) but if i did, i'd think 'how stupid of me not to have studied more'. she thinks 'how could this happen to me?' there is my completely boring rant. does anyone else find these sorts of people annoying? those last five |