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yurble
Bump for no reason other than I was re-reading this thread and felt like it. (Searching through the archives trying to find something else without success, so you get this instead.)
I hear ya, I'm always looking for things to read. I got a load of new books at the Library today!
Speaking of which / sim to this topic - YOU didn't do anything wrong - but people are pissed at YOU for THEIR fuck up?
One book I wanted, while the Librarian was 'checking me out' - she says to me - OH, this isn't in the system. You can't take this out. Got pissy with me over THEIR fuck up?
Sigh.
Then said worker said to me -
Unless you want to wait while I contact 'tech support'.
Ill Tempered as I may come off here - I'm actually a pretty 'low key' or 'laid back' type person. I let ALOT of stuff slide. So I said to this woman - OK, I'll wait. Because 'Time Management' and I wanted to get everything I planned to do, done. I don't run around like a Moo with their head cut off, running willy nilly and wasting time going back and forth.
They did get it done in a few minutes and I was able to check out the book. No big deal.
Used to be "Reading Is Fundamental" - now it's a HUGE bureaucracy, and with all their new 'systems' - supposedly to make it
easier -Yeah. Right. Eyeroll.
On the topic here - of - Moo was HURT! by a kid's *personal choice* ~
I was reminded of something - my Mom getting all panty bunched and up in arms over - something that doesn't even affect her at all. As I mentioned here before - all of my relatives have been married, divorced, and remarried Nth times. I don't even know WHO I'm really 'related to'.
So 'Some Cousin's Boy' - which may not even be 'related' to us - got a DUI for
smoking weed. Not even boozing, and weed wears off fast enough - so how DUMB can you be?
So my Mom calls me up to tell me this and goes into much hand wringing and pearl clutching and says - I can't believe it! And - Oh, how this HURTS me!
Seriously? You barely even KNOW these people and we're technically not even related to them - at all. Oh but she's HURT and practically in tears over this.
On the flip side - I could be attacked by Bigfoot and she'd say it was *my fault*.
Which reminds of something I was thinking of too, and meant to tack onto some other topic here -
My parents - were rather 'Conformist'. You did not
dare 'step out of line' - 'being WILD' - meant you MIGHT be allowed to listen to a Led Zeppelin song on the Classic Rock radio station, in the garage. And of course - GIRLS shouldn't do that.
The strange thing to me is - their Conformist ways - did not even work -
for them.So
why? Try to promote the same -
which did not work FOR YOU - onto us?
Shizz is not even working -
for you.But they tried to make us - even
more Conformist.
It's weird, this mindset.
I see it reflected in various 'politics' too - esp. US. Instead of loosening up - they clamp down further - which they already know does not work. And in fact makes people go farther 'in the other direction'. Goes to 'culture' too.
How strange is this?
It's really weird - esp. for someone who 'never did anything wrong' (according to them) anyway.
I have no tattoos or piercings. I am a boring person.
I am yet still
wrong ~ somehow ~ / never good enough.
I thought these people had 'calmed down' somewhat, most even switched to voting for Democrats.
Yet they still have huge sticks up their asses and I am somehow - WRONG.
And I don't have any tattoos or piercings or anything.
?
Maybe because I'm not a Follower Clone - like them. But - that DID NOT work out for then - so why continue to push it?
My Parents - who were 'kinda weird' and 'hard partiers' - for some reason I'm supposed to be June Cleaver? And they tried that, failed - but I'm supposed to?
The fuck is this?
Oh and after I heard not only my Mom. but most female relatives, bitching on about how 'Men are no good' / All Assholes - I heard that day in and day out.
But for some reason I should become a Suburban Soccer Mommy. And they
admire WORSHIP - those that did. Who - now that my 'peer group' of relatives are 'Middle Aged' - 90% of these are divorced - but somehow
I'm wrong?And I should still strive to be June Cleaver.
I was SO HURT! by this boy *smoking WEED!* Do you even know who this person IS?
My Relatives.
GAH