Surprise and Bother

Let’s be honest, life isn’t always cheery and people aren’t always nice. They just aren’t. As much as I have debated writing about this on my blog, I figured why not? I won’t name any names, at least this person doesn’t read my blog anyways.

I have two things that really surprise and bother me about people. Flat out LYING and being RUDE. Two qualities this person posseses. I know, I need to let it go… But this happens so often and I am tired of it. So here is what got me fired up today –

This “open house” tonight that Shawna and I are holding – we are excited, we know not everyone in the world is excited about digital scrapbooking, but hey, we wanna spread the joy. I made it clear in an email out to many, many people, if this is something you are NOT interested in, simply tell me and I won’t bug you again about it. I never heard back from this person so I figured I’d invite her to the gig tonight. I’ll mention she never RSVP’d for tonight until yesterday with a “I can’t make it Tuesday nite due to a prior sports commitment.” Fine, can’t make it – no prob…

Fast forward to today at Jack’s preschool “closing program” for the 4 year olds. I will say it was nice of this person to see when it was and to come, yes it was. But when we saved her seats and she didn’t even acknowledge we were sitting there – ok, that’s the way this is going to be played. I get up during the program to video tape off to the side of the church sanctuary and look to say hello quietly, she’s balancing her checkbook. Ok, fine. I look over again to smile and at least mouth “hello,” and she looks away from me as if I’m some kind of freak that’s scary. OK.

The program wraps up and the kids get their little diplomas and out the sanctuary we head. We see her in the hallway and stop to ask, “do you wanna join us for lunch? We are just going to run to McD’s.” The response (and you had to be there for the tone, but you can imagine), “WELL if you would have asked me SOONER maybe we’d think about it! But we can’t, we already have plans. We have a standing play date on Tuesdays at 11:30a.” Ok. So we say “see ya later,” to which she responds, “ohh, you won’t see us later today, we have a day with no sports today so no games.” HUH, that’s funny…

All of this to say, and I apologize if I shouldn’t be telling you all this but it really irks me. Just constant in my face “TURD chick.” But as we pulled outta McD’s, I thought to myself and repeated the same to Erk, “the Devil is laughing so hard that this is bothering me so much. He wants to ruin my day.” And it’s true! So perhaps I’m further humoring him by sharing my little true story, but I will say to that, screw you Devil and screw you CHICK!