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read between the lines
re: space invader it's all finally coming to an end...the grandmonster is leaving tomorrow. after spending two weeks of her being in my face, it became clearer to me why i found her annoying:1) almost all of her comments and tales start off pretty innocently about her relating some encounter with someone, but they always have bad endings -- the type that leaves her audience looking at each other in widened eyes that silently signal i can't believe you just said that. she'll end up launching into some foul-mouthed hokkien-malay-english tirade about whoever it is that she encountered, or she'll say something incredibly either sexist, ageist, heterosexist, racist, anti-religionist or just downright mean and untrue about the person in question, be it a television character, stranger she met along the way, friend, brother, and daughter even. and she keeps calling my fourteen-year-old cataract-ridden and hard-of-hearing dog (him and the bear's birthdays were just this saturday) senile even though she can bother to mention that she gets angry whenever her neighbours call her senile. 2) i almost forgot that she has always been like this, even when she was younger. the only reason why the claws haven't come out between us is because i've kept mine retracted. it took a few days for me to be aware of this, but my reaction this time (instead of giving her a piece of my mind) has been passive-agressive: i either roll my eyes at the wall or the empty space next to her, or pretend i didn't hear her comment (especially the rude comments that are thinly disguised as 'jokes') or look as far out the window (away from her face) as i can if we're contained in a car. 3) it is possible that i might not have forgiven her even though i don't feel any hatred towards her when she isn't around. in any case, she's finally leaving. |
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