Daily Archive for January 30th, 2007

Stepping On My Toes

Published on January 30, 2007 in For the Record. 3 Comments

Stepping On My Toes

There’s a store that a I frequent where everything is one dollar. I get cleaning supplies there and paper products. As with other places I go I know the cashiers and stuff and we talk and mess around and everything. Well, a guy that works there wants to hug me. That doesn’t work. I’m not a touchy feely person. Two times now he’s tried to hug me. The last time I left the store I was shaking inside. I couldn’t catch my breath so I stepped outside while Blossom got her stuff. Today, that guy, the worker in the store, said I was evil because I didn’t hug him. I just passed it off. I use the word evil all the time and most of the time I don’t mean it in it’s literal form but later in the store when he passed me he told his manager I was a piece of trash and to kick me out of the store. It seems odd that someone would say that about a person, especially to their manager. This guy is mild MR and I understand that he is trying very hard to get to know Blossom and me but today’s comment was overboard. It hurt. It was not what I needed to hear.

Therapy went okay. I still feel rather raw inside which is why I think it hurt so much to be called trash. I know he wasn’t trying to be mean. I kinda know the guy, only from working there so I know he isn’t a cruel guy. It’s just that I wish he’d chosen different words, at least today anyway. And yeah, I am making excuses for him. I worked with mildly mentally retarded (MR) to profound mentally retarded adults so I know that his actions were not something others would do. Who actually says to their supervisor, “she’s trash, throw her out of here?” so my point is, even though his words hurt he did not do so with malice. He wants human connection so he wants me to hug him. I can’t and won’t offer him that. I made that clear which is probably why he replied, “you’re so evil.”

When a person steps on your toes it hurts. Even if they didn’t mean to the pain is still there. So I guess what I’m trying to say is even though he did not set out to hurt my feelings he still did.

I have to go to sleep now

Maureen

WordPress Purgatory

Published on January 30, 2007 in Soapbox and Stupid People. 2 Comments

I guess I’m spamming myself now! I tried to leave a comment on two blogs today and ended up having my email sent to their spam box. I logged out and sent a comment to my own blog and guess what, that comment went straight to my spam box. This is crazy! What I’m spamming my own blog or something? I’m sending myself fake comments about this that and the other? Good Lord, maybe one of my insiders has a part-time spam job I don’t know about. They better be getting paid for it too or their efforts will be met with strict verbal assaults describing with clear but very un-Christian descriptions of what I’ll do to them if they don’t start making money at this illegal activity. I hate to break the leg of an alter but if I’m pushed to it then so be it. (pointing finger at my nose) DON’T MAKE ME COME IN THERE!

Now why would WordPress have me on the spam list? My goodness! I’ve never done that to anybody. But then ya know, the other day I left a comment on a blog back to back and got one of those error messages from the usually funny error message guy that said to slow down I was commenting too fast. Argh! What? That might be where all this trouble is coming from, I had the nerve to leave 2 comments on a blog that I’ve commented on before. When I didn’t ask her to buy something that is surely to change her life forever the WP program should have released me from the cursed spam category. But nope, they had to do that blogger profiling (that’s the new racial profiling only for bloggers.) They had to profile me like that and now I’m on some list someplace. So, I hope my blogger buddies (the ones I visit regularly who know I’m not a scum spammer)..I hope they check their spam box to recover me from spam purgatory or I’ll get trashed and that comment will spend eternity in spam hell. Oh, won’t someone save my poor blogger soul from spam damnation? Why, why me? I even had to recover my own comment for this entry.

Aussie