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350/365 # Let's go mofo
After you've read this you're either going to think I'm [a] weird, [b] petty and pendantic, [c] slightly unhinged or [d] all of the above.
Thing is, I got an earful from someone at work today about turning a light on. Just some random guy that seemed to take offence at me using the Council's precious electricity. And he was really pretty rude. Swear words were involved. Not that I'm prudish and dislike swearing, I think it's a cornerstone of language but when it's directed at me for no reason . . .
. . . so I stood there and laughed it off. Even though he carried on. And still I laughed it off. On the outside. On the inside I was thinking up ten ways of causing him pain. As he left the room he turned the light out, which I knew he would do because he's a dick. Of course on my way out I turned it back on, it was my small victory against assholes. Although it also proved that I'm just as much of a dick.
This is of course all very petty, and you might wonder why I'm dwelling on it so much. I'm wondering that too . . . I guess my point is that I'm one of those people that just can't tell anyone what I really think. I should've told him to do one, instead I just laughed and made out like I thought he was taking the piss. But these kind of incidents mount up, and the more I hide the frustration of not being able to speak out the more it eats away at me. It's past 9pm now and I'm still hung up on this. It pretty much ruined my day, just one asshole and a few words of so-called wisdom.
And the other point is, it seems to me like more and more people are like this, don't give a shit what they say, who they say it to - don't think far enough ahead to ask why someone did something (in my case - it looked dark, why else would I turn a light on?) and decide to turn on them without any idea of the details. OK, this is the most petty example of this ever maybe, but the small things have always bothered me the most, always have. And the way people treat others . . . I just have nothing but contempt for the human race sometimes.
So now you can vote for option [a], [b], [c] or [d] and tell me: how do you deal with the morons and assholes that infest this planet like lice?
The tears brushes I used.
Strobist info: SB600 to camera right at 1/4 power bounced off a door.
350/365 # Let's go mofo
After you've read this you're either going to think I'm [a] weird, [b] petty and pendantic, [c] slightly unhinged or [d] all of the above.
Thing is, I got an earful from someone at work today about turning a light on. Just some random guy that seemed to take offence at me using the Council's precious electricity. And he was really pretty rude. Swear words were involved. Not that I'm prudish and dislike swearing, I think it's a cornerstone of language but when it's directed at me for no reason . . .
. . . so I stood there and laughed it off. Even though he carried on. And still I laughed it off. On the outside. On the inside I was thinking up ten ways of causing him pain. As he left the room he turned the light out, which I knew he would do because he's a dick. Of course on my way out I turned it back on, it was my small victory against assholes. Although it also proved that I'm just as much of a dick.
This is of course all very petty, and you might wonder why I'm dwelling on it so much. I'm wondering that too . . . I guess my point is that I'm one of those people that just can't tell anyone what I really think. I should've told him to do one, instead I just laughed and made out like I thought he was taking the piss. But these kind of incidents mount up, and the more I hide the frustration of not being able to speak out the more it eats away at me. It's past 9pm now and I'm still hung up on this. It pretty much ruined my day, just one asshole and a few words of so-called wisdom.
And the other point is, it seems to me like more and more people are like this, don't give a shit what they say, who they say it to - don't think far enough ahead to ask why someone did something (in my case - it looked dark, why else would I turn a light on?) and decide to turn on them without any idea of the details. OK, this is the most petty example of this ever maybe, but the small things have always bothered me the most, always have. And the way people treat others . . . I just have nothing but contempt for the human race sometimes.
So now you can vote for option [a], [b], [c] or [d] and tell me: how do you deal with the morons and assholes that infest this planet like lice?
The tears brushes I used.
Strobist info: SB600 to camera right at 1/4 power bounced off a door.