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Re: Life is full of difficult choices, for example having a Nervous Break Down vs. Being Charged with Aggrivated Battery (WARNING: Bad Experience VENT!)
From: Susan (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri, 30 Jun 2000 06:55:18 -0500 (CDT)
UGH! What is WITH people nowadays? I would have said "Well, Mr.
Smartypants, you know what? I can lose weight, but YOU will always be an
ugly snot-nosed little punk!" See how he liked them apples.....
sorry that two teenyboppers had to ruin your otherwise good night. :)
PS- I am afraid I would have picked choice #1. You know how those mood
swings are.....
At Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Ginger wrote:
>
>Hi all. First off, let me thank you for responding to my earlier
>message regarding my speech. Your stories mean so much to me and have
>made me feel a lot better than I was a few minutes ago (before I read
>them). I had such a crappy thing happen to me today. If you're brave
>enough, read on.
>
>I had my class tonight and we discussed our ideas for topics (mine being
>PCOS). It went really great. My professor and a lot of the students
>seemed very interested and asked a lot of questions. My speech isn't
>for another 2 weeks, but they seemed genuinely receptive and were very
>supportive. Well, I was feeling really good about that and on my way
>home went through the Taco Bell drive-thru for dinner. It was already
>after 8:00PM and I knew I could get a taco salad without chips and do ok
>carb-wise. So, I order my salad & a diet Pepsi. When I get to the
>window, there are 2 kids working, both boys about 16-17 yrs. old. I
>pay for my order and then one of them hands me my soda saying "Here's
>your (yells) DIET! Pepsi, I don't think THAT'S gonna help!!!" Then, he
>and the other guy start laughing hysterically. My heart dropped to my
>stomach. Immediately, I figured I had 3 choices:
>1. Reach my arm through the window, pull the little punk out by the
>throat and beat the snot out of him.
>2. Go inside and demand to talk to his manager. (heck, it was Taco
>Bell, he looked about 17 - he could've BEEN the manager!)
>3. Ignore him.
>
>I chose #3. I was in such shock I could barely think. I then proceded
>to drive home, alternating between uncontrolable sobbing and cursing
>like a sailor. I really wish I would have DONE something. And now I'm
>mad at myself for letting him get away with it! How dare some stranger
>step into my life for a matter of seconds and jerk my happiness away
>from me!!!!! UUUGGGGHHHH!!! I had a 30 mile drive home, and by the time
>I got here I felt like I was going to throw up. My husband thought I
>had been in an accident or something. I still feel sick and ended up
>throwing the salad in the garbage. So, now I'm having a sugar crash
>too!! But, I feel like if I try to eat it's not going to stick around
>for long. (Sorry about all the graphics, I tried to warn you!)
>
>So anyway, I am starting to feel better now just because I wrote it
>down. I read Paula's post to my earlier message and it about broke my
>heart because I know that she and I aren't the only ones who have been
>tormented like this. Sometimes people are so mean it makes me want to
>pack up my family and move into a cave somewhere. I swear that if
>anyone ever says something so cruel to my children they will have he**
>to pay! I grew up going through crap like this - I paid my dues, now I
>wish people would leave me alone!!!!
>
>Ok, if you made it through this mini-novel, thank you. I just had to
>get all of this out of me, and I feel like you wonderful, beautiful,
>brilliant ladies are the only ones who could possibly understand how I
>feel.
>
>Thanks for being here. I love you all.
>Goodnight,
>Ginger
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Susan Livingston
Allentown, PA
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