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: Dawn (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri, 30 Jun 2000 21:39:19 -0500 (CDT)
At Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Samantha wrote:
>
Ginger-
Also try to remember that whatever negative things people put out always
have a way of magnifying and returning to them...so in time they will
get theirs. And in time you will get yours...positive happy things :-)
So smile hon..and be happy again!!!
--
Dawn
>Ginger
>What a sh**y thing to happen. Try to take solace from the fact that we all
>know you to be a beautiful, intelligent and wonderful person who contributes
>so much to all our lives - and remember that he is just a half witted moron
>and his own mother probably doesnt want to own him.
>We love you
>*hugs*
>SamP
>
>>----- Original Message -----
>From: Ginger <anonymous@obgyn.net>
>To: Multiple recipients of list PCOS <anonymous@obgyn.net>
>Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 4:23 AM
>Subject: Life is full of difficult choices, for example having a Nervous
>Break Down vs. Being Charged with Aggrivated Battery (WARNING: Bad
>Experience VENT!)
>
>> 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
>>
--
Be well and good luck everyone!
Dawn
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