Sunday, May 06, 2007

Why don't the HP heads move anymore??? Weird. First they didn't, then they did and now they've stopped again. Oy...

Stop being squashable? If only it were that easy! Squashable has been a companion for a long time...
Astrologically (not that I believe in it) Scorpios are supposed to be introverted (check!), active (sort of check if I weren't so flamin' tired all the time) and mean or "not very nice" (this is the question). What if I'm not very nice and the only way I have of being nice is to let people squash me?
Ain't not got no compassion: if someone falls down and the shopping spreads out => it's H-I-L-A-R-I-O-U-S!!! Woman walking in the street and the heel breaks off her shoe => even MORE H-I-L-A-R-I-O-U-S. It's called "Schadenfreude" in German. There is no word for it in English. It sort of translates as "malicious joy". Usually you take pleasure in other people's misfortune. There is a limit though: guy getting brains blow out => ewwww. Old woman falling down => NOT FUNNY!!!
If someone tells you a sad story what the heck do you say to console them? Rubbish at that. "Sorry, you were saying? I fell asleep..." is not the thing to say nor is "Stop that crying already! I hate all this moaning and moping around.'' Not that I would. Actually it would be funny to insert that into a script once.
Getting back to "being squashable". It started in the little school already. We had to do exercises and once we had finished we had to show the teacher so she could correct them. Her desk was at the BACK of the classroom. We had to queue up whilst she was correcting. People would keep asking whether they could "overtake" me and like an idiot I said yes. I always ended up waiting ages. How stupid is that??? "No" was not part of my vocabulary...
It might have been an “avoiding conflict” mechanism. To avoid a bad situation, you comply...
The only time I really did something about it was on the way back from Rome in the night train. This annoying girl, whom I really disliked, asked whether she could swap compartments with me because there was a teacher in hers. That was about the last straw! You don't go exchanging people like you go replacing bulbs or batteries!!! So I said no.
Talking about that annoying girl. She was really horrible and hateable (TM). Anyhow, dreamt about here in the Seychelles. She was coming into this bathroom and I walked into her. I said sorry and then "bitch". Wish I had in real life!
Moving on: "squashable" isn't going to leave yet. Maybe "squashablisms" are being confused with acts of kindness?
Well so much for that. Unfortunately there are many advantage-takers about, so it's bad being squashable!

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