And ‘common sense’, ‘discrepancy’, ‘not being a fucktard’.
An hour ago I was super pissed but now I am not so pissed anymore. So this blog entry had the potential to be a lot funnier but I missed the boat. So instead of ultra-super-saiyan entertaining it’s gonna be just ultra-entertaining.
Why I was so super pissed was because of this scenario during dinner:
AUNT: Oh, guess what.
ME: What?
A: Everyone was talking about it today.
M: Huh?
A: At your work, I went down and everyone was talking about Sunday night.
M: What??
A: Yeah, *** was asking me why you didn’t invite them.
M: What???
A: In a jokey way. Calm down.
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So super pissed lor! So what happened Sunday that I had a small group of my work friends over for dinner. Five of us. I made some Korean bbq and it was a great time.
Thing is, I’d only invited the four people I chill with outside of work.
Come Tuesday morning (today), someone had told someone else at work that ‘oh, had a great time at Alex’s house etc’ and now everybody knows that I had this thing at my house and others weren’t invited.
Okay, before I start complaining, I’m gonna show you the reasons why this is NOT SUCH A BIG DEAL and why I should NOT BE SO ANGRY. To show you that I have the balance picture of things and I’m not being irrational about something not worth being angry about.
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- There are already a select group of people who hang out outside work and everyone else knows they hang out, so it’s no big deal. It’s simply because they are friends, not because they are excluding others
- We are all professionals at work, we are not in some high school clique situation
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My point is, one gives a fuck about who hangs out with whom, who went out with so-and-so last night and didn’t include others… because really, who the fuck cares???? WE ARE THERE TO MAKE MONEY FIRST AND MAKE FRIENDS SECOND.
But you know what? Let me now show you why I SHOULD be angry, and why this is putting ME in an uncomfortable situation.
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- Because going out to a bar together and going to someone’s house for dinner are two completely different things. Bar is Come One Come All but house is a lot more Invited
- Therefore, I am excluding people
- The excluded people are gonna come to me and demand to know why (YES, YES, IN A JOKEY WAY I KNOW, AND AT THE HEART OF IT NO ONE GIVES A DAMN) they weren’t invited
- I will have to cough and fake laugh and tell them that they are more than welcome for the second round
- I will feel like shit ’cause I am damn sensitive EVEN IF THE WHOLE THING IS IN A JOKEY WAY AND NO ONE REALLY GIVES A SHIT
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For the record, I DID think of inviting everyone but it was going to be too much work for me. I am only a bumbling, foolish, and unaccomplished 21 year old, I am not good at hosting dinner parties yet (dammit where got turned so old yet still so unaccomplished fml). And I DID genuinely want to invite the person who talked to the aunt, but they are in a different position in both work and life than I, so I thought they would not want to come anyway.
Now I will have to go in to work and they will ask me, and I will say that I did want to invite them but didn’t because I thought they wouldn’t want to come anyway, and it will have the smell of bullshit wafting around it even if it was the ge-nu-wyne truth. I HATEHATEHATE telling the truth and it seems so much like a lie. I get so frustrated and I feel like running around and shouting “WHY CAN’T YOU JUST GO INTO MY BRAIN AND READ THE TRUTH OREDI I FEEL SO DABDABHAE ROARR” but I do that and people will feel I am overreacting and crazy, therefore more of a liar.
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KNN I feel this baby’s anger
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What happened to the days when people WOULDN’T talk about this or that event in front of everybody else?? Fuck it I am not even angry at whoever it was that told at my work, because SO MANY people do this nowadays. I remember, it was last year sometime — similar situation with SEVERAL groups of my friends. A group of four and three of us were invited to some party, one was not. Of course, idiot fucker decides to bring up the conversation of the party. Another group of three, and one decides to start gossip about someone who was at some function with us, while the third person wasn’t. Someone talking at me about this time they met with people that I am ALSO mutual friends with, which I was most definitely NOT called out for.
What the fuck is it with people, got no one has discrepancy? No one is discreet? Do you seriously NEED to talk about that event RIGHT NOW, when there is a third person here??
Why can they not keep their fucking mouth shut because it may, you know, HURT THE OTHER’S PERSON’S FEELINGS???
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Okay maybe I am not the person to lecture about discrepancy, after all I am making a public blog and hollering about things when people would rather not listen to the latest thing that’s pissed me off…
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But still. I do not go around telling this or that person that your mutual friend and I did this thing together which we didn’t invite you to. I find it FUCKING rude and I HATE being that third person. You feel so damn awkward while the other bitches are yakking away about and if you can’t slink away, you have to stand there listening to them talk, while they don’t even acknowledge you for that time being.
Then the talk about that exclusive event ends, and conversation once again swells out to include you, poor little sucker whom no one invites. Then you stumble back into the conversation, and god forbid you make a little dig about the event that’s happening to you. Because you will only get one of two reactions. Both of which are EXCRUCIATINGLY EMBARRASSING:
“Ohmigod, actually, you should come too. You should definitely come, I’m sure they just forgot you on the guestlist.”
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“Oh… um… well, I mean, only a certain number of people can come, and you don’t know the others that well, and like… sorry…. [awkward silence]“
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What the fuck man. The first reaction makes you into a self-invited loser and the second is rejecting you outright. Both are tragic.
This scenario could be avoided most times if people just used their head and respected COMMON FUCKING COURTESY, by not talking about events that a third person is excluded from.
I don’t remember people being like this. Seriously, it’s a trend, it’s a bloody trend. It can’t be that people are just getting more and more STUPID and SENSELESS as the years go by, is it? I think I will blame it at least partially on our internet age, on facebook, on twitter, on all those media sharing sites. People are now so used to sharing all their information with people, all the pictures go online for everyone to see, talking about this or that event is so out in the open now. So people are now talking about everything and fuck it if other people didn’t know. People don’t know how to be discreet anymore.
No it can’t be just facebook and the like, people are also getting damn stupid and insensitive these days as well. It’s an epidemic.
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Now, it may seem like I am just a whiny bitch who is sour grapes about not being well-liked enough to be invited, boo hoo. Let me break it down.
I am NOT saying that everyone should invite each other. I am just asking for people to have a little COMMON SENSE, and to judge differences between events where a third person wouldn’t care about being excluded from, and where a third person would care about being excluded from.
If you and I had a mutual friend and you two went out together without telling me, I wouldn’t mind. But if you guys had a party with others and they all were also mutual friends, I will be hurt. See the difference in situation there?
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Maybe I am the only one taking this shit seriously and I am a sensitive twit with my head stuck up my ass. I don’t know, perhaps you hip people think it is loser to get angry about something so trivial. But I think this is basic, universal manners. And far too little people have manners these days.
















