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Hate me already!
by effenheimer at 10:19 AM on September 22, 2003
The same boss who called me a piece of shit is being unusually nice to me all of a sudden. I think his near miss with cancer has made him decide that I am either not such a bad guy or that he is going to kick the living shit out of me and he wants me to be as surprised as I can possibly be.
If you don't hear from me for a couple of months, assume that I am dead. Tell my mother I love her and call Psychic John Edwards to see if he can find out where my dead, bloated corpse has been dismembered and buried.
Either way, its getting very hard to maintain a grudge. You know, hate me or not, I don't really give a shit, just be consistent, you know? Give me something consistent to deal with, is that too much to ask for?
I can take a good deal of abuse, it's the mind-fucking I really hate. Of course, that is just another kind of abuse, isn't it?
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plus, if he does hate you...you can't be a total prick back because he had a life threatening disease, and we live in a padded culture where that grants indemnity. lousy prick.
by lajoie at September 22, 2003 11:34 AM
Eff, Lajoie, there is a salesman here at work who is such an abrasive ass that you want to kill him a minute into any conversation. He's also rude and demeaning to everyone around him. That being said, he now has cancer and walks around with a cane and no hair. Thing is, he's still as much of an ass as he was before the illness. For the first couple of months I bit my tongue and let him have his way. That got old very quickly and now I treat him like the dick he is. I feel bad sometimes but he doesn't deserve my sympathy, in my opinion, as long as he continues to act like a shit. While everyone else tiptoes around him here I call him an asshole to his face, when he deserves it. I'm going to hell probably.
by Ezy at September 22, 2003 12:44 PM
the way you treat other people is your legacy, in sickness and in health. and sick or not...unless you change, no one else should feel responsible to. i think you're in the clear, ezy.
by lajoie at September 22, 2003 2:11 PM
Well, that's good to hear Lajoie. I do feel bad for the bastard sometimes though. Oh well, you reap what you sow.
by Ezy at September 22, 2003 3:19 PM
There was this guy at my last job who used to call me either "Sweaty" (bc I was after walking to work every day) or "Darlin" (because he thought his condescension was charmin'). He was one of those sell-anyone-out-to-brown-nose-the-boss kind of vermin. He even looked rodential, was the scary part...
by Linz at September 22, 2003 4:07 PM
and he lived in the rodential district...
by lajoie at September 22, 2003 4:18 PM
It will never replace Asshat but I sure have taken a shine to "rodential." And indemnity, immunity, what the hell it's all the same in the end.
by anna at September 22, 2003 5:32 PM
well i was thinking that the disease was providing a security against such damage as normally could be inflicted upon a non sickly bastard. but immunity's probably a better fit. bust my balls editor anna....
by lajoie at September 22, 2003 7:30 PM
I look at it this way, unless one does something to redeem themselves, it doesn't matter. Change your life, change your attitude. One of the big ball bustings I incurred was apparently right in the middle of his series of chemo treatments. i said, I don't give a fuck if he's got cancer or not, i don't remember anyone being concerned if the undo stress of calling me a piece of shit to my face was going to exacerbate my diabetes, which it did. My life is not worth less than some fat rich white asshole.
that's right, I said white ... and fat ... and asshole.
I can't tell you how many phoney fucks came up to me like _I_ was the bad guy for saying things like "I don't know what he's doing to lose weight, but I sure hope he keeps it up." Yet it's OK to call me a piece of shit because I don't like being accused of shit I never did by some anonymous fuck who probably just doesn't like me because I think gay marriage should be legal or because "I'm so popular and I think I'm so hot" or whatever the excuse to fuck with me is these days.
Let's just say, once a dude is in the ground, those left behind get the last word. Besides, what IS desecration really?
by eff at September 23, 2003 4:01 PM
My dad died of cancer. All his life he was a drinker and usually pretty amiable. But sometimes he'd get an ornery hair up his ass and people have scars to prove it (mine aren't from that.) When it turned terminal they put him on high doses of morphine and he quit drinking and mellowed out. I so enjoyed talking to him during those last months. One day I'll post about one of the most amazing men ever.
by anna at September 23, 2003 5:50 PM
My Mom died of cancer also Anna. She was the sweetest, most amazing woman I have met to date. Maybe one day I too may write a post about how she touched so many people's lives and raised a very difficult child to become a good person. It scares me to post something like that because I'm not sure my literary skills could do her justice. We'll see though.
by Ezy at September 24, 2003 9:08 AM
Hey, as I predicted, Eff has a new thumbnail! I like it.
by anna at September 25, 2003 5:26 PM
is it shiny and painted red? maybe eff has more in common with the ladies in chinatown than even he knows...as they clip, clip away at their new thumbnails everyday on the bus.
between that and all the OLD ladies spittin' lugies, i'm permanently grossed out around here
i know. i bet you didn't even think it possible.
by lajoie at September 25, 2003 6:04 PM
it isnt too shabby if i do say so myself, the photographer is a talented boy who caught me off guard after i came back from a gallery premiere where i thought I'd do a little alt. country cowboy hat action on top of my black funeral home bowling shirt. too cool.
by eff at September 26, 2003 4:23 PM
it isnt too shabby if i do say so myself, the photographer is a talented boy who caught me off guard after i came back from a gallery premiere where i thought I'd do a little alt. country cowboy hat action on top of my black funeral home bowling shirt. too cool.
by eff at September 26, 2003 4:31 PM
eff, with all due respect to anna, you might be up for the best picture award in '03/'04.
ummm..but not best documentary.
by lajoie at September 26, 2003 5:26 PM