Perhaps Today I Will Eat ALL My Friends

[handful_ofdust]

Okay. So here's the last thing I'll say on the matter.

What I wrote, I believe. If I didn't, I wouldn't have written it. But let's be hella-blunt, drop the cutesy, and name some actual names:

Charles and Hope don't like going to Charlene's party anymore, because more and more Diners are having kids and being gross enough to inflict them on the non-kid-having Diners. For some reason, they don't have the stones to pony up for a party of their own, so they approach Sarah and Andrew, knowing Andrew (while kid-friendly himself) is in no hurry to kid-proof his new digs. Sarah mentions it on her blog. I see it, feel myself lumped in with the yucky kid-havers, think it's shoddy generally considering Charlene's extended generousness, react, discuss my reaction. Charlene sees this, gets (rightfully) angry, leaves the Diners. Charles is "directed" to my entry, gets all huffy, feels smeared. Etc.

So I suppose that's the end of the story, not to mention my membership in the Diners, since I've single-handedly ruined their Christmas. Or have I? Could it be that when Charles and Hope chose to go behind Charlene's back, they ruined Christmas all by their lonesome?

Actions have consequences. I'll take mine. Do the same, or don't. Because we're all adults here, though it occasionally feels like only some of us have figured that part out yet.

Comments

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Okay, there's a club I have finally decided I'm not joining.

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

No, Leah, they're overwhelmingly good people, proportionately. A lot of them are far better than me. Maybe this is just what happens when geeks start getting old.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

That's unfortunate, then: it seems like there's a lot of needless drama in the air.

(I am allergic to needless drama.)

[(Anonymous)]

Gemma, you have my complete moral support on this. You're being too hard on yourself, with no justification. I hope to see you, Steve, and Cal on many occasions in future. Besides, we Diner parents have to stick together, since we're not the overwhelming majority that certain people seem to think.

Paul

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Thank you, Paul. I appreciate it. I'll be replying to your email soon.

And Livejournal must be destroyed

[(Anonymous)]

Great. Now Paul is involved? Man, this has gone completely out of control. Gemma, most of your so-called "facts" are erroneous.

And Livejournal must be destroyed.

- Charles

Re: And Livejournal must be destroyed

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

For someone who wants it destroyed, you sure do hang out here a lot. But what the hell:

1) The facts are the facts. Deal.

2) I'm a person you "barely talk to", right? So what do you care what I think, exactly?
3) Meanwhile, still not even vaguely considering you a friend anymore, so why don't you just screw off, and stay there? Thanks, ever so!

Re: And Livejournal must be destroyed

[(Anonymous)]

I'd rather never have heard of Livejournal, actually.

My point is that YOUR facts are not THE facts.

That's all, thanks. I'll screw off now.

And Live Journal must be destroyed.

- Charles

Re: And Livejournal must be destroyed

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

And this, my genuine friends, is yet another clear example of somebody just not getting it. To quote from the source: "Every word you write just makes it worse."

Re your last comment before the usual kiss-off drivel, BTW: Ya PROMISE?

Re: And Livejournal must be destroyed

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Oh, and when I say don't come back? I mean it. I'm assuming you're not too Luddite to understand the concept of being banned, right? No comment you bother to make, providing you're stupid enough to keep doing so, will ever appear in this journal again. Though the journal itself will just go merrily on and on, since LJ is not, in fact, likely to be destroyed. At least, not on the say-so of a pedantic little moron like you.