Sometimes I have to fight hard to resist the urge that wants me to do nasty, spiteful things to people. To post anonymous comments on blogs, asking if they think people actually care what the food they ate on the weekend looked like, up close and macro-style, or tell the fashion bloggers the pose they insist on doing has its own piss-take website. To make snarky comments on grammar, about how plurals don't need apostrophes (photo's!) or to email them an edited version of their post with all the mistakes and changes highlight in red. And in bold. Sometimes when I'm in a clothes shop, I want to push all the neatly folded t-shirts onto the floor or to let the clothes fall off the hanger onto the floor and walk away without making any effort to pick them out. I like to imagine what kind of noise a wine bottle would make as I gripped its neck and smashed it into the sharp edge of a brick wall, or what it would feel like to run my key along the length of a shiny and expensive car. To tell someone to piss off and carefully watch their face as their expression changes, taking in what I've just said.
I don't do these things though because I'm not a sociopath or an arsehole. But sometimes, I'm tempted.
**Edit: I feel I should point out I don't want to make snarky comments any of your blogs; I don't follow blogs which annoy me.
**Edit: I feel I should point out I don't want to make snarky comments any of your blogs; I don't follow blogs which annoy me.
So glad I'm not the only one (although I always tidy up clothes in the store if I have moved them, I don't know why ... probably a mild form of OCD).
ReplyDeleteHave a great weekend!
have a good weekend x
ReplyDeleteI get that, sometimes there is the urge to destroy. I get it less these days but it is still there.
ReplyDeleteI hope you have a good weeekend!
This is comforting to me to read. I thought I was just an arch cow for having (and mostly resisting) these thoughts and urges. :) BTW, those neatly folded piles of tops in stores...what's the etiquette there do you think? I must admit that if I've rummaged I never re-fold (I do enough of that at home). Part of me feels guilty at the mess I've made but then my wicked self thinks that to leave it is payback for displaying clothes in such a stupid way. [evil snicker]
ReplyDeleteNatasha: I always make some kind of pathetic attempt to fold the clothes back up properly too! Even if it's just a sloppy fold, I do it.
ReplyDeleteEleanor: Thank you, you too :)
Siobhan: It rears its head every now and then. It's kept well under control though.
Angelcel: I reckon as long as you don't pick up every single item of clothing and put it back down without folding, I think it's okay to leave. I always make some small effort but not enough that they could get away with leaving. On the other hand, stuff it.
i think everyone has that urge. human nature.
ReplyDeletebut the great power of the internet: you can just X them right out :)
I think everyone feels this way sometimes. I know I definitely do. Have a good weekend :)
ReplyDeleteI think we could be best friends. And I'm not one bit kidding.
ReplyDeletexo,
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This feeling comes out in me most when driving. I have had to try very hard before to not stomp the gas and ram my car into the one in front of me. However, I have been known to give whining little kids a really mean look out in public to try to scare them quiet. It works sometimes.
ReplyDeleteWow...and then there was the truth! I've learned to laugh off these "no-lifes" and keep it moving. Afterall; it's just the internet not like they can really "see and know" what type of person I am just based off my profile picture. Some people are just destined in somethings. Oh well, losers :)
ReplyDeletei hear you! not so much about the blogs because i don't really read new blogs except for the ones i follow. but i feel this way with FB "friends" who post a gazillion photos of them in the same pose in front of an iconic landmark. or when i see people who have a DSLR and still use the auto mode. or a husband posting (on FB again) on his wife's wall how he couldn't wait to come home and have dinner with her -- seriously, you can't text her or something? *sigh*
ReplyDeleteHhaha I totally hear you lady. But just like you, I don't follow blogs that annoy me ;)
ReplyDeleteI think we all have this feeling. The main thing is that we done become people who act on it!
ReplyDeletegirl, you so read my mind! sometimes i really just shake my head at these bloggers. fashion bloggers especially. sometimes i just want to be all "WHY DO YOU LOOK SO SERIOUS?! YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT TIGHTS FOR GOD'S SAKE?!" but that just might be me :)
ReplyDeleteduring my last year of college i had to park in a small lot next to my apartment.. my xbf lived in an apartment really close by and would always use the same lot.. i had to resist the urge to key his car for an entire year. it was a lot harder to do after a night out with friends and drinks haha :)
ReplyDeleteha ha my favorite part of this is the "Edit" section at the end. But seriously I wish someone could spell check and fix all my errors. Sometimes I question things but there is nobody to ask!!! I need my own editor.
ReplyDeleteWhy follow blogs which annoys one? There's no sense in that. And afterall; one ought not to let these "Types" get one down. This is the internet afterall.
ReplyDeleteyou can correct my grammar and spelling any time. i am a grammar nut, but a terrible speller. and tend to miss a lot of mistakes when i'm in a hurry. and then go back and see them and am embarressed!
ReplyDeleteholy moses. i hope i haven't annoyed you as i certainly take macro photos of our food and share recipes from time to time. but that's because those seem to be the only shots that look appetising. hope you're in better spirits after getting that all off of your chest though.
ReplyDeletexo m.
LOL!! xox
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