Bolted Straight Out of the Barn

What is the medical term for a person who does not process a simple message, a polite request? Surely there has to be one!

Someone at work has been annoying the hell out of me. I often look at her and wonder ‘why can’t you crawl back under the rock, you little vermin?’ Well, she is not little, she is fat. But that is rude to say so I don’t say it…..Oh yes, I just did, but that is in my blog and only to point out, paint the picture so to speak.

She thinks she is all smoking hot, with her fat person and her horse laugh, she is anything but. But we’ll let her bask in her fools’ paradise she has created for her. After all that’s all she’s got. Why do I sound so nasty? Oh yeah this is all repressed frustration, have to be cordial to her at work.

I have told the woman numerous times, what she says and does is annoying and truly irritating and can she please stop. Crudes do not understand a simple request so I had a heart to heart with a decent someone (more like vented my anger and frustration) and she promised to talk to the woman about it. Anyway that worked and she kept her crudeness under wraps. That was before the Christmas break.

Though the sight of her annoys me and her horse laugh freezes my brain cells, I thought I’ll start the new year with a clean slate and go to work with no grudges, and with a be bygones be bygones attitude. After all she did behave the last few days before Christmas. So there was no reason for me to believe it will revert.

I thought I am going to ignore her irritable habits and just try and be civil, not friends, just civil.

We exchanged pleasantries and I thought things are on the right track.

Well I am the delusional one to think you can tame wild two legged ones because it didn’t take long for the big fat mouth to open and be the annoying self again but I did my best to keep a straight face and not even say boo. Because I will look like a fool to keep requesting “can you please refrain from saying that, it is annoying?” Surely even dogs when told or trained to do something, do it…you don’t have to keep repeating, do you?

I had a feeling she could be jealous of me and this fact alluded by the one I vented with, sort of solidified that theory.

I honestly don’t know how to act in this situation…..what do you do with someone who just not a get a simple request to live and let live to the point of making the environment extremely unpleasant for me? After uttering her stupid remarks which she thinks is so funny- exemplified by the horse laugh that follows…. she doesn’t stop there, as soon as my back turns and even before I am out of hearing I could hear her sniggering to whoever is close by.

Over this long weekend I have been contemplating if I have enough to make a case of harassment and weighed the pros and cons of making such a complaint. Since I am the only one she has a problem with I am inclined to hint of racial vilification if I make the complaint. But that is taking the matter a notch further than I particularly want to go. The manager has no choice but to go through proper channels when a complaint of racial vilification is made…. and it will become a huge issue with independent mediators and later counselling for the two of us and I have to question if I want to go down that path. I don’t think I want that. Besides, racial vilification claim will not hold water as she never says anything remotely racial. Underline factor for her behaviour maybe that but that is conjecture and impossible to prove.

I really don’t know. I am at an impasse. How do you tackle a human with wild animal characteristics?

Country Road Take Me Home ………

Human Desire

We humans are wilful when longing and though our wisdom foresees complications of our wish, prudence is not our forte. We constantly yearn to attain the object of our desire, if we don’t; we are going to sigh about it for years to come.    

Perhaps we are this way because of our ever optimistic outlook and belief that our next step is going to be better than the last. It is this feeling we have with yet to attain or any unfinished business.  Why do we ache to experience when reality is staring at our face?

Our inner self may be in conflict. We don’t heed others counsel. Come hell or high water, if we want something we must have it.

We may ask why life has to be this complicated. Why can’t we just have what we want and be done with it. On such occasions grass is not just green on the other side, in our eyes it IS always greener on the other side!  

Just a thought.

 It sounds cryptic, I know. Just wanted see how people will perceive and respond.