Ruined Apology
S: I'll call you.
(6 hours later, still no call)
K: (calls back. no answer). text: where are you?
S: Sorry I was sleeping. Are you at the library?
K: No, since I wasn't sure what's going on, I waited home.
S: Yeah I'm pretty sick. I really have to get stuff done now.
K: Yeah? Should I go or not?
S: Ah, I'm worried I'll pass my germs.
K: So I shouldn't, then?
S: I really have to concentrate and get stuff done so I'll be home. You decide.
K: I got ready so I'd go, but if it's gonna cause you discomfort, I won't. So why not tell me clearly what you want?
S: Would you be angry if I told you not to? I'd rather study with you when I'm less stressed and stuff..
K: That's what I thought you meant. Just say it from the beginning and we can avoid a lot of text and useless travelling around, you know.
Honestly, I love that kid. But no matter who does it to me, I can't stand this never ending game of playing with words and reading between the lines. You want something, just freggin say it for God's sake. You don't want it? Then just say it too. It's not like we are strangers and you have to be careful of my position or whatever. Goddammit. Don't play those mind games with me, I have NO patience for that.
The other thing I have no patience for is the general tendency for people to ruin apologies with excuses. Wow, it's like the most annoying thing in the world.
"I'm sorry."
Such a simple sentence, so good really. Tell me that, and even though I don't forgive you right away, I eventually will calm down.
Why ruin such simple and effective words by adding up excuses and excuses.
"I'm sorry........... And I know you must be so angry but I wished you'd understand because you know I had to finish stuff because I had been sick becausee I hadn't slept well last night and today I was working and on top of that I had to meet my boyfriend because blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. And I was doing that out of concern for you because blah blah blag blah..... and I know you must feel ditched but blah blah blah blah blah blah"
And that's the short version, you have to add an extra 10 lines to get the jist of the what a ruined apology is. I know your excuses, so why don't you just shut up and let me vent my anger huh?
It's not so much the fact that I got ditched that pisses me off the most, it's the freggin annoying way I was ditched in and then asked to be "understanding" when I waited and wasted half my day wondering what the hell is going on when one phone call could've settled it all. "I'm sorry, KY, today won't do it". Simple, makes me understand very clearly. I would've understood better than the lack of communication for 6 hours and the followed "read between the lines texts" followed by the lame excuses and the demand for an understanding?
I'll be over this by Saturday. Until then, I don't want to hear a thing from you. Deal with your stuff first and don't expect me to keep running in circles for you.
1 Comments:
Hi~
it's Fred (yeah I love reading blogs ^^")
I so agree with you here... If you are going to say you are sorry, at least make it believable. When you had tons of excuses right after, not only it ruins it but listening to all of them makes me forget about the apology...
I understand you annoyance =)
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