Happy New Year! Here's a face punching story.
I am done with my grad classes from hellhellhell. I can do things other than grad classes. (Except for Tuesday nights when I have grad class next semester.) Happiness doesn't begin to cover it.
SO... this also means that I am now able to write about things OTHER than hating my grad class and things my kids say at school, thus hopefully avoiding the embarrassingly long periods of time between posts as of late. Thank GOODNESS. *sigh of relief*
Christmas was very good. I got to spend lots of time with my family and Ryan's and got many nice presents. I got lots of things in support of aid to Africa- a tote bag made out of a feed sack (which happens to be in the scroll bar on the right as things that I would like), a pink solar powered flashlight from Ry that also donates one to a needy person in Africa, and a red iPod Shuffle that is a RED product which also gives a portion to support the AIDS crisis in Africa. WHICH lead me into my next continuously growing topic, "People I wish I could actually punch in the face."
Ryan's parents got me a Gap gift card for Christmas which was a great present because I completely love Gap. I have been wanting one of their Product Red t-shirts for months, but just haven't bought one. So, I decided to use my gift card for this and bought this fabulous shirt. As I was picking one out, this girl and guy walked by and the girl says:
"I know it sounds super mean, but I'm just getting really sick of all this Red stuff."
The response to her comment I formulated in my head but obviously and unfortunately kept there:
"Yeah- kinda like the people in AFRICA are sick of DYING! FROM AIDS!" (Then I face punch her.)
Idiot.
2 Comments:
Secretly, I wish you had said the comment to her. It would have been really, really, really great to see the look on her face. Then you can really face punch her in your head. But definitely you should have told her she was clearly an idiot.
this reminds me of Sept. 11, '01.
after BOTH buildings of the world trade center have plummeted to the ground and FOUR planes have killed addition innocent (fellow) U.S citizens, i sit down for a late lunch at my university's cafeteria, and i hear a fellow student say, "Um, not to be mean or anything, but I just don't feel like this really affects me... it's far away in NYC."
I wanted to SCREAM! AND rip out a big piece of her pretty blond hair!
Upon reflection over the years, I DO regret not giving her a serious chastisement.
How can you be "over" human suffering so quickly? It's really NOT HARD hard is it to put yourself in a suffering person's shoes and think, "That could have been my dad's office building in my city." or "I could have been born in a third world country to parents both infected with HIV."
Sara - I have 2 really great quotes for you. If I forget to email them, remind me! Hmm... do you ever have guest bloggers? ;)
Love to you, and so glad I discovered your blog tonight!
~ becky weichhand
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