today

I've spent half the day with Danny - she's still here - and we have managed to pack the morning with good mother-daughter moments. Which is nice. In the morning we spoke about the social whathaveyou's at school, we listened to a Gaiman Story, we watched "When A Stranger Calls" - the 1979 version -, finding it mostly funny. I was scared by it when I saw it first (but I was 10 or something. That's my excuse). We watched "Annie Hall" - or part of it, because then we had to go get will from school.

We were parked outside the school, waiting for will and complaining about the weather, when I remembered it's friday. It's friday, which means a certain co-worker of will's will probably ask us for a lift. I groaned.

Danny: What?

Me: It's friday.

D.: So?

Me: The fat man will ask for a lift, probably.

D.: So?

Me: Well, he's just one of those people I find irritating for free.

D.: How do you mean?

Me: Well, I didn't always find him irritating. I did at first, and I said to will, "I hate your friend", and so but he knows and he would sort of tell me he is nice and whatnot, so I made an effort, and I managed to like him for about a day, but then he just fell back to irritating.

D.: But how is he irritating? What does he say?

Me: I don't know, have you ever met a person that just, whatever they say, you just want to slap them? Just for being alive.

D.: Yes.

[pause where I wonder if I sometimes am one of those people she just wants to slap for saying stuff like "it's so hot today!"]

Me: Like, who?

D.: Everyone.

God, I love her so much.

Comments

[Helly]

OMG I feel the exact same way about some people! There's nothing tangible that I can point toward, but they irk me just by BREATHING! I think I wrote a post about that once...ooh, yeah, right here: http://thehellhole.blogspot.com/2006/09/boss-and-i-have-long-standing-business.html

Some people just rub you the wrong way, I guess.

[J.A.]

I have always believe there is at least one personal characteristic that will invite you to hit somebody. In my case is a grin/sneer/face some people does when making fun of something/somebody. The first time I notice was with a friend of my brother; I took my brother apart and told him: "take him out of the house or I will break this bottle in his head".

Why? just because.