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Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Being Insensitive

Yesterday morning, after Ger segued rite fr. Gramps 2 band practice an' pizza, Eva and I were talking. Eva was all, "Sorry abt yr Grandpa, April." I sed, "Thanks, Eva. I can't stop thinking abt him." When she sed, "He's over 80, isn't he? --That's pretty old!" I sed, "He doesn't seem old 2 me. We still play guitar 2gether... @ least we did." Eva went, "MayB he'll get better! --Some ppl who have strokes get better. --An' if they don't, there's places U can put them where they'll B looked after." When she sed that last part, I got really upset and went running up the stairs of the school. Eva was, like, "Hey! I was just saying what happens! --I didn't MEAN 2 B insensitive!!" I went inside, thinking, "Ppl who don't MEAN 2 B insensitive usually ARE." And when I thot that, I felt as tho my lips looked kinda strage, like more "there" than usual.

Apes

posted by April Patterson @ 6:53 AM  

14 Comments:

  • At 9:51 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    April,

    Your new best friend Eva is insensitive. I am not surprised. Sure, she doesn’t mean to be insensitive. She just doesn’t understand that you are the nicest girl in Milborough, like I do. She probably thinks you are some regular girl she can say whatever she wants to, without thinking about how it makes you feel. I know all about sick grandparents and how you can’t stop thinking about them. We should talk. You will feel a lot better after you talk to someone who cares about how you think and feel, like I do.

    Love,
    Shannon Lake

     

  • At 10:09 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    april, i had an ok tyme w/zandra larson c-ing covenant w/ rotersand & imperative reaction @the opera house on 735 queen st east in TO. i am rilly sure now tho, i have not been d8in’ her 4 the last few weeks. duncan this & duncan that. i know i cudn’t stand d8in’ a girl talkin’ ‘bout sum1 az much az she duz duncan. aftah all, duncan just stole eva frum me, so i kinda thot zandra wud unnerstand that more. she wuz a little insensitive, but i know she didn’t mean 2b insensitive. she’z just n denial that duncan & she r dunzo. since i cudn’t have been d8in’ zandra b4 & 4got it, i think mebbe sum1 wuz tryin’ 2 set me up with zandra. i thot it mite b zenobia, but i saw her & a lotta z-girlz last nite @the concert & they didn’t like the idea of me b-ing there w/zandra @all.

    neway, eva can b a little insensitive sumtymez. i think, in my case, she did actually mean 2b insensitive. i still like her, but thass the way it iz. u don’t rilly go 2 sum1 who duz cowboy analogiez 4 a sympathetic ear, or u get all that “wen the goin’ gets tuff, the tuff get goin’” stuff. i evn tried talkin’ 2 shannon lake, who iz usually rilly good 2 talk 2, but she wuz all, “get away jeremy. u’ll scare off april wen she finally comez 2 me 4 comfort.”

    neway, i hope ur granddad gets bettah. if talkin’ 2 shannon duzn’t help u, mebbe we can talk. i know all ‘bout hospital & wonderin’ if ur gonna get bettah or not.

     

  • At 10:30 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    April,

    Little sis. You don’t seem to be having much luck with your female best friends. First Becky McGuire turns into a self-centered publicity seeker, and now your replacement best friend (while having the ethnicity that certainly tops Becky’s Irish), doesn’t seem to want to kowtow to your every whim either. I suppose not everyone is destined to have good friends like mine, who are there to help and sustain not only me but our entire family. When I think about Josef Weeder and Gordon Mayes and Lawrence Poirier, I think, I am a really good friend-maker.

    I would suggest talking to Lizardbreath about her female friends, but she seems to be just as bad as you are at making female friends, if not worse. Her specialty seems to be making friends with a misbehaving, but quite comical, student (which is disturbing on so many levels) and Anthony Caine (which is not really a friend but a future husband). Plus, neither one is female. I know Elizabeth may claim Candace Halloran is her good female friend, or Shawna-Marie Verrano, who actually lives in Milborough, but you know, friends you don’t talk to and even see in years with are hardly friends.

    My suggestion is to find a friend who has it much worse off than you, so you can help to improve their situation just by being willing to talk to them. That has worked well with me. Do you know any kids who have abusive parents, or are considering coming out of the closet, or who were raised by their nanny and never saw their parents?

    Love,
    Michael Patterson

     

  • At 10:47 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Michael,

    You know damned well I always see all my friends at New Years, that's when we get together, everyone is busy other times and we live different places, like Dawn Enjo's in Ottawa and I'm not really sure where Shawna-Marie and Candace are right now, but probably busy with their boyfriends, and we all have jobs, that usually means you can't see anyone until you have a holiday like Christmas, you're so stupid you don't know this.

    Actually my job is keeping me away from visiting Grandpa Jim too, I have all these papers to grade, you know in the fourth grade you actually have to give homework and it takes me hours to read all these 50 word compositions about "my favorite toy" or whatever, it's so stupid, and every single one of them always turns it in too, why can't half of them go walk a trapline?

    Liz

     

  • At 4:21 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    April,

    Boozhoo (Hello).

    I read your writings about your friend Eva. Your friend Eva seems to be debinaak (careless) with your feelings. Teenage girls are like that. I can tell you when they get older; most girls think more of their girlfriend’s feelings.

    For example, when your sister told me she had accepted a job to work in the South without talking to me about it, she wasn’t thinking of my feelings. But I realized the decision had been made. There was no way to convince her to sign her contract to work another year in Mtigwaki (Land of Trees). So, I decided there was no reason for me to keep letting my feelings be hurt. If your friend Eva is a good friend, I know you will feel the same way some day. Of course your sister is my girlfriend so it is not exactly the same. For a better example, I could tell you a story about my good friend Susan Dokis, whom I call Chipper, since she is a girl and not my current girl friend.

    Chipper was telling me how she got into a little battle with the parents of some of her school children. Some of the parents wanted to take their children out of school for weeks at a time to take their children on long moose hunting or fishing trips. Chipper told the parents it is fine with her to do that, so long as the parents understood they would not meet the requirement for passing class and their children would have to repeat the grade. The parents were very upset. They said that your sister never counted them as absent, because she said, “the activities were as an important part of their education up here” as long as they gave oral reports on what they accomplished while they were away. Chipper said, “It is more important for a child 6 – 10 years old to learn to read and write than how to kill a moose.” That got the parents very upset. They told Chipper she was being insensitive to them, even though she didn’t mean to be. Chipper said, “What would they have to know, aside from the firearms and archery regulations for moose-hunting; how to define the visual differences between a Calf, Cow, and Bull Moose; and how to seal and transport them for your hunting party?” The parents said that there was the proper storage and treatment of weapons, and how to handle parties of drunken hunters from the states. Chipper said, “If I teach them and test them on the details of moose-hunting, will you not take them out of school for a month?” The parents seemed to be willing to compromise, but not all of them.

    Chipper told me afterwards, “Suds (her nickname for me), some of these parents are less concerned about their children’s education than getting some cheap labour out of their children. I can teach them in 2 days everything they need to know about moose-hunting and fishing for a child at elementary school age. I can’t believe your girlfriend had them do oral reports and didn’t count them absent, when they were gone for a month.” I said I was sure Elizabeth did the best she could. Chipper realized by not saying nice things about my girlfriend, she was being insensitive to my feelings and she said, “Yes, Suds. The longer I am here in Mtigwaki (Land of Trees) and learn how your girlfriend was; I believe she did the best she could.” That was the sign of a good female friend. She understood when she was being insensitive, and she fixed it.

    April, do not worry. Your friend Eva will get older and she will not be debinaak (careless) with your feelings anymore, just the way, Susan Dokis is not debinaak (careless) with my feelings.

    Gi'-ga-wa-ba-min' na-gutch! (See you later!)
    Constable Paul Wright

     

  • At 6:45 PM, Blogger April Patterson said…

    mike, anthony mite b a "future husband" in the sense that mayB sumday he'll get married again. but he's NOT liz's future husband. NOT, NOT, NOT!!!

    tho i did like how u used "which" instead "who" 2 refer 2 anthony. like he's a thing instead of a person. lol, perfect!

    shannon, thanx 4 the nice words. jeremy, i mite hafta take u up on that offer 2 talk. thingz sure r crazee l8ly!

    apes

     

  • At 7:14 PM, Blogger howard said…

    April,

    I was little shaken up working in Sugar’s Salon today. Warren Blackwood was in today and spending most of him time flirting with Marjee Mahaha. I don’t know why that irritated me so much, but I decided I was going to be cube about it. I was trying to mind my own business when I saw him come over to talk to me.

    Warren said, “Sorry about your trial, Howard.” I said, “Thanks, Warren. I can’t stop thinking about it.” Warren said, “It’s been over a year since you attacked Liz? That a pretty long time to be out on bail.” I said, “It doesn’t seem like a long time to me. I had hoped to get back to singing light opera, at least I did.” Warren said, “Maybe things will get better!—Some people who go to trial don’t even get sentenced, or if they do it’s a light one. It seems likely, since all you did was grab Liz’s shirt. The only time I got to even kiss her was on her graduation day, and she made a big deal about doing that in front of her family, which was kind of weird. I wish I had just grabbed her shirt, but if I did, I would be going to prison, like you are. And if you do get a long sentence, there are places where they put people, so they’ll be looked after and they won’t be butt slaves every single day. I think it’s called solitary confinement.” I started to get upset. Then Warren said, “Hey! I was just saying what happens! I didn’t mean to be insensitive!!” I thought to myself, “People who don’t mean to be insensitive…usually are. And people who mean to be insensitive are also pretty successful at being insensitive. So, really, everyone is insensitive.” Then I thought, “That doesn’t make any sense at all. It’s insensitive, or it is unsensible.” I started to get confused, when Warren said, “Marjee. Something’s going wrong with Howard over here. His eyes are all bugged out, and his lips are getting bigger.” I got control of myself by the time Marjee came over. It hasn’t been a very good day.

    Howard Bunt

     

  • At 8:18 PM, Blogger April Patterson said…

    omg, howard, what happed 2 u soundz so much like what happed 2 me the other day! mayB there is sumthing going around?

    apes

     

  • At 9:12 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    April,

    i think Paul is rite and yor frend Eva did not meen to be insensativ. sumtimes Bucky is insensativ to me, but he just dusnt no any better, becuz hes a cat. thats what rob says, anyway.

    Satchul

     

  • At 9:17 PM, Blogger April Patterson said…

    satchel, i heard what happened 2 yr miss money piggy bank! that was totally harsh!

    apes

     

  • At 10:02 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    April,

    Yes, that wuld be a gud ecksampul of what i was tawking abowt.

    Satchul

     

  • At 10:11 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    April,

    It's just possible that Dawn and Shawna and I get together without Miss Featherbrains, if you know what I mean.

    Candace

     

  • At 11:43 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    SATCHEL,

    YOU DON'T KNOW ME, BUT I'M A CAT WHO LIVES WITH A BUNCH OF IDIOTS IN A HELLHOLE CALLED "MILBOROUGH, CANADA." I'M WRITING TO YOU TO LET YOU KNOW A TERRIBLE SECRET: BUCKY IS THE ONE WHO SMASHED YOUR "MISS MONEY PIGGY" BANK. HE HAS BEEN BRAGGING ABOUT IT ON PAWZNCLAWZ.COM ALL DAY LONG.

    THAT BUCKY IS A REAL PIECE OF WORK. I BOUGHT A SUBSCRIPTION FROM HIM TO A "FISH OF THE MONTH" CLUB ON EBAY, AND I NEVER GOT EVEN ONE LOUSY SARDINE. GIVE HIM A MESSAGE FOR ME: PAYBACK IS A BITCH.

    YOURS TRULY, ANGRA MAINYU

     

  • At 11:44 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    April,

    I want you to stop going around telling people who will and won't be my husband, that's not any of your business, why are you always sticking your nose into my life, it's so insensitive!!1

    Liz

     

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